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Dissertation Information for Ryota Ono

NAME:
- Ryota Ono

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of Hawaii (USA) (1996)

ADVISORS:
- Dan J. Wedemeyer

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- James Allen Dator
- Meheroo Jussawalla
- Miles Merrill Jackson
- Joseph Neal Pelton

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Worldwide probe of the telecommunications development gap from developing country and developed country perspectives: The nature of the gap, the obstacles and the strategies to close the gap

Abstract: As more countries move toward information-centered economic systems and societies, the advancement of telecommunications capability worldwide becomes more critical. While few would accept the current conditions of telecommunications in developing countries (LDCs) as they are, why do LDCs still lag in telecommunications infrastructure development? What should be done to remedy the existing unfavorable conditions in LDCs? In order to address these questions, the current study solicited a variety of perspectives of telecommunications professionals from approximately 70 countries by using an iterative international survey.

The study clarified that the problem of the telecommunications development gap had a quantitative and qualitative nature. The qualitative nature was further broken into consequence factor and impediment factor. The impediment factor of the gap was found to be the most critical. The study identified a full range of 127 obstacles and formed a comprehensive framework of obstacles consisting of 12 categories such as policy and regulation, finance, politics, human resources, etc..

Further, the study analyzed each of the 12 categories and identified 23 obstacle factors in seven categories. The study then analyzed the assessment of LDCs and developed countries (DCs) about the degree of seriousness of the individual obstacles, obstacle factors and categories of the obstacles. It found both agreement and disagreement between LDCs and DCs. Very little had been discovered and understood about how differently or similarly LDCs and DCs looked at the problem of telecommunications underdevelopment in LDCs.

Finally, the study identified 78 strategies to overcome many of the obstacle factors. It was found that some of the strategies had already been implemented in some countries. Although many of the strategies were narrow and would need to be adjusted on a country-by-country basis, the study has provided a basis for more extensive elaboration of strategies.

Unless telecommunications professionals understand the real mix of problems, they cannot prescribe appropriate solutions that would further telecommunications development. The 12 categories, the 23 obstacle factors and the 78 potential strategies elicited in the present study provide telecommunications professionals with a valuable framework to diagnose the problems inherent to telecommunications development and to prescribe more appropriate actions for improving have and have not conditions.


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