Zhodnotenie vplyvu informačných komunikačných technológií na ekonomickú úroveň vo svete

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to assess the impact of ICT on economic and social indicators of different countries in the world. The key economic indicator is GDP per capita. Other indicators representing economic and social area, which are expected to be influenced by ICT, are youth unemployment rate and education. The theoretical part is focused on identifying the present and historical impact of ICT and subsequently in the selected countries. The next section describes the methodology related to the regression analysis. Then it is used in the practical part, which deals with the creation of econometric models. It is essential to verify the presumption that technology (in this case ICT) has positive effect on the level of economic performance and education in the country and minimises youth unemployment rate