Open Access Article SciPap-962
Penetration of ICT Business Services Into the Economy – Comparison of V4 Countries
by Martina Kuncová 1,*, Petr Doucek 2 and Ota Novotný 3

1 Fakulta informatiky a statistiky, Katedra ekonometrie, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, nám.W.Churchilla 4, Praha 3 130 67, Czechia

2 Fakulta informatiky a statistiky, Katedra systémové analýzy, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, nám.W.Churchilla 4, Praha 3 130 67, Czechia

3 Fakulta informatiky a statistiky, Katedra informačních technologií, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, nám.W.Churchilla 4, Praha 3 130 67, Czechia

* Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Abstract: The article focuses on the integration of funds and information and communication technology (ICT) services into the European countries’ economy and compares the level of penetration of ICT into their economy and society. We analyzed the penetration of ICT into economy in term of main area - the use of Internet economic services. This area is divided into two parts where we focus on Internet economic services in areas of e-commerce and e-business. For a comparison with the European countries with especial attention to V4 countries, we used public open data from 2010 – 2014 provided by Eurostat, the Office of the European Union, the World Bank and the Czech Statistical Office. We compared the results, using the multi-criteria decision analysis method TOPSIS. The overall comparison of the trend in Europe’s informatization between 2010 and 2014 for V4 countries is made for all analyzed indicators at the end of the article.

Keywords: Multi-Criteria Analysis, Impact Of Ict On Economy, Information Society, ICT Internet Services, E-Commerce Services, Ee-Business Services

JEL classification:   C44 - Operations Research • Statistical Decision Theory,   H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government,   L86 - Information and Internet Services • Computer Software,   O52 - Europe

SciPap 2018, 26(3), 962

Received: 28 December 2017 / Accepted: 24 October 2018 / Published: 23 November 2018