Determinants of Intercountry Internet Diffusion Rates

Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Leiter, Daniel B.

doi:10.1111/j.1536-7150.2009.00634.x

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“…Caselli and Coleman (2001), Baliamoune-Lutz (2003), Pohjola (2003), Chinn and Fairlie (2007), and Wunnava and Leiter (2009), by analyzing a sample including both developing and developed countries, provide empirical evidence that income per capita is positively and significantly related to ICT adoption, while Dasgupta, Lall and Wheeler (2001) find that the relationship is not significant. Beilock and Dimitrova (2003) show that the relationship between income and ICT diffusion is not linear and that income matters more for poor countries.…”

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The determinants of investment in information and communication technologies

Guerrieri

Luciani

Meliciani

2011

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

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The determinants of investment in information and communication technologies

Guerrieri

Luciani

Meliciani

2011

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

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“…Aside from general development, globalization and demographic processes, prior research argues that that political openness (i.e., as measured by broader indicators of democracy) promote Internet development because democratic regimes have fewer reasons and less power to control decentralized forms of communication that link citizens to one another (or to actors within the government; Beilock and Dimitrova 2003; Buchner 1988; Crenshaw and Robison 2006; Wunnava and Leiter 2009). In brief, democratic states allow for citizen participation in politics and afford their citizens freedoms of assembly and speech—conditions that promote a free‐flow of information among citizens and between citizens and their leaders.…”

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Reevaluating the Global Digital Divide: Socio-Demographic and Conflict Barriers to the Internet Revolution

Robison

Crenshaw

2010

Sociological Inquiry

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The Global Digital Divide (GDD) in Internet and related forms of information technologies has gained some press and scholarly attention in recent years. Although the contours and causes of Internet diffusion around the globe are now better understood, a number of questions and avenues remain unanswered or unexplored, particularly concerning the role of socio‐demographic structures and even conflict processes on Internet diffusion. This study addresses the current state of the digital divide and sheds new light on the barriers that continue to inhibit developing nations’ lag with the West in Internet connectivity. Focusing on a large sample of the world’s developing nations, this project finds that although the GDD is narrowing, the gap is still large and that specific demographic properties (high fertility) and conflict processes threaten to keep many societies in the periphery of cyberspace. The authors also find that urban agglomerations work to amplify Internet demand over time and that maturing economies may no longer require democratization as a pathway to Internet development. Implications of these findings and future directions of research are briefly discussed.

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“…Hence, one could expect a positive relationship between urbanization and Internet access and use. In general, cities are better networked than rural areas (Wunnava & Leiter, 2009). This is mostly due to practical and economic reasons.…”

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Determinants of agricultural extension agents’ internet competencies in Eastern Region of Ghana

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Annor-Frempong²,

Bosompem³

2017

IJRSC

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Internet has been introduced by Ministry of Food and Agriculture to improve extension delivery in Ghana. However the extent to which extension agents have acquired the knowledge and skills to use it was not known in Eastern Region. The study looked at the determinants of Agricultural Extension Agents (AEAs) Internet competencies in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The study used descriptive survey design, stratified proportional sampling technique and validated questionnaire to collect data from 217 AEAs in ten districts of Eastern Region. Statistical tools such as frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviation, appropriate correlation coefficients were generated to describe or identify relationships among variables of the study. The study revealed that age, educational level, marital status, rank, location, years of experience, monthly salary, duration of use, years of using Internet, and training of AEAs relate significantly to Internet competencies of AEAs. The best predictors of Internet competencies of AEAs were training, location, duration of use, age and educational level.

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Determinants of Intercountry Internet Diffusion Rates

Cited by 50 publications

References 15 publications

The determinants of investment in information and communication technologies

The determinants of investment in information and communication technologies

Reevaluating the Global Digital Divide: Socio-Demographic and Conflict Barriers to the Internet Revolution

Determinants of agricultural extension agents’ internet competencies in Eastern Region of Ghana

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