The Information Age/Contributors

The Information Age

Preface — Introduction — Digital and ICT Revolutions — Information Knowledge and the New Economy — New Work — The Information Society — Globalization — The Digital Divide — The Challenge Ahead — Notes — Further Reading — Contributors — Acknowledgements

History

This book was originally written Emmanuel C. Lallana, PhD. This book was donated to the wikibooks project in August 2006 by the Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme of the United Nations Development Programme. For further information about the APDIP, see their website at:

http://www.apdip.net

The original text of this book, in PDF format can be found at:

http://www.apdip.net/publications/iespprimers/eprimer-infoage.pdf

Contributors

Emmanuel C. Lallana, PhD, conducts research and training on ICT for development issues. He is lead author of Business@Philippines.com: Electronic Commerce Policy Issues in the Philippines (1999), e-primer: An Introduction to Electronic Commerce (2000) and e-Government in the Philippines: Benchmarking Against Global Best Practices (2002). Dr. Lallana has also organized and taught at a number of training programs on e-Commerce and e-Government in various Southeast Asian countries. He was Executive Director of the e-ASEAN Task Force from 2000 to 2002.

Andrew Whitworth handled the initial conversion and uploading of the text to wikibooks.

Additional contributors are welcome to sign their names here as well.

License

This book has been released under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Any person may edit, distribute, or use this book under the terms of that license.