Volume 27 Issue 1 (2009)
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The Fifth Estate Emerging through the Network of Networks
The rise of the press, radio, television and other mass media enabled the development of an independent institution: the ‘Fourth Estate’, central to pluralist democratic processes. The growing use of…
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Services, ICTs and the Changing Nature of Economic Development Processes in the KBE Era
We present a concise, exploratory, discussion paper that provides some promising hypotheses concerning how economic development processes may be evolving in the KBE era. Emerging roles for ICTs and services…
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Century‐of‐Information Research (CIR): A Strategy for Research and Innovation in the Century of Information
More data will be produced in the next five years than in the entire history of human kind, a digital deluge that marks the beginning of the Century of Information.…