Trends and cycles of the internet evolution and worldwide impacts

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 744-765

  Miranda, Luiz C M ^a   Lima, Carlos A S ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Functional and operational information development indices; Global digital inequality; Information and communication technologies; Information development index; Internet evolution; Internet socio economic impacts; Multi logistic modeling; World GDP

Indexed keywords

CROSS CORRELATIONS; DIGITAL INEQUALITIES; ECONOMIC CYCLES; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; ICT EVOLUTION; ICT INFRASTRUCTURES; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT; INTERNET HOSTS; INTERNET TECHNOLOGY; MAIN EVENT; PENETRATION INDEX; WORLD GDP;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

INTERNET;

ECONOMIC CYCLE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INFRASTRUCTURE; INTERNET; LOGISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84858284382     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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