This paper examines three software and/or information technology enabled services (ITES) industries—two in the early stages of development (in the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the Philippines) and one mature one (in India). Being latecomers to offshoring work, the PRC...

This paper examines three software and/or information technology enabled services (ITES) industries—two in the early stages of development (in the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the Philippines) and one mature one (in India). Being latecomers to offshoring work, the PRC and the...

Software exports have the potential to make a significant contribution to the economies of developing countries and to the global IT industry. Developing countries have demonstrated a comparative advantage in this export sector and the global IT industry can benefit from this developing country...

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) are taking center stage in the technology field. The many advantages of DLT like trustless networking, consensus mechanisms etc are utilized by Blockchain to provide several applications. DLT is akin to the base and foundation for technologies...

Modularity is often cited as one of the foundations for the Internet’s success. Unfortunately, academic discussions about modularity appearing in the literature on Internet policy are undertheorized. The persistence of nonmodular architectures for some technologies underscores the need for...

Microfinance, the provision of financial services to poor people, suffers from high interest rates owing to high transaction costs. Within these transaction costs, technologies such as MIS may be a solution to lower operating costs. However, the small size of most MFIs makes software seem...

Automation technology has grown at a rapid pace recently. One technology growing rapidly right now is the Internet of Things or IoT. IoT consists of many devices, and one of the IoT devices that are popular right now is called the smart home device. This smart home device can save the user's...

During the past decade the federal governments of emerging market ‘BRICS’ (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) nations have determined that the shortest path to an industrialized and innovative economy is via the institutional conversion of privately conceived, developed and...

The Information Technology Agreement (ITA), a pluri-lateral trade agreement, seeks to accelerate and deepen the reduction of trade barriers for the critically important information and communication technology (ICT) industry. ITA thus provides an interesting case study of how tariff reduction...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo es producto de la revisión bibliográfica sobre la utilización de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones (TIC's) y su nivel de aplicación en la industria colombiana a través del análisis de algunos estudios existentes. Para esto se parte de...