Topic
ICT Development Index
About: ICT Development Index is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 93 publications have been published within this topic receiving 682 citations. The topic is also known as: IDI.
Papers
TL;DR: Overall ICT development has significant positive impacts on the exports of 'other business services" and 'transportation services' and the imports of 'insurance services', 'telecommunication services', and 'travel services'; and among the three ICT components, ICT use is found to be more important than access and skills for trade in a number of services.
152 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a new ICT development index is constructed using principal component analysis and the inclusion of conventional ICT indicators such as per capita GDP, tertiary education entrance rate, the ratio of urban population, and the share of service trade in GDP.
78 citations
TL;DR: Using data mining techniques, ICT profiles from 154 countries are analyzed to provide a rigorous quantitative assessment of the digital divide and nine countries have made a significant progress in ICT adoption such that they have transitioned into a group previously consisting primarily of developed countries.
Abstract: The rapid development in information and communications technologies ICTs has created a wealth of opportunities for businesses and societies around the world. Yet, the disparity in the ICT adoption between developed and developing countries, often referred to as the Digital Divide, continues to widen. As a result, the digital divide has remained an issue of significant importance to policy-makers and scholars. In an effort to measure the magnitude of the digital divide and monitor how the disparity evolves over time, the United Nations commissioned the development of a comprehensive ICT Development Index IDI in 2009. The objective of this paper is to extend the methodology used in the IDI project and other scientific results presented in previous research to measure the digital divide. Using data mining techniques, we analyze ICT profiles from 154 countries to provide a rigorous quantitative assessment of the digital divide. In addition to analyzing the digital divide at the global level, we present our results at a regional level by identifying countries that are leaders and followers in their respective geographical area. Moreover, our analysis found that between 2002 and 2007, nine countries have made a significant progress in ICT adoption such that they have transitioned into a group previously consisting primarily of developed countries.
70 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis for 121 economies covering the period from 1999 to 2007 is performed, and the classification results help to explain the global information and communication technology (ICT) developments.
50 citations
TL;DR: This paper used country-level ICT data and bilateral trade data in 2013 to test whether cross-country differences in ICT can be a source of comparative advantage in international trade and found that a country's export in one industry increases 10 percent if the country's ICT development index increases 1 standard deviation (SD) and industry's R&D intensity increases 1 SD.
44 citations
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Performance Metrics
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 |
| 2020 | 14 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2016 | 6 |