WIA Report

Although the world’s most dense global cities are often packed with commercial internet access points, in many countries the cost of an hour of internet use is higher in primary cities than it is in secondary cities. (more…)

Almost every city in the world offers cyber cafés or other commercial Internet
access, but they cost average people in a developing city two times as much of their daily income as people in a developed city.

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While many governments are working to improve their information infrastructure, a significant number of governments around the world do not have the capacity to host their own websites. A third of all countries maintain websites with commercial hosting services in the United States. One quarter of all countries maintain all of their government websites on servers in other countries. (more…)

For several decades, international lending agencies have encouraged African governments to reform their telecommunications sector by privatizing the public telephone services, separating and depoliticizing the agencies that regulate telecommunications sector, and opening up competition in the consumer market for telecommunications services. Over this period, Africa’s share of the world’s internet hosts and secure servers has actually declined. (more…)

The computer hacker is one of the most vilified figures in the digital era, but to what degree are organizations actually responsible for compromised personal records? To examine the role of organizational behavior in privacy violations, we analyze 589 incidents of compromised data between 1980 and 2006. (more…)

A decade into the information society, computing and communication technologies should be dispersed among a large number of countries in the world. But key computing and communication technologies are actually more concentrated in fewer countries, not more diffused across many countries. (more…)