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Information and Communication Technologies for Women Entrepreneurs: Prospects and Potential In Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Uzbekistan

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

In a fast-paced world where information, resources, and markets are within reach with a swipe of a finger, access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) is essential to business development and growth. This study assesses the need for and use of ICTs by women entrepreneurs in...

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Implications of Web 2.0 for financial institutions: Be a driver, not a passenger

Heng, Stefan; Meyer, Thomas; Stobbe, Antje - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Web 2.0 heralds a new era of communication with a massive increase in information supply and where news, opinion and services flow directly from user to user. Financial institutions can take advantage if they stay abreast of this development. However, any Web 2.0 presence of a financial...

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Media industry facing biggest upheaval since Gutenberg. Media consumers morphing into media makers

Heng, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The advance of innovative information and communication technologies has triggered a fundamental upheaval in the media industry. The technology is reforming the conventional media model. The media mix will become more varied; interactive and personalised offers are taking root and finding their...

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Internet Kiosks in Rural India: What Influences Success?

Kendall, Jake; Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

-Logue, a franchise of over 1000 locally-owned, Internet kiosks in rural villages in India. We seek to assess how this new …

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Blogs and the Economics of Reciprocal Attention

Gaudeul, Alexia; Mathieu, Laurence; Peroni, Chiara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Blogs differ from other media in that authors are usually not remunerated and inscribe themselves in communities of similarly minded individuals. Bloggers value reciprocal attention, interaction with other bloggers and information from reading other blogs; they value being read but also writing...

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ICTs and rural development in India

Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This monograph compares the methodologies and progress of the different existing models of information and communication technology (ICT) use for broad-based development and economic growth in India. It will examine the role of complementary reforms in government administration and policies. The...

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Network Economics and the Digital Divide in Rural India

Kendall, Jake; Singh, Nirvikar; Williams, Kristin; Zhou, Yan - NET Institute - 2007

computer and Internet penetration have identified income, telecommunications infrastructure, and regulatory quality as key …, through organizational innovations that provide low cost Internet access in developing countries, within the existing levels … Internet use. The situations in which data was collected were ones where computer and Internet access was being provided by a …

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Transaction Costs, Information Technology and Development

Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper examines the impact of transaction costs on economic welfare and development. We extend the static model of Romer (1994), in which transaction costs reduce welfare by the reducing the equilibrium number of intermediate goods, and estimate the welfare losses in the case of domestic...

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Determinants of initial technology adoption and intensification: evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Waters, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

practices employing the internet. In contrast to previous examinations that have looked at highest income countries, we study …

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Electronic Tourism (E-tourism) - a theoretical approach

Maha, Andreea; Donici, Andreea Nicoleta; Postolachi, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

accommodations and internet usage. …

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