Name: ICT Diffusion in Developing Countries
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Author: Ewa Lechman
ISBN: 9783319182537

ICT Diffusion in Developing Countries

Ewa Lechman

This book provides an extensive overview of the diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in developing countries between 2000 and 2012. It covers issues such as country-specific ICT diffusion patterns, technological substitution and technological convergence. By identifying social, economic and institutional prerequisites and analyzing critical country-specific conditions, the author develops a new approach to explaining the emergence of their technological takeoff. Readers will discover how developing countries are now adopting ICTs, rapidly catching up with the developed world in terms of ICT access and use.

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Cuprins

1 Introduction.- 2 Technology, the Economy, and Society - Casting the Bridges.- 3 Technology Diffusion.- 4 Information and Communication Technologies Diffusion Patterns in Developing Countries - Empirical Evidence.- 5 What Matters for ICT Diffusion?.- 6 Conclusion, Recommendations and Implications.- Appendices.

Notă biografică

Adam Marszk is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology (Poland). He is CFA charterholder and member of the CFA institute. He has authored and reviewed many publications in local and international journals (including Journal of Macroeconomics and Technological Forecasting and Social Change), focusing on financial innovations, linkages between financial markets and economy, financial systems in underdeveloped economies, economic integration, and portfolio management. He has served as coordinator and investigator in research projects financed by national and international institutions and was the winner of the 2015 Jan Uphagen's Award for the Best Young Scientists; in 2017 he was awarded the START scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science. Ewa Lechman is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology. Her extensive research interests concentrate on economic development, ICT, and its role in reshaping social and economic systems and various aspects of poverty and economics in developing countries. She coordinates and participates in international research and educational projects and also works as an independent expert assisting with innovation assignments, including the evaluation of small and medium enterprise proposals, EU-financed programmes, and policy design regarding innovativeness, digitalization, education and social exclusion. She was the 2013 winner of an Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence and is a member of the editorial boards of international journals on technology diffusion, the digital economy and economic development. Yasuyuki Kato is a professor of the Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University. He has been specialized in investment research since he joined Nomura. He has held positions as the global head of quantitative research and a board member of Nomura until he left for Kyoto University. Now he also holds positions of a member of the governing board of the Government Pension Investment Fund(GPIF), an editor of the Securities Analysts Journal of Japan, an advisor for the Money Design, and etc. He has written various papers and books including "The Asset Management in the Aging Society", "ESG Investment Studies" and etc.

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Caracteristici

Reveals country-specific ICT diffusion trajectories in economically “backward” countries Presents a novel conceptualization of the technological takeoff Explains why fixed-to-mobile telephony and fixed-to-wireless internet network substitution is an illusion rather than a fact in the economies examined