The papers made available on this web site were prepared by international experts and World Bank staff to inform the preparation of the World Development Report 2016 Digital Dividends. The papers are organized by chapter in the Report. For specific questions about the papers, please contact the authors directly.
- Digital Adoption Index (DAI): Measuring the Global Spread of Digital Technologies by WDR 2016 Team
- Development Impact of Social Media by Robert Ackland and Kyosuke Tanaka
- Information and Communication Technologies, Gamification, and Public Sector Applications by Sheheryar Banuri
- The New Cybersecurity Agenda: Economic and Social Challenges to a Secure Internet by Johannes M. Bauer and William H. Dutton
- Aadhaar: Digital Inclusion and Public Services in India by Shweta Banerjee
- Will Digital Technologies Transform Agriculture in Developing Countries? by Uwe Deichmann, Aparajita Goyal, and Deepak Mishra
- Multistakeholder Internet Governance? by William H. Dutton
- The Economics and Policy Implications of Infrastructure Sharing and Mutualisation in Africa by Jose Marino Garcia and Tim Kelly
- Guatemala, an Early Spectrum Management Reformer by Jose Marino Garcia
- Network Neutrality and Private Sector Investment by Jose Marino Garcia
- Best Practices and Lessons Learned in ICT Sector Innovation: A Case Study of Israel by Dr. Daphne Getz and Dr. Itzhak Goldberg (Researchers: Eliezer Shein, Bahina Eidelman, Ella Barzani)
- Music for Development in the Digital Age by Patrick Kabanda
- How Tech Hubs are helping to Drive Economic Growth in Africa by Tim Kelly and Rachel Firestone
- One Network Africa in East Africa by Tim Kelly and Christopher Kemei
- Does E-Government Improve GovernmentCapacity? Evidence from Tax Administration and Public Procurement by Anna Kochanova, Zahid Hasnain, and Bradley Larson
- Capacity? Evidence from Tax Administration and Public ProcurementOne Step Forward, Two Steps Backward? Does EGovernment make Governments in Developing Countries more Transparent and Accountable? by Victoria L. Lemieux
- Bridging the Disability Divide through Digital Technologies by Deepti Samant Raja
- Exploring the Relationship between Broadband and Economic Growth by Michael Minges
- Do Digital Technologies Facilitate Illicit Financial Flows? by Tatiana Tropina
- When Does ICT-Enabled Citizen Voice Lead to Government Responsiveness? by Tiago Peixoto and Jonathan Fox
- Estonian e-Government Ecosystem: Foundation, Applications, Outcomes by Kristjan Vassil
- Digital Dividends Walking the walk by Desirée van Welsum
- Enabling Digital Entrepreneurs by Desirée van Welsum
- Sharing is caring? Not quite. Some observations about ‘the sharing economy’ by Desirée van Welsum