Measuring digital development for policy-making: Models, stages, characteristics and causes.
Título de la tesis:
Measuring digital development for policy-making: Models, stages, characteristics and causes.
Autor/es:
Peña-López, Ismael
Tipo de documento:
Tesis (Doctoral)
Universidad:
UOC
Departamento:
Internet Interdisciplinary Institut (IN3)
Idioma:
Anglès
Palabras clave:
e-readiness, access, digital divide, ICT4D, digital development, information society, knowledge society, network society, indicators, indices, composite indices, infomeasure, public policies, policy-making, cluster analysis, logit
Fecha de la defensa:
8-09-2009
Notas:
Tesis dirigida por: Kelly, Tim
Resumen: With this work, our aim is to analyze how and why the different approaches to model and measure the Information Society have determined what is meant by the concept of access to Information and Communication Technologies and digital development. And, based on this first analysis, work on and propose a 360º digital framework that can serve policy-making while, at the same time, be able to state whether and why governments should seek to foster the development of the Information Society. Thus, the goal of this research is to identify the relevant factors that promote digital development, to def...
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