The centrality of electricity to ICT use in low-income countries

Armey, Laura E.; Hosman, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2015.08.005

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“…Even after 2015, when the mobile subscriptions skyrocketed, access to electricity remained closely tied with access to ICTs. This is also evident from the study by Armey and Hosman (2016). They show a strong relation between electricity and ICT access in the low-income countries.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 68%

If You Build It, Will They Come? Exploring Narratives That Shape the Internet in Nepal

Pandey¹,

Regmi²

2020

Science, Technology and Society

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Nepali information and communication technology (ICT) policies, informed by dominant international discourses on internet and ICT for development, have attributed a ‘self-evident’ positive impact to economic growth. Such a conception is inconclusive and hides the underlying socioeconomic inequalities and the barriers they oppose to universal connectivity ambitions. The self-evident discourse overlooks the importance of adjacent infrastructures like electricity, critical for efficient functioning of a ‘digital society’. History has shown Nepal’s eagerness to buy the irrational exuberance of the dot-com era. It also shows policy targets were not based on local evidence and experiences. While the question about when the next bubble will emerge and burst is debatable, the techno-deterministic arguments need to be checked in light of evidence. We offer insights from import trajectories since the drafting of the first IT policy. The proliferation of mobile phones is explored in light of data consumption (i.e., usage) and access during the deadly earthquake in 2015. The evidence clearly highlights the mismatch between connectivity ambitions and socioeconomic realities in a stratified information society. We contend that the self-evident visions of connectivity need to be checked empirically. We call for internet and ICT policies that have a nuanced conceptualisation of access and its gradation.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 68%

If You Build It, Will They Come? Exploring Narratives That Shape the Internet in Nepal

Pandey¹,

Regmi²

2020

Science, Technology and Society

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“… Silva et al (2018) shows that as urban areas have more consumers who are well-educated and rich than rural areas, urbanization ratios are positively correlated with mobile broadband adoption rates. Electricity consumption per capita was also identified by Armey and Hosman (2016) as one of the determinants of broadband adoption, and Rohman and Bohlin (2012) , relying on the OECD member states data from 2008 to 2010, showed that doubling the internet download speed contributes to a 0.3 percent increase in broadband connections, also confirmed by Xu, Forman, and Hu (2018) .…”

Section: Literature Review On Determinants Of Broadband Adoptionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Differentiating mobile broadband policies across diffusion stages: A panel data analysis

Teklemariam

Kwon

2020

Telecommunications Policy

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This paper finds that policy mixes for mobile broadband diffusion need to be differentiated depending on where a country is situated in three stages of mobile broadband diffusion because as a mobile broadband market grows, demand constraints hindering subscription of mobile broadband will also change. A total of 115 countries are clustered into three groups (Take-off, Fast-Diffusion, and Saturated), categorized by their diffusion rates and diffusion speeds over four years from 2013 to 2016. With pooled and fixed effect panel data models, this paper examines which variables out of 23 explanatory variables were effective in promoting mobile broadband adoption globally. Further, by interacting explanatory variables with two group dummies, this paper identifies differential slope (policy) effects of each explanatory variable on mobile broadband adoption. The paper concludes that, among the three groups, considerable gaps exist in the size of effective policy choice sets: six for Take-off, ten for Fast-diffusion, and thirteen for Saturated, suggesting that the countries in the Take-off stage have a very narrow degree of latitude for developing mobile broadband promotion strategies.

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“…It's recognized that it helps to transform unspoken knowledge into expressed knowledge, KM encourages employees to be interested in innovations and apply it in practice [1,3,[23][24][25].…”

Section: Social Sciencesmentioning

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The Impact of Knowledge Management on Sustainable Activities of Higher Education Institution

Grybauskienė

Jankauskienė

Kubilienė

2019

EUREKA: Social and Humanities

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The main responsibilities for the European Higher Education Area are based on processes‘ execution through the knowledge, therefore each institution has to evaluate its own knowledge and organize activities implementing these knowledge goals. Knowledge management (KM) is considered one of the main disciplines of the 21st century, which helps organizations to create a competitive advantage, to identify unique knowledge within the organization and to develop further knowledge creation and integration into activities. KM can be analyzed specifically, however it‘s recognized that human resources remain the most important factor, which leads to effective implementation of the stages of KM. Preparing trained staff for the knowledge society and economy, who are able to assess the benefits and importance of knowledge, higher education institutions (HEI) shape the future behavior of future market players, define the need for future competences and values. Following this example, it‘s useful to analyze, how KM processes are integrated into the academic community and which role the KM plays in the development of HEI‘s activity and competence.

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The centrality of electricity to ICT use in low-income countries

Cited by 50 publications

References 24 publications

If You Build It, Will They Come? Exploring Narratives That Shape the Internet in Nepal

If You Build It, Will They Come? Exploring Narratives That Shape the Internet in Nepal

Differentiating mobile broadband policies across diffusion stages: A panel data analysis

The Impact of Knowledge Management on Sustainable Activities of Higher Education Institution

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