This presentation outlines a proposal for a new frame work for the provision of universal service aimed at solving the various issues inherent in community informatization, and goes on to look at the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed framework and review its feasibility. In order to...

This paper aims to investigate the existence of "data network effects" in data platform services such as Big Data, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and their influence on the diffusion of the services. It intendsto present a preliminary formal analysis ofthe effects of...

Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Development of Infrastructure Sharing in the Mobile Market -- Chapter 2. Regulating Online Platforms -- Chapter 3. Interdependency on the Data Platform and its Effect on the Diffusion of Autonomous Driving -- Chapter 4. Video/Visual Content Industry in...

This paper presents the analyses of the determinants of mobile carrier switching behaviour based on the idea that such the behaviour is the evidence of competition in the mobile market. Indeed, with the possibility to change a mobile service provider, there will be less concentration of...

The aim of this study is to investigate how the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and mass media can motivate people in the disaster area to recover from the Great East Japan Earthquake with empirical data. Both ICT and mass media have played an important role after the...

The cloud computing model is a modern concept of computation that provides a number of benefits for its adopters. This online computing model has been widely used in the western world and accepted to have some business and economic impacts. This paper provides some basic knowledge about cloud...