Perspectives and Policies on ICT in Society An IFIP TC9 (Computers and Society) Handbook /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Berleur, Jacques (Editor), Avgerou, Chrisanthi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, 179
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Education > Data processing.; Computers and civilization.; Law and legislation.; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; Computers and Society.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Computers and Education.; Computing Milieux.; Legal Aspects of Computing.

Governments, the media, the information technology industry and scientists publicly argue that information and communication technologies (ICT) will bring about an inevitable transition from "industrial" to "information" or "knowledge-based" economies and societies. It...