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Information Technology Policy
An International History
Edited by Richard Coopey
361 pages
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numerous line drawings, tables, figures
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234x156mm
978-0-19-924105-7
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Hardback
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26 August 2004
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- Sets the history of computing in its broader economic and social context
- Recounts and evaluates governmental IT policies
- Assumes a comparative approach, examining IT policies in a number of countries including Japan, the US, and Europe.
- Critically examines the relationship between military and civil technological systems
Information Technology has become symbolic of modernity and progress almost since its inception. The nature and boundaries of IT have also meant that it has shaped, or become embedded within a wide range of other scientific, technological and economic developments. Governments, from the outset, saw the computer as a strategic technology, a keystone of economic development and an area where technology policy should be targeted. This was true for those economies interested in maintaining their technological and economic leadership, but also figured strongly in the developmental programmes of those seeking to modernise or catch up. So
strong was the notion that IT policy should be the centre of economic strategy that predominant political economic ideologies have frequently been subverted or distorted to allow for special efforts to promote either the production or use of IT.
This book brings together a series of country-based studies to examine, in depth, the nature and extent of IT policies as they have evolved from a complex historical interaction of politics, technology, institutions, and social and cultural factors. In doing so many key questions are critically examined. Where can we find successful examples of IT policy? Who has shaped policy? Who did governments turn to for advice in framing policy?
Several chapters outline the impact of military influence on IT.
What is the precise nature of this influence on IT development? How closely were industry leaders linked to government programs and to what extent were these programs, particularly those aimed at the generation of 'national champions', misconceived through undue special pleading? How effective were government personnel and politicians in assessing the merits of programs predicated on technological trajectories extrapolated from increasingly complex and specialised information?
This book will be of interest to academics and graduate students of Management Studies, History, Economics, and Technology Studies, and Government and Corporate policy makers engaged with IT and Technology policy.
Readership: Academics and graduate students of Management Studies, History, Economics, Public Policy, and Information and Technology Studies; and Government and Corporate policy makers engaged with Information Technology and Technology policy.
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Edited by Richard Coopey, Senior Research Fellow, Business History Unit, London School of Economics Contributors:
William Aspray, Professor, School of Informatics, Indiana University
Dimitris Assimakopoulos, Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Doctoral Programme, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Martin Campbell-Kelly, Reader, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick
Richard Coopey, Lecturer in History, University of Wales
Mihaiela Grundey, Founder, Romanian Youth Support Trust
Ross Hamilton, Freelance Software Developer
Richard Heeks, Senior Lecturer in
Development Informatics, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester
Eda Kranakis, Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department, University of Ottawa
Stuart Macdonald, Professor of Information and Organization, Management School, University of Sheffield
Boris Malinovsky, Academician of the International Academy of Sciences on Informatics
Lev Malinovsky, Chief of the Scientific Research Laboratory, Institute of Cybernetics, Kiev
Rebecca Marschan-Piekkari, Research Fellow, Swedish School of Economics, Helsinki
Albert Meijer, Assistant Professor, Utrecht School of Governance
Arthur Norberg, ERA Land-Grant Chair in the History of Technology, and Professor in the Program in the
History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota
Knut Sogner, Professor of Economic and Business History, Norwegian School of Management
Steven W. Usselman, Associate Professor of History, School of History, Technology, and Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan Van Den Ende, Associate Professor, Department of the Management of Information and Technology, Rotterdam School of Management
Nachoem Wijnberg, Professor of Industrial Economics and Organization, Department of Organization and Management, University of Groningen
Seiichiro Yonekura, Professor of Business History, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
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1: Richard Coopey: Information Technology Policy: A Global Historical Survey
2: Arthur Norberg: The Shifting Interests of the United States Government in the Development and Diffusion of Information Technology Since 1943
3: William Aspray: The Supply of Information Technology Workers: A History of Policy and Practice in the United States
4: Steven W. Usselman: Public Policies, Private Platforms: Anitrust and American Computing
5: Seiichiro Yonekura: Beat IBM: Cooperation and Competition Inside Japanese Computer Promotion
6: Richard Coopey: Empire and Technology: Information Technology Policy in Postwar Britain and France
7: Martin Campbell-Kelly and Ross Hamilton: From National Champions to Little Ventures: The NEB and the Second Wave of IT in Britain, 1975-1985
8: Jan Van Den Ende, Nachoem Wijnberg, and Albert Meijer: The Influence of the Dutch and EU Government Policy on Philips' IT Product Strategy
9: Eda Kranakis: Politics, Business, and European Technology Polic: From the Treaty of Rome to Unidata, 1958-75
10: Dimitris Assimakopoulos, Rebecca Marschan-Piekkari, and Stuart Macdonald: ESPRIT: Europe's Response to US and Japanese Dominance in Information Technology
11: Knut Sogner: The Rise and Fall of State IT Planning: or How Norwegian Planners Became Captains of Industry
12: Richard Heeks: Facing In, Facing Out: IT Production Policy in India from the 1960s to the 1990s
13: Boris Malinovsky and Lev Malinovsky: IT Policy in the USSR and Ukraine: Achievements and Failures
14: Richard Heeks and Mihaiela Grundey: Romania's Hardware and Software Industry: Building IT Policy and Capabilities in a Transitional Economy
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