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Information infrastructure, governance, and socio-economic development in developing countries

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There is growing interest in the role and contribution of national information infrastructure (NII) to the quality of governance and the socio-economic development of nation states. In this paper, we use publicly available archival data to explore the relationships among NII, governance, and socio-economic development in developing countries. Results substantiate a significant relationship between NII and governance, and NII and socio-economic development. The findings suggest that NII have the capacity to contribute to country development, both directly (via impacts on socio-economic development) and indirectly (via its impacts on governance, which in turn influences socio-economic development).

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Meso, P., Musa, P., Straub, D. et al. Information infrastructure, governance, and socio-economic development in developing countries. Eur J Inf Syst 18, 52–65 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2008.56

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