| 1. | GIIC - Global Information Infrastructure Commission | | | The Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) is an independent, non-governmental initiative involving leaders from developing as well as industrialized countries. The initiative is a project under the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
www.gii.org |
| 2. | HIIP Homepage | | | This is the site of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project Activities at Harvard University. The HIIP has provided a neutral, interdisciplinary forum, in both Cambridge and Washington, for addressing a wide range of emerging policy issues relating to information infrastructure, its development, use, and growth.
ksgwww.harvard.edu |
| 3. | United States Government Electronic Commerce Policy | | | A resource on U.S. Electronic Commerce Policy, maintained by the Secretariat for Electronic Commerce. It includes the Framework for Global Electronic Commerce as well as links to government agencies, important documents, international sites, and related organizations.
www.ecommerce.gov |
| 4. | National Computer Board Singapore | | | The National Computer Board (NCB) is a statutory board responsible for IT policy and development in Singapore. Its mission is to drive Singapore to excel in the information age by exploiting IT extensively to enhance economic competitiveness and quality of life.
www.ncb.gov.sg |
| 6. | W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium | | | An international industry consortium focusing on the development of the World Wide Web, jointly hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science [MIT/LCS] in the United States; the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique [INRIA] in Europe; and the Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Japan.
www.w3.org |
| 7. | Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy's Homepage | | | BRIE is a small, interdisciplinary research project at the University of California at Berkeley that works on issues of technology and the international economy to analyze real-world problems and offer path-breaking positions that challenge conventional economic policy-making.
socrates.berkeley.edu |
| 9. | Geo-economy - Revue française de géoéconomie | | | Associated with Edward Luttwak (author of "Turbo Capitalism"), Geoeconomy calls itself a new approach to international relations. It is a contemporary analysis of international strategies, actors and territorial mutations in the world wide economy.
www.geoeconomy.com |
| 10. | Brad De Long's Website | | | A very informative website covering a wide range of network economy issues by University of California at Berkeley Professor of Economics J. Bradford De Long. Professor De Long is an economic historian and specialist in macroeconomic issues. He has also worked as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Economic Policy during the Clinton Administration from 1993 to 1995.
econ161.Berkeley.EDU |
| 11. | Telecommunications Research Group: "Multimedia. Germany's Third Attempt To Move To An Information Society" | | | Under the supervision of Herbert Kubicek, Professor of Applied Computer Science at the University of Bremen, the Telecommunications Research Group has researched the development of multimedia services and the Internet in Germany and has put a large number of texts on the web. Unfortunately, most publications are in German language. However, some, such as the paper linked above (from January 1996) is in English.
infosoc.informatik.uni-bremen.de |
| 12. | Berlecon Research List of Studies of Business Uptake of the Internet in Germany | | | Berlecon Research is a young, Berlin-based economics research and consulting company. It is mainly specialised in economics research and consulting in the area of media, communication and information technology, mostly with some reference to the Internet. The list linked above is an authoritative and annotated overview of recent research regarding business uptake of the Internet in Germany. Other lists can also be found on the Berlecon pages. Unfortunately, the annotations are in German language.
www.berlecon.de |
| 13. | Danny Tyson Quah, Professor of Economics | | | This website contains much of the work of London School of Economics and Political Science Professor of Economics Danny Tyson Quah. A professor for econometrics, Quah has also commented extensively on "The Weightless Economy," his preferred term for what others describe as the network economy or the information age.
econ.lse.ac.uk |
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