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A degree of communication
interactive television systems for educational, medical and information services applications, broadcast transmitters and receivers, cable television equipment, satellite television, hightelevision and definition home electroinformation/entertainment nics, electronic directories and specialized databases for electronic media, which are areas in which major change is taking place. The symposium will consist of three distinct parts - Policy, Legal and
Technical - which will reflect the state-of-the-art in the field of electronic media applications and will recognize the convergence in media communication and information technologies that is presently taking place. A call for papers has been issued. Sorrrce: ITU-COM 89 Secretariat. International Telecommunication Union, Place des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland (Tel: 41 22 99 5190).
Informing on informatics A new report from Logica Consultancy Ltd entitled Internutionol Informntics Policy: From Participation to Regulation analyses government policies on communications and computing equipment supply and services, and warns that it could be too late for Europe to prevent a US/Japanese domination of the international informatics market. The growing importance of informatics, both as an enabling technology and as an industry in its own right, is forcing governments worldwide to take an active managing role. Logica’s report provides a detailed analysis of government regulatory policy, and policies for competition, research, promotion, employment and international trade throughout Europe, Japan and the USA. Government policy is having to adapt to an industry which is undergoing a period of fundamental change. Computing and communications technologies are converging, the supply
side of the industry is becoming increasingly international and the technological balance of power has shifted from Europe to the USA and now to Japan. Logica’s research highlights three resulting trends in government policy. The first is that governments are moving away from direct intervention towards regulation. In the past the state has played a participatory role through the control of PTT monopolies, the creation of national champions in the supply industry, and direct support for research and development programmes. The state is no longer a player but a referee, arbitrating between different interest groups within society, and ensuring fair play. The second shift is that government policies now address the demand side of the industry rather than the supply side. Telecommunications policies have been directed towards gaining a better service and a wider choice for
A degree of communication Temple University School of Communications and Theater is offering a Master of Arts programme in Communication/Mass Media and Communication, with a special emphasis on telecommunications. This degree programme is derivative of the basic Master of Arts in Communication. Because this track can be viewed as a terminal degree,
and because of the wide variation in the backgrounds of entering candidates, the credit requirements for this degree are greater than those for the basic MA degree. Candidates for the programme are expected to have earned a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent from an accredited institution of higher learning and to meet all other general requirements
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users through deregulation of services. liberalization of terminal markets and privatization of the PTTs. Computing policies have been directed at promoting open standards, providing training schemes and conducting awareness campaigns. The third shift highlighted in the report is from national policies designed to protect local markets to those which attract international vendors and multinational users. Global informatics operators can afford to locate their activities wherever the policy environment offers new business opportunities or the most conductive conditions for profitable investment. Multinational users can also shift their data centres or network hubs to wherever regulations are least restrictive, or where the package of service availability and tariffs is most attractive. Rather than directing the informatics industry, governments are increasingly having to compete with each other to attract it. The rapid pace of change, however, has meant that there is often a lag between the needs of the industry and the policies adopted by governments. Japan’s informatics trade imbalance will exceed $25 bn by 1990. The USA is taking decisive action with such initiatives as Sematech and the semiconductor agreement with Japan. Europe, however, has been preoccupied with harmonization of local markets and is in danger of being left behind.
Source: Logica Consultancy Ltd, 64 Newman Street, London WIA 4SE, UK (Tel:Ol-637 9111).
for admission to the Graduate School. Qualified applicants will be admitted from a variety of disciplines: engineering, management, economics, the sciences, humanities, etc. The study programme of each individual will be designed with the objective of developing a telecommunications manager well-grounded in his or her understanding of the uses of telecommunications, telecommunications services and technologies, the manage-
407
So~rrce: Associate Dean for Graduate Programmes. Temple University, School of Communications and Theater. 321 Annenberg Hall (011-00). Philadelphia, PA 19122. USA (Tel: 215-787 8791).
ment of telecommunications systems and processes, and the social. economic, political and technological issues currently shaping the telecommunications industry, in the USA and around the world.
The wizard of Oz The Victorian institute will have a Aus$3 million a year budget for the nest five years and will be founded jointly with the universities of Melbourne and Monash. although it will be located separately from each. Its task will be to examine the fundamental, long-term economic and social implications of information and communication technologies for Victoria and globally. Announcing the appointment of Professor Melody in a major government statement, Mr John Cain, the Victorian premier, said Professor Melody’s first task would be to gather
Victorian government has The appointed Professor William Melody, director of the UK’s Programme on Information and Communications Technologies, to head a new information and communications technology institute in Melbourne, Australia. The appointment is part of an extraordinarily innovative Aus$ZOO million plan to upgrade research and development in Victoria. The proposals have the potential to place Victoria at the forefront of research and development in the southern hemisphere and make the state the most prosperous and advanced in Australia.
For an up-to-date
together leading figures from around the world and to collaborate closely with experts in Australia to create an institute of world standing. As well as developing a detailed research programme at the institute. Professor Melody would also be responsible for allocating some research funding to individuals and groups at different Australian universities and research centres, Mr Cain said. He said there was a major shortage of knowledgeable and skilled researchers and policy analysts in the field. As a world class centre associated with the development of a first-class teaching programme particularly at the postgraduate level - the institute would establish Victoria as one of the more favourable environments for research, training and the location of related economic and research activities. Source:
The
Supplement,
Times
Higher
26 August
Ekccntion
1988.
overview of CD-ROM and CD-I technology.
. .
CD-ROM:Fundamentalsto Applications Dr Charles Oppenheim CD-ROM (compact-disc read-only memory) is the most exciting technological development to affect information specialists since the advent of online systems in the early 1970s. Although a number of books have already appeared on the subject, this is the first one to discuss the technology in detail. Written by a team of international experts, the volume takes the reader through the technology to actual case studies, outlining the problems and solutions other companies have experienced in creating CD-ROM products. September
1988
304 pages
20 diagrams
Hardcover
234 x 156mm
ISBN 0 408 00746 X
f45.00
please conlacl Ihe approprjate office Orders should & senl to Ihe appropriate olf,ce lIsted below The UK headquarters serves all UK and overseas markets except where (here IS a local Bunerworths offIce
For details Of other Bufferworth
SCMMC
tulles.
Customers
in Asia may order through:
30 Rcblnson Road. Un~l 12-01 Tuan Sing Towers Singapore 0104. Republic ot Singapore
North Ryde. New Soulh Wales 2113
408
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POLICY December 1988
Technical - which will reflect the state-of-the-art in the field of electronic media applications and will recognize the convergence in media communication and information technologies that is presently taking place. A call for papers has been issued. Sorrrce: ITU-COM 89 Secretariat. International Telecommunication Union, Place des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland (Tel: 41 22 99 5190).
Informing on informatics A new report from Logica Consultancy Ltd entitled Internutionol Informntics Policy: From Participation to Regulation analyses government policies on communications and computing equipment supply and services, and warns that it could be too late for Europe to prevent a US/Japanese domination of the international informatics market. The growing importance of informatics, both as an enabling technology and as an industry in its own right, is forcing governments worldwide to take an active managing role. Logica’s report provides a detailed analysis of government regulatory policy, and policies for competition, research, promotion, employment and international trade throughout Europe, Japan and the USA. Government policy is having to adapt to an industry which is undergoing a period of fundamental change. Computing and communications technologies are converging, the supply
side of the industry is becoming increasingly international and the technological balance of power has shifted from Europe to the USA and now to Japan. Logica’s research highlights three resulting trends in government policy. The first is that governments are moving away from direct intervention towards regulation. In the past the state has played a participatory role through the control of PTT monopolies, the creation of national champions in the supply industry, and direct support for research and development programmes. The state is no longer a player but a referee, arbitrating between different interest groups within society, and ensuring fair play. The second shift is that government policies now address the demand side of the industry rather than the supply side. Telecommunications policies have been directed towards gaining a better service and a wider choice for
A degree of communication Temple University School of Communications and Theater is offering a Master of Arts programme in Communication/Mass Media and Communication, with a special emphasis on telecommunications. This degree programme is derivative of the basic Master of Arts in Communication. Because this track can be viewed as a terminal degree,
and because of the wide variation in the backgrounds of entering candidates, the credit requirements for this degree are greater than those for the basic MA degree. Candidates for the programme are expected to have earned a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent from an accredited institution of higher learning and to meet all other general requirements
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
December
POLICY
1988
users through deregulation of services. liberalization of terminal markets and privatization of the PTTs. Computing policies have been directed at promoting open standards, providing training schemes and conducting awareness campaigns. The third shift highlighted in the report is from national policies designed to protect local markets to those which attract international vendors and multinational users. Global informatics operators can afford to locate their activities wherever the policy environment offers new business opportunities or the most conductive conditions for profitable investment. Multinational users can also shift their data centres or network hubs to wherever regulations are least restrictive, or where the package of service availability and tariffs is most attractive. Rather than directing the informatics industry, governments are increasingly having to compete with each other to attract it. The rapid pace of change, however, has meant that there is often a lag between the needs of the industry and the policies adopted by governments. Japan’s informatics trade imbalance will exceed $25 bn by 1990. The USA is taking decisive action with such initiatives as Sematech and the semiconductor agreement with Japan. Europe, however, has been preoccupied with harmonization of local markets and is in danger of being left behind.
Source: Logica Consultancy Ltd, 64 Newman Street, London WIA 4SE, UK (Tel:Ol-637 9111).
for admission to the Graduate School. Qualified applicants will be admitted from a variety of disciplines: engineering, management, economics, the sciences, humanities, etc. The study programme of each individual will be designed with the objective of developing a telecommunications manager well-grounded in his or her understanding of the uses of telecommunications, telecommunications services and technologies, the manage-
407
So~rrce: Associate Dean for Graduate Programmes. Temple University, School of Communications and Theater. 321 Annenberg Hall (011-00). Philadelphia, PA 19122. USA (Tel: 215-787 8791).
ment of telecommunications systems and processes, and the social. economic, political and technological issues currently shaping the telecommunications industry, in the USA and around the world.
The wizard of Oz The Victorian institute will have a Aus$3 million a year budget for the nest five years and will be founded jointly with the universities of Melbourne and Monash. although it will be located separately from each. Its task will be to examine the fundamental, long-term economic and social implications of information and communication technologies for Victoria and globally. Announcing the appointment of Professor Melody in a major government statement, Mr John Cain, the Victorian premier, said Professor Melody’s first task would be to gather
Victorian government has The appointed Professor William Melody, director of the UK’s Programme on Information and Communications Technologies, to head a new information and communications technology institute in Melbourne, Australia. The appointment is part of an extraordinarily innovative Aus$ZOO million plan to upgrade research and development in Victoria. The proposals have the potential to place Victoria at the forefront of research and development in the southern hemisphere and make the state the most prosperous and advanced in Australia.
For an up-to-date
together leading figures from around the world and to collaborate closely with experts in Australia to create an institute of world standing. As well as developing a detailed research programme at the institute. Professor Melody would also be responsible for allocating some research funding to individuals and groups at different Australian universities and research centres, Mr Cain said. He said there was a major shortage of knowledgeable and skilled researchers and policy analysts in the field. As a world class centre associated with the development of a first-class teaching programme particularly at the postgraduate level - the institute would establish Victoria as one of the more favourable environments for research, training and the location of related economic and research activities. Source:
The
Supplement,
Times
Higher
26 August
Ekccntion
1988.
overview of CD-ROM and CD-I technology.
. .
CD-ROM:Fundamentalsto Applications Dr Charles Oppenheim CD-ROM (compact-disc read-only memory) is the most exciting technological development to affect information specialists since the advent of online systems in the early 1970s. Although a number of books have already appeared on the subject, this is the first one to discuss the technology in detail. Written by a team of international experts, the volume takes the reader through the technology to actual case studies, outlining the problems and solutions other companies have experienced in creating CD-ROM products. September
1988
304 pages
20 diagrams
Hardcover
234 x 156mm
ISBN 0 408 00746 X
f45.00
please conlacl Ihe approprjate office Orders should & senl to Ihe appropriate olf,ce lIsted below The UK headquarters serves all UK and overseas markets except where (here IS a local Bunerworths offIce
For details Of other Bufferworth
SCMMC
tulles.
Customers
in Asia may order through:
30 Rcblnson Road. Un~l 12-01 Tuan Sing Towers Singapore 0104. Republic ot Singapore
North Ryde. New Soulh Wales 2113
408
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
POLICY December 1988