IT Abroad:One Pager
IT Abroad : One Page Summary
Title IT Abroad : a discussion on IT/Public Policy issues of interest
Team Members Name, Location, Email, Country of interest
- Lars Bergstrom, UW, lars@cs.washington.edu User:Lars, China
- Walker Duhon, UW, wduhon@cs.washington.edu Walker, Japan
- Avichal Singh, UW, avichal@cs.washington.edu Avichal, Japan
- Can Pham, UCB, canpham@berkeley.edu User:Canpham, Vietnam
- Huong Bui, UCB, hbui@berkeley.edu User:Hbui, Vietnam
- Hyojoo Kang, UW, hkang@cs.washington.edu Hyojoo, South Korea
- Eiman Zolfaghari, Microsoft, eimanz@windows.microsoft.com EimanZ, Iran
Team Organization
Each member would work fairly independently to cover their countries of interest. However they are encouraged to collaborate via Wiki to gain an understanding and appreciation of issues in other countries.
Sources we will use
Should we link to IT_Abroad:Resources ? Or maybe we should specify them here briefly (in the spirit of the 'One Page', that way reviewer will have everything on one page instead of having to follow links.
Description This project will be a compilation of chapters, each covering IT/Public Policy issues of concern for a country. Thus like the 'Chasing Moore's Law' book gives the readers an overview of contentious IT/Public Policy issues in US, our project would give the reader a perspective of various IT/Public Policy being dealt with in the world. The following are the current selection of topics planned to be coverd for each country, however they may change or gain more focus as our research goes on for these countries.
- China: Lars
Topic: IT Business in China
Description:
China poses a unique set of challenges to US-based businesses due to its predisposition towards home-grown technologies, censorship of some topics and practices, and limitations on foreign investment. This chapter will survey the differences in environment and barries to US investment in the Chinese marketplace.
Sources:
- China as an emerging regional and technology power : implications for U.S. economic and security interests : hearing before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, February 12-13, 2004.
- More to come (using library sources only available through work)
- Iran: EimanZ
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- Japan1:Walker
Topic: Industrial Policy and IT in Japan
Description:
In contrast to the U.S., Japanese policymakers have generally placed more importance on the manufacturing sector than post-industrial services. Japan's relative strenghs in areas such as robotics, embedded devices, and video games/toys and its relative weaknesses in areas such as desktop software and e-commerce reflect these differences. What are the institutional, economic, and cultural reasons for Japan's interesting IT industry profile? What do recent IT trends (emergence of mobile internet, embrace of open source) say about how this profile is changing? Finally, what policies are backing these changes?
Sources:
- Coates, Ken and Holroyd, Carin. Japan and the Internet Revolution. (Palgrave,2003)
- Hachigian, Nina and Wu, Lily. The Information Revolution in Asia. (RAND,2003)
- Yoshimatsu, Hidetaka. Japan and East Asia in Transition (Palgrave, 2003)
- Funk, Jeffrey L. Mobile disruption : the technologies and applications driving the mobile Internet (Wiley, 2004)
- Morris Low, Shigeru Nakayama, Hitoshi Yoshioka. Science, technology and society in contemporary Japan (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
- Various web sources, including the the English language sites of METI
- Japan2: Avichal
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- South Korea: Hyojoo
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