Perspectives and implications for the development of information infrastructures

• Main Author: Constantinides, Panos.
• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.
• Subjects: Information technology.; Information networks.; Information superhighway.; Challenges in information infrastructures; Commons perspective; Development of information infrastructures; Integrated, standardized cities; IT governance; IT research and theory; Knowledge management; Longitudinal research; Infrastructure ideal; Urban planning
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"This book offers fresh new perspectives on information infrastructure development, using and adapting theory that was initially developed to study natural resource common arrangements such as inshore fisheries, forests, irrigation systems, and pastures particularly reviewing complex problems a...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: historical review of infrastructure development
• 2. Perspectives on information infrastructures
• 3. A commons perspective to understanding the development of information infrastructures
• 4. The development of a regional health information infrastructure in Greece
• 5. The development of the English national health information infrastructure
• 6. Challenges to the development of information infrastructures: a synthesis of the findings
• 7. The governance of information infrastructures
• 8. New information infrastructure commons
• 9. The consequences of new information infrastructures
• 10. The role of the researcher in new information infrastructure research.