Author: W. E. CundiffPublisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780920380123
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Issues in Canadian/U.S. Transborder Computer Data Flows
Author: W. E. CundiffPublisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780920380123
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Computer Communications and the Mass Market in Canada
Author: Barry LesserPublisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780886450229
Category : Computer industry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
From the back cover: The authors argue that services which evolve from computer-communications technology will transform Canadian society if widespread usage of the technology is achieved. In other words, a mass market will be required. How the market develops, who participates, the terms of the participation, what the market does, and who benefits are important questions of government policy. Only one thing is clear: government must play a key role in balancing the interplay between the forces of competition and government intervention.
Transborder Data Flows: Supporting documents
Author: Rein TurnSome Thoughts on Canada-United States Sectoral Free Trade
Author: Michael HartPublisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780886450144
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Telecom Nation
Author: Laurence B. MussioPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773521759
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Mussio is a communications consultant who traces how Canada handled expansion in telecommunications and the arrival of the computer in the three critical decades following World War II. Like technological transformations in transportation and utilities, the spread of new communications systems forced governments to respond; in continental Europe and the UK, they asserted control and ownership of national telecommunication networks. In the US, private companies were permitted to manage systems and provide services. In Canada both models were adopted, and domestic hybrids combining both also flourished.Distributed in the US by Cornell University Services. c. Book News Inc.
Assessing the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
Author: Institute for Research on Public PolicyPublisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780886450618
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The implementation of the proposed agreement would remove many of the remaining barriers to commerce between Canada and the US, but there remain many details of the proposed Agreement and many potential consequences uncertain. This volume contains the proceedings of a conference that sought to provide a neutral forum to assess the implications for Canada. Analyses the elements of the Agreement, and the regional, sectoral and labour market adjustment issues and broader concerns with respect to cultural, economic and political sovereignty.
The Softwood Lumber Dispute and Canada-U.S. Trade in Natural Resources
Author: Michael PercyPublisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780886450571
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Communities of Computing
Author: Thomas J. MisaPublisher: Morgan & Claypool
ISBN: 1970001852
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Communities of Computing is the first book-length history of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), founded in 1947 and with a membership today of 100,000 worldwide. It profiles ACM's notable SIGs, active chapters, and individual members, setting ACM's history into a rich social and political context. The book's 12 core chapters are organized into three thematic sections. "Defining the Discipline" examines the 1960s and 1970s when the field of computer science was taking form at the National Science Foundation, Stanford University, and through ACM's notable efforts in education and curriculum standards. "Broadening the Profession" looks outward into the wider society as ACM engaged with social and political issues - and as members struggled with balancing a focus on scientific issues and awareness of the wider world. Chapters examine the social turbulence surrounding the Vietnam War, debates about the women's movement, efforts for computing and community education, and international issues including professionalization and the Cold War. "Expanding Research Frontiers" profiles three areas of research activity where ACM members and ACM itself shaped notable advances in computing, including computer graphics, computer security, and hypertext. Featuring insightful profiles of notable ACM leaders, such as Edmund Berkeley, George Forsythe, Jean Sammet, Peter Denning, and Kelly Gotlieb, and honest assessments of controversial episodes, the volume deals with compelling and complex issues involving ACM and computing. It is not a narrow organizational history of ACM committees and SIGS, although much information about them is given. All chapters are original works of research. Many chapters draw on archival records of ACM's headquarters, ACM SIGs, and ACM leaders. This volume makes a permanent contribution to documenting the history of ACM and understanding its central role in the history of computing.
Powermatics
Author: Marike Finlay - de MonchyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317367243
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Originally published in 1987. This critical work is an exploration of new communications technology in its social context, as a social discourse determined by other forms of inter-play. The author refers to Weber, Innis, Habermas and Foucault to develop her argument.
Canada Can Compete!
Author: Joseph R. D'CruzPublisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780886450205
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
From the back cover: Canada can compete in international markets, but not, the authors contend, under the present national economic strategy. Policies that redistribute income and allocate resources through government fiat have weakended Canada's ability to transform its manufacturing sector to meet the new competititve challenges. D'Cruz and Fleck compare the performance of seventy-one Canadian industries from 1967 to 1981 with industries in Japan, the United States, Britain and France. To enhance the competitiveness of Canadian manufacturing, the authors propose a differential industrial strategy, one that emphasizes growth and development. Government, they say, must play a "hands-off" role in Canada's market economy, limiting itself to establishing the rules of the game. The authors recommend, in addition, macro-economic policies that would reduce the federal deficit, restrain wages for public servants, preserve low differentials between Canadian and American interest rates, and maintain the Canadian dollar at 70 cents U.S.