Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a key role in starting and operating small-scale businesses. In Soweto, South Africa, mobile phones have sparked the creation of new business models and strategies among entrepreneurs. Their use is shown to help maintain relationships and...

We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that broadband access has long depended on customers' position in the voice telecommunication infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The...

This paper is pointed towards the subject of work life balance, and with this we have attempted to audit an assortment of perspectives identifying with the theme. Work life balance is a key territory of worry for specialists, who feel that solidness among capacity and presence is of essential...

The diffusion of digital information and communication technologies (ICT) in public services is generally assumed to improve their performance. However, the impact of ICT on the efficiency of public services is rarely verified. This study focuses on public historical archives (PHAs), which are a...

One of the facilitating factors that enabled the rise of IT industry in India is the evolution of IT clusters. A study of these clusters can provide interesting insights. The rise of the Banglaore IT cluster was due, among other things, to some of the policies the Indian government took three...

By what process does technical change in information technology (IT) increase economic welfare? How does this process result in increases in welfare at different rates in different countries and regions? This paper considers existing literature on measuring the economic benefits from information...