@techreport{068eade9a7644b51b671121a522dff47,
title = "Measuring information society with linear programming",
abstract = "The measurement of different aspects of information society has been problematic over along time, and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is spearheading in developing a single ICT index. In Geneva during the first World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in December 2003, the heads of states declared their commitment to the importance of benchmarking and measuring progress toward the information society. Consequently, they re-affirmed their Geneva commitments in their second summit held in Tunis in 2005. In this paper, we propose a multiplicative linear programming model to measure Opportunity Index. We also compared our results with the common measure of ICT opportunity index and we found that the two indices are consistent in their measurement of digital opportunity though differences still exist among regions.",
keywords = "ICT-opportunity index, DEA-oportunity index, information society, digital divide, linear programming, data envelopment analysis",
author = "Ali Emrouznejad and Roya Gholami",
note = "RP0909",
year = "2009",
month = mar,
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-85449-749-9",
series = "Aston Business School research papers",
publisher = "Aston University",
number = "RP0909",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "Aston University",
}