Global Information Infrastructure: The Birth, Vision, and Architecture

Targowski, Andrew S.;Idea Group Pub

ISBN 10: 1878289322 / ISBN 13: 9781878289322

Published by Igi Global, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Global Information Infrastructure: The Birth...

Publisher: Igi Global

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis:

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).