• Communications Media Center at New York Law School
  Alternative High-speed Internet Connections [Dec. 1998 Forum]
  • Papers & Articles (Index)

• Knowledge Assessment (Pacific Islands) August 1997 On-Line Conference: Technical Panel and Public Forum [kapubarc] TechNet Think Tank electronic conferences are designed to foster discussion on questions of science, technology and information for development. We look forward to your participation! "The National Knowledge System of a country comprises those institutions that control and regulate the flow and use of knowledge in the economy and society, together with linkages among them and with the outside world. Information may be thought of as a transmissible form of knowledge, having a similar relation to knowledge as currency has to wealth: a medium of trade. Information and experience both contribute to knowledge. Information is nothing if it is not used, but the organized accumulation of it becomes knowledge. Knowledge itself goes beyond transmissible information to embrace codified knowledge, embodied knowledge and tacit knowledge and skills" (Office of International Assessment, National Research Council 1996).
• Commission on Communication Networks and Telecommunications of the International Geographical Union [Server not consistently online]
• THE ELECTRONIC SPACE PROJECT; Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, Michigan State University, "...exploring the spatial context of information technology, with emphasis on policy, economy, and society."
• University Resources (International) (Virtual Library)
• Open Source Solutions

  "Global Security & Global Competitiveness: Open Source Solutions", the conference--now (1996) its its fifth year, started as a means of teaching spys how to use publicly available information. It has evolved into the world's only open forum and meeting ground which brings together spys, librarians, hackers, scholars, business intelligence and law enforcement intelligence analysts, and military intelligence analysts as well as information brokers and private investigators. Professional tracks focus on economic and financial intelligence; transnational and domestic law enforcement intelligence; and military and coalition intelligence. Technical tracks focus on sources of information including commercial imagery; advanced tools and techniques for information discovery, discrimination, distillation, and dissemination; and opportunities for private sector sales to international government, and government privatization of selected intelligence functions."

  • Open Source Solutions: Reader (1995) [Papers by Robert Steele, A.Toffler, and others on competitive advantage and knowledge strategies.]
    • Learned Nations: Seeking National Competitive Advantages Through Knowledge Strategies; by Philippe Baumard New York University, Stern School of Business Dept. of Management and Organizational Behavior, "Economic intelligence - the ability of using knowledge as the basis of economic advantage - has become over the past three decades a key-factor of national competitiveness. As world development and international relations shift from geopolitics to geoeconomics, competitive advantage of nations lies in their abilities to strategically handle strategic knowledge, for their administrations, their industries, their people, their economic wealth and social welfare."
  • Cyberspace Resources [The Urban Explorer, York University] [http://www.yorku.ca/faculty/academic/lcode/links/cyber.html]
  • Intelligence Resources [CIA, by country etc.]
  • Digital Libraries, Cyber Data & Information Technologies
  • Amy Bruckman, MIT Media Laboratory || Mirror
    ("I am a PhD student in the Epistemology and Learning Group at the MIT Media Lab where I do research on virtual communities.")
  • Peter Hagstrvm, Assistant Professor (Harvard). Corporate Information Structures. (Harvard Business School faculty in Management Information Systems) "His research primarily concerns the use of data communications by international firms as a way to understand how these firms function and are structured. He is exploring the extent and function of information technology applications for coordinating geographically dispersed research and development activities."
  • Center for Information and Communication Research [The Stockholm School of Economics, the SSE, founded in 1909 by royal statute, is the oldest Swedish institution of university standing which offers research-based educational programs in business administration and economics.]

    CIC has organized research and other work into three main areas:

    1. electronic business/e-commerce;
    2. electronic management and learning; and
    3. electronic markets.

    Henry Bakis (France/IGU):

    • Networks and Telecommunications of the International Geographical Union

  • Kommunikative Dienstleistungen (Communications Services, Prof. Peter Graef)
    • "German Study Group on Geography of Telecommunications"
    • Arbeitskreis Kommunikation & Telekommunikation Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie (DGfG)
  • Maier, Gunther [Institut f|r Raumplanung und Regionalentwicklung Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien] Staedtekonkurrenz, Coopetition und Glocalization

    ...wird untersucht, wie sich globale Computernetze wie das Internet auf die raeumliche Organisation der Wirtschaft auswirken, welche Verdnderungen in der Struktur und im Interaktionsmuster der Unternehmen dies nach sich ziehen wird und wie Stddte davon betroffen sein werden.

  • Wirtschaftsinformatik- und Informatik-Server (at German Universities)
  • BERKELEY, Calif, May 19, 1997 - The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley today (May 19) created the nation's first professorship dedicated to the study of knowledge and its impact on business. [password is required] "The Xerox Distinguished Professorship in Knowledge is funded by a $1 million donation given jointly by Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. and Xerox Corporation.
    Ikujiro Nonaka, who received both his MBA and his Ph.D. in business from UC Berkeley, has been elected by the Haas School faculty to be the first to hold the new Xerox Distinguished Professorship as a visiting professor. A well-known professor of management at Hitotsubashi University, Nonaka has long been one of Japan's foremost authorities on developing and using the intellectual capital of workers to create and expand business knowledge." (Berkeley Announcement)
  • Systems Analysis Laboratory; Systems Analysis Laboratory (Helsinki University of Technology) was established in 1984 within the professorship of applied mathematics. The director of the laboratory is Professor Raimo P. Hämäläinen.
  • SAP: Systems, Applications, Programs (Organizational Information Systems)

Related Journals, Projects, Courses, Workshops and Syllabi:

• infois an international and interdisciplinary journal examining the social, economic, political and regulatory aspects of telecommunications, information and other media industries.
• The Sociology of Cyberspace [McMaster U.]
• EUNIT SUMMER SCHOOL ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN KNOWLEDGE BASED SOCIETIES INFORMATION SOCIETY AND LEARNING REGIONS [Tuesday 9 September 1997 - Friday 12 September 1997]

• Virtual Societies, Cities and Communities:
  • Cyberspace, MASANAO TAKEYAMA, [Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University at Shonan Fujisawa Campus, Japan]
    • CYBERGEOGRAPHY RELATED LINKS
  • The Geography of the Information Society (Buffalo, GEO 666 (Batty, 1995)
  • Michael Batty's new home at University College London
  • Virtual Cities Project at the CASA [Centre for Advanced Spatial Analyisis, University College]
    • Proposal for "Virtual London"
    • How will cyberspatial forms of human interaction challenge, change or reduce territorial governance and policing by the state? Klaus Lenk, University of Oldenburg

    • Taub Urban Research Center , [http://urban.nyu.edu/research/]
      • Information City Initiative
      • Virtual Library of the Information City (NYU)
      • VirtualOffice of Anthony M. Townsend The Virtual Office is my central point for coordinating the many electronic means of communications I use.

    • Geography of Cyberspace (Martin Dodge, UCL)
      "I am interested in understanding the nature and geography of Cyberspace. Here is a rather eclectic list of the useful resources I have come across. They relate to various resources for measuring and mapping the geography of an embryonic Cyberspace (i.e. the Internet and WWW)."
    • Cyber Space Atlas. MARTIN DODGE - [m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk] CASA, University College London.

  • Oregon Telecommunications Atlas This report was assembled between November and December, 2000, under the direction of the Oregon Economic Development Agency to provide raw data for an Oregon Atlas project at the University of Oregon. This coffee-table size publication, being produced by William Loy, Stuart Alan and Ross West at the U/Oregon InfoGraphics Lab, will illustrate many aspects of Oregon. It is a follow-on to their 1976 landmark Oregon Atlas.

  • Pennsylvania Technology Atlas The Technology Atlas, the first of its kind, resulted from the efforts of the Documentation of Resources and Technology Transfer Project, which was one of the main projects in Pennsylvania's Link-to-Learn Initiative.

  • Georgia High-Speed Communications Atlas

    This interactive atlas of fiber routes and access facilities is designed to support state and local efforts to attract high-technology firms, and to support educational and public sector initiatives for Georgia communities.

  • Network Society MAP (Worldlink) "I came across some interesting work ... called the "World Link : The Network Society Map". This is an index of "wired'ness" of major countries around the world in terms of availability per thousand people of number of phone lines, TVs, mobile phones, Internet hosts, PCs, etc, etc." (Martin Dodge)

  • CyberAtlas: Market Size [Well-presented collection of advertising-related statistics].

  • 3D-Computing, Business Week (Cover September 4, 1995)

  • Bandwidth Bay Fiber Network Mapping [San Diego] Downtown San Diego has recently been branded "Bandwidth Bay," highlighting the miles and miles of bandwidth inside, and beautiful waterfront bay views outside. This fitting description captures why downtown San Diego is "technology's perfect climate;" prepared to accommodate the growing and changing needs of modern high-tech industries. With over 70,000 strand miles of fiber optic cable stretching beneath its city streets, downtown San Diego is one of the most wired cities in the country... || See also this article!

  • Geography and the City of the future --Geography, the city and Communication and Information Techniques. Emmanuel Eveno.

  • Center for the Study of Language and Information (Stanford) [CSLI was founded in 1983 by researchers from Stanford University, SRI International, and Xerox PARC to further research and development of integrated theories of language, information, and computation.]
    • Studies in Logic, Language and Information
    • Industrial Affiliates Program [incl. Boeing and Microsoft]
    • A Guided Tour to Developing Ontologies Using Ontolingua
      • What is an Ontology?; In the context of knowledge sharing, I use the term ontology to mean a specification of a conceptualization. That is, an ontology is a description (like a formal specification of a program) of the concepts and relationships that can exist for an agent or a community of agents. This definition is consistent with the usage of ontology as set-of-concept-definitions, but more general. And it is certainly a different sense of the word than its use in philosophy.

      • Collaborative Ontology Construction for Information Integration Information integration is enabled by having a precisely defined common terminology. We call this combination of terminology and definitions an ontology. We have developed a set of tools and services to support the process of achieving consensus on such a common shared ontologies by geographically distributed groups.
• Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (University of Edinburgh): "AIAI is a technology transfer organisation that promotes and expediates the application of research on Artificial Intelligence for the benefit of industrial, commercial, government and academic clients."
  • Knowledge Modelling Projects, Methods and Tools: Useful WWW Pointers