Reflections on a Networked Nation: Japan and the Future of the Digital Revolution

Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd
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Ken Coates: University of Saskatchewan
Carin Holroyd: University of Saskatchewan

Chapter 6 in Japan and the Internet Revolution, 2003, pp 149-173 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Computerization is now commonplace in the western industrialized world. Most of the computers in use are almost completely hidden. They run car engines, manage medical machinery, control electrical and water supply systems, provide the foundation for manufacturing processes, deliver email and otherwise service, support and influence everyday life. In this regard, Japan is not much different from any other industrialized country. Even the determination of the Japanese government to enhance the role of Information Technology within the country bears a striking resemblance to the national agenda in virtually every country on earth. (Even Myanmar, the Albania of the 21st Century, recently proclaimed its commitment to information technology.) The application and impact of IT, however, varies dramatically from nation to nation; and the ability of a country to become truly ‘wired’ is increasingly seen as a precondition for success in an evolving globalized and technologically driven economic and social world.

Keywords: Venture Capital; Information Society; Japanese Government; Liberal Democratic Party; Asian Nation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403990075_7

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