The Information Society and the Digital Divide, Legal Strategies to Finance Global Access

Published: 1 January 2008

  • PEOPLE

    R.H. Weber
    Valérie Menoud
    Partner, Head of ESG, Co-Head of Investigations

  • Expertise

    Banking and Finance

  • Details

    Number of pages
    211 pages
    Publisher
    Schulthess Verlag
    Language
    English
    Price
    CHF 65.00
    ISBN number
    978-3-7255-5605-2

The issues around the financing of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) lie at the intersection of Information Society and financial law. How to provide the necessary financial resources to bridge the digital divide is a burning question at the centre of many ongoing international debates.

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