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Investment in Digital Infrastructure: Why and for Whom?

Don J. WebberEllen HughesGail PachecoGlenn Parry

出版	SSOAR, GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V., 2022
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=x0kr0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Abstract: This study investigates the variation in attitudes across stakeholders towards investments in the digital economy. Using semi-structured interviews to identify attitudes about the spatially evolving socioeconomic importance of the digital economy in New Zealand, we identified seven distinct yet partially overlapping concerns that prioritise preferences for digital investment. A key finding is that there are important asymmetries in stakeholders' narratives and epistemological foundations that currently align to collectively strengthen resolve to invest in digital infrastructure and training, but this alignment may splinter in future. Some stakeholders saw internet access as coalescing social economy, and there were concerns that some people and some places would get left behind if access is not rolled out uniformly and as a priority. There were disagreements about who will prosper, who will get left behind, who should pay for upgrading digital skills, the extent that investments we