Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets
Penulis
: Peter F. Cowhey and Jonathan D. Aronson dan Donald Abelson
Subyek
: Technological innovations—Economic aspects, Information technology—
Technological innovations, Information technology—Economic aspects, Telecommunication—Technological innovations, Global Information, Communication Markets
Ringkasan :As 2009 nears, the world is in a time of gloom and panic. Will global governance
and the global economic order survive? In retrospect, some saw
the collapse of the dot com bubble as a portent of the fi nancial meltdown
and the collapse of confi dence in the future. In the United States there is
a dour bipartisan consensus that escalating special interest politics, budget
defi cits, economic insecurity in the midst of more consumption, environmental
and energy policy gridlock, and deep uncertainties about nationalsecurity
strategy point to intractable problems in the design and conduct
of public policy. In other countries the specifi c bill of complaints may
differ, but a similar uneasiness is widespread.
Although we can gripe as well as anyone about the world’s follies, this
book is more upbeat. Since World War II, a planet-straddling information
and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure has created a global
information economy at an ever-accelerating pace. A radically different
model for competition and public policy for this infrastructure was introduced
that is far sounder than its predecessor. More remarkably, countries
agreed to rewrite the basic international agreements governing commerce
for the communications and information infrastructure in a way that makes
more sense than the consensus that was forged immediately after 1945.
For once, the transformation in governance and technology is not just a
tale of the prosperous states doing better. These changes boosted the economic
takeoff of India and China and other emerging powers, and also
brought a much greater level of digital connectivity to the poor than anyone
dreamed of in the late 1980s. Much remains to be done in poor countries, but
an expanding record of successes now exists. For example, banking done over
mobile phones (“m-banking”) is taking off faster in developing countries,
which lack well-developed fi nancial markets, than in wealthy countries
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