Bridging the Technological Divide

MAP 6.1 Firms in Senegal Are More Likely to Access the Internet in Clusters Surrounded by Digital Infrastructure a. Distribution of firms and internet nodes

b. Firms with access to internet

Source: Berkes et al., forthcoming. Note: The sample targets seven regions in Senegal with internet access (Dakar, St. Louis, Thies, Diourbel, Ziguinchor, Kaolack, and Kolda). The red dots denote the location of the access nodes of the Senegalese internet backbone. The blue dots show the location of the firms in the Firm-level Adoption of Technology (FAT) survey (panel a) and firms with internet access (panel b).

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Bridging the Technological Divide

Published on Jul 6, 2022

World Bank Publications

"Many of the main problems facing developing countries today and tomorrow--growth, poverty reduction, inequality, food insecurity, job creation, recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and adjustment to climate change--hinge on adopting better technology, a key driver of economic development. Access to technology is not enough: firms have to adopt it. Yet it is precisely the uptake of technology that is lagging in many firms in developing countries. Bridging the Technological Divide: Technology Adoption by Firms in Developing Countries helps open the “black box†? of technology adoption by firms. The seventh volume in the World Bank Productivity Project series, it will further both research and policy that can be used to support technology adoption by firms in developing countries."

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