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From: Axel Bruns [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:57 AM
To: Media-Culture List
Subject: [media-culture] Fw: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (fwd)


G'day !

Forwarding this:

> A CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
>
> ECOLOGY OF THE NEW ECONOMY
> Sustainable Transformation of Global Information, Communication, and
> Electronics Industries
>
>
> Greenleaf Publishing invites contributions for a new book on 'Ecology of
> the New Economy: Sustainable Transformation of Global Technology,
> Communication, and Electronics Industries', to be edited by Jacob Park
> and Nigel Roome.
>
>
> ****************
> Background: Issues and Questions
>
> A 'revolution' is taking place in the development of global information
> and communication technologies. Case in point: in slightly more than a
> decade, the World Wide Web has gone from an idea of an obscure English
> scientist to a consumer-oriented technology system with an expected one
> billion users, including 700 million people outside the US, by 2005. The
> technologies that enable this to happen are advancing rapidly and this
> is provoking new companies as well as a series of new alliances between
companies.
>
> The growth has been so rapid and unexpected that little research and
> analysis has yet been done on what impact this transformation has had or
> will have on the ability of companies to meet the global sustainability
challenge.
>
> As environmental strategy has traditionally been portrayed in terms of
> risk cutting and resource efficiency, there is a danger that critical
> business issues such as information technology R&D and e-commerce
> development are examined separately and away from the wider sustainable
> business perspective.
>
> An important objective of the book is to explore, document and raise
> awareness of sustainability concerns arising from the emerging global
> information economy. The information economy is defined in the broadest
> sense possible, including software, hardware, telecommunication -
> traditional and wireless - and advanced communication technologies.
>
> Some key issues and questions that will be examined in the book include:
>
> * Case studies of how and to what degree sustainability concerns are
> being integrated into the business model of electronic,
> telecommunication, and .com firms
>
> * The relationship between the diffusion of information and
> communication technologies and the energy and resource intensity of
companies
>
> * The role of information and communication technologies in the shaping
> of policies for sustainability, its impacts on sustainable or
> unsustainable lifestyles and its implications for the interaction
> between companies and other actors
>
> * Corporations and the global digital divide
>
> ****************
> Schedule
>
> Abstracts of 250 words - preferably as e-mail attachments - should be
> sent to Jacob Park (E-mail: [log in to unmask]), while selected
> contributors whose abstracts meet the objectives of this project will be
> invited to submit their papers by the dates shown below.
>
> Contributors' guidelines can be found on the website of Greenleaf
> Publishing (http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com) or by e-mailing
> Greenleaf Publishing at [log in to unmask] The edited
> book is expected to be published in autumn 2001.
>
> ****************
> * Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2000
> * Contributors informed of their abstracts' acceptance: 2 January 2001
> * Full-paper submissions: 28 February 2001
> * Revision requests sent to contributors: 15 April 2001
> * Final-papers deadline: 31 May 2001
>
>
> ****************
> Project Organisers and Editors
>
> Jacob Park is a Washington, DC-based research scholar in the Harrison
> Program on the Future Global Agenda, University of Maryland, and a
> socially responsible investment research consultant specialising in
> Japanese and Asian equities for a London-based fund management company.
>
> Nigel Roome is Professor, Sustainable Enterprises and Transformation at
> Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Netherlands), and the Chair of the
> Information and Communication Industries Focus Group, Industrial
> Transformation Project, International Human Dimensions Programme on
> Global Environment Change.
>
>
> ****************
> For Further Information
>
> Prospective authors are encouraged to contact Jacob Park (e-mail:
> [log in to unmask], Tel: +1 202 285 6568, and Fax: +1 815 361
> 1865) for additional information and/or to discuss ideas for
contributions.

                                                     


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