This study assesses the impact and effectiveness of the National Information and Communications Technology Policy (NIP) in Bangladesh, which is a key legal framework for 'Vision 2021' and 'Digital Bangladesh'. It investigates the extent to which digital inclusion can be achieved by the NIP...

The Digital India programme of the government of India, launched in 2015, is an ambitious initiative which seeks to effect both process improvements as well as transform governance for the future in India through massive digitisation efforts. Numerous initiatives, particularly in the works of...

The less connected are those - the majority of the connected in South Africa - who are dependent on mobile phones and mobile networks for their Internet connectivity and who live on or below median incomes, buying data in small packages (RIA, 2018).Current policy and regulation has enabled the...

"Information and communication technologies (ICT) play crucial roles in responding to global challenges and helping us to develop a shared vision of the type of society in which we wish to live. Sustainable solutions to problems such as energy supply, logistics, health care, security, water and...

In Europe's digital policy, digital managerialists, digital frontrunners, and digital convergers have emerged as coalitions among EU member states. This paper lays a focus on their stances on digital-policy reform and on their own understanding of the costs and benefits of the growth of the...

The digital divide is now a subject of priority and a serious concern to East African Countries. This research has been made to have comprehensive understanding of the level of the digital divide in Ethiopia including the neighbouring countries and identify the lessons of best performing...

This Report aims to inspire and guide the researchers and practitioners who can help advance a new set of development approaches based on a fuller consideration of psychological and social influences. (Page 2)

The 2016 World Development Report shows that while the digital revolution has forged ahead, its “analog complements”—the regulations that promote entry and competition, the skills that enable workers to access and then leverage the new economy, and the institutions that are accountable to...

SECTION I: ICT, Digital Divide and Development -- Economics of ICT, Digital Divide and Development – Some Emerging Issues -- ICT and Wellbeing: A Cross Country Analysis -- Digital Divide: How India and China Stack up? -- Evolution of Inter-state disparities in the use of ICT: A study of Indian...

All About Information -- Health Before Wealth -- Predictable Surprises -- Telling the Truth -- A War Footing -- This Time It Really Is Different -- The Testing Economy -- Keeping It To Yourself -- Reemergence -- Rallying Innovation -- The Big Rationing -- The Future.

Status quo der Unternehmenskommunikation: Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme -- Veränderte Stakeholder-Relations und ihre Auswirkungen auf Parameter, Systeme und Spielarten der Unternehmenskommunikation -- Interne Kommunikation: Digital Insights, Cultural Change, Kanäle und Methoden -- Externe...

There is a tendency for participation to be sidetracked in the highly infrastructure-centric discourse on information and communication technology for development (ICT4D). For some time, views anchored on technological determinism have dominated the discourse. Technology has been viewed as a...

The issue of rural communication development has been conventionally examined under labels such as universal service, digital, divide, broadband deployment, and E-Government, which generally fall into two seemingly distinct categories - access and applications. In China, these concepts are...

Current conversations about health information policy often tend to be based on three broad assumptions. First, many perceive a tension between regulation and innovation. We often hear that privacy regulations are keeping researchers, companies, and providers from aggregating the data they need...

"This book provides information on emerging trends in business innovation, entrepreneurship, and marketing strategies. While highlighting challenges such as successful social media interactions and consumer engagement, this book explores valuable information within various business environments...

Why regulate the ICT sector? -- What is the effect of bundling in telecom? -- Interconnection Charges Regulation: How is telecom different from the Internet? -- Spectrum Regulation: Case of V-Band -- Intellectual Property or Creative Commons? -- Who governs the Internet? -- What are the nuances...

This book investigates the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on development and well-being (beyond economic benefits) and highlights some emerging issues relating to the realities, constraints and digital divides with particular reference to India. It collects a series...

This paper illustrates the persistence of an exogenous model of development that underpins many interventions aimed at employing information and communication technologies (ICTs) to meet development goals. The analysis is based on a sample of texts from reports produced by United Nations...

The Digital Agenda Toolbox provides support to regional and national authorities to develop a thorough understanding of the digital growth potential stemming from the Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE). It highlights the opportunities Information and Communication Technology (ICT) entails as a key...

This essay, based on the 20th annual Hugo Black lecture at Wesleyan University, argues that we should think about individual liberties of freedom of speech, press, and assembly not in isolation, but in the larger context of policies for the spread and growth of knowledge and information....

This paper examines and identifies the dimensions, activities, purpose, and extent of civil society organizations' participation in ICT policy making and governance in the Philippines. This research scrutinizes the dynamics between the institutional context (e.g. present ICT policies,...

In recent years China’s most spectacular growth rate occurs in the telecommunications sector. In 1978, China only has 3.69 million telephones, with a teledensity of 0.3%, lower than one tenth of the world average. The number of telephones in 1980 is the same as the 1905 level of United States,...

Die Digitalisierung fordert den Staat nicht einfach nur heraus. Sie überfordert ihn. Sie stellt in Frage, wie wir 70 Jahre lang unser Gemeinwesen gesteuert, organisiert und verteidigt haben. Unser demokratischer Staat mit seinen Institutionen und Verfahren tut sich schwer, seine bisherige Rolle...

"This book provides information on emerging trends in business innovation, entrepreneurship, and marketing strategies. While highlighting challenges such as successful social media interactions and consumer engagement, this book explores valuable information within various business environments...

Status quo der Unternehmenskommunikation: Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme -- Veränderte Stakeholder-Relations und ihre Auswirkungen auf Parameter, Systeme und Spielarten der Unternehmenskommunikation -- Interne Kommunikation: Digital Insights, Cultural Change, Kanäle und Methoden -- Externe...

The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) is preparing an opinion on the ethical aspects of information and communication technologies. As part of its preparatory work, the EGE held an open round-table debate on the issues raised by ICT. The round table was organised by...

This Policy Contribution assesses the broad obstacles hampering ICT-led growth in Europe and identifies the main areas in which policy could unlock the greatest value. We review estimates of the value that could be generated through take-up of various technologies and carry out a broad matching...

Editor's preface / Gabriele Siegert, M. Bjørn von Rimscha, and Stephanie Grubenmann -- Information and disinformation about advertising / Kati Förster and Ulli Weish -- Information and disinformation through advertising / Roland Mangold -- Information about users / Andrew McStay -- Inclusion...