Explaining the global digital divide: The impact of public policy initiatives on digital opportunity and ICT development

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Yates, David J ^a   Gulati, Girish J ^a   Tawileh, Anas ^b  

^a BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL DIVIDE; DIGITAL OPPORTUNITY; FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNIONS; INTERNET SERVICES; LITTLE RESEARCH; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NATIONAL POLICIES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

INTERNET; INVESTMENTS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 77951724117     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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