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Soaring flows of data and information now generate more economic value than the global goods trade. 
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Fast-forward to 2016 and we’ve entered into a world no longer dominated by tools, but by machines. The crucial difference between a tool and a machine is that the former relies on human energy, while and the latter relies on non-human energy channelled via a system that replicates - and accentuates - the action of a human using a tool. The carpenter is now a furniture corporation using computer-programmed CNC cutters. Likewise, the bank that keeps score of that company’s money runs humming datacentres with vast account databases. These are digital equivalents of the old ledger books, drawing upon fossil-fuel generated electricity to write and hold information as magnetised atoms on hard-drives.
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A joint study by FEPS and UNI Europa revealed at the opening of the UNI Europa Regional Confernce is further evidence of the seismic shift in Europe’s digital economy and the explosion of the crowd working model.
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Digital Economy: Fluid, nimble, real-time digital business – this is the future of work.
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Adam Smith never talked about scaling per se. But he did say this: When the division of labour has been once thoroughly established, it is but a very small part of a man's wants which the produce o...
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On October 1, Jeremy Rifkin, a leading economic and social theorist, and a political advisor was part of “The 2°C Challenge” event organized at HEC Paris.
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When we talk about the Sharing Economy it tends to be in David and Goliath terms. From the Kickstarter funding of Veronica Mars to Uber taking on the massive ...
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While some fast-growing online businesses are highly visible, they are only a small part of the digital transformation that's sweeping the economy beneath the surface.
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Just a week ago, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified before Congress that his fundamental concern focuses on the “moderate, iterative..
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With the digital era here to stay, those organizations who don’t embrace the opportunity risk joining the old-economy organizations that have fallen by the wayside, warns a recent Deloitte report.
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The realities of the “digital divide” are increasingly apparent. In a consumer culture that equates status with early adoption of the newest iPhone, access to new technology necessarily splits pretty clearly along socio-economic class lines.
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The digital industrial economy will change the way power is distributed among and within business; how companies need to invest in technology; and the way people will be deployed in our organizations.
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We live in a time of digital Darwinism, an era when technology and its impact on business and society are constant with varying, but inevitable, degrees of both evolution and revolution. The effect of
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In 1995, I published The Digital Economy, a book that became one of the first best-sellers about the internet in business. To mark its 20th anniversary, my publisher asked me to write a dozen mini-chapters for a new edition. As I revisited it, I was struck by how far we’ve come since 1995 and by how many concepts in the book have withstood the test of time. “The digital economy” term itself has become part of the vernacular.
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Three distinct waves of digital disruption have transformed information economics—and are challenging traditional notions of economies of scale. The new strategies this shift enables have the power to break the compromise between efficiency and innovation and to reshape entire industries.
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Ursula Huws ties together disparate economic, cultural, and political phenomena of the last few decades to form a provocative narrative about the shape of the global capitalist economy at present. She examines the way that advanced information and communications technology has opened up new fields of capital accumulation: in culture and the arts, in the privatization of public services, and in the commodification of human sociality by way of mobile devices and social networking. These trends are
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This article explores the socio-environmental implications of two different value models currently competing for dominance in the digital economy: the neo-feudal cognitive capitalism (NFCC) and the hypothetical case of mature peer production (HMPP). Using a systematisation that considers environmental effects of information and communication technologies as direct, indirect and structural, this article discerns the future socio-environmental scenarios indicative of each value model. We argue that the two value models share the same type of direct environmental effects associated with a similar technological infrastructure; however, their indirect effects differ in prospects of consumer behaviour, environmental awareness and product design. Likewise the difference in structural effects is significant as the NFCC is based on profit maximisation and an accumulation of capital, whereas the HMPP is agnostic to growth and oriented towards the commons. Hence, the latter is considered as the socio-environmentally auspicious choice, but comes not without transitional challenges of its own.
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Dumas, a small town in the heart of the Arkansas Delta—where public computers and open Internet access are hard to come by—is home to an ambitious new program to teach digital literacy skills.
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Asia-Pacific and Japan, with 60% of the world's population, must change to meet demand for innovation and growth in the digital economy.
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Rachel Playforth introduces a new report on how digital technologies might contribute to or damage development agendas in the coming years. Through scenario development planning, the project invest... Via Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
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Abundant resources and open knowledge is the dream of many in international development and education. What might that really look like in 2030?
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"The internet is forever." So goes a saying regarding the impossibility of removing material — such as stolen photographs — permanently from the web. Yet paradoxically the vast and growing digital sphere faces enormous losses.
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Internet Monitor, a research project based at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, recently published the project’s second annual report, “Internet Monitor 2014: Reflections on the Digital World.” The report is a collection ...
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Too bad the term "socialism" was appropriated by Karl Marx, because it would be an apt description of today's emerging social economy. The social media revolution is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably even the way we think. A billion people use social media daily. We have social networking, social business, social government, social entertainment, and social everything. Today's hottest concepts are social: collective intelligence, mass collaboration, crowd sourcing, and collaborative innovation.
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