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Telecom reform: progress and prospects
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The dominant activity in telecom reform is now shifting from policy development to implementation, which is a more difficult task that depends heavily on competent, independent regulation in both developed and developing countries as mentioned in this paper.About:
This article is published in Telecommunications Policy.The article was published on 1999-02-01. It has received 76 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Telecom infrastructure sharing & Enhanced Telecom Operations Map.read more
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Europe and the global information society: Recommendations to the European council
Mark N. Franklin,Diane Garner +1 more
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Using actor-network theory to analyse strategy formulation
TL;DR: This case study demonstrates that the applications of actor‐network theory can be extended to investigate the formulation of a national strategy and the research design in which the social and technological contexts are dynamically connected with strategy formulation can be drawn upon by other actor‐ network studies.
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The Innovation Journey of Wi-Fi: The Road to Global Success
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the global success of Wi-Fi to the landmark change in radio spectrum policy by the US FCC in 1985, the initiative by NCR Corporation to start development of Wireless-LANs and the drive for an open standard IEEE 802.11, released in 1997.
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Telecentres, Access and Development: Experience and Lessons from Uganda and South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a framework for universal access in South Africa and Uganda based on South Africa's experience with Shared Access Centres and Universal Access Policy in the context of ICT access and use.
Defining Infocommunications and Related Terms
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present infocommunications as an evolving expansion of telecommunications with information processing and content management functions, which is referred to as information and communication(s) technology (ICT) is considered an extended synonym for IT to emphasis the integration of the unified (tele)communications.
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Towards a framework for designing information society policies
TL;DR: In this article, a systemic analytical framework is suggested that can help in assessing the claims of what information infrastructures will provide, and in designing information society policies that reflect the needs and priorities of particular countries.
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Oxford Surveys in Information Technology
TL;DR: The author's preface about the contributors F. Kamijo: Information technology activities in the Japanese software industry S. Hekmatpour and D.C. Ince: Rapid software prototyping W.H. Melody: Telecommunication - policy directions for the technology and information services P.J. Rowley: Text retrieval systems - an outline.
A Vision of an Intelligent Island.
TL;DR: The negative impact of IT economically, socially, politically, and morally, and the challenges this impact presents to the government are discussed and the impact on families and how to counsel families of the IT age is discussed.
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Information Distribution and the Growth of Economically Valuable Knowledge: A Rationale for Technological Infrastructure Policies
Paul A. David,Dominique Foray +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the marginal social rate of return on future R&D investments, as well as the social payoffs from past investments, are discussed. But the focus of science and technology policies in the West in recent years has been directed toward fostering the generation of new knowledge as the basis for commercially exploitable innovations, rather than toward improving the distribution of existing scientific and engineering knowledge and increasing the accessibility of the latest additions to the knowledge stock.