Information Technology Policy : An International History
Richard. Coopey
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Oxford : : OUP Oxford, , 2004.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (363 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; 1. Information Technology Policy: Competing for the Future; 2. The Shifting Interests of the US Government in the Development and Diffusion of Information Technology Since 1943; 3. The Supply of Information Technology Workers, Higher Education, and Computing Research:A History of Policy and Practice in the United States; 4. Public Policies, Private Platforms:Antitrust and American Computing; 5. "Beat IBM." Entrepreneurial Bureaucracy: A Contradiction in Terms?. - 11. The Rise and Fall of State Information Technology Planning-or How Norwegian Planners Became Captains of Industry, 1960-199012. Facing In, Facing Out: Information Technology Production Policy in India from the 1960s to the 1990s; 13. Information Technology Policy in the USSR and Ukraine:Achievements and Failures; 14. Romania's Hardware and Software Industry: Building Information Technology Policy and Capabilities in a Transitional Economy; Index. - 6. Empire and Technology: Information Technology Policy in Postwar Britain and France7. From National Champions to Little Ventures:The NEB and the Second Wave of Information Technology in Britain, 1975-1985; 8. The Influence of Dutch and EU Government Policies on Philips' Information Technology Product Strategy; 9. Politics, Business, and European Information Technology Policy: From the Treaty of Rome to Unidata, 1958-1975; 10. ESPRIT: Europe's Response to US and Japanese Domination in Information Technology. - Information Technology has become symbolic of modernity and progress almost since its inception. The nature and boundaries of IT have also meant that it has shaped, or become embedded within a wide range of other scientific, technological and economic developments. Governments, from the outset, saw the computer as a strategic technology, a keystone of economic development and an area where technology policy should be targeted. This was true for those economies interested inmaintaining their technological and economic leadership, but also figured strongly in the developmental programmes of thos
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| Emner | Information technology -- Government policy -- History.
informasjonsteknologi samfunn informasjonspolitikk |
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| ISBN | 0199241058
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