Theoretical as well as practical experiences of analyses confirmed that spatial processes of the diffusion of information and communication (ICT) technologies largely influenced the economy and society of the 21st century. In the last couple of years, a new motive of ICT-based inequalities...

A country’s human capital and economic productivity increasingly depend on the Internet due to its expanding role in providing information and communications. This has prompted a search for ways to increase Internet adoption and narrow its disparity across countries – the global “digital...

The Indian software industry has often been cited as an example of a 'role model' for other developing countries trying to catch up, or leapfrog certain stages of industrial development. Having started with basic programming services India has climbed the value chain in IT industries. The...

Service industries now dominate the economies of large cities. But recent advances in information technology have made electronic delivery of some services possible, reducing the importance for these industries of face-to-face interaction. The future location of service industries, and therefore...

Compared to wireless access technologies, wireline access technologies give better performance in terms of bandwidth as well as quality of service but they lack ubiquity and affordability. Wireless networks can be deployed much faster with less initial investment and costs of service...

As the EU begins the long and painful process of reversing two decades of interventionist policies that failed to promote either broadband investment, competition or adoption, the experience of the largely deregulated U.S. market provides a natural comparison. This article looks at the widely...

Objective: The main objective of the study is to deepen the concepts of Smart City and Sustainability to propose a Sustainable Smart City model for the areas of Economy, Government, Environment, Mobility, Smart Society and Quality of Life.Methodology: To achieve the main objective, a review of...

Quality of life challenges, presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, emphasized the importance in achieving progress in making access to voice and broadband data services widespread and affordable. The virus forced nearly everyone to shelter in place, and to rely on wired and wireless technologies...

The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...

We investigate economic and institutional determinants of ICT infrastructure for a broad cross section ofmore than 100 countries. The ICT variable is constructed from a principal components analysis. The explanatory variables are selected by variants of the Lasso estimator from the machine...