JOURNAL ARTICLES

Psychological Bulletin ABSTRACT: A single coherent framework is proposed to synthesize long-standing research on 8 seemingly unrelated cognitive decision-making biases. During the past 6 decades, hundreds of empirical studies have resulted in a variety of rules...

Women’s Studies International Forum ABSTRACT: The discussion about women's access to and use of digital Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in developing countries has been inconclusive so far. Some claim that women are rather technophobic and...

Telecommunications Policy ABSTRACT: Based on the theory of the diffusion of innovations through social networks, the article discusses the main approaches researchers have taken to conceptualize the digital divide. The result is a common framework that...

Science ABSTRACT: We estimated  the world’s technological capacity to store, communicate, and compute information, tracking 60 analog and digital technologies during the period from 1986 to 2007. In 2007, humankind was able to store 2.9 × 1020...

The Information Society ABSTRACT: The digital divide is conventionally measured in terms of information and communication technology (ICT) equipment diffusion, which comes down to counting the number of computers or phones, among other devices. This article...

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...

Journal of Information Technology & Politics Abstract: Early literature on e-democracy was dominated by euphoric claims about the benefits of e-voting (digital direct democracy) or continuous online citizen consultations (digital representative democracy). High expectations have gradually...

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...

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...

Política Digital ABSTRACT: El presente artículo muestra los modelos de servicios en línea que ofrecen los llamados “municipios digitales” en Chile y Perú. Para conformar el estudio, se aplicaron 106 cuestionarios a funcionarios de 341 municipios...