Assessing the yield of IT projects in developing nations: aggregated models are not sufficient

Summary form only given. This paper offers an example of a methodology and a process that can enable better policy choices in IT diffusion in developing nations. It updates and refocuses an earlier report by the S. Ruth.The example we use is an Internet course for professors in Romania. Training of this type is an integral step in Internet diffusion in any developing nation and the variables that emerge can be used in many other micro-level studies of other Internet-related issues. In this demonstration case significant effects are demonstrated in both descriptive statistics and ANOVA results based on gender, academic specialty, computer skills, age, and research productivity. The approach in Romania is robust and replicable and we feel that by using this realistic individual data as an exemplar for other micro level studies, it can be possible to integrate more realism into the array of macro-level models that already exist