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The Network Society

The Network Society From Knowledge to Policy

Gustavo Cardoso and Manuel Castells, eds., Center For Transatlantic Relations and Johns Hopkins University Sais 2006 c. 434pp.

Part I: The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy

Chapter 1: The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy

Chapter 2: Societies in Transition to the Network Society

Part II: The Knowledge Economy, Technology, Innovation, Productivity, Competitiveness: The New Productive Economy

Chapter 3: Information, Technology and the World Economy

Chapter 4: Innovation, Technology, and Productivity: Why Europe Lags Behind the United States and Why Various European Economies Differ in Innovation and Productivity

Part III: Organizational Reform and Technological Modernization in the Public Sector

Chapter 5: Central Issues in the Political Development of the Virtual State

Chapter 6: Uses of Internet and Mobile Technology in Health Systems: Organizational and Social Issues in a Comparative Context

Chapter 7: E-Learning and the Transformation of Education for a Knowledge Economy

Chapter 8: Reshaping the State and Its Relationship with Citizens: The Short, Medium, and Long-Term Potential of ICTs

Part IV: Media, Communications, Wireless and Politices in the Network Society

Chapter 9: The IP TV Revolution

Chapter 10: Television and Internet in the Construction of Indentity

Chapter 11: Geeks, Bureaucrats and Cowboys: Deploying Internet Infrastructure, the Wireless Way

Chapter 12: Free Software and Social and Economic Development

Part V: The Network Society: Global and Local

Chapter 13: Internet and Society in a Global Perspective: Lessons from the Five Years in the Field

Chapter 14: E-topia: Information and Communication Technologies and the Transformation of Urban Life

Part VI: Policies of Transition to the Network Society

Chapter 15: Challenges of the Global Information Society

Chapter 16: Policies of Transition to the Network Society in Europe

Chapter 17: ICT as a Part of the Chilean Strategy for Development: Present and Challenges

Chapter 18: The European Way to a Knowledge-Intensive Economy--The Lisbon Strategy

Afterword: The Network Society and the Knowledge Economy: Portugal in the Global Perspective

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