TY - JOUR
T1 - The ICT development index and the digital divide
T2 - How are they related?
AU - James, M.J.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.08.010
DO - 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.08.010
M3 - Article
SN - 0040-1625
VL - 79
SP - 587
EP - 594
JO - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
JF - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
IS - 3
ER -