Authors: Sue E. Eckert. Sarah Cleeland Knight. Catherine L. Mann.
Paperback, 230 pages
Publisher: Institute for International Economics
Publication Date: 2000-07-18
Edition: 0

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    Electronic commerce is changing the ways that businesses and consumers interact with each other, the products they create, buy, and sell, and the way that they communicate, learn, and become informed. How can policymakers position their countries and themselves to take advantage of this new environment? How should policymaking adjust to a more global, more networked, and more information-rich marketplace where relationships and jurisdictions between the governments, businesses, and citizens of different countries increasingly overlap? How can governments effectively harness rapidly changing technologies and partner with both domestic and foreign private sectors to reap the greatest benefits for their constituents?

This primer answers these questions using both general analysis and specific examples. It addresses in particular the needs of policymakers in emerging markets who must formulate and refine policies that affect e-commerce in areas such as telecommunications and finance, international trade and domestic distribution, and taxation and privacy. Companies considering doing business in these economies also will find that the examples of the issues that policymakers face, the different policy approaches that they choose, and the market opportunities that arise as more and more economies around the world embrace global electronic commerce...

Authors: John D. Steinbruner.
Paperback, 379 pages
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1977-02


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In this classic work, John Steinbruner argues that the time is ripe for exploration of a new theoretical perspective on the decision-making process in government. He suggests that the cybernetic theory of decision as developed in such diverse fields as information theory, mathematical logic, and behavioral psychology generates a systematic but non-rational analysis that seems to explain quite naturally decisions that are puzzling when viewed from the rational perspective. When combined with the basic understanding of human mental operations developed in cognitive psychology, the cybernetic theory of decision presents a striking picture of how decision makers deal with the intense uncertainty and fundamental value conflicts that arise in bureaucratic politics. To illustrate the advantages of using cybernetic theory, Steinbruner analyzes the issue of sharing nuclear weapons among the NATO allies.

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Authors: Bert Hoffman.
Hardcover, 344 pages
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2004-09-28
Edition: 1

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    This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Third World. Whereas the concept of the 'digital divide' tends to focus on technological and quantitative indicators, this work stresses the crucial role played by the political regime type, the pursued development model and the specific configuration of actors and decision-making dynamics. Two starkly contrasting Third World countries, state-socialist Cuba and the Latin America's "show-case democracy" Costa Rica, were chosen for two in-depth empirical country studies....

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Kindle Edition, 524 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2005-01-12
Edition: 1

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, PAKM 2004, held in Vienna, Austria in December 2004.

The 48 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 163 submissions. All current issues in knowledge management are addressed, in perspective to topics like business process modeling, mobile computing, knowledge management systems, peer-to-peer networks, user interfaces, enterprise information systems, computer supported collaborative work, web information systems, web communities, ontologies, multimedia, semantic web, fuzzy logic.

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Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2006-09-04


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Authors: Juval Portugali.
Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2000-01-07
Edition: 1

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    This book integrates the theories of complex self-organizing systems with the rich body of discourse and literature developed in what might be called "social theory of cities and urbanism". This is done in several ways: First, by an explicit comparative discussion of the two theoretical bodies in conjunction with some classical issues such as the nature of cities, the urban process, urban and regional planning, decision making, and the urban revolution (or rather revolutions). Second, by developing a new family of heuristic models and using them to study the issue of socio-cultural spatial segregation in cities. We term these models FACS models (Free Agents in a Cellular Space). Third, by developing a synergetic/pattern recognition theory of cities and of decision-making in the context of city planning....

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Paperback, 326 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2004-06-24
Edition: 1

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    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP International Working Conference on Knowledge Management in Electronic Government, KMGov 2004, held in Krems, Austria in May 2004.

The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for publication. The papers are organized in topical sections on KM concepts and methodologies, strategies to implement KM in the public sector, knowledge ontologies and structuring concepts for public administration, technologies for KM support in public administrations, requirements engineering for KM, representing legal and procedural knowledge, KM support for democratic processes and citizen participation, and examples of KM in public administrations and case studies....

Authors: R. W. Greene.
Paperback, 120 pages
Publisher: Esri Press
Publication Date: 2001-04-01
Edition: 2nd

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    This guide shows how GIS is becoming an essential tool in the new world of e-government, demonstrating how GIS and the digital revolution are doing for government what they have done for business -- making it more efficient in areas such as economic development and environmental protection....

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Paperback, 367 pages
Publisher: Autonomedia
Publication Date: 2004-10-30


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    Radical essays from the global underground on art, technology, autonomous culture and the politics of the future. Writers and artists from Russia, Romania, India, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Slovenia, Poland, Austria, England, Croatia, Japan, Latvia, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Canada, France, Australia, Spain and the US. Joanne Richardson "Preface: Introduction to a Subsol Reader" Art on the Edge of Politics with contributions from: Association Apsolutno, Luchezar Boyadjiev - interviewed by Geert Lovink, Aleander Brener & Barbara Schurz, CUKT - interviewed by Joasia Krysa, Miklos Erhardt & Duna Maver, Irwin & Eda Cufer - interviewed by Joanne Richardson, Oleg Kireev, Institute of Constructions & Deconstructions, Space Hijackers, Janos Sugar Tactical Media with contributions from: 0100101110101101.org - interviewed by Jaka Zeleznikar, Autonome a.f.r.i.k.a., Luther Blissett, Ricardo Dominguez - interviewed by Coco Fusco, David Garcia & Geert Lovink, David Garcia, Nathan Martin, Carbon Defense League, Joanne Richardson, - interviewed by Sylvie Myerson & Vidyut Jain,Sfear von Clauswitz,McKenzie Wark, Peter Lamborn Wilson Sovereign Media with contributions from: Kestutis Andrasiunas - interviewed by Joanne Richardson, Candida TV, Heidi Grundmann, Institute for Transacoustic Research, Eric Kluitenberg, Tetsuo Kogawa, Geert Lovink & Joanne Richardson, Simon Pope & Matt Fuller, Howard Slater, Vakuum TV Autonomous Media Culture with contributions from: Alex Adrlaansens & Nat Muller, V2_Organisation, Inke Arns - interviewed by Joanne Richardson, Zeljko Blace, Marcell Mars & Tomi Medak, [mi2] - Interviewed by Joanne Richardson, Brett Bloom, Cesare Piertolusti & Greg Sholette, Kristine Briede, K@2 - interviewed by Joanne Richardson, Alexei Isaev, MediaArtLab: Piotr Krajewski - interviewed by Joanne Richardson, Kristian Lukic - interviewed by Joanne Richardson, Mia Makela & Vanni Brusadin, Sarai Collective, Krassi Terziev - interviewed by Joanne Richardson, Marko Vukovic Production of the Future with contributions from: Franco Berardi Bifo - interview by Matt Fuller & snafu, Manuel De Landa, Alexander R. Galloway, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Michael Linton & Ernie Yacub, Sebastian Luetgert, Stefan Merten - interviewed by Joanne Richardson, Kenta Ohji, Patrice Riemens, Felix Stalder & Jesse Hirsh, McKenzie Wark Contributors' Bios...

Authors: M. Degenaar.
Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 1996-02-29
Edition: 1

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    Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned to distinguish and name a sphere and a cube by touch alone. Then imagine that this person suddenly recovers the faculty of sight. Will he be able to distinguish both objects by sight and to say which is the sphere and which the cube? This was the question which the Irish politician and scientist William Molyneux posed in 1688 to John Locke. Molyneux's question has intrigued a wide variety of intellectuals for three centuries. Those who have attempted to solve it include Berkeley, Reid, Leibniz, Voltaire, La Mettrie, Condillac, Diderot, Muller, Helmholtz, William James and Gareth Evans. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the history of the discussion about Molyneux's problem. It will be of interest to historians of both philosophy and psychology. ...