%0 Journal Article %T Spatial study and analysis of digital divide and levels of development (Case study: Khuzestan province) %J Journal of Geography and Spatial Systems %I Vian Publishing Institute %Z 1 %A saeed amanpour %A sara Amouzegar %A moslem arefi %D 1400 %\ 1400/07/11 %V 1 %N 2 %P 75-91 %! Spatial study and analysis of digital divide and levels of development (Case study: Khuzestan province) %K Information and Communication Technology %K Digital Gap %K Development %K Khuzestan Province %K Prometheus Technique %X Today, ICT is considered as one of the most important indicators of development and plays a key role in the transformation of societies. Therefore, spatial analysis of this index is one of the basic necessities to understand the geographical changes of societies that must be carefully examined. The purpose of this article, which is applied in terms of research, is to investigate the use of ICT indicators in the cities of Khuzestan province according to the extent to which they have development indicators. The technique of collecting statistics and information in this article is using documentary and library methods and studying the official publications of the country. The statistical population of the study is 24 cities of Khuzestan province and the indicators studied in this research are 18 information technology indicators and also 31 indicators to determine the levels of their development. In this study, due to development inequalities between the cities of the province, first the cities were divided into three groups based on the indicators of development: privileged, semi-privileged and deprived. To determine the amount of digital divide between cities in each group based on the degree of ICT indicators, the PROMTEHEE technique was used. The AHP method was used to weight the indicators used in the grading. The research results show that Ahvaz and Haftkol counties have the highest and lowest levels of development indicators, respectively, and Izeh, Shadegan and Indika counties have the highest counties and Abadan, Ramhormoz and Bavi counties are the most deprived in terms of ICT indicators among other counties. %U http://rimag.ir/fa/Article/14778