"This book features the latest research findings and industry solutions involving all aspects of web services technology. It covers advancements, standards, and practices of web services, as well as identifies emerging research topics and defines the future of web services on grid computing,...

In this paper, we introduce the concept of a Digital Layer to empirically investigate inter-firm relations at any geographical scale of analysis. The Digital Layer is created from large-scale, structured web scraping of firm websites, their textual content and the hyperlinks among them. Using...

"This book presents studies on trends, developments, and methods on information technology advancements through network and communication technology, bringing together integrated approaches for communication technology and usage for web and IT advancements"--Provided by publisher.

Access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) enables the production, use and transfer of knowledge in an efficient and low cost manner. Knowledge is the major factor in the knowledge economy and countries that have limited access to ICT are disadvantaged. This phenomenon is known...

The adoption of a Global Digital Compact (GDC) as one of the outcomes of the Summit of the Future opens up the opportunity to address in a systematic manner issues that are of critical importance for the digital global governance. It also poses a challenge to developing countries, as most of...