Pub Date : 2022-05-05DOI: 10.1108/dprg-02-2021-0040
Zoltán Pápai, Aliz McLean, Péter Nagy, Gábor Szabó, G. Csorba
Purpose The paper aims to discuss the expected changes 5G will bring to the assessment of active mobile network sharing agreements from a competition policy point of view. Design/methodology/approach The paper distinguishes between current, early 5G networks and the fully-fledged 5G envisioned for the future, then focuses on the main competition concerns where 5G may bring the most significant changes in the evaluation compared to 4G. Findings The authors find that while network sharing for early 5G can be evaluated in a similar way to previous generations, fully-fledged 5G can raise new issues. The authors predict these main concerns to be service differentiation, cost commonality between the parties and the parties’ ability and incentives to grant access to critical inputs to downstream competitors. Due to the huge costs of 5G rollout, network sharing is set to become even more widespread than before. For each of the concerns, the authors show that they are not easy to substantiate and they may even become less serious than under 4G. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is one of the first contributions to analyse the impact of fully-fledged 5G on mobile network sharing agreements’ competitive assessment.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-07DOI: 10.1108/dprg-06-2021-0077
Kasmad Ariansyah, Wardahnia Wardahnia
Purpose Digitization of terrestrial television enables government to reallocate a portion of spectrum to satisfy the 5G low-band spectrum demand. To accelerate the digitization process, the Indonesian Government has distributed digital terrestrial television (DTT) decoders for households in several DTT trial areas so that the recipients are able to experience DTT broadcasts on their analogue television. To ensure that the DTT is adopted sustainably, this study aims to provide evidence-based policy recommendations by first understanding underlying factors of the intention to purchase a new DTT receiver, either a new DTT decoder or an integrated digital television (DTV). Design/methodology/approach This study uses 2018 survey data collected by Badan Aksesibilitas Telekomunikasi dan Informasi. The samples consist of 433 DTT decoder recipients in nine DTT trial locations in Indonesia. Two logistic models are used, one model for the DTT decoder and the other for integrated DTV. The two models have identical predictors, including respondents' demographics, television media use, technology cluster and DTT-related factors as innovation attributes. Findings The results indicate that the two models share some relevant variables but varying in sign and magnitude, namely, respondents' geographical location and the DTT picture and sound quality. The results also show that pay-television subscription, TV viewing and the difficulty of using the DTT decoder are other factors significantly associated with the intention to purchase a new DTT decoder. Research limitations/implications This study has several limitations. First, the coefficients of determination are low, indicating that more independent variables should be included in the estimation models to obtain better insight about DTT adoption so that a better policy can be stipulated accordingly. Second, even though most of the predictors and proposed recommendations can be applied in general, all respondents of this study were DTT decoder recipients. Thus, future research can be more inclusive. Third, this study is designed based on the correlational model. This might cause the inability of the results to provide a conclusive direction of the relationship. Practical implications Demand-side and supply-side approaches are proposed to drive sustainable adoption of DTT, including the provision of subsidy or free DTT decoder for low-income households, increasing competition intensity among DTT devices manufacturers and distributors by allowing more players enter the Indonesian market, driving nationwide DTT infrastructure deployment and stipulating a national standard of the DTT devices. Originality/value This study enriches the understanding of the DTT adoption by incorporating geographical location variables for the proxy of infrastructure availability into the diffusion of innovation model, which has never been addressed by previous studies in the context of DTV adoption. In addition, this study foc
目的地面电视的数字化使政府能够重新分配部分频谱，以满足5G低频段频谱需求。为了加速数字化进程，印度尼西亚政府已向若干数字地面电视试验区的家庭分发了数字地面电视解码器，以便接收人能够在其模拟电视上体验数字地面电视广播。为了确保数字地面电视的可持续采用，本研究旨在通过首先了解购买新的数字地面电视接收器(无论是新的数字地面电视解码器还是集成数字电视)的意向的潜在因素，提供基于证据的政策建议。本研究使用了Badan Aksesibilitas Telekomunikasi dan Informasi收集的2018年调查数据。这些样本包括印度尼西亚九个数字地面电视试验点的433名数字地面电视解码器接收者。采用了两种逻辑模型，一种用于数字电视解码器，另一种用于综合数字电视。两个模型具有相同的预测因子，包括受访者的人口统计、电视媒体使用、技术集群和数字电视相关因素作为创新属性。结果表明，两个模型共享一些相关变量，但在符号和大小上有所不同，即受访者的地理位置和数字地面电视图像和声音质量。调查结果还显示，付费电视订阅、电视观看和使用数字地面电视解码器的难度是与购买新数字地面电视解码器的意向显著相关的其他因素。研究的局限性/意义本研究有几个局限性。首先，决定系数较低，说明估计模型中应该包含更多的自变量，以便更好地了解数字地面电视的采用情况，从而制定更好的政策。其次，尽管大多数预测因素和建议可以普遍应用，但本研究的所有受访者都是DTT解码器的接受者。因此，未来的研究可以更具包容性。第三，本研究基于相关模型进行设计。这可能导致结果无法提供关系的结论性方向。实际意义提出了需求侧和供给侧方法来推动数字地面电视的可持续采用，包括为低收入家庭提供补贴或免费的数字地面电视解码器，通过允许更多的参与者进入印度尼西亚市场来增加数字地面电视设备制造商和分销商之间的竞争强度，推动全国范围的数字地面电视基础设施部署，并规定数字地面电视设备的国家标准。独创性/价值本研究通过将地理位置变量作为基础设施可用性的代理纳入创新扩散模型，丰富了对数字电视采用的理解，这是以往研究在数字电视采用的背景下从未解决的问题。此外，本研究的重点是在一个特定的背景下，所有的样本都是免费的解码器接收者，以便他们有同样的机会体验数字地面电视广播。
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Pub Date : 2022-04-06DOI: 10.1108/dprg-03-2022-185
P. Curwen
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Pub Date : 2022-04-06DOI: 10.1108/dprg-03-2022-184
B. Sadowski
{"title":"Book review: A Modern Guide to the Digitalization of Infrastructure","authors":"B. Sadowski","doi":"10.1108/dprg-03-2022-184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/dprg-03-2022-184","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56357,"journal":{"name":"Digital Policy Regulation and Governance","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86999533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-18DOI: 10.1108/dprg-08-2021-0101
L. C. Schaupp, Mackenzie M. Festa, Kevin G. Knotts, Elizabeth A. Vitullo
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the antecedents of individuals’ behavioral intention to transact in blockchain cryptocurrency through the theoretical lens of the expanded theory of planned behavior (TPB). Design/methodology/approach This study investigated the antecedents of a blockchain cryptocurrency adoption framework by adapting well-established items from the information systems (IS) and psychology literature to produce a survey instrument to measure individuals’ intention to engage in blockchain cryptocurrency transactions. The survey was administered to 492 individuals through Amazon Mechanical Turk. Findings This study resulted in a research model of an individual’s intention to transact with a blockchain cryptocurrency. Results indicated that the expanded TPB model explains 63.5% of the variance in intention to adopt cryptocurrency for transactional usage. In this study, all paths leading to behavioral intention were found to be significant in the hypothesized directions. In addition, all paths leading to attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control were found to be significant in the hypothesized directions. Originality/value This study furthers prior literature by empirically validating the expanded TPB in the context of individuals’ intention to use cryptocurrency for transactional purposes. This study can better inform practitioners on individual attitudes and behaviors toward transactional cryptocurrency use. The findings provide regulators meaningful insights toward the development of a regulatory framework which encourages innovation while safeguarding the interests of individual citizens.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1108/dprg-01-2021-0007
D. Panda, Sriharsha Reddy, Sridhar Vaithianathan
Purpose This paper aims to study the adoption of a public policy (cashless transaction system by implementing demonetization) from the institutional and technology adoption theories. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-method approach was followed and data was collected from 900 samples randomly selected from different cities in India. The content analysis method was applied to analyze responses collected from personal interviews, and descriptive statistics and cluster analysis methods were used to process the data. Findings The determinants of the cashless transaction policy adoption were institutional issues and technology-related issues. The non-adopters were falling into either technology antagonist or technology ignorant, whereas the adopters perceived user-friendliness, necessity and usefulness. Institutional bottlenecks and perceived security issues were serious concerns. Originality/value This study examined the factors influencing the adoption and non-adoption of mobile payments for two reasons. First, the nature of adoption here is more of a forced adoption rather than organic/natural adoption. Second the context – emerging market, India – also demands that it would be more useful to carry out exploratory study and understand the factors from the stakeholders – merchants and customers – themselves than examining existing technology adoption theories.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-08DOI: 10.1108/dprg-02-2021-0028
Agostino Cortesi, Carlotta Berionni, Carina Veeckman, C. Leonardi, G. Schiavo, M. Zancanaro, M. Cescon, Maria Sangiuliano, Dimitris Tampakis, Manolis Falelakis
Purpose The European H2020 Families_Share project aims at offering a grass-root approach and a co-designed platform supporting families for sharing time and tasks related to childcare, parenting, after-school and leisure activities and other household tasks. To achieve this objective, the Families_Share project has been built on current practices which are already leveraging on mutual help and support among families, such as Time Banks, Social Streets and self-organizing networks of parents active at the neighbourhood level and seek to harness the potential of ICT networks and mobile technologies to increase the effectiveness of participatory innovation. The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the Families_Share methodology and platform, as well as the results obtained by several partecipating communities in different European countries. Design/methodology/approach This paper discusses how the Families Share approach (CAPS project, Horizon 2020) is bringing the sharing economy to childcare. Families Share developed a co-caring approach and a co-designed digital welfare platform to support parents with sharing time and tasks related to childcare, after-school and leisure activities. Families Share conducted two iterative pilot experiments and related socio-economic evaluations in six European cities. More than 3,000 citizens were engaged in the co-design process through their local community organizations and more than 1,700 parents and children actively experimented with the approach by organizing collaborative childcare activities. The authors discuss the challenges and solutions of co-designing a socio-technical approach aimed at facilitating socially innovative childcare models, and how the Families Share approach, based on technology-supported co-production of childcare, may provide a new sustainable welfare model for municipalities and companies with respect to life––work balance. Findings The authors discuss the challenges and solutions of co-designing a technological tool aimed at facilitating socially innovative childcare models, and how the Families Share approach may provide a new sustainable welfare model for municipalities and companies with respect to work–life balance. Originality/value As a main difference with state-of-the-art proposals, Families_Share is aimed to provide support to networks of parents in the organization of self-managed activities, this way being orthogonal with respect either to social-network functionalities or to supply and demand services. Furthermore, Families_Share has been based on a participative approach for both the ICT platform and the overall structure.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-28DOI: 10.1108/dprg-04-2020-0043
A. Renda
Purpose This paper aims at discussing the options available to governments when it comes to the use of technology to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Design/methodology/approach This is an opinion piece, based on very recent developments (COVID-19), and based on a well-known trade-off between privacy and state surveillance, especially in times of crisis that threaten the survival of a nation. Findings The main finding is that technology alone will not help, and there are several reasons to doubt that the recently proposed European system to track the contagion in a privacy-preserving way (pan-European privacy preserving proximity tracing [PEPP-PT]) would be a fully effective solution. Research limitations/implications This is a short paper, which is very dependent on current developments. It was written in a very short time, so the level of depth in the references to the literature and the caselaw is limited. The main implication is that this paper is very far from the final word in the analysis of the interplay between technology and society, especially in democratic countries. Practical implications There is a need to ensure that the temporary measures that will be adopted during the pandemic do not extend to the post-COVID-19 period. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is a very fresh debate; the paper is thus original and proposes one of the first structured comments to the PEPP-PT and DP-3T conceptual designs.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-04DOI: 10.1108/dprg-01-2022-183
P. Curwen, J. Whalley
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Pub Date : 2022-01-25DOI: 10.1108/dprg-05-2021-0062
Yash Chawla, Fumio Shimpo, Maciej M. Sokolowski
Purpose India is a fast-growing economy, that has a majority share in the global information technology industry (IT). Rapid urbanisation and modernisation in India have strained its energy sector, which is being reformed to cope. Despite being the global IT heart and having above average research output in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), India has not yet managed to leverage its benefits to the full. This study aims to address the role of AI and information management (IM) in India’s energy transition to highlight the challenges and barriers to its development and use in the energy sector. Design/methodology/approach The study, through analysis of proposed strategies, current policies, available literature and reports, discusses the role of AI and IM in the energy transition in India, highlighting the current situation and challenges. Findings The results show dispersed research and development incentives for IT in the Indian energy sector; however, the needed holistic top-down approach is lacking, calling for due attention in this matter. Adaptive and swift actions from policymakers towards AI and IM are warranted in India. Practical implications The ongoing transition of the Indian energy sector with the integration of smart technologies would result in increased access to big data. Extracting the maximum benefits from this would require a comprehensive AI and IM policy. Social implications The revolution in AI and robotics must be carried out in line with sustainable development goals, to support climate action and to consider privacy issues – both areas in India must be strengthened. Originality/value The paper offers an original discussion on certain applicable solutions regarding the energy transition of AI coming from the Global South; they are based on lessons learned from the Indian case studies presented in this study.
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