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Title

Global Information Infrastructure: The Birth, Vision, and Architecture

Publisher

Igi Global

Publication Date

1996

Language

English

ISBN 10

1878289322

ISBN 13

9781878289322

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition.

Condition

Fine

Weight

2 ounces

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A futuristic view of the components and interconnections of a national electronic village and its applications and impacts on society and individuals in the 21st century. Information utilities, telematic services, electronic money and knowledge, virtual business, on-line government, virtual schools and universities, and the integrated TeleCity are spied just across the horizon. Assumes no technical background. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About the Author

Andrew Targowski was engaged in the development of social computing in totalitarian Poland (INFOSTRADA and Social Security # for 38 million citizens-PESEL, 1972) and received political asylum in the U.S. during the crackdown on solidarity in 1981. He has been a professor of business information systems at Western Michigan University since 1980. He published 21 books on information technology, history, and political science (Red Fascism, 1982) in English and Polish. During the 1990s, he was a director of the TeleCITY of Kalamazoo Project, one of the first digital cities in the U.S. He investigates the role of information-communication in enterprise, economy, and civilization. He is a president of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations and a former chairman of the Advisory Council of the Information Resources Management Association (1995-2003).

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