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Author: Ewa Lechman Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319182544 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 314
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This book provides an extensive overview of the diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in developing countries between 2000 and 2012. It covers issues such as country-specific ICT diffusion patterns, technological substitution and technological convergence. By identifying social, economic and institutional prerequisites and analyzing critical country-specific conditions, the author develops a new approach to explaining the emergence of their technological takeoff. Readers will discover how developing countries are now adopting ICTs, rapidly catching up with the developed world in terms of ICT access and use.
Author: Ewa Lechman Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319182544 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
This book provides an extensive overview of the diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in developing countries between 2000 and 2012. It covers issues such as country-specific ICT diffusion patterns, technological substitution and technological convergence. By identifying social, economic and institutional prerequisites and analyzing critical country-specific conditions, the author develops a new approach to explaining the emergence of their technological takeoff. Readers will discover how developing countries are now adopting ICTs, rapidly catching up with the developed world in terms of ICT access and use.
Author: Harleen Kaur Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319565230 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 292
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This book examines the role that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play in growth and economic development promotion, specifically for developing countries. It highlights multiple methodologies for quantifying the impact of ICTs. This includes quantitative and qualitative methods, but also novel, conclusive and informative methodological approaches for measuring ICTs influence on economic development. The book highlights trends, perspectives, and success stories for different developing countries. ICTs bring new business models, innovations, capital-labor substitution, improved goods and services to developing markets. Because they can spread rapidly, with little cost and require minimal skills for usage, ICTs create a solid background for social and economic gains. They enable significant reduction in information asymmetries, which improves access to economic activities for multitude of agents, fostering participation, inter alias in labor market of disadvantaged societal groups. After almost two decades of rapid diffusion of ICT in developing world, this book seeks to assess the real benefits and consequences of ICTs adoption in developing countries. The chapters use broad, real-world based evidence to provide a better understanding of the precise nature of new technologies and their impact of the country`s economy and society.
Author: Ewa Lechman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book tells a story about Information and Communication Technologies' diffusion in 46 economically backward countries between 2000 and 2012, offering to the reader a fresh perspective on the issues discussed. It examines the spread of ICT from four broadly defined perspectives that highlight the major aims and scope of this work. These perspectives are: • Explaining the ICTs diffusion patterns and the dynamics of the process itself; • Detecting technological substitution; • Examining technological convergence; • Identifying the 'critical conditions' that enhanced the emergence of the 'technological take-off.' By convention, the central focus of this book is on developing countries, although this group of economies is extremely heterogeneous, and examining them is a challenging task. Per capita income varies significantly across the group; however, these countries also differ with respect to level of social development, economic performance, political regimes, dominant religion and, for example, population density. These differences matter, not only because they shape a country`s individual features but also because they heavily predetermine a country`s ability to develop in various ways and - as in our case - to assimilated ICT. Additionally, we argue that treating all 46 countries within the scope of this book as an aggregate may be misleading. Hence, we deliberately disaggregated the evidence and analysed each country individually. Such an approach allows the unveiling of significant differences among and unique characteristics of examined economies. Treating the countries as one homogeneous group would have resulted in a loss of information and an inability to present the above-mentioned differences and characteristics.
Author: Stefan Detschew Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3638940144 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 158
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Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,5, Technical University of Ilmenau (Institut f r Wirtschaftswissenschaften), 43 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses the relevance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for economic growth in developing economies. By reviewing the contributions from the neoclassical and endogenous growth theory and empiric evidences for the link between ICT and economic growth, the paper clearly concludes that ICTs facilitate economic growth, principally by providing incentives for capital deepening and increasing productivity through rapid technological progress. However, the impact on growth is more extensive from the long-term ICT use and networking that though requires appropriate ICT investment and complementary efforts in order that spillovers and productivity improvements are triggered and exploited totally. This paper derives the key determinants and interacting factors that, in the corresponding correct synergic combination, promote ICT's impact on growth-generating processes. For a variety of reasons, the states of these factors in developing countries provide a less ICT favourable environment for taking advantage from ICTs. These economies exhibit a lower stock of human capacities and per capita capital to trigger the productivity benefits from the ICT use. Therefore, the level of effort is higher than in the developed world to receive return on ICT investment. However, when they achieve to attract capital and knowledge by encouraging ICT investment and technology transfer supported by international openness, maintained financial and institutional systems, deregulation of markets and higher competition, they have the chance to benefit from adopting best practices and technologies from the industrialized world with complementary efforts in the reorganisation of business organisations and processes and enhanced human ICT-s
Author: Sebastian Vergara Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has been identified by international policy-makers and scholars as an important driver for economic development. In this perspective, research on the determinants of technology adoption appears particularly relevant. However, while the empirical literature on ICT adoption in workplace is relatively abundant, few studies have been elaborated on their penetration in households. Additionally, academic work has focused on industrialized countries and it is still missing a comprehensive analysis on developing world. In this paper we contribute to fill this gap, evaluating the main socio-economic determinants of the presence of computer and Internet connection in Paraguayan households. Non-parametric statistics show that Paraguay has relatively low levels of ICT penetration. Moreover, technology diffusion follows a heterogeneous pattern, reflecting pre-existing inequalities in other socio-economic dimensions. Econometrically, we model the probability that a household has or has not adopted computer technologies and Internet access. The results confirm that conventional variables such as income and education are key determinants of ICT diffusion, but there is also evidence of the presence of geographical network effects and of complementarities between Internet use at different locations.
Author: Kamel, Sherif Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1605663891 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 390
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E-Strategies for Technological Diffusion and Adoption: National ICT Approaches for Socioeconomic Development provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends, and technologies related to the adoption, diffusion, and adaptation of national electronic strategies for ICTs in socioeconomic development.
Author: Ewa Lechman Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315474646 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 232
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In recent decades, the world has witnessed, unprecedented in terms of speed and geographic coverage, diffusion of new information and communication technologies (ICT). The on-going digital revolution pervasively impacts and reshapes societies and economies and therefore deserves special attention and interest. This book provides extensive evidence on information and communication technologies development patterns and dynamics of this process across developed economies over the period 1980 to the present day. It adopts newly developed methodology to identification of the ‘critical mass’ and isolation of technological takeoff intervals, which are intimately related to the process of technology diffusion. The statistically robust analysis of country-specific data demonstrates the key economic, social and institutional prerequisites of ICT diffusion across examined countries, indicating what factors significantly foster or – reversely – hinder the process.
Author: Etim, Alice S. Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1799834700 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 318
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In recent years, many developing regions across the globe have made rigorous efforts to become integrated into the global information society. The development and implementation of information communication technology (ICT) devices and policies within various fields of service have significantly aided in the infrastructural progression of these countries. Despite these considerable advancements, there remains a lack of research and awareness on this imperative subject. Developing Countries and Technology Inclusion in the 21st Century Information Society is an essential reference source that discusses the adoption and impact of ICT tools in developing areas of the world as well as specific challenges and sustainable uses within various professional fields. Featuring research on topics such as policy development, gender differences, and international business, this book is ideally designed for educators, policymakers, researchers, librarians, practitioners, scientists, government officials, and students seeking coverage on modern applications of ICT services in developing countries.
Author: Stefan Detschew Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3638042448 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 76
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Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,5, Technical University of Ilmenau (Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften), language: English, abstract: This paper discusses the relevance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for economic growth in developing economies. By reviewing the contributions from the neoclassical and endogenous growth theory and empiric evidences for the link between ICT and economic growth, the paper clearly concludes that ICTs facilitate economic growth, principally by providing incentives for capital deepening and increasing productivity through rapid technological progress. However, the impact on growth is more extensive from the long-term ICT use and networking that though requires appropriate ICT investment and complementary efforts in order that spillovers and productivity improvements are triggered and exploited totally. This paper derives the key determinants and interacting factors that, in the corresponding correct synergic combination, promote ICT’s impact on growth-generating processes. For a variety of reasons, the states of these factors in developing countries provide a less ICT favourable environment for taking advantage from ICTs. These economies exhibit a lower stock of human capacities and per capita capital to trigger the productivity benefits from the ICT use. Therefore, the level of effort is higher than in the developed world to receive return on ICT investment. However, when they achieve to attract capital and knowledge by encouraging ICT investment and technology transfer supported by international openness, maintained financial and institutional systems, deregulation of markets and higher competition, they have the chance to benefit from adopting best practices and technologies from the industrialized world with complementary efforts in the reorganisation of business organisations and processes and enhanced human ICT-skills and management.
Author: Ewa Lechman
Author: Ewa Lechman
Author: Harleen Kaur
Author: Ewa Lechman
Author: Mina N. Baliamoune
Author: Stefan Detschew
Author: Sebastian Vergara
Author: Kamel, Sherif
Author: Ewa Lechman
Author: Etim, Alice S.
Author: Stefan Detschew