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• Confronting the Crisis - ICT Stimulus Plans for Economic Growth - Second edition October 2009
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Message from the ITU Secretary-General
  • 1. Executive Summary
    • Outlook for DifferentTechnologies
  • 2. A Story of Crash, Crunch and Crisis
    • 2.1 Economic Outlook - Is the End in Sight?
      • Insight 1: Recession orDepression?
    • 2.2. Policy Responses to Recession
      • Insight 2: Keynes For Our Times - The Rationale for Stimulus Plans
      • Insight 3: Economic Stimulus Packages & the ICT Sector
  • 3. Stimulus Plans and the Global ICT Industry
    • 3.1 What Role for ICTs & Broadband in Stimulus?
      • Insight 4: The Impact of the Economic Crisis on ICTs and their Role in Recovery
      • Insight 5: Information as a Public Good –Why Broadband? Why Government?
      • Insight 6: Choosing the Right Degree of Government Involvement
      • Insight 7: ARRA Broadband Investment Program Guidelines of USDA – RUS Issued 9 July 2009
    • 3.2. The Changing Face of Financing – Is Government Back?
      • Insight 8: Crowding Out or Crowding In?
    • 3.3 The Digital Divide & Developing Countries
      • Insight 9: Promoting Broadband Infrastructure in Developing Countries
  • 4. Impact of the Financial Crisis
    • 4.1 The ICT Industry
      • Insight 10: Green Shoots of Recovery in the ICT Industry?
    • 4.2 Wireless Communication Technologies
      • Insight 11: Outlook from The Mobile World
    • 4.3 Fixed Broadband Internet and NGN
      • Insight 12: Broadband subscriber additions in Q1 2009 – China and the US lead the way
    • 4.4 Satellite Technologies
      • Insight 13: How The Satellite Industry is Unique
      • Insight 14: 50% Growth in the Global Satellite Market over the Next Decade
  • 5. Conclusions: Investing In The Future
  • LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
  • REFERENCES
  • END-NOTES
  • Photo credits