info: Volume 16 Issue 1
Table of contents - Special Issue: A digital agenda in search of evidence
Exploring new ways to ensure interoperability under the Digital Agenda
Inge Graef, Peggy ValckeThis article seeks to analyze the initiative of the European Commission that studied the feasibility of measures that would lead significant market players to license their…
Forecasting the fiber penetration based on copper access regulation
François JeanjeanThis paper aims to investigate the impact of copper access regulation on broadband household adoption for each technology (xDSL on copper infrastructure, FTTx on fiber…
Using a digitization index to measure the economic and social impact of digital agendas
Raul Katz, Pantelis Koutroumpis, Fernando Martin CallordaThe purpose of this paper is to measure the cumulative, holistic impact of discrete information and communication technologies. It also provides a glimpse of applications and…
Targeting the Digital Agenda for Europe: a new approach for estimating ICT R&D expenditures
Juraj StančíkThe main goal of this paper is to create a methodology for estimating public research and development (R&D) expenditures on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the…
Build it! … but what if they don't come?
J. Scott Marcus, Dieter ElixmannThe purpose of the paper is to address the issue of demand for broadband access and the specific role that bandwidth plays in this context. The aim is to assess available…
The future of broadband in Africa
Christoph Stork, Enrico Calandro, Ranmalee GamageThis paper aims to provide an answer as to whether fibre to the home and other types of fixed internet access still have a role to play in Africa beyond a few urban elites, as…