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Building Communities Around Digital Highways
November 30, 2012 | 11:07 amNationwide high-speed broadband networks, or digital highways, can significantly boost a country's socioeconomic growth. However, such digital highways become truly effective only when "...
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Building Communities Around Digital Highways
Posted November 30, 2012 at 11:07 am
Nationwide high-speed broadband networks, or digital highways, can significantly boost a country’s socioeconomic growth. However, such digital highways become truly effective only when “digital communities” spring up beside them, with functions such as e-health, e-government, e-education, and smart grids being developed to take advantage of the connectivity that broadband offers. The following Booz and Co report offers a tantalising look at efforts to nurture and develop “digital communities”
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