With the WiFi4EU initiative, the European Commission intends to reinforce local wireless Internet connectivity free of charge and without discriminatory conditions in the EU. This paper aims to analyse if this policy measure achieves its goals: to contribute towards digital inclusion and to...

The objective of this paper is to present the district levels analysis of rural infrastructure base with respect to connectivity of villages and availability of basic amenities in these villages across districts in Andhra Pradesh.

This paper analyses the WiFi4EU initiative, the measures proposed by the European Commission (EC) to speed up public access to Wi-Fi throughout Europe in the coming years, ranging from rapid mechanisms to subsidising the infrastructure. We set out to analyse how these measures are incorporated...

This paper analyses the WiFi4EU initiative, the measures proposed by the European Commission (EC) to speed up public access to Wi-Fi throughout Europe in the coming years, ranging from rapid mechanisms to subsidising the infrastructure. We set out to analyse how these measures are incorporated...

In this analysis, we compare the determinants of the first-level and the second-level digital divide for private internet use in Germany. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use the exact weekly duration of internet use to explain inequalities in internet intensity, explicitly...

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...

Die Entwicklung der Plattformökonomie ist ein zentraler Bestandteil der Digitalisierung der Kunden-Unternehmen-Beziehung, die Gesellschaft und Betriebe gleichermaßen erfasst. Im Handwerk haben sich eine Vielzahl an Plattformangeboten etabliert, die eine zunehmend stärkere Rolle für die...