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JAMAICA’S TRANSFORMATION TOWARDS THE NEW INFORMATION SOCIETY

Jones, Peter W - EconWPA - 2004

“The swift emergence of a global “information society” is changing the way people live, learn, work and relate. An explosion in the free flow of information and ideas has brought knowledge and its myriad applications to many millions of people, creating new choices and opportunities in...

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Book Review ---Getting to Transformation

Kumar, Deepak; Somayaji, Dr GSR - EconWPA - 2005

The book is presented in four parts; containing 23 chapters which includes glossary, bibliography, subject index and name index. The author has used tables and diagrams besides lucid expression. The objective of the book is to understand how organizations can UNLEASH the power of internet and...

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Growth in the “New Economy”: U.S. Bandwidth Use and Pricing Across the 1990s

Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003

An acceleration in the growth of communications bandwidth in use and a rapid reduction in bandwidth prices have not accompanied the U.S. economy’s strong performance in the second half of the 1990s. Overall U.S. bandwidth in use has grown robustly throughout the 1990s, but growth has not...

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Communications Policy, Media Development, and Convergence

Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003

In the deliberations of scholars, policy analysts, and policy makers, television has exceptional power and influence. Yet the historical record shows that television has not changed the economics of attention for large populations in the course of their daily lives. By the mid- 1920s, print...

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Open Source vs. Proprietary Software: Competition and Compatibility

Meng, Zhaoli; Lee, Sang-Yong Tom - EconWPA - 2005

e use a Hotelling linear city model to study competition between open source and proprietary software, where only the …

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF COMBRAINS

DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005

Human brain has invented the Computer&upgraded it to a level of Combrains. With Artificial Chemical Memory, these may grow to function as independent Iintellects, Master/Sponsor representatives and self- decision workers with autonomy&supreme capability. Like any human society learn and function...

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Open Source vs. Proprietary Software: Competition and Compatibility

Meng, Zhaoli - EconWPA - 2005

We use a Hotelling linear city model to study competition between open source and proprietary software, where only the …

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The Impact of Entry and Competition by Open Source Software on Innovation Activity

Bitzer, Jürgen; Schröder, Philipp J.H. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents the stylized facts of open source software innovation and provides empirical evidence on the impact … of increased competition by OSS on the innovative activity in the software industry. Furthermore, we introduce a simple … formal model that captures the innovation impact of OSS entry by examining a change in market structure from monopoly to …

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Public provision of a private good: What is the point of the BSD license?

Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2005

cumulative innovations and the impact of possible competition between rival software development teams are considered. …

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Intrinsic Motivation in Open Source Software Development

Bitzer, Jürgen; Schrettl, Wolfram; Schröder, Philipp J.H. - EconWPA - 2005

This papers sheds light on the puzzling evidence that even though open source software (OSS) is a public good, it is developed for free by highly qualified, young and motivated individuals, and evolves at a rapid pace. We show that once OSS development is understood as the private provision of a...

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