This paper examines the prospects and limits of policies towards information and communications technologies (ICTs). The co-evolution of technological, economic, and political factors that has affected the information network infrastructure during the past three decades has transformed it from a...

The objective of this book is to present a comprehensive evaluation of the smart revolution, including its social and economic impacts. It proposes a modern framework to help assess how recent Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can contribute to societies as a whole. The authors...

The Synthesis Report contains an overview of the findings of the project: Mapping European Wireless Trends and Drivers. It aims to present maps of emerging wireless technologies in Europe and the current trends in development. It also analyses the drivers that could support these emerging...

With growing reliance on information services, cybersecurity has become a pressing issue. Providing and maintaining a desirable level of information security is complicated by the global nature of the problem and the interdependence between the diversity and heterogeneity of players. Security...

Communications policy decisions are forward-looking, intended to govern the information and communication technology (ICT) sector to achieve more desirable outcomes or to prevent undesirable ones. Policy choices often address situations that have no direct historical precedent. For example,...