UNCTAD Information Economy Report 2005
e-commerce and development

Download the full version of the IER 2005 (276 pages, 10 MB, pdf, English only).
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Table of contents
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Foreword
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Overview
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Chapter 1.
ICT indicators for development:
Trends and measurement issuest
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Chapter 2.
International Internet backbone connectivity:
Issues for developing countries
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Chapter 3.
E-credit information, trade finance and e-finance:
Overcoming information asymmetries
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Chapter 4.
Taking off:
E-tourism opportunities for developing countries
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Also available in: French

Chapter 5.
Information technology and security:
Risk management and policy implications
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Chapter 6.
Protecting the information society:
Addressing the phenomenon of cybercrime
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From the foreword by SG Kofi Annan:

"Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential to profoundly change global trade, finance and production. By making businesses more competitive and economies more productive, and most of all by empowering people with knowledge, ICTs can support faster economic growth and thus strengthen the material basis for development. Our challenge is to ensure that this potential is used to generate real gains in the global struggle against poverty, disease and ignorance – and their offspring, fear, intolerance and war."