Looking to the Future Implications of the DOI How can the DOI help developing countries, and how can the DOI help policy analysis?
The DOI can help developing countries by informing and improving policy choices. It can be used to evaluate WSIS implementation and follow-up and to assess countries progress in building an Information Society. Given highly unequal levels of income and access to ICTs in some countries (for example, the high levels of income inequality observed by many studies in Latin America (see Deininger, Klaus, and Squire, Lynn, New ways of looking at old issues: inequality and growth (1996), World Bank, Washington), it is vital to make some assessment of differences in access to ICTs both between countries and within countries, in order to direct resources where they are most needed. Countries policies and performance can be compared to determine which policies were more successful, and why others may not have worked so well. Analysis of the impact of policies can help policy-makers understand the consequences of their decisions, and modify and refine some policies to ensure that under-served area
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