Summary and Conclusions

  • Samia Mohamed Nour
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Abstract

This research provides an interesting indepth pioneering analysis of demand for and economic impact of ICT from the demand perspective and from public-private perspectives in public and private Sudanese universities. The aims of this research is three fold: first, to examine the status, pattern, structure, trend and determinants of the demand for ICT in public and private Sudanese universities; second to investigate the economic impacts of the uses of ICT, the potential opportunities and challenges that ICT is expected to create for public and private Sudanese universities; and finally to explain the role of ICT in facilitating the production, creation and transfer of knowledge in Sudanese universities.

Keywords

Government Spending Digital Divide Mobile Telephone International Telecommunication Union Cheap Price 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Samia Mohamed Nour
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
  1. 1.Department of EconomicsUniversity of KhartoumKhartoumSudan
  2. 2.UNU-MERIT - School of Business and EconomicsMaastricht UniversityMaastrichtThe Netherlands
  3. 3.Department of EconomicsKing Abdulaziz UniversityJeddahKingdom of Saudi Arabia

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