ICT for Development

Hilbert, M. (2020). Digital technology and social change: The digital transformation of society from a historical perspective. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 22(2), 189–194. https://doi.org/10.31887/DCNS.2020.22.2/mhilbert ABSTRACTDigital technology, including its omnipresent connectedness and its powerful artificial intelligence, is...

Hilbert, M., & Lu, K. (2020). The online job market trace in Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC LC/TS.2020/83; p. 79). United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. https://www.cepal.org/en/publications/45892-online-job-market-trace-latin-america-and-caribbean Jobs intermediated by...

Mann, S., & Hilbert, M. (2020). AI4D: Artificial Intelligence for Development. International Journal of Communication, 14(0), 21. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/12392 ABSTRACT We derive a conceptual bridge between technical concepts from the deep learning literature and natural metaphors for...

Lessons learned from using big data to assess the digital economy This big data exercise was carried out by a team of experts, Veronika Vilgis, Yu-Chang Ho, Xin Jin, Kangbo Lu, Karla Rascon-Garcia and Matthew Reese,...

Check out updated numbers on the world’s telecommunication capacity per country ( https://www.martinhilbert.net/worldinfocapacity-html/ ) in Chapter 6: Technology’s potential for divergence and convergence: Facing a century of structural transformation Human Development Report 2019 Beyond income, beyond...

This database estimates the world’s technological hardware capacity to telecommunicate information between 1986 and 2017. The database provides both the number of telecommunication subscriptions and the bandwidth capacity for 168 countries. The database can be found...

M. Santillán Vásquez & MH (2018). “La etapa de evolución social en la que actualmente estamos ya está fusionada con la inteligencia artificial, mucho más allá de cualquier punto de retorno”. Revista Contratexto, Facultad de Comunicación...

Hilbert, M., & Aravindakshan, A. (2018). What Characterizes the Polymodal Media of the Mobile Phone? The Multiple Media within the World’s Most Popular Medium. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2(3), 37. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti2030037   OPEN ACCESS ABSTRACT While the...

eLAC Action Plans (a personal account) The eLAC Action Plan (the Latin American and Caribbean Digital Agenda / Information Society Development Plan) is one of those rare and noteworthy international development public policy initiatives, which has...

Jaidka, K., Ahmed, S., Skoric, M., & Hilbert, M. (2018). Predicting elections from social media: a three-country, three-method comparative study. Asian Journal of Communication, 0(0), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2018.1453849   ABSTRACT This study introduces and evaluates the robustness...