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ICT Persuaded Educational Platform: Pragmatic Study on Asian Countries
Published in Gopal Singh Latwal, Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Prerna Mahajan, Piet Kommers, Role of ICT in Higher Education, 2020
An inimitable yardstick of the intensity of ICT development in countries globally is the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ICT Development Index (IDI) (ITU, 2016). IDI coalesce 11 pointers on ICT access, utilize and dexterities to capture vital aspects of ICT development in one assess (Allan & Timothy, 2018). It permits comparisons across countries over the time. In Figure 23.1, provincial averages as well as ranges of IDI 2018 are shown. IDI 2018 covered 175 economies universally in comparison to IDI 2017. It highlights the advancement and importunate partitions in the worldwide information civilization. Out of 175 economies, Africa; Arab States; Asia; and the Pacific; Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe and America are grouped.
Indicators of digital inequality and spatial development of the ICT sector in the Russian Federation
Published in Ford Lumban Gaol, Natalia Filimonova, Irina Frolova, Ignatova Tatiana Vladimirovna, Inclusive Development of Society, 2020
D.А. Artemenko, E.N. Yalunina, Е.А. Panfilova, T.Yu. Sinyuk, T.N. Prokopets
The calculation is based on the principle of modifying the index of the ICT Development Index (IDI). By analogy with the ICT Development Index (IDI), the index in the author’s interpretations is a composite index that combines 12 indicators into one benchmark measure. It is used to monitor and compare developments in information and communication technology (ICT) over time. The IDI is divided into the following three sub-indices - Access sub-index, Use sub-index, Skills sub-index.
Infrastructure inequities and its effect on poverty reduction across regional states in Ethiopia
Published in Journal of Mega Infrastructure & Sustainable Development, 2022
Ambaw Desalegn, Negussie Solomon
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has recorded the universality of ICTs and the extent of digital gaps between countries and regions through its annual ICT Development Index (IDI), which aggregates quantitative indicators for ICT access, use, and skills in most of the world economies (International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 2016)). ITU also stated that there is a strong association between ICT and economic development, with developing countries at a particular disadvantage. The average IDI value for advanced countries (7.40) is 3.33 points higher than that for less developed countries (4.07), although less developed countries improved their IDI value more than advanced countries. In suggesting a country’s telecom infrastructure has strong effects on economic growth, it has been argued that telecommunication investments have significant spillovers and create externalities (Roller and Waverman 2001). According to International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (2016), Ethiopia has 0.9 in fixed-telephone subscriptions per100 inhabitants, 42.8 in mobile-cellular subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, 3.5 in %age of households with a computer, and 9.8 in %age of households with internet in 2015. Regarding infrastructure equity issues, access to essential telecom services is one of the important factors in telecom geographic expansion, while economic considerations largely drive network capacity (Harris, Tekleselassie, and Lawson 2019).