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Networked World and National ICT Development Strategies for Selected East Asian Countries

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Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1.3, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this paper is three-fold:- To identify the characteristics and political options of a country, that would affect the success of its ICT adoption.- To identify clusters of nations upon the international ICT indices and GNI per capita- To provide an overall guideline that incorporates these nations toward developing higher ICT indices.[...] This paper shows income level and social background can play very important roles incountry´s ICT development. Within Asian region, South Korea represents the developedgroup, China and Vietnam characterize the developing group. China and Vietnam havesimilar political structure but the first is much bigger than the latter. Therefore, ICTimplementation is different between these 2 countries. This paper is organized as follow, first,short overviews of ICT development as well as the advantages of ICT. Second, 3 countries(South Korea, China and Vietnam) are described in details in both national characteristics andICT performance. In this section, the ICT industry and development of each country areanalyzed in terms of what they have done to adopt ICT as well as how much progress hasbeen made. In section 4, the information about popular ICT ranking indices are given. The10three chosen indices are Networked Readiness Index, Digital Economy Ranking and ICTDevelopment Index. The empirical research of cluster building for 12 selected countries ispresented in Section 5. In the final section, the guidelines for better ICT adoption arepresented. In particularly, Vietnam and China are discussed in more details and their politicalrecommendation is drawn.The data used in this paper are mostly from World Bank, Information Technology Union. Theindicators and indexes provided are for 2010 or 2011. Because the crisis from 2007-2009could affect negatively in the world economy and ICT particularly, GNI per capita and GDPgrowth rate of 2010 present relatively better research result.

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Mai 2013, 111 Seiten, Englisch
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9783656432623

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