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Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) at war (Part II) – The use of FRT by news outlets during wartime
Following her article on Facial Recognition Technology used within the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Natalia explores one of the first instances where a famous outlet -The BBC publicly disclosed the use of FRT for autonomous investigations...
With the increasing pervasiveness of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the fabric of economic activities, the corporate digital divide has become a crucial issue for the assessment of Information Technology (IT) competencies and the digital gap between firms and territories. With little granular data available to measure the phenomenon, most studies have used survey data.
To address this empirical gap, the authors have scanned the homepages of 182,705 Italian companies and extracted ten characteristics related to their digital footprint to develop a new index for the corporate digital assessment.
The research results show a significant digital divide between Italian companies according to size, sector and geographical location, opening new perspectives for monitoring and data-driven analysis.