The measurement of territorial differences in the information infrastructure in Hungary and the South Transdanubian Region
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Tartalom: http://dx.doi.org/10.15196/RS04204
Archívum: MTA Könyvtár
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Type = Article
Cím:
The measurement of territorial differences in the information infrastructure in Hungary and the South Transdanubian Region
Létrehozó:
Páger, Balázs
Zsibók, Zsuzsanna
Dátum:
2014
Téma:
G Geography (General) / Földrajz általában
H Social Sciences (General) / társadalomtudomány általában
Z665 Library Science. Information Science / könyvtártudomány, információtudomány
Tartalmi leírás:
The information society has become a crucial area of the socio-economic processes over
the last two to three decades, yet it was unable to reduce the differences between the
development levels of different regions. The developed regions perform better and poorer
regions have weaker performance in the development of info-communication
technologies. It can be assumed that the lack of the info-communication tools may
broaden the divide between the developed and underdeveloped regions. Therefore, it is
important to measure and mitigate these differences. The results of such measurements
may contribute to the formation of the regional development policy issues.
This paper focuses on the analysis of the factors that play a role in the information
society. These factors can help to characterize the information society on both the
national and the sub-national level. Our goal is to investigate the territorial inequalities in
the information society on a highly disaggregated level since the article studies the
relative development of the settlements in the South Transdanubian Region. As a
methodological background, we introduce a new and composite index referred to as ?the
territorial index of information society?, which relies on settlement and micro-regional
level data collected by the Central Statistical Office of Hungary and other private
institutions.
Our results indicate that the best performing settlements are in micro-regions with
advantageous positions and that they are the more populated towns or locate within their
agglomeration. The less populated settlements in an underdeveloped micro-region have a
more disadvantageous position in the information society. Therefore, the information
readiness may create differences in a similar way to economic development
Típus:
Article
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Formátum:
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Azonosító:
Páger, Balázs and Zsibók, Zsuzsanna (2014) The measurement of territorial differences in the information infrastructure in Hungary and the South Transdanubian Region. Regional Statistics : journal of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, 4 (2). pp. 55-70. ISSN 2063-9538 ; Online: 2064-8243
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