The impact of digital technology usage on economic growth in Africa

EM Solomon, A van Klyton - Utilities policy, 2020 - Elsevier
This study analyses the impact of the use of digital technology on economic growth for 39
African countries from 2012 to 2016. This analysis applies a system GMM estimator to …

[HTML][HTML] Using Facebook ad data to track the global digital gender gap

M Fatehkia, R Kashyap, I Weber - World Development, 2018 - Elsevier
Gender equality in access to the internet and mobile phones has become increasingly
recognised as a development goal. Monitoring progress towards this goal however is …

Electronic Governance for Sustainable Development—Conceptual framework and state of research

E Estevez, T Janowski - Government information quarterly, 2013 - Elsevier
Electronic Governance (EGOV) research studies the use of Information and Communication
Technologies to improve governance processes. Sustainable Development (SD) research …

Spatial inequality and the Internet divide in Indonesia 2010–2012

S Sujarwoto, G Tampubolon - Telecommunications Policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Spatial inequality has been one of the key development characteristics considered across
developing countries. However, relatively few studies examine the mechanisms by which …

[HTML][HTML] Determinants of mobile phone ownership in Nigeria

I Forenbacher, S Husnjak, I Cvitić, I Jovović - Telecommunications Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Mobile phones are recognized as a primary platform for mitigating the digital divide and
increasing economic growth, and the same appears to be true for Nigeria, the largest …

The digital gender divide: Confronting obstacles to women's development in Africa

NO Alozie, P Akpan‐Obong - Development Policy Review, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The African Union has declared 2010–2020 as the African Women's Decade to accelerate
African women's development. However, to achieve the decade's goals, African countries …

Exploring the gender digital divide in Jordan

E Abu-Shanab, N Al-Jamal - Gender, Technology and …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Connecting with citizens is invariably the aim of almost all e-government projects. Still,
governments face multiple challenges in their pursuit of reaching out to their diverse …

Digital exclusion in Turkey: A policy perspective

RK Polat - Government information quarterly, 2012 - Elsevier
This article explores the patterns of the digital divide in Turkey and analyzes policies related
to this issue. Our analysis reveals that the digital disparities are interwoven with other social …

Gendering the digital divide: The use of electronic government services and implications for the digital gender gap

JFM Macaya, MM Ribeiro, T Jereissati… - Information …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
Abstract Electronic government (e-gov), a means of providing online public services, has the
potential to greatly benefit all members of society. However, its advantages are often out of …

The Indian broadband plan: A review and implications for theory

R Jain - Telecommunications Policy, 2014 - Elsevier
Given the benefits of ubiquitous broadband deployment and availability that include
economic growth, participation in the Internet economy and increased competitiveness …