Digitalization in the Global South

Seizing the Digitalization Opportunity

Tackling the digitalization challenge: how to benefit from digitalization in practice

Digitalization has been identified as one of the major trends changing society and business. Digitalization causes changes for companies due to the adoption of digital technologies in the organization or in the operation environment. This paper discusses digitalization from the viewpoint of diverse case studies carried out to collect data from several companies, and a literature study to comple...

Differences in digitalization levels: a multivariate analysis studying the global digital divide

This papers aims to identify and explain the differences in information and communications technologies (ICT) adoption for a sample of 142 developed and developing countries. In addition, we examine the relationships between specific combinations of technologies and the factors explaining them. Although income is a key factor for all country groups, its role is more significant for middledigita...

The Impact of Digitalization in Rural India

Global/Local Usability: Locally Contextualized Usability in the Global South

Digital technology has permeated nearly every inhabited corner of the globe, from the metropolitan global information hubs in the USA or Europe, where everything from the parking ticket to the vacuum cleaner seems increasingly digital and networked, to the most remote African or Indian village, where the mobile phone and network are proliferating at much talked-about speeds. Meanwhile, the swel...