Role of Village Resource Centers in Technology Diffusion and Development

2013 ◽  
pp. 287-297
Author(s):  
C. S. Shaijumon ◽  
Satheesh Menon
Keyword(s):  
Technology Diffusion

Digital Divide Challenge

2008 ◽  
pp. 1431-1439
Author(s):  
Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou ◽  
Anastasia Pouloudi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Technology Diffusion ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Normative Perspective

Following an initial euphoria about the power of the information superhighway to provide better access to information and wealth for all, what we have experienced in reality instead is that information and communication technologies have created further inequalities at individual, business, national and international level. To ease the effects of this “digital divide,” policy makers have taken up the role of change agencies, influencing the public in using innovative information technologies. This chapter focuses on the role of these change agencies for technology diffusion and the elimination of the digital divide. It is argued that examining the interest of change agencies and the other stakeholders involved in the diffusion process from a normative perspective can help in the preparation of effective information technology diffusion policies.

Technology’s Retreat: The Decline of Rural Telephony in The United States, 1920-1940

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-327
Author(s):  
Claude S. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Technology Diffusion ◽  
Social Role ◽  
The United States ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
The Social

One million fewer American farms had telephones in 1940 than in 1920; the instrument was disconnected in at least a third of the farm homes that once had it. Knowing how and why this “devolution” (Mattingly and Aspbury, 1985) occurred can expand our understanding of the social role of technology, diffusion of innovation, and more generally, twentieth-century modernization in America.

scholarly journals Which Product Will Survive To Be Standard?: Technology Adoption And The Role Of Governments

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akinori Tomohara
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Game Theory ◽  
Technology Diffusion ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Network Externalities ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Recent Developments

<p class="MsoBodyText2" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0.6in 0pt 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">While several surveys on technology diffusion have been undertaken, few attempts have been made to synthesize existing research to provide a framework for examining the role of governments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Is government intervention really required to remedy market failures caused by network externalities?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>This paper covers recent developments in this area, focusing on works in stochastic evolutionary game theory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>We relate the results of equilibrium selections to the role of governments. JEL classification: L1, L53 Keywords: Path Inefficiency; Market Failure; Network Externalities</span></span></p>

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