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Title: Netpolicy.Com: Public Agenda for a Digital World by Leslie David Simon ISBN: 1-930365-03-9 Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Pr Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An important title for any social issues class
Comment: From how digital commerce and democracy affects taxation, privacy and free speech to legal platforms for protecting and regulating property rights and documents online, Netpolicy.com provides a social examination of how the internet's capabilities are creating new public agendas for change. An important title for any social issues class.
Rating: 5
Summary: Policies for an Interconnected World
Comment: This book is both scholarly and entertaining, for it describes the history, influence, and possible future of today's most fascinating tool, the Net, and does so through the lens of a person whose career was focused first on telecommunications and later on computers. Just as these have come together in the Internet and elsewhere, so does this story, which for Simon began in 1966. The Net itself is now over a quarter-century old, but for its first two decades was largely ignored by the public. Since 1995, however, an exponential growth in popular and commercial interest has created a similar, and continuing, explosion of the Net. It is difficult to think of any earlier technological development whose adoption occurred so rapidly or with such ease. And unlike most high-tech inventions, the Net developed organically, independent of any master plan or architecure, absent of security considerations or privacy concerns, hardly shaped at all by economic factors. Sharing was, and remains, its goal. Today, however, the Net impacts our everyday life and has become an enabler for business to expand its markets. It is hence now entrusted with private information of individuals and secret proprietary data of business, whose security may be essential to commercial survival. Ubiquitous as it is, the Net cries out for public, and private, policies that address such troublesome issues as equitable access,taxation, intellectual property rights, content regulation, privacy, security, first-amendment rights, and many others.
NetPolicy.Com defines the Net and its impacts and discusses "the bearable lightness of the digital world," the convergence not only within electronics, but the mega-convergence of businesses, e.g., financial services, commerce, and industry. It identifies difficult policy issues and their legal framework and suggests appropriate roles for the public and private sectors. Despite the importance of the Net to business and government, its essential issues have most to do with its potential effects on humankind.
We are reminded of the 1998 celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, largely drawn from the French Declaration of Human Rights and our Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, quoting from the former document the freedom to "seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Would that today's policy makers have the prescience of the author of those words!
NetPolicy.Com is recommended for readers with intellectual curiosity, anyone interested in modern technology, observers of contemporary customs, any person who surfs the Net or sends e-mail, indeed for all responsible citizens who wish to learn more about this new world in which we live, interdependent on each other and literally interconnected to everyone else.
Finally, NetPolicy.Com's technical title disguises a book that is an easy and important read.
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Title: Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide (American Governance and Public Policy) by Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, Mary Stansbury ISBN: 0878409998 Publisher: Georgetown University Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving by Eugene Bardach ISBN: 1889119296 Publisher: CQ Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid ISBN: 1578517087 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 15 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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