Information societies or "ICT equipment societies?" Measuring the digital information-processing capacity of a society in bits and bytes

Information Society

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 157-178

  Hilbert, Martin ^a,b   López, Priscila ^c   Vásquez, Cristián ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d Government of Chile   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Digital divide; ICT; Inclusion; Indicators; Information; International; Measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951896982     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972241003712199     Document Type: Article

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