Research Catalog

Title

It's a wired world : the new networked economy / Anne C. Leer.

Author

Leer, Anne C.

Publication

Oslo ; Boston : Scandinavian University Press, c1996.

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Description

x, 188 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Examines the development of the global information market and its effects on business and society. Includes an overview of the rapidly changing market environment, competing global systems, intellectual property rights, electronic payment systems, regulatory frameworks, security and privacy.

Subject

• Information technology
• Telecommunication
• Telecommunications
• Intellectual Property

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• glossary.
• graph.
• illustration.
• bibliographie.
• glossaire.
• graphique.
• bibliografía.
• glosario.
• gráfico.
• ilustración.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Martin Bangemann -- 1. Context -- shrinking planet -- rise of the global information infrastructure (GII) -- Visions of the global information society -- 2. Business Challenge -- Hype versus reality -- search for a market -- meaning of convergence -- Challenges and strategic responses of key players -- changing world of advertising -- changing world of publishing -- 3. Content Management and Intellectual Property Rights -- Trading information and media as digital bits -- intellectual property system -- Copyright: the critical trading mechanism of the global information market -- Copyright in the international environment -- current system of copyright administration and clearance -- 4. Electronic Commerce and Information Transactions -- What makes the market work -- Information transactions defined -- security challenge -- Transactional systems for network commerce -- 5. Way Forward -- Summary of critical issues -- Conditions for market efficiency, and potential risks -- Projections of future developments -- individual citizen and the wired world. App. 1. Chapter 1 of the Bangemann Report, Europe and the Global Information Society: Recommendations to the European Council, 26 May 1994 -- App. 2. Speech of US Vice President Al Gore at the International Telecommunications Union's first World Telecommunication Development Conference, Buenos Aires, March 1994 -- App. 3. List of documents on the information society and infrastructure released by national governments, the European Commission and G7 countries.

ISBN

8200423107

OCLC

• 36396965
• SCSB-11665540

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library