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Interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of new information technologies, including mobile phones, wireless networks, and biometric identification, in the global refugee crisis.

Refugees --- Information technology --- Information services. --- Social aspects. --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Communications & Telecommunications --- Displaced persons --- Persons

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"This book is a history of U.S. regulations governing media and distribution infrastructures that support the cloud"--

Cloud computing --- Telecommunication lines --- Data sovereignty. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies --- Law and legislation.

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A globalization of innovation has produced the most massive spurt in biotechnology in world history.  Businesses, universities, and non-governmental organizations are collaborating to produce a "science-industrial complex" in biotechnology.  Using case studies of stem cell research, cloning, genetically modified food, in-vitro fertilization, and chimeras in a number of Eastern and Western countries around the world, I argue that much of this biotech activity is global in nature and independent of state control.  This shift in the relative influence of state and non-state actors has led to the virtual deregulation of biotechnology and the liberation of innovation from geo-political constraints.  These trends post a number of interesting social, political, and ethical issues for the contemporary period and suggest the need to rethink how controversial moral issues are handled by the science-industrial complex.

Public administration --- Professional ethics. Deontology --- Biotechnology --- Globalization. --- Government policy. --- International relations. --- International organization. --- Biomedical engineering. --- Economic policy. --- Biotechnology. --- International Relations. --- International Organization. --- Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology. --- R & D/Technology Policy.

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Drawing on nationally representative telephone surveys conducted from 1995 to 2000, James Katz and Ronald Rice offer a rich and nuanced picture of Internet use in America. Using quantitative data, as well as case studies of Web sites, they explore the impact of the Internet on society from three perspectives: access to Internet technology (the digital divide), involvement with groups and communities through the Internet (social capital), and use of the Internet for social interaction and expression (identity). To provide a more comprehensive account of Internet use, the authors draw comparisons across media and include Internet nonusers and former users in their research. The authors call their research the Syntopia Project to convey the Internet's role as one among a host of communication technologies as well as the synergy between people's online activities and their real-world lives. Their major finding is that Americans use the Internet as an extension and enhancement of their daily routines. Contrary to media sensationalism, the Internet is neither a utopia, liberating people to form a global egalitarian community, nor a dystopia-producing armies of disembodied, lonely individuals. Like any form of communication, it is as helpful or harmful as those who use it.

Internet --- Digital divide --- Telecommunication --- Electric communication --- Mass communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Telecommunications --- Communication --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Social aspects --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Presenting rigorous and original research, this volume offers key insights into the historical, cultural, social, economic and political forces at play in the creation of world-class ICT innovations in Kenya. Following the arrival of fiber-optic cables in 2009, Digital Kenya examines why the initial entrepreneurial spirit and digital revolution has begun to falter despite support from motivated entrepreneurs, international investors, policy experts and others. Written by engaged scholars and professionals in the field, the book offers 15 eye-opening chapters and 14 one-on-one conversations with entrepreneurs and investors to ask why establishing ICT start-ups on a continental and global scale remains a challenge on the “Silicon Savannah”. The authors present evidence-based recommendations to help Kenya to continue producing globally impactful  ICT innovations that improve the lives of those still waiting on the side-lines, and to inspire other nations to do the same. .

Economic history. --- Economic policy. --- Development economics. --- Economy-wide Country Studies. --- R & D/Technology Policy. --- Development Economics. --- Economics --- Economic development --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Since 1963 --- Kenya --- Kenya. --- Cenia --- Chenia --- Colony and Protectorate of Kenya --- East Africa Protectorate --- GOK --- Government of Kenya --- Jamhuri ya Kenya --- Kenia --- Kenii͡ --- Kenniya --- Kenya Colony and Protectorate --- Ḳenyah --- Kīniy --- Kīny --- Quênia --- Republic of Kenya --- Research & Development --- Technology Policy --- Development Economics --- Digital communications --- Entrepreneurship --- Information technology