Clustered Approach to ICT Services Utilization Analysis

• Authors: Petr Doucek , Ota Novotný
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper describes clustered approach to ICT services utilization analysis based on the WSA method. It allows extracting coherent groups of countries with nearly the same level of ICT services utilization based on the number of indicators analyzed. Approach is explained on case of the Czech Republic and its position in the European peloton with using available Eurostat data.

Keywords

EN

Informatization; clustering; WSA method; ICT Services

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 24-30

Dates

published

2012-01-01

online

2012-02-07

Contributors

author

Petr Doucek

• University of Economics, Prague, nam. W. Churchilla 4, 130 67 Praha 3, Czech Republic

author

Ota Novotný

• University of Economics, Prague, nam. W. Churchilla 4, 130 67 Praha 3, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10051-012-0003-7