Digital Economy and Social Design
The advent of the digital economy has the potential to dramatically change the conventional interrelationships among individuals, enterprises and society. There can be little doubt that to achieve vigorous socioeconomic developments in the 21st century, p
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Osamu Sudoh (Ed.)
Digital Economy and Social Design
Springer
Osamu Sudoh, Dr. Professor Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Informatics The University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005922604 ISBN 4-431-25467-6 Springer-Verlag Tokyo Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. The use of registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com © Springer-Veriag Tokyo 2005 Printed in Japan Typesetting: Camera-ready by the editor. Printing and binding: Nikkei Printing, Japan Printed on acid-free paper
Preface The advent of the digital economy has the potential to dramatically change the conventional interrelationships among individuals, enterprises, and society, and to make a considerable qualitative difference to major socioeconomic systems. The expanded applications of information technology have actually lowered the significance of boundaries between organizations and between countries, and have intensified competition among businesses and institutions. In addition, a paradigm shift of unprecedented dynamism is emerging in a very broad range of areas, from the world economic order to personal lifestyles. In the business world, for instance, more cross-sector collaborative relationships are being established and different business models are being integrated. In government, citizens' participation is growing and administrative ftmctions are changing. Communications between different cultures via the Internet are expanding. In industrial, economic, institutional, educational, cultural, and many other spheres, interactions among different communities or countries are gathering pace and structural changes are accelerating at national and transnational levels. These structural changes have just begun recently. Many are not frilly in place. But there can be little doubt that to achieve vigorous socioeconomic development in the twenty-first century, people will have to aggressively use information technology to boost innovation and to organically link the results of that innovation to solutions to global environmental issues and social challenges such as the opportunity divide. The digital economy has in fact been posting steady growth, even since the bursting of the new economy bubble. We now need dispassionate analyses of the impact of information and telecommunications technologies on socioeconomic systems and the development of a practical institutional design. In this sense, the compilation of such analyses into a single book is timely. This
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