The impact of information and communication technologies on the knowledge-based economy in the Arab world, with particular reference to Iraq | ||
| magazine of college Administration&Economics for economic &administration & financial studies | ||
| Article 1, Volume 205, Issue 20, December 2016, Pages 179-205 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The situation in the Arab countries is no different from the situation in the rest of the developing countries with attached willingness to enter the era of information and communication technology. Over the last three decades of the last century were not informatics qualified to spread popular in the Arab country, for economic reasons, social, technological, where she was a big Computing size and high cost, and the number was very small in the Arab countries and with the invasion of a new revolution in the field of IT in the world in general solutions and Arab countries in particular, led the cohesion of information technology and communications technology to the emergence of information networks, most notably the Internet, has spread Internet use in concrete and it entered the technology in education has some Arab countries have made significant progress in this area has been the case of Jordan analyzed and discussed in the literature, while the situation in Iraq is no different from Arab countries where the technology indicators of information and communication and private in the number of computers and the Internet and teledensity also low compared with the Some Arab countries, and after 2003 there has become a significant development in information technology and communication indicators with respect to (the Internet and phone lines) As for the knowledge economy indicators have witnessed a significant development in both Iraq and the Arab world due to the emergence of the knowledge economy significantly and its association in the competitive | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Information Technologies; communication technologies; knowledge; based economy | ||
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