Telecommunications Policy
Ultra-broadband investment and economic resilience: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic (Telecommunications Policy)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 11/30/2022 - 12:24Report | 5G and the notion of network ideology, or: The limitations of sociotechnical imaginaries (Telecommunications Policy)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Sun, 10/23/2022 - 23:54Technological sovereignty of the EU in advanced 5G mobile communications: An empirical approach (Telecommunications Policy)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Wed, 10/19/2022 - 15:27App store governance: Implications, limitations, and regulatory responses (Telecommunications Policy)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 10/16/2022 - 15:24Development of the ICT sector and the determinants of Internet use in the Southern Caucasus (Telecommunications Policy)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Tue, 10/04/2022 - 11:04Community-wide broadband adoption and student academic achievement
This study examines the relationship between broadband adoption and county-level educational achievement in the US in which a novel measure of home broadband subscriptions to explore longitudinal community impacts of broadband adoption on aggregated standardized test scores in math and reading/language arts for students enrolled in 3rd-8th grades. A panel was created of US counties and measured the effect of broadband adoption on student educational achievement by estimating a fixed effect estimator. Key highlights from the research showed the following:
The geopolitics of digital rights activism: Evaluating civil society's role in the promises of multi-stakeholder internet governance
Multistakeholderism is thought to play an important role in democratizing internet governance institutions and processes by including civil society. Therefore, scholars have studied the participation of civil society organizations, from the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society through to the most recent Internet Governance Forum, to understand how they engage in and shape internet governance.
Internet access and cardiovascular death in the United States
As high-speed internet becomes increasingly important as a resource for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and management services, gaps in digital infrastructure may have a detrimental impact on health outcomes. Using national census and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data from 2018, researchers evaluated state-level rates of household internet access and age-adjusted cardiac mortality.