The ICT Development Index and the digital divide: How are they related?

Jeffrey James

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2012, vol. 79, issue 3, 587-594

Abstract: Digital preparedness and the digital divide are two ways of measuring ICT performance across countries. Recently, the ITU has proposed that a new index of preparedness be used to measure the divide. My goal is to investigate the validity of this suggestion. I have argued that the ICT Development Index is ill-suited to this task because it engages in double-counting, confuses means and ends, adds together dependent and independent variables and adds rather than multiplies its component parts.

Keywords: Digital preparedness; Productivity; Technology use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.08.010

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