Internet diffusion in sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-country analysis
| Autor: | Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Kaushalesh Lal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Economic growth Inequality Higher education business.industry Communication media_common.quotation_subject Developing country Library and Information Sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Per capita income Management Information Systems Telephone density Simultaneous equations Economics Regional science The Internet Digital divide business Information Systems media_common |
| Zdroj: | Telecommunications Policy. 29:507-527 |
| ISSN: | 0308-5961 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.telpol.2005.05.002 |
| Popis: | In this paper, the notions of digital inequality and digital divide have been employed to describe two levels of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) access. On the one hand is the inequality of access to the cluster of technology measured by Internet use and on the other are the confluence of skills and other resources that differentiate countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Using cross-country data, hypotheses are tested within a simultaneous equation system. The paper confirms the vital importance of telecommunications infrastructure represented by the high correlation of telephone density with Internet irrespective of per capita income level of the country. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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