Topics > the information economy
- The OECD on the digital economy
- a broad-based policy reflection on the establishment of the various elements that can provide a favourable environment for electronic commerce. Includes useful statistics - eg broadband spread, standards for measuring the digital economy.
- UK Department of Trade & Industry (DTI): Foresight
- The DTI Foresight reports and projects look forward at the effects of a very wide range of new technology on the economy, commerce and employment.
- The Work Foundation
- Used to be the Industrial Society - how times change. Now has a special project on the - “iSociety investigates the impact of ICT in the UK, with special emphasis on technology in everyday life, at home, in communities and at work”. Funded by Microsoft and Price Waterhouse Coopers, just so you know. Getting the measure of the new economy Report on the implications for business, employment and society (Coyle, D. and Quah, D. 2002)
- The Information Economy
- Comprehensive overview Web site maintained by Hal R. Varian, School of Information and Management Systems, University of California, Berkeley.
- The cost of digital image preservation
- The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data. By Howard Besser & Robert Yamashita. Report funded by the Mellon Foundation, published 1998. School of Information Management & Systems, UC Berkeley.
- Want more?
- Try 'digital economy' using Kartoo. Unfortunately it's gone the way of many attractive sites and now mainly references commercial companies, but still worth a look for the way it works.
- Want better?
- Let other people help you. Use a Folksonomy. Other people interested in this topic have found websites for you. Go to del.icio.us and search for digital economy. (and add your links too)
