Ernest J. Wilson

Articles and Speeches

Chapter 9: Ghana
Negotiating the Net, 2005

What is Internet Governance and Where Does it Come From?
Journal of Public Policy, 2005

The literature on governing the Internet suffers from such lacunae as overly narrow, technocratic conceptions of Internet governance; insufficient attention to governance dynamics within countries; and limited appreciation for the micro-level political and social roots of governance. This essay suggests ways they may be addressed by asking two foundational questions ‘What is Internet governance and where does it come from?’

LEADERSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE
The Encyclopedia of Leadership, 2004

Different epochs produce different kinds of leadership – with different patterns of hierarchical authority, different skill sets and attitudes, and different institutional incentives. Societies today are experiencing significant changes potentially as far reaching as the transition from agricultural to industrial societies. Today’s epoch is in the early stages of a transition from an industrial based society to a post industrial, digital society, and leadership patterns are beginning to reflect that transition.

MINORITY PARTICIPATION IN THE SENIOR RANKS OF INTERNATIONALLY-ORIENTED PROFESSIONS
CIDCM, 2003

Evidence of the status of minorities in the upper echelons of American public and private life, as reflected in their shares of total positions in several leading sectors with strong international links.

African information revolution: a balance sheet
Telecommunications Policy, 2003

This paper provides a policy and institutional framework to describe and analyze the diffusion of information technology and the global information revolution (IR) in Sub-Saharan Africa and the major factors that influence this diffusion. We begin by examining regional diffusion and find substantial crossnational diffusion differences across the continent, with considerable variation in regional diffusion of telephone, internet, radio, and television. This pattern undermines technologic and economic explanations as sole determinants of variation in diffusion. Then we conduct an analysis of the IR in Sub-Saharan Africa based on a policy framework. This framework identifies four key policy balances (1. public and private initiatives, 2. monopoly and competition ‘‘markets’’, 3. domestic and foreign ownership or control, and 4. centralized and de-centralized administrative controls) as important elements to a better understanding of the diffusion of the IR. We find that a necessary condition for an explanation of the diffusion of the IR is a policy and institutional framework that incorporates these four balances.

Are Poor Countries Losing the Information Revolution?
with Francisco Rodriguez, infoDev, 2000

New IT and Social Inequality: Resetting the Research and Policy Agenda
The Information Society, 2000

Organizing for IT Policy
, 1999

Wiring the African Economy
CIDCM Working Research Paper Series, 1998

The Asian Economic Crisis and the Information Revolution
, 2008

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