Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • China's Information Revolution

    Managing the Economic and Social Transformation

    Since 1997, China has devoted considerable resources to information and communications technology (ICT) development. China has the world's largest telecommunications market, and its information technology industry has been an engine of economic growth—growing two to three times faster than GDP over the past 10 years. E-government initiatives have achieved significant results, and the private ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Global Opportunity in IT-Based Services

    Assessing and Enhancing Country Competitiveness

    Rapid advances in information technology (IT) and the resulting global connectivity are fueling dynamic growth in the services sector. Demand for IT and IT-enabled services (ITES) is estimated to represent a $500 billion annual market, of which only about 20 percent has been realized. Thus, this sector is creating new opportunities for economic growth, social empowerment, and grassroots innovation ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rural Informatization in China

    Series Book 172 - World Bank Working Papers
    China's recent economic growth has expanded industrialization and urbanization, upgraded consumption, increased social mobility, and initiated a shift from an agricultural-based economy to one based on services and industry. However, more than half of China's population still lives in rural areas, where the average per capital income is less than a third of the urban average. The government of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Innovative Testing and Measurement Solutions for Smart Grid

    Series series IEEE Press
    Focuses on sensor applications and smart meters in the newly developing interconnected smart grid• Focuses on sensor applications and smart meters in the newly developing interconnected smart grid• Presents the most updated technological developments in the measurement and testing of power systems within the smart grid environment• Reflects the modernization of electric utility power systems with ... Read more

    $126.00 USD

  • China's Information Revolution: Managing The Economic And Social Transformation

    Since 1997, China has devoted considerable resources to information and communications technology (ICT) development. China has the world's largest telecommunications market, and its information technology industry has been an engine of economic growth - growing two to three times faster than GDP over the past 10 years. E-government initiatives have achieved significant results, and the private ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • China's Information Revolution: Managing The Economic And Social Transformation

    Since 1997, China has devoted considerable resources to information and communications technology (ICT) development. China has the world's largest telecommunications market, and its information technology industry has been an engine of economic growth - growing two to three times faster than GDP over the past 10 years. E-government initiatives have achieved significant results, and the private ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Global Opportunity In It-Based Services: Assessing And Enhancing Country Competitiveness

    This book aims to help policy makers take advantage of the opportunities presented by the global IT services and IT-enabled services (ITES) industry. It analyzes factors crucial to a country's competitiveness-including skills, cost, infrastructure, business environment; and presents a Location Readiness Index (LRI) as a diagnostic tool for developing countries. It also discusses policy options for ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets

    The Political Economy of Innovation

    Series series Information Revolution and Global Politics
    Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. How ICT markets evolve depends on politics and policy, and since the 1950s periodic overhauls of ICT policy have transformed competition and innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a revolution in communication policy (the introduction of sweeping competition) also transformed the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN AN IT WORLD

    Managing and Meeting Online Regulatory Compliance in the 21st Century

    Regulatory compliance has historically been a concern of only a company’s legal and finance departments. However, as e-commerce continues to dominate retail both in the United States and abroad, regulatory compliance is now a major area of concern for IT managers, everyone on executive teams, and entire boards of directors.Amid a recoiling global marketplace and bigger and more costly cyberattacks ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Intro to GDPR

    A Plain English Guide to Compliance

    by Punit Bhatia ...
    Intro to GDPR is written by experienced data protection professional Punit Bhatia. Bhatia has served as the Privacy and Protection Officer in an EU-based bank and lecturer at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. He is Certified Information Privacy Professional ‑ Europe (CIPP-E), Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), and Certified Outsourcing Professional (COP).Bhatia ... Read more

    $23.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Industries From New Places: The Emergence Of The Hardware And Software Industries In China And India

    Software comes from India, hardware comes from China. Why is that? Why did China and India take such different paths to global dominance in new high-tech industries? Will their paths continue to diverge or converge? How can other countries learn from their successes and failures in reaching global scale in new industries? To answer these questions, this book presents the first rigorous comparison ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Growing Industrial Clusters In Asia: Serendipity And Science

    Industrial clusters in Silicon Valley, Hsinchu Park, and northern Italy, and in the vicinity of Cambridge, U.K., have captured the imagination of policymakers, researchers, city planners and business people. Where clusters take root, they can generate valuable spillovers, promote innovation, and create the critical industrial mass for sustained growth. For cities such as Kitakyushu, Japan, that ... Read more

    $14.39 USD