Abstract
This paper makes the link between information, its management
and governance. It explores the literature in an attempt to gain an appreciation
of what constitutes governance and extracts from that search a number of views.
The paper is built in part around those views that in fact converge. Governance
needs to be informed continually by information flows that are examined,
digested and evaluated against the intended direction of government policy. The
mechanics of establishing an effective information system are discussed against
the background of an existing system that is unequal to…
Caribbean governments have been reacting to the phenomenon that is the Information Age with a variety of policy initiatives. Initially governments trained most of their efforts at facilitating the development of an informatics industry, drawn there by the promise of jobs and foreign exchange earnings. However, the motives for these policy interventions have evolved over time and as a consequence, policy has matured. This paper, which is descriptive rather than analytical, draws heavily on statements made by government decision makers. It attempts to provide an overview of some of the maj…
Abstract This paper is part of an investigation about the impact of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Latin America. Based on the theoretical groundwork given in the introductory paper (From industrial economics to digital economics: an introduction to the transition ), the present paper gives an inventory of the state of development with regard to the regional transition to the so-called Information Society, in order to untangle and structure present dynamics. As knowledge and information are becoming the focus of activity, penetrating and dominating capital, natural…
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