From the report: "Fast-growing South–South trade and investment is an
opportunity to ramp up developing countries’ abilities to master market-useful
technologies and to bolster their abilities to innovate new products and
services, an UNCTAD
report says. The Technology and
Innovation Report 2012, subtitled Innovation, Technology and
South–South Collaboration, was released today. South–South economic cooperation
is one of the major global economic developments of the past two decades.
Exchanges between developing countries accounted for 55 per cent of global
trade in 2010, as compared to 41 per cent in 1995, and this trend is already
leading to useful diffusions of technology and innovative capacity, the Report
says. Increased South–South exchange can lead to greater technological sharing,
in a variety of ways. A first important channel is the import of goods, the
Report says, which are used by importing countries to improve their production
processes through copying and reverse engineering. Global production networks
and foreign direct investment (FDI) are other factors that could promote
transfers of technology and technological development in countries." Read more
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Mapping Cloud Interoperability in the Globalized Economy: Theory and Observation from Practice
From the report: "This
is one of three in-depth exploratory studies, which aim to gain a deeper
understanding of the role that interoperability plays as an enabler of
innovation and creativity in international trade. Each study explores the
various institutions, policies and approaches that shape the interoperability
landscape and investigates the effects of these factors and drivers on trade in
the globalized economy.
In this series, we examine:
(i) to what extent and how interoperability has contributed to the promotion of international trade;
(ii) what respective roles international organizations have played in concert with other stakeholders with regard to interoperability and international trade;
(iii) what policies and approaches to supporting interoperability have been used, and with what results; and
(iv) what can be learned from these experiences with regard to emerging interoperability issues in the context of international trade.
The three studies address this set of questions from different angles, acknowledging the multi-faceted character of the concept of interoperability (Gasser & Palfrey, Basic Books 2012). Two of them “Fostering innovation and trade in the global information society: The different facets and roles of interoperability”, and “Mapping Cloud Interoperability in the Globalized Economy: Theory and Observations from Practice” – focus specifically on cloud computing, an emerging technical paradigm through which to analyze the policy relevance of interoperability in a globalized economy. This example also facilitates exploration of some of the key issues and practical challenges that arise as various stakeholders engage with cloud services, infrastructure, and data across the world, as well as the implications for trade, policy, and different actors, especially, governments. The third study, “Interoperability in Information and Information Systems in the Furtherance of Trade” is focused on the role, current debates, and associated benefits and challenges in establishing a system of interoperability for information and information systems in the service of trade in a global economy over time." Read more
In this series, we examine:
(i) to what extent and how interoperability has contributed to the promotion of international trade;
(ii) what respective roles international organizations have played in concert with other stakeholders with regard to interoperability and international trade;
(iii) what policies and approaches to supporting interoperability have been used, and with what results; and
(iv) what can be learned from these experiences with regard to emerging interoperability issues in the context of international trade.
The three studies address this set of questions from different angles, acknowledging the multi-faceted character of the concept of interoperability (Gasser & Palfrey, Basic Books 2012). Two of them “Fostering innovation and trade in the global information society: The different facets and roles of interoperability”, and “Mapping Cloud Interoperability in the Globalized Economy: Theory and Observations from Practice” – focus specifically on cloud computing, an emerging technical paradigm through which to analyze the policy relevance of interoperability in a globalized economy. This example also facilitates exploration of some of the key issues and practical challenges that arise as various stakeholders engage with cloud services, infrastructure, and data across the world, as well as the implications for trade, policy, and different actors, especially, governments. The third study, “Interoperability in Information and Information Systems in the Furtherance of Trade” is focused on the role, current debates, and associated benefits and challenges in establishing a system of interoperability for information and information systems in the service of trade in a global economy over time." Read more
