This book provides an extensive overview of the diffusion of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) in developing countries between 2000 and 2012. It covers issues such as
country-specific ICT diffusion patterns technological substitution and technological
convergence. By identifying social economic and institutional prerequisites and analyzing
critical country-specific conditions the author develops a new approach to explaining the
emergence of their technological takeoff. Readers will discover how developing countries are
now adopting ICTs rapidly catching up with the developed world in terms of ICT access and use.
