Towards A Sustainable Information Society
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Author | : Ewa Ziemba |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2016-01-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1443887900 |
This book represents an important voice in the scientific discourse on what constitutes a sustainable information society, and provides a new comprehensive and forward-looking approach to such a development. This approach is based on the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by the main stakeholders of society, including individuals, enterprises, and public administration, who should use ICTs in order to build the welfare of present and future generations, ensure economic growth and socio-cultural development, increase participation in public life, permit personal development, and build the wisdom of society. As such, the book mainly focuses on the role ICTs play in transforming business, public administration and everyday life in the context of the sustainable information society. This volume will appeal to both researchers and practitioners, as it provides significant areas and directions for research on the sustainable information society, and suggests important issues for programming, building and adopting such a society. The book will allow the reader to answer such critical contemporary questions as ‘What is the sustainable information society and what role is played by ICTs in this society?’; ‘What are the challenges and tasks of people, enterprises, and public administration that lead towards the sustainable information society?’; ‘How can ICTs support people, enterprises, and public administration in programming, building and adopting such a society?’; ‘What are the factors affecting ICT adoption by people, enterprises, and public administration in this context?’; ‘What are the areas that should require a primary focus in order to achieve the most satisfying results of ICT adoption by people, enterprises, and public administration?’; and ‘How can ICT adoption by people, enterprises, and public administration be measured here?’
Author | : Jan Servaes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781280477102 |
The Information Society is one of the recurrent imaginaries to describe present-day structures, discourses and practices. Within its meaning is enshrined the promise of a better world, sometimes naively assuming a technological deus ex machina, in other cases hoping for the creation of policy tools that will overcome a diversity of societal divides. With the two-phased World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the United Nations attempted to stimulate the development of such tools. Simultaneously, the WSIS is a large-scale experiment in multistakeholderism. The objective was to create a more balanced decision-making process that would allow the voices of civil society and business actors to be heard in international politics. This book aims to evaluate the potentialities of both the Information Society, and the WSIS in supporting and constructing more democratic, just and developed societies. It is the second book arising from the intellectual work of European Consortium for Communications Research members.
Author | : Lorenz M. Hilty |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 3837019705 |
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are contributing both to environmental problems and to their solution. Will ICT producers, users and recyclers be the major polluters of tomorrow, or will 'Green IT' and a dematerialized information society save the climate? This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between ICT and sustainable development, culminating in 15 recommendations - to producers, users and political decision makers - which show the way to a sustainable information society. Keywords: Information Technology, Environment, Sustainable Development, Environmental Informatics, Green IT, Green Computing, Data Centers, Energy Efficiency, Resource Productivity, Dematerialization, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), E-waste, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), Recycling, Technological Complexity, Critical Information Infrastructure, Open Standards, Rebound Effect.
Author | : Hitoshi Mitomo |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2015-07-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1784710040 |
The objective of this book is to present a comprehensive evaluation of the smart revolution, including its social and economic impacts. It proposes a modern framework to help assess how recent Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can contr
Author | : Jacques Berleur |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2007-01-15 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0387378766 |
The principal message of the ‘Human Choice and Computers’ (HCC) tradition and its associated conferences over the years is that there are choices and alternatives. In this volume, Social Informatics takes two directions. The first supports readers in interpreting of the meaning of Social Informatics. The second, more extensive part develops an overview of various applications of Social Informatics. Researchers inspired by Social Informatics touch many areas of human and social life.
Author | : Christian Fuchs |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2007-12-12 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1135898820 |
By outlining a social theory of the internet and the information society, this book demonstrates how the ecological, economic, political and cultural systems of contemporary society have been transformed by new information and communication technologies.
Author | : Christian Fuchs |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135019266 |
In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On one hand, there are overdrawn claims that social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc) have caused uproars in countries like Tunisia and Egypt. On the other hand, the question arises as to what actual role social media play in contemporary capitalism, crisis, rebellions, the strengthening of the commons, and the potential creation of participatory democracy. The commodification of everything has resulted also in a commodification of the communication commons, including Internet communication that is today largely commercial in character. This book deals with the questions of what kind of society and what kind of Internet are desirable, how capitalism, power structures and social media are connected, how political struggles are connected to social media, what current developments of the Internet and society tell us about potential futures, how an alternative Internet can look like, and how a participatory, commons-based Internet and a co-operative, participatory, sustainable information society can be achieved.
Author | : Ewa Ziemba |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2018-02-27 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 3319777211 |
This book constitutes extended selected papers from the 15th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management, AITM 2017, and the 12th Conference on Information Systems Management, ISM 2017, held as part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS, which took place in Prague, Poland, in September 2017. The 13 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: information technology and systems for knowledge management; information technology and systems for business transformation; and implementation and evaluation of information systems.
Author | : Ewa Ziemba |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2019-02-27 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 3030151549 |
This book constitutes extended selected papers from the 16th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management, AITM 2018, and the 13th Conference on Information Systems Management, ISM 2018, held as part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS, which took place in Poznan, Poland, in September 2018. The total of 9 full and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 43 submissions. The papers selected to be included in this book contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on information technology for management in business and public organizations. They were organized in topical sections named: information technology and systems for knowledge management, and information technology and systems for business transformation.
Author | : Mitsutaka Matsumoto |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1152 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9400730101 |
Since the first EcoDesign International Symposium held in 1999, this symposium has led the research and practices of environmentally conscious design of products, services, manufacturing systems, supply chain, consumption, as well as economics and society. EcoDesign 2011 - the 7th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing - was successfully held in the Japanese old capital city of Kyoto, on November 30th – December 2nd, 2011. The subtitle of EcoDesign 2011 is to “design for value innovation towards sustainable society.” During this event, presenters discussed the way to achieve both drastic environmental consciousness and value innovation in order to realise a sustainable society.