Information Technology and Productivity: Evidence from Country-Level Data
Management Science
International Diffusion of Digital Mobile Technology: A Coupled-Hazard State-Based Approach
Information Technology and Management
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques
A multivariate framework for the analysis of the digital divide: evidence for the European Union-15
Information and Management
A growth theory perspective on B2C e-commerce growth in Europe: An exploratory study
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Digital inclusion with the McInternet: would you like fries with that?
Communications of the ACM - Being Human in the Digital Age
The impact of the digital divide on e-government use
Communications of the ACM - A Direct Path to Dependable Software
The Planar k-Means Problem is NP-Hard
WALCOM '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Algorithms and Computation
An index for cross-country analysis of ICT infrastructure and access
Telecommunications Policy
Does ICT investment widen the growth gap?
Telecommunications Policy
Research Note---Social Interactions and the “Digital Divide”: Explaining Variations in Internet Use
Information Systems Research
An alternative measure of the ICT-Opportunity Index
Information and Management
Assessing the regional digital divide across the European Union-27
Telecommunications Policy
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Information Technology and Management - Special issue on New Theories and Methods for Technology Adoption Research
Digital divide across the European Union
Information and Management
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Information and communication technology (ICT) has accelerated the growth of the global economy and improved the quality life of the world's inhabitants. ICT has brought new ways of creating livelihoods for people. The diffusion of ICT has also increased year by year and made it possible to reduce poverty. The opportunities created by ICT also may eventually decrease the ''distance'' between countries in many other ways. Because access to ICT plays a key role in defining the global digital divide, it is important to study how the ICT gaps among countries have changed. This study examines global ICT development in the last decade. We collected secondary data for 136 countries from 2000 to 2008. Four relevant variables are used as proxies for the ICT development status of a country. Because of this multivariate nature of the data, most previous studies have applied a composite index approach to represent the ICT status of a country. For this study, we developed a framework to reduce multivariate raw data into an ordinal number representing a country's ICT development level. The methodology behind the framework involves data clustering and multi-dimensional data ranking. After applying this data reduction procedure, we explored ICT development paths of different countries, and also conducted panel data analysis based on gross national income and various fixed effects.