Information Technology Outlook 1997

As information technologies become more ubiquitous, their economic impact becomes both more significant and more diffuse. The 1997 Information Technology Outlook analyses several relevant issues.

Use of Information Networks and their Impact on Organisational Structures: Firm-Level Evidence from

Chapter 7 of the 1997 Information Technology Outlook

Information Infrastructures: Their Impact and Regulatory Requirements

Convergence and new communication technologies are leading to significant changes in the communication landscape. Countries are beginning to review their policies and the regulatory requirements raised by information infrastructures. The report r...

Local Telecommunication Competition: Developments and Policy Issues

By the beginning of 1996, eight OECD countries had liberalised the provision of public switched telecommunication networks (PSTN) in their markets. In the other 18 OECD countries the incumbent public telecommunication operator (PTO) had the sole ...

Global Information Infrastructure - Global Information Society (GII-GIS): Statement of Policy Recommendations

This statement is an initial response to the OECD Council, meeting at Ministerial level, in May 1995 to provide a policy report on the Global Information Infrastructure - Global Information Society (GII-GIS) ...

New Social and Economic Approaches to a Multimedia World: Summary Report and Final Agenda

The object of the Symposium was to support both the G-7 and OECD Ministerial goals of increasing economic growth and job creation through the growth of a Global Information Infrastructure/Global Information Society (GII-GIS). It brought together ...

Current Status of Communication Infrastructure Regulation: Cable Television

Competitive access to communication markets, through the competitive provision of infrastructure, efficient interconnection of networks, and where necessary regulatory safeguards, are fundamental to achieving many of the aims OECD governments hav...

Information Infrastructure Convergence and Pricing: The Internet - part one

As different industries converge to take advantage of the extraordinary technological possibilities offered by the Internet, it seems clear that in terms of cost, innovation, access and infrastructures, countries with competitive structures and l...

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International Telecommunications: A Review of Issues and Developments

This paper is meant to be perspective in nature as well as prescriptive. There are a number of telecommunication issues at the international level which can be resolved fairly rapidly and a number of opportunities available to open telecommunicat...

Universal Service Obligations in a Competitive Telecommunications Environment, No. 38

Will the liberalisation of the telecommunications market jeopardise the provision of universal service?