A VIEW OF ICT IN EUROPE

Ionela-Cătălina Zamfir and Ana-Maria Mihaela Iordache ()
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Ionela-Cătălina Zamfir: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Ana-Maria Mihaela Iordache: Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania

Journal of Information Systems & Operations Management, 2019, vol. 13, issue 1, 170-178

Abstract: ICT (Information and Communication Technology) represent the one of the most important features of a developed country. Through the characteristics that can describe the development level for a country are: the access to technology, the use of internet for shopping, the individual’s skills regarding ICT and the reasons for not using technology. This research take into account the most 22 relevant indicators for 2017 regarding ICT and use data mining techniques like: principal components analysis and Gaussian mixture models for classification along with statistics techniques for identifying the normal distribution and the number of optimal clusters, in order to group European countries in several classes of ICT development. The results show that Romania is still behind the rest of European countries in embracing the modern technology and its utilities.

Date: 2019
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