Measuring the impacts of information and communication technology for development
Series: UNCTAD current studies on science, technology and innovation -- no. 3; UNCTAD current studies on science, technology and innovation -- no. 3.
Publisher: United Nations
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Information technology; Communication in economic development; Sustainable development; Informationstechnik; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Description: "This paper explores why measuring the impacts of information and communication technology (ICT) is important for development -- and why it is statistically challenging. Measuring impacts in any field is difficult, but for ICT there are added complications because of its diversity and rapidly changing nature. A number of impact areas are identified in section 1, and their relationships explored, in the context of their place in the social, economic and environmental realms. The result is a complex web of relationships between individual impact areas, such as economic growth and poverty alleviation, and background factors, such as a country's level of education and government regulation."--Abstract.
Notes: At head of title: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

"UNCTAD/DTL/STICT/2011/1"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-23).

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and conceptual framework; title: How the impacts of ICT are measured; title: Empirical evidence; title: Summary and issues for consideration.