Download e-book for iPad: Cyber-Development, Cyber-Democracy and Cyber-Defense: by Elias G. Carayannis,David F. J. Campbell,Marios Panagiotis

In this quantity, members from academia, undefined, and coverage discover the inter-connections between financial improvement, socio-political democracy and protection and safeguard within the context of a profound transformation, spurred by way of globalization and supported by way of the quick improvement of data and verbal exchange applied sciences (ICT). This strong mix of forces is altering the best way we are living and redefining the best way businesses behavior company and nationwide governments pursue concepts of innovation, financial progress and diplomacy.

Integrating theoretical frameworks, empirical study and case stories, the editors and participants have equipped the chapters into 3 significant sections, targeting cyber-development, cyber-democracy and cyber-defense.

The authors outline cyber-development as a collection of instruments, methodologies and practices that leverage ICT to catalyze and speed up social, political and monetary improvement, with an emphasis on making the transition to knowledge-based economies. One underlying realizing this is that wisdom, wisdom construction, wisdom construction and information program (innovation) behave as the most important drivers for boosting democracy, society, and the economic system. by way of selling dissemination and sharing of information, cyber-democracy allows a data conversion of the neighborhood into the worldwide (gloCal) and vice versa, leading to a gloCal platform for verbal exchange and data interplay and data enhancement. Meanwhile, technology-enabled interconnectivity raises the necessity to undertake new equipment and activities for defense opposed to present threats and attainable demanding situations to emerge within the future. The ultimate part contemplates topics of cyber-defense and protection, in addition to rising theories and values, felony points and trans-continental hyperlinks (NATO, overseas organisations and bilateral relatives among states). Collectively, the authors current a different choice of insights and views at the demanding situations and possibilities encouraged through connectivity.