Digital technologies have spread
rapidly. Digital technologies to benefit everyone everywhere
requires improving the analog complements to digital
investments - by strengthening...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102957Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Kelly,Timothy John Charles ;
Firestone,Rachel Sohn
Fast evolving cloud-computing platforms
that enable new business models, combined with a rapid
uptake in digital technologies by consumers and a change in
consumer behavior...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102963Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Van Welsum,Desiree
Communications networks underpin
regional and global trade. This is particularly true in East
Africa where mobile phones are plentiful but postal services
are virtually...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102952Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Kelly,Timothy John Charles ;
Kemei,Christopher Kipkoech
More than 40 percent of the
world’s population has access to the internet,
with new users coming online every day. Among the poorest 20
percent of households,...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102724Date: January 1, 2016
Many countries are in the process of
transitioning from primarily paper - based administrative
systems to digital systems through the application of
information and...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102962Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Lemieux,Victoria Louise
More than 40 percent of the world’s
population has access to the internet, with new users coming
online every day. Among the poorest 20 percent of
households, nearly...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102724Date: January 1, 2016
The World Bank’s 2016 World Development
Report explores how digital technologies are impacting
growth, jobs and public services. The internet and other
digital technologies...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102966Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Welsum, Desirée van
This paper reviews evidence on the use
of 23 information and communication technology (ICT)
platforms to project citizen voice to improve public service
delivery. This...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102967Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Peixoto,Tiago Carneiro ;
Fox, Jonathan
Broadband can be characterized as
high-speed, always-on Internet connectivity. Broadband has
driven widespread changes in the information technology (IT)
sector enabling...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102955Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Minges,Michael
This paper focuses on key economic and
social factors underpinning worldwide issues
aroundcybersecurity and, identifies a new agenda for
addressing these issues that...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102965Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Bauer, Johannes M. ;
Dutton,William Harold
It has been the Israeli government’s
explicit goal to position Israel at the core of the
knowledge economy. This case study of Israel information and
communications...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102958Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Getz, Daphne ;
Goldberg,Itzhak
Pricing of internet connectivity
services poses two important regulatory challenges. The
first is which pricing model maximizes social welfare and
allows achieving the...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102961Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Garcia,Jose Marino
The term digital entrepreneurship most
commonly refers to the process of creating a new - or novel
- Internet enabled and delivered business, product, or
service. In...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102954Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Van Welsum,Desiree
The preparation work for the 2017 World
Development Report on Governance and the Law in 2016 will
coincide with the 25th anniversary of the World
Bank’s decision...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112916Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Lateef,Sarwar K.
The emerging concept of illicit
financial flows has become a crosscutting issue on the
international agenda in recent years. This umbrella term
refers to money illegally...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102953Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Tropina,Tatiana
More than 40 percent of the
world’s population has access to the internet,
with new users coming online every day. Among the poorest 20
percent of households,...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102725Date: January 1, 2016Author:
World Bank
In many countries, the resistances that
obstruct the setting-up of development-enhancing forms of
governance are problematic. In many cases, these resistances
are linked...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112908Date: November 1, 2015Author:
Philippe d’Iribarne ;
Henry,Alain
In developing countries, governments
know the importance of broadband for development and
promoting broadband as a way to boost knowledge in society
has now entered...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102959Date: November 1, 2015Author:
Garcia,Jose Marino
The structure of the paper is as
follows. Section two provides a definition of social media
and a summary of research findings on international patterns
of social media...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102964Date: July 25, 2015Author:
Ackland,Robert J. ;
Tanaka, Kyosuke
Guatemala, the most populated State in
Central America with 15.7 million people and 3,340 United
States dollar (USD) gross national income (GNI) per capita
in 2013,...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 102956Date: June 1, 2015Author:
Garcia,Jose Marino
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