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  • AI & Big Data

    Information & Communication Quantity

    These two Chapters are 2014 updates of the 2007 estimations from  Hilbert, M., & López, P. (2011). The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information. Science, 332(6025), 60–65. For more see here: http://www.martinhilbert.net/worldinfocapacity-html/  These updates...
    January 18, 2018 11871 0
  • ICT for Development

    Digital Tools for Foresight (UNCTAD Report)

    Hilbert, M., Cheng, S., Wang, S. (Wilburn), & Bell, B. (2017). Digital tools for foresight (UNCTAD Research Paper No. 10 No. UNCTAD/SER.RP/2017/10). UNCTAD. Retrieved from http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=1910   Highlights: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 sets...
    November 16, 2017 4578 0
  • Information Theory

    Complementary Variety

    Hilbert, M. (2017). Complementary Variety: When Can Cooperation in Uncertain Environments Outperform Competitive Selection? Complexity.   Abstract Evolving biological and socioeconomic populations can sometimes increase their growth rate by cooperatively redistributing resources among their members. In...
    September 10, 2017 6174 0
  • Complex Systems

    The More You Know, the More You Can Grow

    Hilbert, M. (2017). The More You Know, the More You Can Grow: An Information Theoretic Approach to Growth in the Information Age. Entropy, 19(2), 82. Open Access: http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/2/82/htm    ABSTRACT In our information age, information alone has...
    March 20, 2017 14479 0
  • AI & Big Data

    Entrevista THE CLINIC Chile

    Martin Hilbert, experto en redes digitales: “Obama y Trump usaron el Big Data para lavar cerebros” Daniel Hopenhayn, 19 Enero, 2017. Tags: big data, Estados Unidos, Martin Hilbert, obama, redes digitales, Trump Compártelo  Tuitéalo  Lo conocen en la academia de las TICs por...
    January 20, 2017 10282 0
  • ICT for Development

    Digital technology and international trade:

      Abeliansky, A. L., & Hilbert, M. (2016). Digital technology and international trade: Is it the quantity of subscriptions or the quality of data speed that matters? Telecommunications Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2016.11.001   Highlights Both telecommunication subscriptions and...
    December 27, 2016 10288 0
  • Complex Systems

    Evolution of what?

    Hilbert, M., Oh, P., & Monge, P. (2016). Evolution of what? A network approach for the detection of evolutionary forces. Social Networks, 47, 38–46. Highlights: Evolutionary analysis usually focuses on traits, such as the beak length...
    May 20, 2016 12237 0
  • AI & Big Data

    One-step, two-step, network-step?

    Hilbert, M., Vasquez, J., Halpern, D., Valenzuela, S., & Arriagada, E. (2016). One Step, Two Step, Network Step? Complementary Perspectives on Communication Flows in Twittered Citizen Protests. Social Science Computer Review. Abstract The article analyzes the...
    May 20, 2016 9036 0
  • Complex Systems

    Formal definitions of information and knowledge…

    Hilbert, M. (2016). Formal definitions of information and knowledge and their role in growth through structural change. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. Highlights: Computer science definitions of information and knowledge are applied to economics Shannon entropy...
    May 20, 2016 10638 0
  • ICT for Development

    World Development Report 2016

    World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends Digital technologies have spread rapidly in much of the world.  Digital dividends—that is, the broader development benefits  from using these technologies—have lagged behind. In many  instances, digital technologies have boosted...
    February 25, 2016 10029 0

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