Investigating the role of Information and communication technologies in the Digital Economy and future Internet as a new phenomenon

Developments in the digital economy are transforming all aspects of the economy, both the public and private sector. They are also having a profound impact on individuals, through social networking and the increasing use of e-commerce, on-line information and learning. Information technology is changing the face of business, education and training and is starting to have a big impact on the future of the internet. The purpose of this paper is to discover effects of IT and ICT on the internet as the main element of digital economy based on two approaches: the empirical approach and theoretical approach. In theoretical approach McKinsey survey and in the empirical approach the impact of creating new e-venture and e-business on digital economy and the analyses of the Economist Intelligence Unit and digital econ-omy rankings have been studied.As yet, there is no agreement on how the digital economy should be defined and measured. Different definitions and ways of measuring have been used in current researches and publications but we try to give a new definition of digital economy and clarify effects of internet on developed and developing countries in the future in this paper.

کلیدواژه ها:

Digital economy ، IT and ICT ، E-business ، E-commerce