The fast uptake of information and communications technologies (ICTs) has become an article of faith in American life. Whether it is the personal computer, mobile phone, or video cassette recorder, the time between “latest thing” and “yesterday’s news” seems to be ever shrinking for...

This paper will address a question that is relevant to stakeholders in the public and private sectors: Have investments in programs to encourage broadband adoption paid off? After five years of attention to the issue (dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s investments in the...

This book explains how the process of moving from analog TV to digital is unfolding in the US and Britain and explores the changes in the legal framework and the industry structure associated with it. It is a unique study about the technological, political, and social factors shaping this transition

This study seeks to empirically test the narrative of a frictionless global market for digital labor. The empirical strategy is based on the examination of internal data from Nubelo, one of the largest Spanish-language online labor platforms. The results suggest that information-related...

English Abstract: Paper presents empirical evidence and policy recommendations on how to connect to the Internet to approximately 250 million Latin Americans that remain unconnected. First, it analyzes patterns of spread of the Internet in Latin America on the basis of the most recent surveys of...

We analyze tariffs for fixed broadband services in Latin America and benchmark against tariffs in the OECD. We also develop a new broadband development indicator (the Broadband Performance Index) that compares actual penetration rates with those predicted by our regression model. The results...