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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- A few words from the editor -- Chapter 1 Digital technologies and women's empowerment - casting the bridges -- Chapter 2 Mobile phone technologies as an opportunity for women's financial inclusion: What does the evidence say? -- Chapter 3 Women empowering themselves to fit into ICT -- Chapter 4 The role of social technologies in women's empowerment perception: An international comparison -- Chapter 5 A multidimensional analysis of the digital gender gap in European Union Member States -- Chapter 6 ICT usage at work as a way to reduce the gender earnings gap among European entrepreneurs -- Chapter 7 Self-employment of women: an opportunity or the last resort? -- Chapter 8 ICT and women's careers: Using grassroots ICT to expand women's participation in nontraditional careers -- Chapter 9 Gender and support: Polish women at the beginning of their professional career in IT -- Chapter 10 ICTs for women's poverty alleviation: What does the theory and the practice tell us? -- Chapter 11 "When people come to me for suggestions, I feel like an expert": Empowering women through smartphones in rural Bangladesh -- Chapter 12 Female unemployment in an emerging economy: A study of online social support as a coping strategy -- Chapter 13 ICT and women's economic empowerment: A cross-country analysis through investigating the impact of ICT on women's financial inclusion -- Index.

Introduction -- Conceptual and contextual framework -- Identifying ICT diffusion and substitution patterns -- Elucidating "network effects" and ICT diffusion determinants in Asia -- Drawing lessons from this book

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Technology and economic development-historical perspective -- Technology diffusion : conceptual aspects -- Identifying ict diffusion patterns : linking models to data for technology -- Technological take-offs : country's perspective -- What have we learnt from this books? -- Appendixes -- Index

"Over last few decades, the world has witnessed, the process of rapid diffusion of new information and communication technologies (ICT) that enforced remarkable changes and structural shifts going far beyond economic sphere of life. ICT become fast available widespread and rapidly growing access to and use of ICT, additionally enhances the process of technological substitution, which consists in switching from the 'old' to 'new' technological solutions. The on-going digital revolution, undeniably, pervasively impacts and reshapes societies and economies, hence deserves special attention and interest. This book provides extensive evidence on information and communication technologies development diffusion patterns, unveils specific 'network effects' that enhance rapid spread of ICT, and detect major macroeconomic determinants of this process, across 36 Asian economies over the period 1980-2015. Moreover, this research traces country-specific patterns of the unique process. We consider two types of technological substitution, namely: 'fixed-to-mobile' type technological substitution process encompasses switching from fixed telephony ('old technology') to mobile telephony ('new technology'); while the 'fixed-to-wireless' type technological substitution - switching from fixed (narrowband and/or broadband) fixed Internet networks ('old technologies') to wireless (mainly broadband) Internet networks ('new technologies'). Moreover, this study empirically identifies the potential effect of selected macroeconomic factors, which may potentially enhance dynamic spread of ICT."--Provided by publisher

1 Introduction -- 2 Technology, the Economy, and Society - Casting the Bridges -- 3 Technology Diffusion -- 4 Information and Communication Technologies Diffusion Patterns in Developing Countries - Empirical Evidence -- 5 What Matters for ICT Diffusion? -- 6 Conclusion, Recommendations and Implications -- Appendices.

In the paper we run an exhaustive study of the magnitude socio-economic exclusion which affects large parts of societies in European countries. Social and economic exclusion – alternatively called as deprivation – are widely recognized as symptoms of human poverty. This implies obstacles in gaining full and free access to education, professional health care, finance, or i.e. labor market, resulting in substantial lack of skills, capabilities and functionings (see Sen 1986). All these disable effective usage and allocation of resources, which constitutes a significant hindrance for economic development of countries. The aim of the analysis is to identify the magnitude of socio-economic deprivation (human poverty) and confront if with the economic development level (approximated by gross domestic product per capita) and dynamics in European countries. For quantitative assessment of the socio-economic deprivation level we apply a bundle of arbitrary chosen indicator derived from EUROSTAT databases. The sample covers European Union economies – with special focus on Baltic Sea region countries, and the time span for the analysis is 2004-2011.

Chapter 1. Introduction1.1 Context and background1.2 Goals1.3 Structure Chapter 2. Digital technologies as network technologies.2.1 On the significance of network technologies. A brief historical perspective.2.2 Networks and network externalities as technology diffusion drivers. Chapter 3. Empirical underpinnings 3.1 The sample3.2 Methodological settings. Chapter 4. Tracing technology convergence and network effects. 4.1 General overview4.2 Technology convergence and technology convergence clubs.4.3 Network externalities as a driver of technology diffusion. Chapter 5. Conclusions and policy implications.5.1 What have we learnt from this book?.5.2 Digital convergence or divergence? Drawing the "big picture".