The Internet and socio‐economic development: exploring the interaction

Madon, Shirin

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“…Katz (1986) noticed that in many developing countries, noticeable trends towards achieving an information economy in terms of the number of people engaged in informationrelated occupations. However, he also brought evidence to suggest that, in developing countrie s, an increase in the number of information workers is a sign of underdevelopment rather than prosperity (Katz, 1986;Madon, 2000). These earlier findings support our observations with regards to H3.…”

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“…As observed by Madon, most organizations in developing countries are striving to achieve operational efficiency rather than to restructure their processes towards improved effectiveness. In the telecommunications sectors of such economies, it is commonplace to have large armies of technical workers to cope with the provision of administrative services in the light of dramatic increases in population, as well as to absorb surplus educated workers due to lack of capacity in the industrial sectors (Madon, 2000).…”

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Predictors of Growth of Teledensity in Developing Countries: A Focus on Middle and Low‐Income Countries.

Mbarika¹,

Ourso

Kah

et al. 2003

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Investments in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) have been a major issue of concern in academia and industry. How much a country should invest in its telecommunications infrastructure so as to improve their levels of teledensity is a major challenge. This research examines investments in the telecommunications sector of low and middle-income developing countries. The findings suggest that increased investment in telecommunications infrastructure without the involvement of other socio-economic factors may not improve growth of teledensity in developing countries. The study, however, suggests a positive relationship between teledensity and other variables such as GDP per capita, telecommunications staff and length of wait times to acquire and maintain telephones. Some strategies are suggested as steps to take in order to improve the teledensity levels of the countries used in this study.

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Predictors of Growth of Teledensity in Developing Countries: A Focus on Middle and Low‐Income Countries.

Mbarika¹,

Ourso

Kah

et al. 2003

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…In addition, Lloyd-Ellis [58] confirmed that the spread of Information and Communication Technologies (hereinafter "ICT") increases worker productivity and lessens income disparity. Madon [59] claimed the requirement to afford wider connectivity that would increase global information infrastructure and support positive changes in socio-economic development. Accordingly, Leung [60] reported a significant association between Internet connectedness and information literacy.…”

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Empirical Study towards the Drivers of Sustainable Economic Growth in EU-28 Countries

2017

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This study aims at empirically investigating the drivers of sustainable economic growth in EU-28 countries. By means of panel data regression models, in the form of fixed and random effects models, alongside system generalized method of moments, we examine several drivers of real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, as follows: higher education, business environment, infrastructure, technology, communications, and media, population lifestyle, and demographic changes. As regards higher education, the empirical results show that expenditure per student in higher education and traditional 18-22 year-old students are positively linked with sustainable economic growth, whereas science and technology graduates negatively influence real GDP growth. In terms of business environment, total expenditure on research and development and employment rates of recent graduates contributes to sustainable development, but corruption perceptions index revealed a negative association with economic growth. As well, the results provide support for a negative influence of infrastructure abreast technological measures on economic growth. Besides, we found a negative connection between old-age dependency ratio and sustainable economic growth.

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“…Heeks and Keeny (2002) argue that ICT is increasing divergence between the rich and the poor countries rather than supporting a 'catch up'. While exploring the interaction between the Internet and key dimensions of development, Madon (2000) finds evidence that the return on ICT investment in developing countries' organisations is dissatisfactory, and those organisations should have capacity to restructure themselves to promote efficiency and effectiveness.…”

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E‐government, People and Social Change: A Case Study in China

Guanghua

2009

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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It is generally believed that ICT has considerable potential to improve governance capabilities and transform relations with customers. China, like many other countries, embraces e-government enthusiastically but encounters big challenges at the same time. Therefore, the successful development of e-government becomes a pivotal issue in China. Through the social study of e-government the author criticises the prevalent technological determinism. Since information systems are social systems, e-government encompasses various political, economic, social, organisational and people issues besides technical ones, so that its application is far more complicated. This paper studies the relevant social and organisational issues of e-government in China, which are important but usually ignored in contemporary Chinese literature. As a lens, aspects of structuration, especially duality of technology is applied into the analysis of the selected Nanhai case. The research focuses on middle-level officials' views and attitudes towards e-government; explores the ICT-mediated interactions between public organisations and civil servants and implications on social change. Moreover, the research unveils the important role the middle-level officials play, as well as that of senior management in the Information Systems (IS) application.

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The Internet and socio‐economic development: exploring the interaction

Abstract: The Internet and socioeconomic development : exploring the interaction Originally published in Information technology and people, 13 (2). pp. 85-101

Cited by 193 publications

References 13 publications

Predictors of Growth of Teledensity in Developing Countries: A Focus on Middle and Low‐Income Countries.

Predictors of Growth of Teledensity in Developing Countries: A Focus on Middle and Low‐Income Countries.

Empirical Study towards the Drivers of Sustainable Economic Growth in EU-28 Countries

E‐government, People and Social Change: A Case Study in China

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