IT2000 is a strategic national information technology (IT) policy introduced by the Singaporean government in 1992. The Construction and Real Estate Network (CORENET) is one of such several sectoral applications of IT, expected to be implemented in the construction industry. IT has special significance for Singaporean economic development. Planning practices for the national IT policy in each h...

I n late 2012, Kenya announced a plan to spend $25 billion on various infrastructure projects. These projects include a 2,000-kilometer pipeline from South Sudan to the northern Kenyan town of Lamu and related improvements to Lamu’s port. President Jacob Zuma of South Africa also recently announced that the country will spend $97 billion on infrastructure investments (McGroarty & Maylie, 2012)....

in this paper we investigate the effects of broadband infrastructure providing high speed internet, on economic growth in developing countries. we have used two different broadband measures to classify developing countries into two groups for the period 1999-2008. by using logistic diffusion model and iv approach, a nonlinear diffusion model is specified. differences in ceiling of diffusion cur...

Municipal infrastructure is a fundamental facility for the normal operation and development of an urban city and is of significance for the stable progress of sustainable urbanization around the world, especially in developing countries. Based on the municipal infrastructure data of the prefecture-level cities in China, municipal infrastructure development is assessed comprehensively using a FA...

A large body of economic research has shown the strong correlation between broadband connectivity and economic productivity (e.g., [1–3]). These findings motivate government agencies such as the FCC in the US to provide incentives to services providers to deploy broadband infrastructure in unserved or underserved areas. In this paper, we describe a framework for identifying target areas for net...