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  Abeliansky, A. L., & Hilbert, M. (2016). Digital technology and international trade: Is it the quantity of subscriptions or the quality of data speed that matters? Telecommunications Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2016.11.001   Highlights Both telecommunication subscriptions and...

Hilbert, M., Oh, P., & Monge, P. (2016). Evolution of what? A network approach for the detection of evolutionary forces. Social Networks, 47, 38–46. Highlights: Evolutionary analysis usually focuses on traits, such as the beak length...

Hilbert, M., Vasquez, J., Halpern, D., Valenzuela, S., & Arriagada, E. (2016). One Step, Two Step, Network Step? Complementary Perspectives on Communication Flows in Twittered Citizen Protests. Social Science Computer Review. Abstract The article analyzes the...

Hilbert, M. (2016). Formal definitions of information and knowledge and their role in growth through structural change. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. Highlights: Computer science definitions of information and knowledge are applied to economics Shannon entropy...

World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends Digital technologies have spread rapidly in much of the world.  Digital dividends—that is, the broader development benefits  from using these technologies—have lagged behind. In many  instances, digital technologies have boosted...

Hilbert, M. (2016). The bad news is that the digital access divide is here to stay: Domestically installed bandwidths among 172 countries for 1986–2014. Telecommunications Policy; Vol 40, issue 6, 567-581.   Highlights • The digital...

Gillings, M. R., Hilbert, M., & Kemp, D. J. (2016). Information in the Biosphere: Biological and Digital Worlds. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31(3), 180–189.  ABSTRACT: Evolution has transformed life through key innovations in information storage...

  Based on updated data from our global information capacity inventories, the London based outlet SciDev.Net (Science & technology for global development) has elaborated an interactive animation that allows users to explore the evolution of the...

Development Informatics ABSTRACT: While the ICT for development (ICT4D) community is well aware about the far-reaching changes introduced by the digital age, it is remarkably slowly getting used to the idea that digital tools also revolutionize...

Hilbert, M. (2015). A review of large-scale “how much information” inventories: variations, achievements and challenges. Information Research, 20(4). Open access at: http://www.informationr.net/ir/20-4/paper688.html   ABSTRACT Introduction. Pressed by the exploding number and increasing social importance of digital...