This study is the result of collaboration among a group of researchers from CEPS and Zhejiang University (ZJU), who decided to team up and analyse the experience of China and the EU in bridging the digital divide. While acknowledging that both China and Europe have undertaken major efforts to...

Chapter 1 – Defining and rationalising digital towns -- Chapter 2 – Measuring digital readiness -- Chapter 3 – Connectivity -- Chapter 4 – Digital Citizen -- Chapter 5 – Digital Education -- Chapter 6 – Digital Civil Society -- Chapter 7 – Digital Business -- Chapter 8 – Digital...

This note presents a descriptive analysis of data from the so-called "Digital Data Divide Database", which estimates the world's technological hardware capacity to telecommunicate information between 1986 and 2017. The database provides both the number of telecommunication subscriptions and the...

The digital society is threatened by the existing divide that seems to be deepening between the population that has access to information technology and the population that for some reason does not. The phenomenon of digital divide has become a very important issue in the process of...

While numerous studies have analyzed the aggregate employment effects of digital technologies, this paper focuses on the employment development of individual workers exposed to digitalization. We use a unique linked employer-employee data set for Germany and a direct measure of the first-time...

While numerous studies have analyzed the aggregate employment effects of digital technologies, this paper focuses on the employment development of individual workers exposed to digitalization. We use a unique linked employer-employee data set for Germany and a direct measure of the first-time...