Cross-Country Technology Diffusion: The Case of Computers

IT diffusion in developing countries

“…Also, human resources such as IT professionals, engineers, and management specialists are likely to be especially important, not only for their technical knowledge, but for their access to information through personal networks. Strong empirical support has been found between education levels and IT use at the country level [3,8,9].…”

Linkages Between Formal Institutions, ICT Adoption, and Inclusive Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

“…Second, once we estimated factors influencing ICT adoption, we examine how ICT catalyzes development. Such an approach departs from previous studies which have used indexes of institutional quality such that aggregation ignores the relative importance of the weight of the factors in the index (Billón et al, 2009;Caselli & Coleman, 2001) in all this. Our main hypothesis is that cross-country differences in institutional quality, and hence ICT adoption enhances or limits inclusive development.…”

“…Of course, this can be extended to broadband users, telephone lines, etc. Unlike Caselli and Coleman (2001) who measure adoption of computers as investment per worker of computer produced domestically and/or imported, here dependent variables are measured as the rate of adoption of ICT per 100 people. The adoption of these dependent variables is consistent with recent African knowledge economy literature (Tchamyou, 2015).…”

“…Focusing on the computers, Caselli and Coleman (2001) associate adoption with income per worker, and investment per worker calculated either as investment in the computing power of the country, value of imports of computing goods and services, or the sum of the two.…”

Materials Science—A New Era for Chemistry

“…A number of factors influence the decision whether or not to invest in ICT. High costs, lack of competition, lack of relevant skills for effective use of ICT could all be inhibitors (Caseli & Coleman, 2001). Studies also show that levels of education are positively correlated with ICT diffusion.…”