Paper ID
2760
Description
The study conducts a country level examination on the impact of ICT on sustainable development. Sustainable Development is an agenda that global countries are determined to achieve. The ubiquitous nature of ICT and the benefits it accrues makes it an inevitable choice to address the Sustainable Development agenda. The literature on the influence of ICT on Sustainable Development at a global level is scant and the available literature provides ambiguous results on the relationship. This study conceptualizes Sustainable Development as three pillars - economic, social and environment and supports the contention using secondary panel data analysis. The results indicate that ICT has a significant positive influence on the dimensions of Sustainable Development of a nation. However, further examination of the results and a mediation analysis reveals that ICT has a strong influence on economy dimension and the spillover effects from economy results in the realization of environment and social dimensions of sustainable development.
Recommended Citation
Jayaprakash, Parvathi and Pillai, Radhakrishna, "The Role of ICT for Sustainable Development: A Cross Country Analysis" (2019). ICIS 2019 Proceedings. 11.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2019/sustainable_is/sustainable_is/11
The Role of ICT for Sustainable Development: A Cross Country Analysis
The study conducts a country level examination on the impact of ICT on sustainable development. Sustainable Development is an agenda that global countries are determined to achieve. The ubiquitous nature of ICT and the benefits it accrues makes it an inevitable choice to address the Sustainable Development agenda. The literature on the influence of ICT on Sustainable Development at a global level is scant and the available literature provides ambiguous results on the relationship. This study conceptualizes Sustainable Development as three pillars - economic, social and environment and supports the contention using secondary panel data analysis. The results indicate that ICT has a significant positive influence on the dimensions of Sustainable Development of a nation. However, further examination of the results and a mediation analysis reveals that ICT has a strong influence on economy dimension and the spillover effects from economy results in the realization of environment and social dimensions of sustainable development.