The impact of ICT expansion on promoting democracy and economic freedom in the Middle East (1995-2005)

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

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Information Systems

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Shirazi, Firad

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Ngwenyama, Ojelanki
• Brown, Irwin

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10843

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10843