WP 1 – The state-of-the-art analysis of the underlying factors of the digital divide within the EU and within the Southeast Asia
Objective:
To provide an overview of the literature and existing indicators on the state of digitalization and digital divide in Europe and Southeast Asia including factors affecting it.
Description:
It will be based on the literature review and on the qualitative analysis of recently published indicators (e.g., EIBIS, 2021) and survey data drawn from such databases as the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) of Eurostat, World Bank enterprise dataset, and other relevant country-based surveys. To identify possible economic, social, political, and technological factors that may explain the digital divide in the EU and in the Southeast Asia and formulate relevant hypotheses for individual EU countries, groups/clusters, the European Union as a whole and the Southeast Asia and project countries in that region and to identify any idiosyncratic features that these countries share regarding the use of digital technologies, which will be used in the empirical study implemented in subsequent WPs.