WIA Report

Datasets

We have developed and analyzed several datasets, including a collection of gini coefficients for measuring technology diffusion around the world.  This page also offers links to the data and codebooks used in project publications

Original Data

Howard, Philip N., Laura Busch,
and Spencer Cohen. “Information
and Communication Technology
Diffusion and Distribution
Dataset.” World Information
Access Project, 2008.

Howard, Philip N., Laura Busch, and Spencer Cohen. “Information and Communication Technology Diffusion and Distribution Dataset.” World Information Access Project, 2008.

Replication Data

Howard, Philip N., and Nimah Mazaheri. “Telecommunications Reform, Internet Use and Mobile Phone Adoption in the Developing World.” World Development 37, no. 7 (2009): 1159-1169.

Howard, Philip, Laura Busch, Dawn Nafus, and Ken Anderson. “Sizing up Information Societies—Towards a Better Metric for the Cultures of ICT Adoption.” The Information Society 25, no. 3 (2009): 208-219.