This paper reviews the application of national antitrust law and the implementation of the European Union's telecommunications directives to the markets in the United Kingdom, against the declared policy objective of raising national competitiveness. It illustrates the complexity of the systems...

The best "guestimates" of the total amount of data in the world suggest that from 1987 to 2007 the total amount of analogue and digital data in the world grew from 3 billion gigabytes to 300 billion gigabytes. The so-called data explosion is driven by the combination of exponentially expanding...

Myanmar's recent socioeconomic and political reforms have signaled a readiness to reintegrate into the world economy. To leapfrog the economy and accelerate growth, the country should take advantage of digital technology. This paper assesses Myanmar's information and communication technology...

Die Informations- und Kommunikationswirtschaft (IuK-Wirtschaft) gilt vielen Beobachtern als die Wachstumsbranche der Zukunft schlechthin. Die vorliegende, von der Hans-Böckler- Stiftung geförderte Studie, zeigt deutlich, daß dieser nordrhein-westfälische Sektor mittlerweile eine wichtige...

The isolation of national telecommunications markets in the past has meant that pronounced differences remain among the R&D systems operating in the countries of the European Community. The intended opening up of public procurement markets by the end of 1992 could therefore lead to substantial...