Recent evidence suggests that increasing overall service coverage and promoting access to telecommunications services have a high economic benefit. Overall, it is estimated that a ten percent increase in mobile telephony penetration could increase economic growth by 0.81 percent in developing...

IT-based services : global outlook -- Country competitiveness in the global market of IT-based services -- Policy options to enhance competitiveness -- Dimensions of the LRI : what is needed to be competitive? The LRI model -- Applying the LRI model to the United States, India, Indonesia, and...

This guidebook aims to bring citizen-driven innovation to policy makers and change agents around the globe, by spreading good practice on open and participatory approaches as applied to digital service development in different nations, climates, cultures, and urban settings. The report explores...

This book aims to help policy makers take advantage of the opportunities presented by increased cross-border trade in information technology (IT) services and IT-enabled services (ITES). It begins by defining the two industries and estimating the potential global market opportunities for trade...

Access to information, and communications technologies has become crucial to a sustainable agenda of economic development, and poverty reduction, and yet access remains concentrated in a few regions and population groups, with the contours of this new "digital divide" closely following, and...

This newsletter looks at Output-based aid (OBA) as it pertains to the telecommunication sector of Uganda. Specifically, how to bring communication services to the rural areas. The newsletter touches on how the structure and financing was set, how the bidding process was set up, subsidies, the...