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…)
Book publishing is big business in rich countries, and book production in developing nations is a fraction of that in developed nations. Yet there has been impressive growth in the amount of cultural content online in poor countries. (more…)
Among the large mobile phone service providers in Latin America, most have a corporate structure that leads out of Latin America. (more…)
A trade deficit, or a deficit in the balance of trade, occurs when imports are greater than exports. Over the last decade, there are 10 core countries that consistently account for around 75 percent of the value of world exports in telecommunications equipment. (more…)
In developed countries, many people have Internet access at home, at work, at public libraries and at school. But in many of the largest cities in the developing world, exposure to the World Wide Web comes from commercial Internet access points and cybercafés. (more…)
Both China and India have booming information technology industries and claim some of the highest-rates of growth in Internet access. But in important ways, the information society in these large countries is highly concentrated around large, coastal cities. (more…)