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2 Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
19 The 4Cs of ICT: Computing, Connectivity, Content, and (human) Capacity Together, ICT is roughly of the world s GDP ICT is more than computers and telephony ICT is embedded in virtually all industrial, commercial, and services systems ICT is a fundamental part of economic growth, especially for the so-termed knowledge economy 2 Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Overview The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) estimates the worldwide ICT market in 2002 was almost $ trillion, which they segmented as Telecom Services (39%), Software and Services (31%), and Hardware (30%). This comes to nearly of the Gross World Product. Surprisingly, in developing countries, ICT s share in GDP is not low. ICT can be considered to be built on the 4 C s Computing, Communications , Content, and (the often overlooked) human Capacity. The recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) focused extensively on 3 Cs, Communications , content, and capacity building, and less so on computers.
otherwise, in addition to the obvious issue of financing, political economy issues (including legal framework/rule of law, sanctity of contracts, labor and other regulations, etc.) are equally or sometimes more important. WSIS The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Phase I brought to the forefront the role of ICT for development.
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