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Digital technology is ever-changing, which means that those working or planning to work in IT or apply IT systems must strategize how and what applications and technologies are ideal for sustainable civilization and human development. Developmental trends of IT and the digitalization of enterprise, agriculture, healthcare, education, and more must be explored within the boundaries of ethics and law in order to ensure that IT does not have a harmful effect on society. The Strategies of Informing Technology in the 21st Century is a critical authored reference book that develops the strategic attitude in developing and operating IT applications based on the requirements of sustainable civilization and ethical and wise applications of technology in society. Technological progress is examined including trends in automation, artificial intelligence, and information systems. The book also specifically covers applications of digital informing strategies in business, healthcare, agriculture, education, and the home. Covering key concepts such as automation, robotization, and digital infrastructure, it is ideal for IT executives, CIS/MIS/CS faculty, cyber ethics professionals, technologists, systems engineers, IT specialists and consultants, security analysts, students, researchers, and academicians.

This timely book explores the long-standing process of infrastructural integration across Europe, with a particular focus on the EU member states. It illuminates the main economic infrastructure sectors, including transport, energy and information, examining how the process of infrastructural integration reflects an alignment of the needs of the countries that are the main drivers behind this process.Colin Turner highlights how these inter-governmental driven processes are supported by a series of policy measures undertaken at the supranational level by the EU, largely through the trans-European network initiative. Multidisciplinary chapters offer a thorough examination of trends in regional integration, and an in-depth analysis of core infrastructure sectors. The book further looks at the co-operative territoriality that is needed for the integration process, and that is driven by an alignment between states'territorial and geo-political strategies.Offering a contextualised analysis within the framework of state strategy, this will be an invigorating read for political economy and public policy scholars, particularly those focussing on the EU. It will also be helpful to public policy practitioners and sector specific consultants looking for up-to-date insights on the topic.

'How globalized information networks can be used for strategic advantageUntil recently, globalization was viewed, on balance, as an inherently good thing that would benefit people and societies nearly everywhere.Now there is growing concern that some countries will use their position in globalized networks to gain undue influence over other societies through their dominance of information and financial networks, a concept known as “weaponized interdependence.”In exploring the conditions under which China, Russia, and the United States might be expected to weaponize control of information and manipulate the global economy, the contributors to this volume challenge scholars and practitioners to think differently about foreign economic policy, national security, and statecraft for the twenty-first century. The book addresses such questions as: What areas of the global economy are most vulnerable to unilateral control of informationand financial networks? How sustainable is the use of weaponized interdependence? What are the possible responses from targeted actors? And how sustainable is the open global economy if weaponized interdependence becomes a default tool for managing international relations?'

So Paulo, Brazils largest city, has more mobile phones than does Paris. The largest phone system in Kampuchea is cellular. In the next twenty years, within one generation, everyone on earth will be able to place a phone call to anyone else anywhere. This Meganet is a patchwork of networks, big and small, local and global, primitive and high-tech, that fit together because they share compatible technologies. Wilson Dizards Meganet is a report on the progress and setbacks in expanding Meganet resources to everyone on earth. He examines not only the advantages, from toll-free numbers and credit cards, but the downsides, from the potential invasions of privacy to the question of who will and who should control Meganet. Dizard describes the likely players: from the oil and utility companies who own desirable rights-of-way to Silicon Valley to emerging innovators in Chile and Germany.

'I loved the quotes at the beginning of each chapter – very interesting and thought-provoking. I also enjoyed the author's style and his technical expertise shone through.'Christopher Wright, Wright CandA Consulting Ltd Understand how to protect your critical information infrastructure (CII). This book comes with 23 key lessons, including how to: Describe the critical infrastructure service and determine its service level; Identify and analyse the interconnections and dependencies of information systems; Create a functioning organisation to protect CII; and Train people to make sure they are aware of cyber threats and know the correct behaviour. Billions of people use the services of critical infrastructure providers, such as ambulances, hospitals, and electricity and transport networks. This number is increasing rapidly, yet there appears to be little protection for many of these services. IT solutions have allowed organisations to increase their efficiency in order to be competitive. However, do we even know or realise what happens when IT solutions are not working – when they simply don't function at all or not in the way we expect? This book aims to teach the IT framework from within, allowing you to reduce dependence on IT systems and put in place the necessary processes and procedures to help protect your CII. Lessons Learned: Critical Information Infrastructure Protection is aimed at people who organise the protection of critical infrastructure, such as chief executive officers, business managers, risk managers, IT managers, information security managers, business continuity managers and civil servants. Most of the principles and recommendations described are also valid in organisations that are not critical infrastructure service providers. The book covers the following: Lesson 1: Define critical infrastructure services. Lesson 2: Describe the critical infrastructure service and determine its service level. Lesson 3: Define the providers of critical infrastructure services. Lesson 4: Identify the critical activities, resources and responsible persons needed to provide the critical infrastructure service. Lesson 5: Analyse and identify the interdependencies of services and their reliance upon power supplies. Lesson 6: Visualise critical infrastructure data. Lesson 7: Identify important information systems and assess their importance. Lesson 8: Identify and analyse the interconnections and dependencies of information systems. Lesson 9: Focus on more critical services and prioritise your activities. Lesson 10: Identify threats and vulnerabilities. Lesson 11: Assess the impact of service disruptions. Lesson 12: Assess the risks associated with the service and information system. Lesson 13: Implement the necessary security measures. Lesson 14: Create a functioning organisation to protect CII. Lesson 15: Follow regulations to improve the cyber resilience of critical infrastructure services. Lesson 16: Assess the security level of your information systems yourself and ask external experts to assess them as well. Lesson 17: Scan networks yourself and ask external experts to scan them as well to find the systems that shouldn't be connected to the Internet but still are. Lesson 18: Prepare business continuity and disaster recovery plans and test them at reasonable intervals. Lesson 19: Establish reliable relations and maintain them. Lesson 20: Share information and be a part of networks where information is shared. Lesson 21: Train people to make sure they are aware of cyber threats and know the correct behaviour. Lesson

This book aims to provide a broad overview of various topics of Internet of Things (IoT), ranging from research, innovation and development priorities to enabling technologies, nanoelectronics, cyber-physical systems, architecture, interoperability and industrial applications. All this is happening in a global context, building towards intelligent, interconnected decision making as an essential driver for new growth and co-competition across a wider set of markets. It is intended to be a standalone book in a series that covers the Internet of Things activities of the IERC – Internet of Things European Research Cluster from research to technological innovation, validation and deployment.The book builds on the ideas put forward by the European Research Cluster on the Internet of Things Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, and presents global views and state of the art results on the challenges facing the research, innovation, development and deployment of IoT in future years. The concept of IoT could disrupt consumer and industrial product markets generating new revenues and serving as a growth driver for semiconductor, networking equipment, and service provider end-markets globally. This will create new application and product end-markets, change the value chain of companies that creates the IoT technology and deploy it in various end sectors, while impacting the business models of semiconductor, software, device, communication and service provider stakeholders. The proliferation of intelligent devices at the edge of the network with the introduction of embedded software and app-driven hardware into manufactured devices, and the ability, through embedded software/hardware developments, to monetize those device functions and features by offering novel solutions, could generate completely new types of revenue streams. Intelligent and IoT devices leverage software, software licensing, entitlement management, and Internet connectivity in ways that address many of the societal challenges that we will face in the next decade.

He covers the anti-trust case against Microsoft; the successes of eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, and Google; road-kills along the information highway such as the forgotten eToys; as well as the Enron implosion and other corporate scandals. After tracing this amazing story he concludes that the illegal practices and the ensuing USD7 trillion loss in equity markets slowed the Internet revolution but could not snuff it out, and with worldwide economic recovery e-business surges onward.

This book explains the rapidly changing, complex flow of information in the context of 21st-century culture, policy, technology, and economics—an essential resource for librarians and information specialists in all types of settings.The role of information professionals today is to interact creatively with clientele: to help them navigate the information infrastructure. Shattering the concept of the library as a place, Evolving Global Information Infrastructure and Information Transfer describes'the library'as transformed to a dynamic virtual presence in the information infrastructure, where people are the most important resources in a digital library or information center—not the collections. Instead of focusing on specific technologies, which are always changing, this book examines the'big picture'of how information is created, recorded, mass produced, distributed, and utilized in society. This unique approach enables readers to better understand how they fit into this changing world, to envision their place in the digital age, and to assume a leadership role that ensures the success of their clients as well as themselves. This standout work is ideally suited for all types of librarians, educators, information workers, members of the research community, and policymakers in public and private sector organizations.

The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways networks are imagined and engaged with by publics around the world, their local effects, and what human beings experience when a network fails. Some contributors explore the physical objects and industrial relations that make up an infrastructure. Others venture into the marginalized communities orphaned from the knowledge economies, technological literacies, and epistemological questions linked to infrastructural formation and use. The wide-ranging insights delineate the oft-ignored contrasts between industrialized and developing regions, rich and poor areas, and urban and rural settings, bringing technological differences into focus. Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Paul Dourish, Sarah Harris, Jennifer Holt and Patrick Vonderau, Shannon Mattern, Toby Miller, Lisa Parks, Christian Sandvig, Nicole Starosielski, Jonathan Sterne, and Helga Tawil-Souri.

National wie international rückt das Thema'Breitband'verstärkt in den Fokus. Weltweit hat man sich zum Ziel gesetzt, breitbandige, schnelle Zugänge zum Internet in den nächsten Jahren flächendeckend zur Verfügung zu stellen. Der Ausbau der Telekommunikationsnetze zu einer breitbandigen Infrastruktur ist daher in vollem Gange. Die Digital Subscriber Line (DSL-) Techniken erlauben es heute bereits, auf herkömmlichen Telefonleitungen -je nach Technologiestufe - bis zu mehreren Mbitls zu übertragen. Sie sind heute in vielen Ländern, darunter auch Deutschland, das Rückgrat des schnellen Internetzugangs. Andererseits werden die breitbandigen TV-Kabel zunehmend nicht nur für digitale Fernsehverteilung, sondern auch für die schnelle Datenübertragung genutzt. Und nicht zuletzt bieten verschiedene drahtlose Zugangstechniken ergänzende Lösungen und Alternativen für die mobilen Teilnehmer. Digitale Verteilsysteme wie DAß und DVB werden - im Downlink - zur Übertragung von Inhalten und Daten genutzt; bei den Zellularsystemen der Dritten Generation ebenso wie bei den Wireless LANs stehen die Non-voice-Dienste im Vordergrund. Die früher oft gestellte Frage: Wie nutzen wir denn eigentlich die Riesenbandbreite? stellt sich heute ganz anders. Eine Fülle von Möglichkeiten tut sich auf - im geschäftlichen wie im privaten Bereich, z. B. der Unterhaltung. Interaktivität ist dabei das Schlüsselwort: Spiele übers Netz, Video-on-Demand, Videoconferencing, File Sharing, Telekooperation und viele mehr.

There has never been a IT infrastructure Guide like this. IT infrastructure 220 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of IT infrastructure. Instead, it answers the top 220 questions that we are asked and those we come across in our forums, consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly how to deal with those questions, with tips that have never before been offered in print. Get the information you need--fast! This comprehensive guide offers a thorough view of key knowledge and detailed insight. This Guide introduces everything you want to know to be successful with IT infrastructure. A quick look inside of the subjects covered: ITIL training only further facilitates the abilities of Cloud Computing service providers, ITIL Demo Process: The Jigsaw Diagram, SAP IT Infrastructure Library ITIL, ITIL flow process on live demo, The Configuration Management Database (CDMB), CMMI vs ITIL: Knowing What to Choose, Small-Medium Business Perspective on Cloud Storage, Maximizing Your IT Investment With Infrastructure Management Services, Capacity Management, ITSM Tool Requirements, TOGAF Supported Enterprise Architecture Designs, Exploring the ITIL community forums, Technical Management, Can ITIL forum lurking really help you pass your cert test?, SOA: (Best) Practices (and Standards), Good practices, For students familiar with the ITIL V3, here's what's included the ITIL 2011, Core Business Solutions: Why IT Governance?, IaaS captures a sizable chunk of the IT outsourcing market, Exin ITIL : With exams like ITIL Project Management PRINCE2 and ISPL EXIN., Cloud computing could become a powerful ally of the green movement, Applying Automation, COBIT ITIL, ITIL intermediate is perfect for IT professionals interested in PMP certification (project management professional), MCSE Boot Camp: A Fun, Interactive and Valuable Way to Reach your Certification Goals, The History of Cloud Computing, ITIL v3 Foundation Glossary, Determining Where Automation Exists, Microsoft ITIL, How effective are practice exams in preparing students to meet the challenges of certification tests for IT?, ITIL CRM, Conflict : It supports the organization in planning and executing its business., You need to do this to enable a rollback scenario for Release and Deployment Management, What To Look For In A Foundation Guide IT ITIL Management Service Study, Recruitment Process Outsourcing: Finding the Right Employees for Companies, Faster and Better Service with Enterprise Architect Download, Virtualization Technology, BIOS - When A Minute is Too Long to Wait for, Management Impact of VMware Infrastructure 3, What Is ITIL Change Management, and much more...

From a Wired technology journalist: an “astute” and “easy-to-read” primer on the vast technological and cultural changes shaping tomorrow's world (Financial Times).In Approaching the Future, Editor-at-Large for Wired magazine and guru of the digital age Ben Hammersley offers the essential guide to life in the ever-changing 21st century. Explaining the latest ideas in technology and their rippling effects on culture, business and politics, this book will demystify the internet, decode cyberspace, and guide you through the revolution we are all living through. This is for everyone who wants to truly understand the modern world, to no longer be caught off guard by an ever-changing society, and to prosper in the coming decades.

'This book offers fresh new perspectives on information infrastructure development, using and adapting theory that was initially developed to study natural resource common arrangements such as inshore fisheries, forests, irrigation systems, and pastures particularly reviewing complex problems and social dilemmas that often arise in information infrastructures.'--Provided by publisher.

With the rise of the knowledge economy, the knowledge content of goods and services is going up just as their material content is declining. Economic value is increasingly seen to reside in the former - that is, in intangible assets - rather than in the latter. Yet we keep wanting to turn knowledge back into something tangible, something with definite boundaries which can be measured, manipulated, appropriated, and traded. In short, we want to reify knowledge. Scholars have been debating the nature of knowledge since the time of Plato. Many new insights have been gained from these debates, but little theoretical consensus has been achieved. Through six thematically linked chapters, the book articulates the theoretical approach to the production and distribution of knowledge that underpins Max Boisot's conceptual framework, the Information Space or I-Space. In this way the book looks to provide theoretical and practical underpinnings to Boisot's book Knowledge Assets (OUP, 1998). Following an introductory chapter, how knowledge relates to data and information is first examined in chapter 1, and how different economic actors - entrepreneurs, managers, etc - use knowledge as a basis for action is explored in chapter 2. Chapter 3 looks at how the heterogeneity of economic actors arises naturally from their respective data processing strategies in spite of any similarities in the data that they might share. Chapter 4 argues, contra much transaction-based economics, that an organizational order must have preceded a market order, something that should be reflected in any knowledge-based theory of the firm. Chapter 5 discusses the cultural and institutional significance of different kinds of knowledge flows. Finally, chapter 6 presents an agent-based simulation model, SimISpace, that illustrates how the I-Space might be applied to concrete problems such those of intellectual property rights. A concluding chapter proposes a research agenda based on the theorizing developed in the book. The approach the book sets out is used by a whole range of organizations to issues of knowledge management, policy, economics, and organizational and cultural change.

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Advances in information technology are heavily influencing ways in which business, society, and government work and function around the globe, bringing many changes in a process commonly termed the'information revolution.'Document portrays the state of the information revolution today--in its technological, business and financial, governmental, and social and cultural dimensions--and how it will likely progress in the next 10 to 15 years. Focuses separately on different regions of the world, including North America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Also looks in depth at recurring themes in information technology's impact around the world, including, for example, its influence on business models and its interrelationship with social and cultural value systems.

A valuable introductory book for students, Western or otherwise, in Asian studies.Tan See Kam, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeIt is timely that a sophisticated discussion of modernity and postmodernity be introduced to Asian Studies, and this text clearly offers a beginning of such an enterprise.Yao Souchou, Department of Anthropology, University of SydneyUnderstanding contemporary Asian societies and cultures is not merely a matter of knowing when to bow and how low. Asia looks beyond the clich s and stereotypes to explore the cultural dynamics of the region.The authors show that there is no one'Asian'culture, but rather a number of experiences and influences which affect societies in the Asian region in different ways. They explore the ongoing impact of the colonial era and examine how current global trends intersect with local traditions and histories.Drawing upon recent advances in critical communication and cultural studies, the authors engage with the cultural politics of information and the public sphere, diasporic movements, religion, the position of women, masculinity and sexuality, providing new insights into contemporary Asian cultures.With examples from countries across the region, Asia provides the tools needed to recognise, understand and discuss Asian cultures and cultural difference.

Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communication equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing behavior and institutions to new media? Will the GII improve access to information for all? Will it replace libraries and publishers? How can computers and information systems be made easier to use? What are the trade-offs between tailoring information systems to user communities and standardizing them to interconnect with systems designed for other communities, cultures, and languages? This book takes a close look at these and other questions of technology, behavior, and policy surrounding the GII. Topics covered include the design and use of digital libraries; behavioral and institutional aspects of electronic publishing; the evolving role of libraries; the life cycle of creating, using, and seeking information; and the adoption and adaptation of information technologies. The book takes a human-centered perspective, focusing on how well the GII fits into the daily lives of the people it is supposed to benefit. Taking a unique holistic approach to information access, the book draws on research and practice in computer science, communications, library and information science, information policy, business, economics, law, political science, sociology, history, education, and archival and museum studies. It explores both domestic and international issues. The author's own empirical research is complemented by extensive literature reviews and analyses.

Schiller traces the transformation of the Internet from government, military, and educational tool to agent of'digital capitalism'through three critically important and interlinked realms.The networks that comprise cyberspace were originally created at the behest of government agencies, military contractors, and allied educational institutions. Over the past generation or so, however, a growing number of these networks began to serve primarily corporate users. Under the sway of an expansionary market logic, the Internet began a political-economic transition toward what Dan Schiller calls'digital capitalism.'Schiller traces these metamorphoses through three critically important and interlinked realms. Parts I and II deal with the overwhelmingly'neoliberal'or market-driven policies that influence and govern the telecommunications system and their empowerment of transnational corporations while at the same time exacerbating exisiting social inequalities. Part III shows how cyberspace offers uniquely supple instruments with which to cultivate and deepen consumerism on a transnational scale, especially among privileged groups. Finally, Part IV shows how digital capitalism has already overtaken education, placing it at the mercy of a proprietary market logic.

When you visit the doctor, information about you may be recorded in an office computer. Your tests may be sent to a laboratory or consulting physician. Relevant information may be transmitted to your health insurer or pharmacy. Your data may be collected by the state government or by an organization that accredits health care or studies medical costs. By making information more readily available to those who need it, greater use of computerized health information can help improve the quality of health care and reduce its costs. Yet health care organizations must find ways to ensure that electronic health information is not improperly divulged. Patient privacy has been an issue since the oath of Hippocrates first called on physicians to'keep silence'on patient matters, and with highly sensitive data—genetic information, HIV test results, psychiatric records—entering patient records, concerns over privacy and security are growing. For the Record responds to the health care industry's need for greater guidance in protecting health information that increasingly flows through the national information infrastructure—from patient to provider, payer, analyst, employer, government agency, medical product manufacturer, and beyond. This book makes practical detailed recommendations for technical and organizational solutions and national-level initiatives. For the Record describes two major types of privacy and security concerns that stem from the availability of health information in electronic form: the increased potential for inappropriate release of information held by individual organizations (whether by those with access to computerized records or those who break into them) and systemic concerns derived from open and widespread sharing of data among various parties. The committee reports on the technological and organizational aspects of security management, including basic principles of security; the effectiveness of technologies for user authentication, access control, and encryption; obstacles and incentives in the adoption of new technologies; and mechanisms for training, monitoring, and enforcement. For the Record reviews the growing interest in electronic medical records; the increasing value of health information to providers, payers, researchers, and administrators; and the current legal and regulatory environment for protecting health data. This information is of immediate interest to policymakers, health policy researchers, patient advocates, professionals in health data management, and other stakeholders.

The personal computer age had been upon us just a few years when a new development changed everything: the Internet. Now people around the world could use their computers to link up with one another as well as with libraries, businesses, and schools - virtually any individual or place that had a computer. The new information revolution had begun, and, along with it, a host of social issues from cyberporn to educational access. This comprehensive, up-to-date volume provides readers with an in-depth discussion of the origin and development of this revolution, from the telegraph to JAVA, and all of the social issues accompanying the new technologies. It provides a detailed introduction; a chronology; biographical sketches of key figures; charts, graphs, documents, and quotations; a directory of organizations; extensive lists of print and nonprint resources, including World Wide Web sites; a glossary; and an index. Readers of all kinds - including students, academics, and general readers, from computer illiterates to'netizens'--Will find this handbook an essential resource for research and informational reading.