CMN 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cloud Computing, E-Government, Cloud Storage
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Stages in the innovation-decision process: knowledge stage, persuasion stage, decision stage. 2. 00 x 0. 01x 98. 00 = 1. 96 new adopters. Cumulative adopters x rate of adoption x non-adopters = new adopters. Social networks = channels through which innovations (and other diseases) spread. Diffusion logic heavily depends on network structure, network density is highly important. Who is the subject (country, organization, individual etc) Which attributes matter? (income, capacity, type of ownership, geography) What kind of technology (phones, internet, broadband, storage devices etc: cloud storage & cloud computing, telecommunication access solutions. Fixed-telephone: developing countries may have increase mobile subscriptions, but the quality is biggest difference, digital divide in subscriptions decreased but the divide in terms of bandwidth increased, red queen effect. Standing still means fall behind, running belt: information capacity = economic capacity. Private schools in argentina have high connectivity in schools with a computer. Women are more natural and efficient communicators.
