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The impact of ICT expansion on promoting democracy and economic freedom in the Middle East (1995-2005)
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| author | Shirazi, Firad |
| author2 | Ngwenyama, Ojelanki |
| author_browse | Ngwenyama, Ojelanki Shirazi, Firad |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| publishDate | 2015 |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10843 The impact of ICT expansion on promoting democracy and economic freedom in the Middle East (1995-2005) Shirazi, Firad Ngwenyama, Ojelanki Brown, Irwin Information Systems Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. The PhD study has found that ICT expansion has positively influenced democratic freedom, information sharing and dissemination and provides a public sphere for discourse among citizens of the eleven Middle Eastern countries. This thesis also found that ICT expansion positively influences economic freedom in the eleven Middle Eastern countries. However, differences between countries such as the educational attainment of their citizens and institutional resistance to ICT utilization both enhanced and restricted the relationship between ICT and economic freedom in the region 2015-01-01T12:40:17Z 2015-01-01T12:40:17Z 2010 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10843 eng application/pdf Department of Information Systems Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Information Systems Shirazi, Firad The impact of ICT expansion on promoting democracy and economic freedom in the Middle East (1995-2005) |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | The impact of ICT expansion on promoting democracy and economic freedom in the Middle East (1995-2005) |
| title_full | The impact of ICT expansion on promoting democracy and economic freedom in the Middle East (1995-2005) |
| title_fullStr | The impact of ICT expansion on promoting democracy and economic freedom in the Middle East (1995-2005) |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of ICT expansion on promoting democracy and economic freedom in the Middle East (1995-2005) |
| title_short | The impact of ICT expansion on promoting democracy and economic freedom in the Middle East (1995-2005) |
| title_sort | impact of ict expansion on promoting democracy and economic freedom in the middle east 1995 2005 |
| topic | Information Systems |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10843 |
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