Information Technology, Science & Technology Policy, Information Technology
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Overview
The digital divide (unequal access to information technologies) has been growing within advanced countries but also between developed and developing countries, but editors Kagami (the Japanese ambassador to Nicaragua), Tsuji (economics, Osaka U., Japan), and Giovanetti (applied economics, U. of Cambridge, UK) hold out the hope that developing countries can address the problem through the implementation of information technology policies. They first present nine country/area studies that look at such topics as Korean success in diffusing the Internet, the telecommunications outlook in Latin America, and information policy in Estonia. The remaining five contributions focus on "challenging issues" such as the relationship between the information technology revolution and newspapers in Japan, the interconnection and pricing of the Internet, and standardization and convergence in Japan's standards strategy. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORBook Details
Published
May 1, 2004
Publisher
Elgar, Edward Publishing, Inc.
Pages
336
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781843764137