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Does digital literacy reduce the risk of returning to poverty? Evidence from China 数字扫盲能否降低返贫风险？来自中国的证据

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Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102768

Di Zhou , Fangjing Zha , Wenyan Qiu , Xiaoru Zhang

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Understandings of the AI business ecosystem in South Korea: AI startups’ perspective 了解韩国的人工智能商业生态系统：人工智能初创企业的视角

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Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102763

Jinyoung Nam , Yoonhyuk Jung , Junghwan Kim

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An agent of change: Youth meta-participation at the internet governance forum 变革的推动者：青年元参与互联网治理论坛

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Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-04-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102758

Nadia Tjahja , Diana Potjomkina

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Broadband adoption in Algeria and the structural determinants of its pace 阿尔及利亚采用宽带的情况及其速度的结构性决定因素

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Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-04-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102761

Radia Bacha, Farid Gasmi, Samantha Metevier

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Citation politics: The gender gap in internet governance 引用政治：互联网治理中的性别差距

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Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102734

Fernanda R. Rosa , Kimberly Anastácio , Maria Vitoria Pereira de Jesus , Hemanuel Jhosé A. Veras

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Kids content as IPTV operator's new differentiator: The Korean case 儿童内容是 IPTV 运营商新的差异化优势：韩国案例

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Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102765

Chaeyun Jang, Seongcheol Kim

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A hard look at quality and policy from the lens of the rural internet consumer 从农村互联网消费者的视角审视质量和政策

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Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102762

Angela K. Hollman , Timothy R. Obermier , Jesse R. Andrews

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The academic industry’s response to generative artificial intelligence: An institutional analysis of large language models 学术界对生成式人工智能的回应：大型语言模型的机构分析

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Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102760

Nir Kshetri

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Digital infrastructure empowerment and urban carbon emissions: Evidence from China 数字基础设施赋权与城市碳排放：来自中国的证据

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Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102764

Kaicheng Liao , Juan Liu

{"title":"Digital infrastructure empowerment and urban carbon emissions: Evidence from China","authors":"Kaicheng Liao , Juan Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102764","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102764","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>China is accelerating its entry into the digital age, and the contribution of digital infrastructure to the reduction of carbon emissions is becoming increasingly prominent. The influence mechanism of digital infrastructure on urban carbon emissions is empirically tested in this study from the standpoint of digital empowerment using panel data from 250 cities between 2008 and 2020. According to the study, digital infrastructure greatly lowers urban carbon emissions, with each additional mobile base station reducing carbon emissions by 36 tons. This conclusion remains robust even after controlling for endogeneity issues. The mechanism examination indicates that the decarbonization effect of digital infrastructure is mainly achieved by empowering enterprises, individuals, and governments with digital capabilities. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the effects of digital infrastructure on carbon emissions vary after considering variations in the city's administrative hierarchy, industrial structure, and resource types in China. According to the study's findings, developing countries should expand digital infrastructure construction and fully harness its potential for energy saving and emissions reduction to meet their emission reduction targets. At the same time, differentiated emission reduction policies should be formulated to adapt to the heterogeneous characteristics among cities and ensure that emission reduction measures are effectively implemented in each city.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22290,"journal":{"name":"Telecommunications Policy","volume":"48 6","pages":"Article 102764"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140755514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Model analysis on the economic impact of paid peering: Implications of the Netflix vs. SK broadband dispute 付费对等互联的经济影响模型分析：Netflix 与 SK 宽带争端的影响

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Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102736

Toshiya Jitsuzumi

{"title":"Model analysis on the economic impact of paid peering: Implications of the Netflix vs. SK broadband dispute","authors":"Toshiya Jitsuzumi","doi":"10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102736","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In April 2020, Netflix, Inc. and its Korean subsidiary Netflix Services Korea Ltd. filed a lawsuit against SK Broadband, Inc., seeking confirmation that there were no obligations to bear network costs. On June 25, 2021, the Seoul Central District Court rejected Netflix’s argument and acknowledged the existence of an obligation to negotiate fees. Netflix subsequently appealed the decision on November 5, 2021. However, on September 18, 2023, SK Broadband and parent SK Telecom suddenly announced in a joint statement with Netflix that they had agreed to establish a strategic partnership to end all disputes. This study provides an overview of the case, discusses the related concepts, and analyzes the meaning of the case outcome in terms of efficient resource allocation within the broadband ecosystem. A model analysis revealed that, with the freedom of price setting, the effect of introducing paid peering is neutral with respect to resource allocation; however, when that freedom is impaired, for example by price regulations or net neutrality obligations, the introduction of paid peering not only generates benefits for the introducing players and their customers but it also results in damage to overall social welfare. In addition, this study shows that paid peering can be used as a means of internalizing externalities when the external economies of network/content investment are considered. These arguments are expected to make a theoretical contribution to the debate on shifting the economic burden of network infrastructure to over-the-top players, and help the telecom regulator to better design universal broadband scheme.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":22290,"journal":{"name":"Telecommunications Policy","volume":"48 4","pages":"Article 102736"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140618846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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