In order to increase the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the European Union Member States, the European Commission, on the initiative of Commissioner E. Liikannen, launched in December 1999 a bold programme called “eEurope”. Soon after its creation, the eEurope...

The European Community as a social configuration, with its complex division of competencies and action capacities between EC institutions and national governments, is still difficult to conceptualize. In this context the authors propose the concept of corporate actor networks in order to...

[fre] Cet article se propose d'analyser le développement du vidéotex en termes de filière.. Il montre à partir des exemples britanniques, allemand et français que la stratégie des PTT, que l'on peut qualifier d'européenne par opposition à celle suivie outre Atlantique, n'a pas pu...

[fre] Sur Internet, les interactions entre utilisateurs ou nœuds de réseau prennent le plus souvent la forme de requêtes. Ainsi, les forums et les communautés virtuelles, mais aussi les réseaux physiques, qui supportent Internet, fonctionnent sur la base de requêtes. À partir de cette...

Interactions between Internet users or network nodes mostly consist of requests. Thus, virtual communities and newsgroup, but also data transmission through Internet networks, rest on systems of bilateral or multilateral requests. This representation of Internet allows us to study the best...

The ICT sector is featured by technical progress, convergence and systems integration. This leads to risks of monopolization regimes at the core with higher competition regimes at the periphery. Moreover, some specific component of the system may be essential for its evolution. In particular,...

This paper focuses on the market dynamics of broadband access and the implications on territorial planning. From the tools of the « economic geography of network », we study the supply conditions of internet-based infrastructures, taking into account the peculiar role played by local public...