The digital divide: global and regional ICT leaders and followers

Ayanso, Anteneh; Cho, Danny I.; Lertwachara, Kaveepan

doi:10.1080/02681102.2010.504698

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“…Clearly, such a balanced investment depends, among many socioeconomic factors, on the stage of development of each developing country. This confirms the policy recommendations suggested by Ngwenyama and Morawczynski (2009) for five emerging economies in Latin America and Ayanso, Cho, and Lertwachara (2010). Developing nations would also need to promote openness, and enhance trade and industrial policies in order to benefit from the full potential of investment in ICT, and foster economic growth.…”

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A Panel Granger Causality Test of Investment in ICT Capital and Economic Growth: Evidence From Developed and Developing Countries

Yousefi¹

2015

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This paper applies the Pairwise Panel Granger Causality test to examine the relationship between ICT (information and communication technology) expenditure and the rate of growth of GDP (gross domestic product) per capita. This is accomplished by using cross-country time-series data for a total of 70 developed and developing countries for the period from 2003 to 2008. The study reveals that the existence of causality and its direction differ across different income-group of countries and over the number of lags included. ICT investment expenditure as a percentage of GDP appears to cause the rate of growth of GDP per capita for the high income group and all income groups combined with lags higher than one year. However, for the upper-and lower-middle income groups, the study detects causality in neither direction. Also, when only one lag is included, the study suggests no causality in either direction for any of the income-groups of countries.Keywords: investment in ICT (information and communication technology), the rate of growth of GDP (gross domestic product) per capita, causality, developed countries, developing countries

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A Panel Granger Causality Test of Investment in ICT Capital and Economic Growth: Evidence From Developed and Developing Countries

Yousefi¹

2015

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“…This extended analysis provided a broader insight into the digital divide issue by incorporating not only access to ICT infrastructures, but also ICT usage and skills. Their results also extended the findings of Ayanso et al (2010) by examining the progress in ICT adoption made by developing countries in each global region over a fiveyear span (2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007).…”

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“…In the ICT domain, Cuervo and Menéndez (2006) examined the levels of the ICT infrastructure development among the European Union countries. Ayanso et al (2010) analyzed the regional and global digital divides by profiling 192 member states of the United Nations (UN) based on their ICT infrastructure, which included five primary indicators -the Internet, PC, cell phone, main telephone, and broadband. Ayanso et al (2014) also extended this research using the IDI data set (ITU, 2009), which was more comprehensive and was constructed based on a conceptual framework involving three key components of the information society model: access, use, and skills.…”

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“…In recent years, issues concerning the digital divide have received significant attention in academic research (e.g., NTIA, 1995NTIA, , 1998NTIA, , 1999DiMaggio, Hargittai, Neuman, & Robinson, 2001;Sciadas, 2002;Sciadas, 2005;Dewan & Riggins, 2005;Cuervo & Menéndez, 2006;Deichmann et al, 2006;van Dijk, 2006;Fryer & Grander, 2008;Ayanso, Cho, & Lertwachara, 2010;Ayanso, Cho, & Lertwachara, 2014). The concept of the digital divide was originally used to describe the gap in Internet access between rural and urban areas of the United States, and particularly considered the lack of access to online resources for the following groups: minorities, the elderly, and people with lower incomes, lower levels of education, and people with disabilities (Hoffman & Novak, 1998;Norris, 2001;Sciadas, 2002).…”

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An analytics approach to exploring the link between ICT development and affordability

Ayanso

Lertwachara

2015

Government Information Quarterly

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“…Buys, Dasgupta, Thomas, & Wheeler (2009) studied the disparity in ICT access and adoption among the sub-Saharan African countries. More recently, Ayanso, Cho, & Lertwachara, (2010) analyzed the regional and global digital divides by profiling 192 member states of the UN based on their ICT infrastructure, which includes five primary indicators: the Internet, PC, cell phone, main telephone, and broadband. These studies used dissimilar ICT measurements and methodologies with different sets of variables, making direct comparisons and benchmarking often difficult.…”

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Information and Communications Technology Development and the Digital Divide: A Global and Regional Assessment

Ayanso¹,

Cho²,

Lertwachara³

2013

Information Technology for Development

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The rapid development in information and communications technologies (ICTs) has created a wealth of opportunities for businesses and societies around the world. Yet, the disparity in the ICT adoption between developed and developing countries, often referred to as the Digital Divide, continues to widen. As a result, the digital divide has remained an issue of significant importance to policy-makers and scholars. In an effort to measure the magnitude of the digital divide and monitor how the disparity evolves over time, the United Nations commissioned the development of a comprehensive ICT Development Index (IDI) in 2009. The objective of this paper is to extend the methodology used in the IDI project and other scientific results presented in previous research to measure the digital divide. Using data mining techniques, we analyze ICT profiles from 154 countries to provide a rigorous quantitative assessment of the digital divide. In addition to analyzing the digital divide at the global level, we present our results at a regional level by identifying countries that are leaders and followers in their respective geographical area. Moreover, our analysis found that between 2002 and 2007, nine countries have made a significant progress in ICT adoption such that they have transitioned into a group previously consisting primarily of developed countries.

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The digital divide: global and regional ICT leaders and followers

Cited by 42 publications

References 30 publications

A Panel Granger Causality Test of Investment in ICT Capital and Economic Growth: Evidence From Developed and Developing Countries

A Panel Granger Causality Test of Investment in ICT Capital and Economic Growth: Evidence From Developed and Developing Countries

An analytics approach to exploring the link between ICT development and affordability

Information and Communications Technology Development and the Digital Divide: A Global and Regional Assessment

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