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This paper considers the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA)1 and its impact on Information Technology (IT) based businesses. We summarize the factual background to, and contents of, the agreement, and then review those parts of the agreement (or omissions from the agreement) that are relevant to the IT field. IT is of interest both because of its potential importance as a contributor to business (and social) growth, but also because of the lesser international roles accorded to it in comparison with its sister, intellectual property (IP). The IT-related provisions of DR-CAFTA reflect international IT (and IP) controversies. But DR-CAFTA also raises questions of the place of agreements between states, their legal validity and their impact upon internationa...
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KALISPELL, Mont., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* today announced that a team of researchers from Flathead Valley Community College has won a 2010 AT&T Technology & Environment Award. FVCC is one of three colleges nationwide being recognized and will receive a $25,000 cash prize from AT&T.
Instructors Christina Relyea, Effat Rady, Jim Boger, Jeremy Fritz and Ruth Wrightsman led the winning research team in which a cross- disciplinary group of faculty and students will investigate the impact of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) on the study and management of wolves in northwestern Montana.
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High levels of immigration to Australia of information technology (IT) professionals from both offshore and onshore sources have occurred in recent ye...
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The purpose of the current study was to assess the impact of information technology on strategic flexibility for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Results of the study show that under conditions of low environmental dynamism, IT capabilities are associated with greater reactive strategic flexibility. Specifically, IT capabilities enabling the management of internal activities was significant. Under conditions of high environmental dynamism, IT capabilities are associated with greater proactive strategic flexibility. Specifically, IT capabilities enabling the management of competitor information was significant. Managerial as well as future research implications are discussed.
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The blog is updated frequently with links to articles, news items, and other related electronic resources along with the author's own opinions. <www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelf required > Technology & the Future of the Book - YouTube This video is of a panel discussion that was part of a symposium on the impact of information technology on society that was organized by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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Business expert Norman Conquest, economist John Maynard Keynes and Karl Marx are featured in a hypothetical panel discussion that tackles the impact of information technology on corporate organizational structures. The discussion, though presented in a humorous manner, emphasizes the growing inability of many CEOs to keep in touch with the potential of computers to bring about a significant change in the operation of large companies.
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Digital Inclusion: Measuring the Impact of Information and Community Technology 2009, 200 pp, hardbound, ISBN 978-1-57387-373-4, $59.50
Edited by Mich...
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Abstract: This article is the product of the writer's deliberations about the impact of Poland's 1990 Bill on Schools of Higher Education using an inf...
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Digital Inclusion: Measuring the Impact of Information and Community Technology 2009, 200 pp, hardbound, ISBN 978-1-57387-373-4, $59.50
Edited by Mich...
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Digital Inclusion: Measuring the Impact of Information and Community Technology Edited by Michael Crandall and Karen E. Fisher 2009, 200 pp, hardbound...