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"This book examines the impact IT has on politics, education, sociology, and technology. IT has already changed the face of many business activities and has prospects for future development. This book focuses on the benefits of IT for developing countries, whose problems must be solved, and obstacles overcome in order to further IT advancement" - Provided by publisher

1. A Primer on Internet Economics -- 2. The Impacts of Information Technologies on Innovation Dynamics and Labor Demand -- 3. Information Technology, Endogenous Human Capital Depreciation and Unemployment -- 4. Spatial and Organizational Patterns of the Transfer of New Economic Knowledge: A Survey of the Literature and Some Preliminary Results from a Case Study -- 5. Taxing Electronic Commerce -- 6. Survey of Telework Activities in Europe -- 7. Worldwide Learning with Java and New Information and Communication Technologies -- 8. Java for the Web—Economic Implications -- 9. Learning Management Science in Hyperspace -- 10. Semantic Integration of Emergent Online Communication -- 11. No Laws in Cyberspace? [Das Internet, ein rechtsfreier Raum?].

"This book features theoretical concepts and best practices in the implementation of new technologies within developing areas around the world, highlighting empirical research on the application of information technologies to bridge the digital divide within different countries"--

Information technology (IT) is a major driver of economic change, restructuring businesses, affecting skills and employment, and contributing to growth. This volume describes recent market dynamics and gives a detailed overview of the globalisation of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector and the rise of ICT-enabled international sourcing

The decrease in coordination and transaction costs on account
of information technology creates more opportunities for firms to make
production "footloose"; it allows firms to base different parts of their
business in different countries and connect them by real time
information networks. The rapid growth in information services is thus
facilitating the integrated international production of goods and
services. This paper discusses the linkages between information
technology and economic globalisation, and examines the reality of
developing countries in relation to the perceived benefits of
information technology and globalisation to these countries. Moreover
the issues involved in furthering the information technology effort in
Pakistan are also discussed in the paper. While the usefulness of
additional resources to further the establishment of an information
technology base in developing countries cannot be denied, the paper
argues that substantial headway can also be made with the existing
resources given a more considered approach to the problem. Basic to a
higher level of information technology involvement and interaction in
the economy is that policy-makers at the government and organisational
levels develop an understanding of the impact of technology in their
objective of improved economic welfare. The paper therefore discusses
the set of policies, short-term and long-term, needed to help draw the
country into the integrated international production system reflective
of the current trends of economic globalisation.