Article ID: | iaor200969188 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 52 |
End Page Number: | 65 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2009 |
Journal: | European Journal of Information Systems |
Authors: | Straub Detmar, Meso Peter, Musa Philip, Mbarika Victor |
Keywords: | information, government |
There is growing interest in the role and contribution of national information infrastructure (NII) to the quality of governance and the socio-economic development of nation states. In this paper, we use publicly available archival data to explore the relationships among NII, governance, and socio-economic development in developing countries. Results substantiate a significant relationship between NII and governance, and NII and socio-economic development. The findings suggest that NII have the capacity to contribute to country development, both directly (via impacts on socio-economic development) and indirectly (via its impacts on governance, which in turn influences socio-economic development).