Digital Equity: A Quantitative Study on Indigenous College Students’ Attitudes in Sabah, Malaysia

The purpose of this study was to examine indigenous college students’ attitudes toward digital equity in Sabah, Malaysia. Respondents were required to full out a digital equity questionnaire on Google Forms and their responses were subsequently analyzed by using SPSS 29.0. Findings revealed that very low to low-average proportions of college students tend to exhibit positive attitudes toward digital equity. Moreover, nonparametric tests showed nonsignificant differences in perceived digital equity by way of gender, age, and ethnicity. Besides, Wilcoxon signed rank test revealed that all digital equity items were significant at p < .001, with medians significantly different from the hypothesized value of 3.5, thus indicating strong disagreement. In view of the findings, some recommendations were made on strategies and ways to increase digital equity in Sabah.