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Author: Andrzej Targowski
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781878289322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobal Information Infrastructure: The Birth, Vision and Architecture addresses three levels of the information superhighway in terms of their information content and technological implementations. This book is a futuristic view of the major components of the new global world.
Author: Christine L. Borgman
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2003-01-24
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780262250283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWill the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communication equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing behavior and institutions to new media? Will the GII improve access to information for all? Will it replace libraries and publishers? How can computers and information systems be made easier to use? What are the trade-offs between tailoring information systems to user communities and standardizing them to interconnect with systems designed for other communities, cultures, and languages? This book takes a close look at these and other questions of technology, behavior, and policy surrounding the GII. Topics covered include the design and use of digital libraries; behavioral and institutional aspects of electronic publishing; the evolving role of libraries; the life cycle of creating, using, and seeking information; and the adoption and adaptation of information technologies. The book takes a human-centered perspective, focusing on how well the GII fits into the daily lives of the people it is supposed to benefit. Taking a unique holistic approach to information access, the book draws on research and practice in computer science, communications, library and information science, information policy, business, economics, law, political science, sociology, history, education, and archival and museum studies. It explores both domestic and international issues. The author's own empirical research is complemented by extensive literature reviews and analyses.
Author: Robert J. Grover Professor Emeritus
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-03-19
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1610699580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains the rapidly changing, complex flow of information in the context of 21st-century culture, policy, technology, and economics—an essential resource for librarians and information specialists in all types of settings. The role of information professionals today is to interact creatively with clientele: to help them navigate the information infrastructure. Shattering the concept of the library as a place, Evolving Global Information Infrastructure and Information Transfer describes "the library" as transformed to a dynamic virtual presence in the information infrastructure, where people are the most important resources in a digital library or information center—not the collections. Instead of focusing on specific technologies, which are always changing, this book examines the "big picture" of how information is created, recorded, mass produced, distributed, and utilized in society. This unique approach enables readers to better understand how they fit into this changing world, to envision their place in the digital age, and to assume a leadership role that ensures the success of their clients as well as themselves. This standout work is ideally suited for all types of librarians, educators, information workers, members of the research community, and policymakers in public and private sector organizations.
Author: Ching-chih Chen
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive reference for electrical and electronic engineers and other professionals, technicians, and students involved with power electronics. Encompasses power semiconductor devices, electrical machines, converter circuits, pulse width modification techniques, AC machine drives, simulation techniques, estimation and identification, microprocessors, and artificial intelligence techniques. The reader is assumed to have a basic knowledge of power electronics and variable frequency drives. Teeming with diagrams, equations and formulae, and references. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: National Academy of Engineering
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1995-06-09
Total Pages: 87
ISBN-13: 0309176328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile societies have always had information infrastructures, the power and reach of today's information technologies offer opportunities to transform work and family lives in an unprecedented fashion. This volume, a collection of six papers presented at the 1994 National Academy of Engineering Meeting Technical Session, presents a range of views on the subject of the revolution in the U.S. information infrastructure. The papers cover a variety of current issues including an overview of the technological developments driving the evolution of information infrastructures and where they will lead; the development of the Internet, particularly the government's role in its evolution; the impact of regulatory reform and antitrust enforcement on the telecommunications revolution; and perspectives from the computer, wireless, and satellite communications industries.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Al Gore
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Ochieng
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-30
Total Pages: 695
ISBN-13: 1000330087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines complex challenges in managing major strategic economic and social infrastructure projects. It is divided into four primary themes: value-based approach to infrastructure systems appraisal, enabling planning and execution, financing and contracting strategies for infrastructure systems and digitising major infrastructure delivery. Within these four themes, the chapters of the book cover: the value and benefits of infrastructure projects planning for resilient major infrastructure projects sustainable major infrastructure development and management, including during mega events improving infrastructure project financing stakeholder engagement and multi-partner collaborations delivering major infrastructure projects effectively and efficiently whole-life-cycle performance, operations and maintenance relationship risks on major infrastructure projects public-private partnerships, design thinking principles, and innovation and technology. By drawing on insights from their research, the editors and contributors bring a fresh perspective to the transformation of major strategic infrastructure projects. This text is designed to help policymakers and investors select and prioritise their infrastructure needs beyond the constraining logic of political cycles. It offers a practical set of recommendations for governments on attracting private capital for infrastructure projects while creating clear social and economic value for their citizens. Through theoretical underpinning, empirical data and in-depth informative global case studies, the book presents an essential resource for students, researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in all aspects of strategic infrastructure planning, project management, construction management, engineering and business management.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1998-02-05
Total Pages: 631
ISBN-13: 0309174147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains a key component of the NII 2000 project of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, a set of white papers that contributed to and complements the project's final report, The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure Through 2000, which was published in the spring of 1996. That report was disseminated widely and was well received by its sponsors and a variety of audiences in government, industry, and academia. Constraints on staff time and availability delayed the publication of these white papers, which offer details on a number of issues and positions relating to the deployment of information infrastructure.
Author: United States. Patent and Trademark Office
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 112
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