Showing papers in "Telecommunications Policy in 2020"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the contribution of digitalization to economic growth of Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) in comparison with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) economies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the influence of telework on labor productivity in Japan and found that appropriate telework hours increase labor productivity, but when telew hours are too long, telework decreases labor productivity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess how information and communication technology (ICT) modulates the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth dynamics in 25 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1980-2014.

TL;DR: The paper advocates for the need of a common framework to evaluate the potential impact of the use of AI in the public sector and discusses the specific effects of automated decision support systems on public services and the growing expectations for governments to play a more prevalent role in the digital society.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a comprehensive literature survey of the papers that examine the link between ICT and economic growth, and found 208 academic papers that were published from 1991 to the cutoff date of October 30, 2018.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between perceived risk and resistance to smart home services, using technological uncertainty and service intangibility as the antecedents of perceived risk.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a conceptual model to analyze the intention to use mobile payment services in the emerging market, where data was collected in India, one of the biggest emerging market through a survey.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of ICT on female economic participation in sub-Saharan Africa over the period 2004-2014 is assessed. And the authors show that enhancing ICT beyond certain thresholds is necessary for ICT to mitigate inequality in order to enhance gender economic participation.

TL;DR: It is argued that the prevention of malicious uses of AI and the enhancement of human welfare create strong common interests across jurisdictions that require sustained efforts to develop better, mutually beneficial approaches.

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical review on conditions and impacts of AI/ML in society, with a dedicated overview of the European AI policy framework, is presented, along with an overarching outlook of key ethical and societal issues currently under discussion at the intersection of European policy agendas and recent literature on the topic.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of financial inclusion and mobile money use on an individual's non-monetary welfare in Burkina Faso by applying matching methods were assessed and shown that once individuals access financial services through mobile money, such favorable effects on poverty alleviation become more substantial.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the linear and non-linear effects of information and communication technology diffusion on financial development for 81 countries over the period 1990-2015 by employing the generalized-momentum method (GMM) and panel smooth transition regression (PSTR).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide policy makers in low income and middle income countries with a pragmatic review of the critical issues in formulating effective strategies and planning to embrace the next generation of mobile cellular technology.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of broadband speed on county unemployment rates in the U.S. state of Tennessee and found that broadband speed matters: unemployment rates are about 0.26 percentage points lower in counties with high speeds compared to counties with low speeds.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the determinants of the income inequality for a global sample including 87 economies between 2002 and 2014, and found that the promotion of internet and mobile diffusion appear to be a way of reducing income inequality in the short and the long run.

TL;DR: In this article, a non-formalistic scientific methodology is used to analyze the relationship between artificial and human intelligence and the question of the unitary or diverse nature of the AI.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the volume and dynamics of the digital divide in access and use of the Internet in Russia by key social groups according to a longitudinal survey for 2008-2018.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of ICTs and innovation on the economic growth of developed and developing countries is analyzed at two different levels: the individual level and the group level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the local presence of very high-speed broadband networks and its causal impact on the creation of new businesses and sole proprietorships using micro-level panel data covering almost 5000 municipalities in metropolitan France.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparative analysis between sampled African countries and the corresponding sampled developing countries was conducted to understand the greater diffusion of mobile money innovations in Africa. But, the authors did not reveal all the factors driving mobile money innovation in Africa, which may be traceable to informal sector variables not documented in the findings of the study.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors evaluated the status and prospects of China's AI innovation ecosystem by developing a Triple Helix framework particularized for this case, and highlighted the challenges ahead in the current implementation of the ecosystem that will largely determine the potential global leadership of China in this domain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the impact of broadband on regional productivity in Brazil and found that faster download speed and critical-mass accounting for network externalities in the region enhance the economic impact.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used empirical evidence to highlight the important role digital technology plays in mitigating a pandemic's economic disruption, and provided rigorous analysis to support that a reliable telecommunications infrastructure and a high level of digitization is crucial to keep the economy running under pandemic conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the contribution of R&D to firm productivity in a large panel of European firms and study its variation with the age, size, and sub-sector of firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use micro-level data coming from household surveys over 5 years, from 2013 to 2017, to show that SIM card ownership and being part of an online social community has a strong positive impact on mobile broadband use.

TL;DR: Five optional spectrum access scenarios for 5G vertical network service providers (VNSPs) in acquiring spectrum access to provide a network service to either end users or other companies are defined and substantive characteristics in terms of suitability assessment are highlighted.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate a program by a private Internet Service Provider (ISP) intended to encourage low-income households to subscribe to broadband internet service, using data from the U.S. Census Current Population Survey (CPS) and the National Broadband Map and a differences-in-differences approach.

TL;DR: A positive and significant impact of state-level funding programs on general (and fiber) broadband availability is found, and a negative impact of municipal/cooperative restrictions are found.

TL;DR: The range of AI applications already in place and those expected to be in place in the near future are identified and the consequences of AI for regulation are explored.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine China's efforts to achieve greater autonomy in the development of its own semiconductor sector and examine the uncertainty in the future evolution of this value chain.