Many developing countries have a rapidly growing online news industry. Controlling for the number of internet users, hosts, and print newspapers, which countries have a surprisingly large online news industry? (more…)
March 2006
Monthly Archive
Patterns of International Inequality in Technology Access, 1995-2005
Categories: Economics, Global ComparisonA 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…)
Developing Countries Put More Content Online Than Into Books
Categories: Culture, Economics, Global ComparisonBook 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…)
Who Owns Latin America’s Major Mobile Phone Service Providers?
Categories: Economics, Regional FocusAmong the large mobile phone service providers in Latin America, most have a corporate structure that leads out of Latin America. (more…)