Information Technology Policy: An International History by Richard Coopey

By Richard Coopey

This e-book brings jointly a sequence of country-based reports to ascertain, intensive, the character and quantity of IT rules as they've got developed from a posh ancient interplay of politics, know-how, associations, and social and cultural components. In doing such a lot of key questions are seriously tested. the place will we locate winning examples of IT coverage? Who has formed coverage? Who did governments flip to for recommendation in framing coverage? numerous chapters define the effect of army effect on IT. what's the distinctive nature of this effect on IT improvement? How heavily have been leaders associated with executive courses and to what quantity have been those courses, really these aimed toward the new release of 'national champions', misconceived via undue distinctive pleading? How potent have been govt team of workers and politicians in assessing the advantages of courses predicated on technological trajectories extrapolated from more and more complicated and really expert details? This e-book should be of curiosity to teachers and graduate scholars of administration experiences, background, Economics, and expertise experiences, and govt and company coverage makers engaged with expertise coverage.

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Though it should be noted that the Alvey proposal had to be repeatedly presented to the British cabinet before Mrs Thatcher would endorse it, Geoffrey Howe being its chief supporter. For a general survey see B. Oakley and K. Owen, Alvey: Britain’s Strategic Computing Initiative, Cambridge, MA, MIT, . See also L. Land, “Information Technology: The Alvey Report and Government Strategy,” LSE, . . Jowett and Rothwell, op. , pp. –; M. English and A. Watson-Brown, “National Policies in Information Technology: Challenge and Response,” in P.

Parties of both the Left and Right began to adjust to the new world. In Norway, for example, as Sogner (Chapter ) shows, the Labour Party led the way in criticizing countercyclical policies and the kind of intervention that had attempted to create a large-scale IT effort built around the electronics company Tandberg. The most dramatic casualties of this tectonic shift in economic ideology remained, of course, the Soviet Union and its satellite economies, which as we have seen, descended into a complex transitionary spiral of retrenchment and closure.

For an account of MITI struggles against other departments see Callon, op. , pp. –. For an anatomy of the complexities of an “industrial policy community” see J. Hills, Information Technology and Industrial Policy, London, Croom Helm, , pp. –. . See Norberg and O’Neill, op. ; for the influence of the US military on microelectronics in general see Borrus, op. , pp. –. . R. Coopey, M. Uttley, and G. Spinardi, “Defence Science and Technology: Setting the Scene,” in R. Coopey, M.

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