Contents
Section
1. Introduction
PART
I. Some Initial Considerations
Section
2. Social and Organizational Consequences of the
Information Revolution
Section
3. The Technology Underpinnings for the Information
Revolution
PART
II. Various Dimensions of the Information Revolution
Section
4. The Political/Governmental Dimension of the
Information Revolution
Section
5. The Business/Financial Dimension of the Information
Revolution
Section
6. The Social/Cultural Dimension of the Information
Revolution
PART
III. How The Information Revolution May Play Out
in Various Regions of the World
Section
7. Three National/Regional Shapshots
Section
8. North, Central, and South America
Section
9. Europe
Section
10. The Asia Pacific Region
Section
11. Middle East, Africa, and South Asia
Part
IV. Concluding Remarks
Section
12. Major Conference Themes: An Integration and
Summary
Section
13. What Comes Next
Appendices
Appendix
A. Conference Participants
Appendix
B. Conference Agenda
Bibliography
The
Global Course of the Information Revolution:
Political, Economic, and Social Consequences
Proceedings of an International Conference,
Richard O. Hundley, Robert H. Anderson, Tora
K. Bikson, James A. Dewar, Jerrold Green, Martin
Libicki, and C. Richard Neu, CF-154-NIC, 2000,
(121 pp., $9.00, ISBN: 0-8330-2850-2). The study
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