ICT for Development

World Development ABSTRACT: The article presents a model that shows how income structures create diffusion patterns of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The model allows the creation of scenarios for potential cuts in access prices and/or...

Technological Forecasting and Social Change ABSTRACT: The paper shows how international foresight exercises, through online and offline tools, can make policy-making in developing countries more participatory, fostering transparency and accountability of public decision-making. A five-round Delphi...

ICT Statistical Information System Sistema de información estadístico de TIC Observatory for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (OSILAC), http://www.cepal.org/SocInfo The ICT Statistical Information System integrates the more than 100 household surveys of...

ABSTRACT: Este libro presenta los aspectos técnicos del progreso en los sistemas digitales, generalmente conocidos como las tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC). Es el resultado de un trabajo conjunto entre un grupo amplio y...

In mid-2000, I found my way from the School of Economics & Business of the University of Chile to Jorge Katz, Director of the micro-economic oriented Division of Production, Productivity and Development at UN ECLAC, who...

Digital Review 2007 of Latin America and the Caribbean:Progress and Challenges Policies for Development with ICT-Abridged document Abridged English version: 37 pages instead of the 255 page Spanish version: Panorama Digital 2007 de América Latina y...

Partnership, U. N. (2008). The Global Information Society: a Statistical View. Geneva: ITU, OECD, UNCTAD, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, UN Regional Commissions (UNECLAC, UNESCWA, UNESCAP, UNECA), World Bank, EUROSTAT. Retrieved from http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/LCW190_en.pdf ABSTRACT Measurement is an...

ABSTRACT: La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe, de la ONU, ha estudiado durante varios años las diferentes políticas públicas y estrategias nacionales que conducen hacia la Sociedad de la Información en todos los...

eLAC Policy Priorities Delphi: Latin American and Caribbean multi-stakeholder consultation for ICT policy priorities for the year 2010   Spanish version: "Delphi de prioridades de políticas eLAC: Consulta multisectorial sobre prioridades de políticas TIC para el...

Centros de acceso público a las tecnologías de información y comunicación en América Latina: características y desafíos Oscar Maeso and Martin Hilbert Information Society Series No. 11, United Nation ECLAC Project documents, LC/W.88, http://www.cepal.org/SocInfo    ...