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The ICT development index and the digital divide: How are they related?

James,M.J.
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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.
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2012
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Tilburg University Research Output Collection
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SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
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James, M J 2012, 'The ICT development index and the digital divide : How are they related?', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 79, no. 3, pp. 587-594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2011.08.010
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14602/58244
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