For more than a decade international institutions, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, the UN and International Telecommunications Union (ITU) have been pushing African countries to invest in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as a strategy for social and economic development. They argue that ICT infrastructure is a prerequisite for adequate development, and sugge...

Blockchain technology, while still challenged with key limitations, is a transformative Information and Communications Technology (ICT) that has changed our notion of trust. Improved efficiencies for agricultural sustainable development has been demonstrated when ICT-enabled farms have access to knowledge banks and other digital resources. UN FAO-recommended ICT e-agricultural infrastructure co...

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can reduce poverty by improving poor people’s access to education, health, government and financial services. ICT can also help small farmers and artisans by connecting them to markets. It is clear that in rural India -as well as in much of the developing worldrealization of this potential is not guaranteed. This paper outlines a simple model to e...

The advancement of information and communication technologies (ICT) has triggered many ICT-enabled services. Regarding this service, the complementary ICT system involves with customers’ devices, industry-wide ICT development and nation-wide ICT infrastructure, which are difficult for any individual organization to control. The ICT predicament is the phenomenon that the complementary ICT system...

Abstract This study investigates whether the underlying information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure of firms affects development online sales, based on a novel micro-aggregated panel dataset encompassing large group European countries. The includes continuous measures sales activities, as well standard production function input variables. Dynamic System GMM estimations show po...

The changing field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has resulted in the development of different applications that are based on heterogeneous platforms, standards and architectures. Thus, the majority of the public sector organisations confront significant problems with information sharing and business process automation and integration. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)...

As Indian economy gets integrated to the global economy and strives to improve in terms of human development indicators, a special role exists for information and communication technologies (ICT) in this process. The strategic metamorphoses and the resultant expansion of ICT linked telecommunication services in India have favorably influenced the effort to accelerate the pace of human developme...