In this collection of essays, renowned authors from various disciplines have drawn on supply chain analysis and industry studies to elucidate how NICT — new information and communications technologies — like mobile telephony and the Internet have been affecting low-income communities and...

Le commerce électronique est-il synonyme de nouvelles possibilités pour les entrepreneurs des pays en développement ? Ou va-t-il se traduire pour eux par des obstacles nouveaux et difficiles à surmonter ? Dans cette série d'articles, des auteurs issus de différentes disciplines partent de...

In this paper, we analyse the potential contribution of the Internet and its commercial application to the development process in poor countries. In historical perspective, the Internet has diffused at a far faster rate than earlier generations of communications technology: from 1990 to early...