Successful ICT policy analyses and implementation rely on a sufficient knowledge of how and why consumers adopt new technologies. For instance, analysts of the digital divide may need to quantify the factors that are perceived to drive this ICT usage gap. This paper focuses on understanding the...

Aggregate models of innovation diffusion do not capitalise on valuable consumer adoption dynamics that emerge from consumer surveys. This is despite other modelling strategies which suggest that such dynamics may be very important to the process of diffusion. We present a segmental Gompertz...

Technology policy analysis and implementation relies on knowledge and understanding of the "adoption gap" in information technologies among different groups of consumers. Factors that explain the residential "digital divide" also need to be identified and quantified. Through the application of...