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MISTICA: Call for Papers: Sustainable Development & Global Digital Divide

From: Yacine Khelladi ([email protected])
Date: Wed Nov 08 2000 - 09:37:01 AST

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> Date sent: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:11:48 -0700
> From: Dan Yurman <[email protected]>
> Subject: Call for Papers: Sustainable Development & Global
Digital Divide
>
> Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the authors nor their home
> organizations. This notice appeared on another list. I thought it would
> be of interest here.
>
> ----------------------------------
>
> A CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
>
> ECOLOGY OF THE NEW ECONOMY Sustainable Transformation of Global
> Information, Communication, and Electronics Industries
>
> Greenleaf Publishing invites contributions for a new book on 'Ecology of
> the New Economy: Sustainable Transformation of Global Technology,
> Communication, and Electronics Industries', to be edited by Jacob Park and
> Nigel Roome.
>
> ****************
>
> Background: Issues and Questions
>
> A 'revolution' is taking place in the development of global information
> and communication technologies. Case in point: in slightly more than a
> decade, the World Wide Web has gone from an idea of an obscure English
> scientist to a consumer-oriented technology system with an expected one
> billion users, including 700 million people outside the US, by 2005. The
> technologies that enable this to happen are advancing rapidly and this is
> provoking new companies as well as a series of new alliances between
> companies.
>
> The growth has been so rapid and unexpected that little research and
> analysis has yet been done on what impact this transformation has had or
> will have on the ability of companies to meet the global sustainability
> challenge.
>
> As environmental strategy has traditionally been portrayed in terms of
> risk cutting and resource efficiency, there is a danger that critical
> business issues such as information technology R&D and e-commerce
> development are examined separately and away from the wider sustainable
> business perspective.
>
> An important objective of the book is to explore, document and raise
> awareness of sustainability concerns arising from the emerging global
> information economy. The information economy is defined in the broadest
> sense possible, including software, hardware, telecommunication -
> traditional and wireless - and advanced communication technologies.
>
> Some key issues and questions that will be examined in the book include:
>
> * Case studies of how and to what degree sustainability concerns are being
> integrated into the business model of electronic, telecommunication, and
> .com firms
>
> * The relationship between the diffusion of information and communication
> technologies and the energy and resource intensity of companies
>
> * The role of information and communication technologies in the shaping of
> policies for sustainability, its impacts on sustainable or unsustainable
> lifestyles and its implications for the interaction between companies and
> other actors
>
> * Corporations and the global digital divide
>
> ****************
> Schedule
>
> Abstracts of 250 words - preferably as e-mail attachments - should be sent
> to Jacob Park [email protected]
>
> Tel: +1 202 285 6568, and Fax: +1 815 361 1865
> for additional information and/or to discuss ideas for contributions.
>
> Selected contributors whose abstracts meet the objectives of this project
> will be invited to submit their papers by the dates shown below.
>
> Contributors' guidelines can be found on the website of Greenleaf
> Publishing http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com
>
> The edited book is expected to be published in autumn 2001.
>
> ****************
> * Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2000
> * Contributors informed of their abstracts' acceptance: 2 January 2001 *
> Full-paper submissions: 28 February 2001 * Revision requests sent to
> contributors: 15 April 2001 * Final-papers deadline: 31 May 2001
>
> ****************
> Project Organisers and Editors
>
> Jacob Park is a Washington, DC-based research scholar in the Harrison
> Program on the Future Global Agenda, University of Maryland, and a
> socially responsible investment research consultant specialising in
> Japanese and Asian equities for a London-based fund management company.
>
> Nigel Roome is Professor, Sustainable Enterprises and Transformation at
> Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Netherlands), and the Chair of the
> Information and Communication Industries Focus Group, Industrial
> Transformation Project, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global
> Environment Change.

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