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Development of the Information Society: After Infrastructures, Pull Strategies via ICTlogy May 28th, 2008 at 19:57

image In a seminar I imparted in January — Fostering the Information Society for Development in the Web 2.0 framework: from push to pull strategies — the case of Spain — I suggested that the most developed countries had reached sort of a threshold of installed infrastructures. Of course, this threshold could be pushed up and more infrastructures (or better and cheaper ones) could be installed, but the development of the Information Society would barely rely on that. According to the data available, I wondered whether the solution might be shifting from push to pull strategies, parallel to the shift that we’ve been living in the web landscape towards the so-called Web 2.0. This is the chart I then presented: [click to enlarge] Now, with data from the World Bank we can draw another...