#author:heeks

This paper tests some of these bold claims by focusing on the issue of inequality – of convergence and divergence – between nations; specifically between industrialised OECD countries and developing countries (DCs). In Section A, it argues that ICTs are diffusing – and will continue to diffuse – more slowly in developing than industrialised economies. In Section B, it argues that there is an inequality of ICT-related impacts. Developing countries are more likely to bear the costs of ICTs; industrialised countries are more likely to reap the benefits of ICTs. Section C therefore concludes that this is an economically-divergent technology and that investment priorities must be geared to address this divergence.