This paper presents the results of a literature review on gender, ethnic and socioeconomic status differences related to ICT in primary and secondary education. The review was conducted in order to develop an index for analysing the inclusiveness of educational ICT applications. The research question was: ‘How and to what extent do the characteristics of educational ICT tools enhance or inhibit...

This paper calls for a more committed engagement between ICT practitioners and the development community, and seeks to make two contributions. The first is to show how it has never been more important, as the more mature discipline, for development studies to critique the operation of developmental ICT at policy level, as well as to inform and educate the increasing numbers of, usually foreign,...

the world has made a great deal of progress through the millennium development goals (mdgs) to improve the health and well-being of people around the globe, but there remains a long way to go. here we provide reflections on rwanda’s experience in working to meet the health-related targets of the mdgs. this experience has informed our proposal of five guiding principles that may be useful for co...

The concept of development as freedom can be seen as an expansion process of real freedoms people enjoy, associated with their freedom of choices in social, political and economical spheres. Certain international agencies propose that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) allow this development to be reached more efficiently and quickly. While there are success stories galore, there is...

The standard issue in the information and telecommunication industry is increasingly important with the rapid development of technology. This paper proposes an index model which can measure the degree of standardization in the Korean information and telecommunication field. We first classified ICT sector into 14 sub-sectors. Then for each sub-sector, we considered a set of important determinant...

Informative Global Community Development Index (IGC) is an analysis method that looks at the development of the community currently residing in a intelligent city. From the understanding method, the development of intelligent cities based on a deontological ethics, the process of developing an intelligent city has to return maximum interest to the majority of the residing community in terms of ...

This paper presents the ICT initiatives in five aspects. First, it makes a brief review of the development history of the information and communications technology. Second, it explains why the concept of ICT initiatives was put forward and what its meaning is. Third, it puts forward what considerations should be taken or what relationships should be dealt with appropriately in China’s drive of ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Panel data analysis National ICT capacity National economic development National transparency This paper attempts to empirically verify the theoretical assumption that ICT factors affect national economic development. To this end, this study will use a research model to examine the relationship between ICT and development through statistical evidence. IT infrastr...