• DocumentCode
    638067
  • Title

    Regional Digital Index: Assessment of Portuguese regions in the Information Society

  • Author

    Ferreira, Luis Miguel ; Amaral, Livia

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. de Sist. de Informacao, Univ. do Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    19-22 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    7
  • Abstract
    In order to develop effective policies for the development of the Information Society, with principles based on territorial cohesion, it is essential to know the existence and extent of regional asymmetries that may be occurring in the construction and consolidation of the Information Society in Portugal. This article proposes a model that involves the construction of a composite index (Regional Digital Index) obtained by weighting 73 indicators, which pursues that goal. They are also presented and discussed results of their application.
  • Keywords
    information management; Portuguese region assessment; composite index; information society; regional digital index; territorial cohesion; Abstracts; Context modeling; Economics; Europe; Indexes; Monitoring; Robustness; Information Society; Regional Digital Index; Regional asymmetries;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2013 8th Iberian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Lisboa
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6615789