1. ¹J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
2. ²School of Business, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
3. ³College of Business, Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A.

Correspondence: Philip Musa, School of Business, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, U.S.A. Tel: +1 205 934 8844; Fax: +1 205 989 6688; E-mail: musa@uab.edu

Received 27 August 2008; Revised 28 September 2008; Accepted 13 October 2008.

Abstract

There is growing interest in the role and contribution of national information infrastructure (NII) to the quality of governance and the socio-economic development of nation states. In this paper, we use publicly available archival data to explore the relationships among NII, governance, and socio-economic development in developing countries. Results substantiate a significant relationship between NII and governance, and NII and socio-economic development. The findings suggest that NII have the capacity to contribute to country development, both directly (via impacts on socio-economic development) and indirectly (via its impacts on governance, which in turn influences socio-economic development).