Synopsis: Ict: Communication systems: Telecommunication: Computer networks: Internet: Web: Web provider:


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION Guide to social_innovation_2013.pdf.txt

Google, which allows employees to spend 20%of their time on their own projects, and IKEA which


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION social_innovation_decade_of_changes.pdf.txt

https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=b9c3pppxk1w 12 The Solution Revolution: How business, government and social enterprises are teaming up to solve society†s

examples include Google, which allows employees to spend 20%of their time on their own projects,


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION The-Open-Book-of-Social-Innovationg.pdf.txt

Youtube can be used as a virtual video booth 58) Suggestion boxes within organizations are the most basic method for

hybrid cars through Google, and C40 city governments. An example of open-testing, Google†s initiative hopes to educate consumers body

Image courtesy of Google, Inc 3 54 THE OPEN BOOK OF SOCIAL INNOVATION Finance for emerging ideas

Youtube and Facebook which can act as feeders to the venture†s website Above all, a venture needs to devote resources to the constant updating

used on networks like ebay, and more formal legal devices (like public databases). ) With the increasing mixing of voluntary and professional

projects such as Wikipedia. It is easy to see the generative potential of platforms: as more people get involved,

extension of the Google model where engineers are encouraged to spend 20 per cent of their time developing their own projects.

ebay 114 Echoing Green 176 ehow 138 Elderpower 205 Eliasson, Olafur 23 Emerson, Jed 104

Google 53; 165 Gore, Al 26; 95; 96 Governance 67-68; 173-175 Grameen 34;

Philanthropic ebays 172 Plane Stupid 27; 28 Planning for Real 43 Platforms 40; 95; 117;

Wikipedia 138 Wikiprogress 120 Wiser Earth 178 Wordpress 138-139 Workplace as Museum 75 Work Ventures 183

Youtube 39,75 Yumshare 198 Yunus, Muhammad 34,210 Zero Carbon 22,77, 112 Zero Waste 111 Zopa 189

Plane Stupid, Americaspeaks, Dialogue Cafã, Helsinki Design Lab, Google Inc Un Techo para Chile, Riversimple, Working Rite, Danone Communities, Sekem


Digital Social Innovation_ second interim study report.pdf.txt

philosophy/culture, described by Wikipedia as the creative practice of appropriation and free sharing of found

the leader being the founder of the project, such as Linus Torvalds for Linux or Jimmy wales for Wikipedia

The case of Wikipedia, and its internal struggle between deletionists and inclusionists, has been studied widely and analysed as an example of an open-sourced

Wikipedia defines it as financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, growth start-up companies.

Another type of living lab is the fab lab. According to Wikipedia, a fab lab (short for fabrication laboratory) is

According to Wikipedia, seed funding is a form of securities offering in which an investor purchases part of a business.

Also, Wikipedia refers to specific initiatives/activities such as town hall meetings, opinion polls, participatory budgeting referenda, protests or voting.

Powers of companies such as Google and Fa -cebook have a lot of control over an individual†s

located in Europe (Google controlling nearly 82%of the global search market and 98%of the mobile search

be the case in a graph of links to and from Wikipedia, for example. In detail, there is a clustering coefficient

independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software (Wikipedia 47. http://www. barcelonastartupfestival. com

/117. http://en. wikipedia. org /118. https://www. mturk. com/mturk/welcome 119. http://www. namingforce. com


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATIONThe_Process_of_Social_Innovation.pdf.txt

Wikipedia and the Open university; holistic health care and hospices; microcredit and consumer cooperatives; the fair trade movement

Wikipedia was a failure in its first outing In business, people talk of the â€oechasm†that innovations have to cross as they


DigitalBusinessEcosystems-2007.pdf.txt

Microsoft to Google. It looks at new institutional and transaction costs economics (Coase, ï oe937;


Digitally_Mediated_Social_Innovation_for_revised_submission (1).pdf.txt

as Wikipedia, can democratise the processes of developing and managing technology and knowledge. Conversely, digital technologies are also an integral part of the socio-technical


dsi-report-complete-EU.pdf.txt

but simply makes it easier for Google to index and search through images (von Ahn and Dabbish 2005.

-project space and distributed group spaces of former years (https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Chaos commu

digitally native companies such as Skype and Google. Likewise, national research institutes such as INRIA or CNRS are threatened by the research divisions of companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft †who now

increasingly dominate premier academic conferences such as the World wide web Conference. The institu -tional infrastructure necessary for cutting-edge research no longer requires state investment, and in fact

Zooniverse (citizen science web portal of CSA) 213 Case studies 56 57 Arduino At a glance Type of Organisation:

networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Youtube are a crucial part of launching, promoting and engaging online communities of potential

to be accessed via an all-new web portal Presently 109 apps and visualisations have been made that make use of

site also has a Google Refine reconciliation function that matches legal entities to company names â€oea bounty schemeâ€:

Wikipedia †with users being given the option to donate preset or other amounts through a Paypal platform

with Google, Code, is hosted on Github. Overall, Raspberry Pi aims to build an ecosystem of more engaged creator-users,

Raspberry Pi has collaborated also recently with Google to deliver a new open source coding tool called Coder.

Google announced it was giving the Raspberry Pi Foundation a grant worth an estimated £670, 000 to put 15,000 of the devices into UK

you take decisions about do you trust Google, do you trust Amazon, do you trust the BBC, whatever. â€

message and placed them on Google maps. This website had 45,000 users in Kenya, and was the central to the Ushahidi team realising there

Google maps API for geocoding. Ushahidi is often set up using a lo -cal SMS gateway created by a local Frontlinesms, a free open source

web portal of CSA At a glance Type of Organisation: Academia and research organisations Aim: Education and skills

via its web portal. The CSA is a collaboration of scientists, software developers and educators primarily coming from universities and public

Rails that runs on Amazon web services and uses Mongodb, Redis and a few other technologies Scalability: Pretty much all of the site†s requirements point to having a

scaled back to a minimal level (†automagically†on Amazon web services The actual citizen science projects that people interact with are these


dsi-report-complete-lr.pdf.txt

but simply makes it easier for Google to index and search through images (von Ahn and Dabbish 2005.

-project space and distributed group spaces of former years (https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Chaos commu

digitally native companies such as Skype and Google. Likewise, national research institutes such as INRIA or CNRS are threatened by the research divisions of companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft †who now

increasingly dominate premier academic conferences such as the World wide web Conference. The institu -tional infrastructure necessary for cutting-edge research no longer requires state investment, and in fact

Zooniverse (citizen science web portal of CSA) 213 Case studies 56 57 Arduino At a glance Type of Organisation:

networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Youtube are a crucial part of launching, promoting and engaging online communities of potential

to be accessed via an all-new web portal Presently 109 apps and visualisations have been made that make use of

site also has a Google Refine reconciliation function that matches legal entities to company names â€oea bounty schemeâ€:

Wikipedia †with users being given the option to donate preset or other amounts through a Paypal platform

with Google, Code, is hosted on Github. Overall, Raspberry Pi aims to build an ecosystem of more engaged creator-users,

Raspberry Pi has collaborated also recently with Google to deliver a new open source coding tool called Coder.

Google announced it was giving the Raspberry Pi Foundation a grant worth an estimated £670, 000 to put 15,000 of the devices into UK

you take decisions about do you trust Google, do you trust Amazon, do you trust the BBC, whatever. â€

message and placed them on Google maps. This website had 45,000 users in Kenya, and was the central to the Ushahidi team realising there

Google maps API for geocoding. Ushahidi is often set up using a lo -cal SMS gateway created by a local Frontlinesms, a free open source

web portal of CSA At a glance Type of Organisation: Academia and research organisations Aim: Education and skills

via its web portal. The CSA is a collaboration of scientists, software developers and educators primarily coming from universities and public

Rails that runs on Amazon web services and uses Mongodb, Redis and a few other technologies Scalability: Pretty much all of the site†s requirements point to having a

scaled back to a minimal level (†automagically†on Amazon web services The actual citizen science projects that people interact with are these


eco-innovate-sme-guide.pdf.txt

start-up Guide and a Web portal where technical guidance on measure -ment and relevant links are provided

en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Green dot %28symbol%29 p. 34: The Footprint Chroniclesâ Â source: www. patagonia. com/us/footprint


Eco-innovation in Romanian SMEs - Roxana Voicu s.a..pdf.txt

anamarinoiu@yahoo. com http://www. rei. ase. ro Abstract: -The paper presents the results of a qualitative research on the perception and implementation of eco


E-commerce Action plan 2012-2015.pdf.txt

consumers on internet providers'websites on issues such as blocking/slowing down of services and download limits (94%and 56%respectively of websites assessed by

In the L'Orã al/ebay case (July 2011) the Court clarified that"awareness"of illegal content can in particular be


E-commerce, omni-channel retail and EU policy.pdf.txt

Market, those ICT systems sitting with internet providers, telecom providers, banks, postal operators, retailers, public authorities, etc. need to be able to †talk to each otherâ€.


Education - technology and connectedness.pdf.txt

Google user data requests...29 Figure E. 4. 4: Percentage of user-data requests filed by governments where Google provided at least some

of the data requested...30 9 Introduction 1. 1. The context for this study and the European Strategy and

Google user data requests9 Source: Google transparency reports 9 The category includes the following countries, from

which Google reported having received requests (not all countries are reported to have filed requests in all years covered:

Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary Italy, The netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United kingdom. It comprises user-data requests, which

Percentage of user-data requests filed by governments where Google provided at least some of the data requested10

Google transparency reports However, it has to be kept in mind that data mining is not only a tool for the surveillance of citizens and


Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development in Andalusia.pdf.txt

international reputation by attracting global firms, such as Microsoft and Google, to both recruit from the region as well as establish research branches in Waterloo region.


European B2B E-commerce Report 2014.pdf.txt

%3. ebay 8 %Mobile commerce accounted for nearly one third of all online sales in the UK in the fourth quarter of 2013.


Exploiting the Potential of Creative Digital Business Clusters - Steve Brewer and David Rees.pdf.txt

 http://www. standard. co. uk/news/techandgadgets/google- †chief- †london- †can- †be-Â

 Google  Campus  London  where  centres  of  excellence  are

http://www. standard. co. uk/news/techandgadgets/google- †chief- †london- †can- †be- â€


Forfas_South_East_Action_Plan_Publication.pdf.txt

13 Google maps 24 securing business friendly services that are faster and more convenient alternatives to using

waterfordbusinessinfo. ie web portal has been developed by Waterford City council in conjunction with the enterprise development agencies Waterford County Council has zoned 163ha †Waterford Knowledge Campusâ€.

services activities with companies such as Facebook, IBM, Dell, Google, HP, Cook and others 3 In-House Call centres


forfas-Regional-Competitiveness-Agendas-Southeast%20vol%20II.pdf.txt

Consider developing a regional web portal along the lines of the existing Waterford City website at http://www. waterfordbusinessinfo. ie


Fueling a Third Paradigm of Education The Pedagogical Implications of Digital, Social and Mobile Media.pdf.txt

it was free (Wikipedia, 2013a). Adventure had no graphics just words on an amber screen.

games collaboratively or competitively (Wikipedia, 2013b. And coming soon was something called a smart terminal,

courtesy of Moore†s Law to utilize it (Wikipedia, 2013c. But the confluence of these developments

legitimate peripheral participation (LPP)( Wikipedia, 2014a; Wikipedia, 2014b. In LPP, students engage actively in the real work of a discipline under the mentorship of a faculty member with

expertise in the discipline. Students studying history, for instance, might use a variety of mobile devices to conduct community history.

Wikipedia (2013a. History of massively multiplayer online role playing games. Retrieved on 9 june 2013 from https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/History of massively multiplayer online games

Wikipedia (2013b. Massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Retrieved on 9 june 2013 from http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Wikipedia (2013c. Moore†s law. Retrieved on 9 june 2013 from http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki

/Moore%27s law Wikipedia (2014a. Kinesthetic learning. Retrieved on 24 february 2014 from http://en. wikipedia org/wiki/Kinesthetic learning

Wikipedia (2014b. Legitimate peripheral participation. Retrieved on 24 february 2014 from http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Legitimate peripheral participation

Correspondence: John V. Pavlik, Professor, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, New brunswick, New jersey, United states


Fueling innovation through information technology in smes.pdf.txt

Fueling Innovation through Information Technology in SMES *by Clay Dibrell, Peter S. Davis, and Justin Craig

This paper describes a study that investigates the mediating effects of information technology (IT) on the relationships among product and process innovations and firm

performance (measured in multiple profitability and growth rate metrics. Using structural equation modeling on a sample of 397 small and medium-sized enterprises

SMES), we find evidence that (1) increases on the strategic emphasis placed on innovation, both product and process, positively impact the prominence managers


Grids Initiatives in Europe _2011.pdf.txt

www. google. at/url? sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0cbsqfjaa&url=http%3a%2 F%2fwww2. ademe. fr%2fservlet%2fgetbin%3fname%3d91375dbf7a06a5


Growing a digital social innovation ecosystem for Europe.pdf.txt

from Google and Amazon to Airbnb and Kickstarter. Huge sums of public money have supported digital innovation in business,

where commercial Internet providers weren†t providing a connection. The idea was to build a †mesh network†where each

commercial entities (like Google) and noncommercial entities (like Wikipedia were able to exploit the â€oenetwork effect. â€

Beyond the Internet, many new technol -ogies such as open hardware may have positive network externalities. Â

Wikipedia or Airbnb, but it may not apply easily to some other services such as e -democracy platforms, caring networks and

of which are based in Europe (Google controlling nearly 82%of the global search market and 98%of the mobile search

Google has developed the open source Android operating system and spawned innovation in applica -tions worldwide; Facebook has enabled

by US companies such as IBM, Google and Ciscos, partly because of the lack of alternatives Take for example the commercial success

of Google: Google has built already one of the world†s largest networks of computers and data centres for online-search results

and can repurpose their technology in or -der to expand into other data-driven ser

is supported the Google programme Google for Entrepreneurs36 that in 2011 created a campus where innovation and start-ups can meet

Big OTT are Google, Skype, Youtube Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and EBAY 4 Sestini, Fabrizio.``Collective awareness

platforms: Engines for sustainability and ethicsâ€.  Technology and Society Magazine, IEEE 31.4 (2012): 54-62

/45 http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki /Knowledge commons 46 http://bit. ly/1kivc4h 47 http://www. w3. org

50 http://es. wikipedia. org/wiki /Reinventing innovation policy Policy Tools and Action 20 http://ec. europa. eu

51 http://es. wikipedia. org/wiki /Interfaz de programaci%C3%B3n de aplicaciones 52 http://es. wikipedia. org/wiki

/Extensible markup language 53 http://es. wikipedia. org/wiki /Resource description framework 54 http://linkeddata. org /55 http://www. w3. org/TR

/rdf-sparql-query /56 http://www. theopeninter. net /57 http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki /Dataportability

58 http://www. w3. org/Social/WG 59 http://dcentproject. eu 60 http://es. wikipedia. org/wiki

/Hypertext transfer protocol secure 61 http://es. wikipedia. org/wiki /Red privada virtual 62 http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki /End-to-end encryption

63 https://abc4trust. eu /64 http://www. ftc. gov/system/files /documents/reports/data-brokers

-call-transparency-accountability -report-federal-trade-commission-may -2014/140527databrokerreport. pdf 65 http://www. citizenme. com 66 http://openpds. media. mit. edu

http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki /Arduino#mediaviewer/File: Arduino316 jpg Accessed 29th january 2015 Page 47


Harvard_THE ROLE OF ICT SECTOR IN EXPANDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY_2007.pdf.txt

Google. Google†s users †made up of connectors, mavens, and salesmen, to use Gladwell†s typology †applied

Rather than threatening Google, this external activity has made its product more essential and the company

Similarly, Google. org, the philanthropic arm of Google, is exploring approaches to economic development and poverty as one of three global

enabling companies such as Cisco, Intel, Google, Microsoft, and Visa to help shape policy environments that strengthen the

such as the Development Gateway Foundation, Global Knowledge Partnership, Google, Inter -American Development Bank, Peace corps, UN Foundation, US Agency for International Development, and World

Google. org. n d. Global Economic Development http://www. google. org/development. html (accessed September 21, 2007

49. Hammond et al 2007 50. United nations Development Programme (UNDP. Forthcoming. Growing Inclusive Markets: Business for Development and Development for

Google. org. n d. Global Economic Development http://www. google. org/development. html (accessed September 21 2007

Hammond, Allen L.,William J. Kramer, Robert S. Katz, Julia T. Tran, and Courtland Walker. 2007.


ICT and e-Business Impact in the Transport and Logistics Services Industry.pdf.txt

open source web portal, the Open source Observatory http://ec. europa. eu/idabc/en/chapter/452) to develop interoperability between applications

89 Wikipedia, http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Digital signature 90 American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Information security Committee

Amazon or ebay are already icons of e-commerce that changed the landscape of the retailing industry.

Wikipedia, http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Digital signature Williamson, O. E. 1985. The Economic Institutions of Capitalism.


Impact of ICT on Home Healthcare 2012.pdf.txt

-viders via a web portal or a health oriented network 20,21. Conversely, very few studies address patients†trustworthiness from the perspective of healthcare providers

Additional problems appeared with the growing use of web portals rating healthcare services. Patients often subscribe to expert websites and search information

One example is Google dashboard privacy tool, which through a web interface dis -plays to users what information about them is stored


industry_innovation_competitiveness_agenda.pdf.txt

and ebay combined, and still growing Osawa et al, 2014 This growth is taking place against a

giants like Google, and the different models of business they bring, will increasingly challenge more traditional modes of commerce in many fields.


InnoSupport - Supporting Innovation in SMEs.pdf.txt

If you use a search machine like google and search under â€oemethode 635â€, you will find that there are a

Amazon com is an online book retailer that is valued at $120 million. It is one of the most successful examples on

The UK version of Amazon com is Book Pages. This company has a loyalty points scheme to encourage customers to come back and

number of Web pages indexed (such as Google) index no more than sixteen per cent of the surface Web.

ï http://www. google. com ï http://www. alltheweb. com ï http://www. msn. com

ï http://www. yahoo. com 12.1.1.2. Databases The use of databases is a way to obtain extensive and exhaustive data,

ï http://www. google. com ï http://www. alltheweb. com ï http://www. msn. com

ï http://www. yahoo. com Databases ï http://www. census. gov/ipc/www/idbnew. html


INNOVATION AND SMEs BARRIERS TO INNOVATION IN SMEs.pdf.txt

In a concrete example of the effects that such policies may cause, Google Inc. cited troubles in obtaining work visas for its prospective employees as a reason to set

as reputed names as Google and Infosys, are complaining of a shortage of suitable candidates.


INNOVATION AND SMEs PRODUCTS AND SERVICES.pdf.txt

Amazon and ebay that created on-line bookstores and auctions rather than Barnes & noble and Sotheby†s


Innovation driven growth in Regions The role of Smart specialisation.pdf.txt

Cisco, Google Motorola (R&d centre), IBM (R&d centre), HP, Delphi (R&d centre Stakeholder and policy dialogues to achieve the ambitions

of Science, and Google Scholar: Strengths and weaknessesâ€, The FASEB Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2


Innovation in Romanian SMEs and its impact on performance.pdf.txt

popaion 2000@yahoo. com Professor Ph d. Dobrin Cosmin Management Faculty Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, Romania

cdobrin@yahoo. com Abstract†Romania, a New Member state of European Union, has undertaken a complex process to adapt to new

cnicolescu@yahoo. com Assistant Ph d. S. Ceptureanu Sebastian Management Faculty Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, Romania

ceptureanu@yahoo. com Assistant Ph d. S. Ceptureanu Eduard Management Faculty Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, Romania

eduard ceptureanu@yahoo. com that innovative efforts within SMES were especially focused on new products (34.87%),new technologies


Innovation in urban mobility_ policity making and planning.pdf.txt

to provide a unique internet portal to facilitate multimodal trip-planning in and between major urban


Innovation, Performance and Growth Intentions in SMEs.pdf.txt

and make little or no use of external knowledge (Wikipedia, n d Innovation has been studied in several forms in the entrepreneurship literature.


Innovation_in_SMEs._The_case_of_home_accessories_in_Yogyakarta__Indonesia_2013.pdf.txt

acquiescence bias and social desirability bias (www. wikipedia. org, 12-2-2013. To overcome these risks


ITIF_Raising European Productivity_2014.pdf.txt

companies such as Google and Facebook. 125 Higher taxes on ICT-producing companies may raise the price of ICT goods and services for everyone else.

With the great success of some of the world ICT leaders, such as Apple, Google, Intel, and

Greg Sterling, â€oefrance Wants To Tax Facebook, Google †Personal data Collection, ††Marketing Land

January 21, 2013, http://marketingland. com/france-wants-to-tax-facebook-google-personal data -collection-31196; Jacob Albert, â€oefrance Wants to Tax Data mining,

or Uber, or Google, or...†Bloombergview February 12, 2014, http://www. bloombergview. com/articles/2014-02-12/france-loves-tech-but-not

-amazon-or-uber-or-google-or -152. Miller and Atkinson, â€oeare Robots Taking Our Jobs, or Making Them?

â€oewill Not Let Norwegian Enterprises use Google Apps, †Datatilsynet, January 25, 2012 http://www. datatilsynet. no/English/Publications/cloud-computing/Will not-let-Norwegian-enterprises

-of-Google-Apps /184. â€oemerkel Proposes Secure European Web, †BBC News, February 15, 2014 http://www. bbc. com/news/world-europe-26210053


MIS2014_without_Annex_4.pdf.txt

1. 16 Growth in daily Google searches, 2007-2013.16 1. 17 Growth in Facebook monthly active users, 2004-2013 (millions of users...

1. 18 Wikipedia articles †total and English language, 2003-2013 (thousands of articles...17 1. 19 Fixed-broadband access in enterprises using the Internet, selected countries, 2005-2012.19

Twitter, Youtube, Whatsapp With more and more applications now available through mobile platforms (mobile apps), and the strong growth in mobile Internet uptake, an

Google remains the leading search engine in most countries, and accounts for around 90 per cent of the search market. 16 The number of

daily Google searches reached almost 6 billion by end 2013 (Chart 1. 16) and the total number

of searches made through Google in 2013 exceeded 2 trillion Social media sites have become the most

Growth in daily Google searches 2007-2013 Source: Partnership (2014), based on http://www. statisticbrain. com/google-searches

on Youtube, the leading international video -filesharing site with services in 61 countries. As of

early 2014, Youtube boasted more than 1â billion unique visitors monthly Other top popular websites include Amazon

Wikipedia and Linkedin as well as various news and online e-market sites at the national level

Wikipedia, the largest and most widely used online encyclopaedia featured more than 30 million articles by end

By February 2014, Wikipedia registered more than 20 billion page views per month by Internet users. At the same time, the proportion

Wikipedia articles †total and English language, 2003-2013 (thousands of articles Source: Wikipedia statistics at

http://stats. wikimedia. org/EN/Tablesarticlestotal. htm 0 5'000 10 000 '15 000 '20 000

Youtube) and blogs (e g. Twitter In the developing world, data on ICTS in enterprises are scarce

providers such as Google, Twitter, Facebook Whatsapp, Netflix, Amazon and many others captures a wide array of behavioural data

Google for example, is running about a thousand experiments at any given point in time (Varian 2013a). ) Telecom network operators make

providers such as Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. Big data from the ICT services industry are already helping to produce large-scale

development purposes is Google Flu Trends GFT). ) Following its launch in 2008, GFT was remarkably accurate in tracking the spread of

Google or other, local (financial, social etc services to provide additional insights. This could be done by using probabilistic analyses to match

Internet companies such as Google or Facebook By linking data collected from different sources and combining subscription data and usage

Twitter, Facebook or Google. For example ITU estimates suggest that 40 per cent of the world†s population uses the Internet.

the famous Google pagerank algorithm has spawned an entire industry of organizations that claim to enhance website page rankings, and

the declining veracity of Google Flu Trends GFT), researchers having found influenza-like illness rates as reflected by Google searches to

be no longer necessarily correlating with actual influenza virus infections (Ortiz et al. 2011 Recent research has shown that since 2009

actions of the population that turned to Google with its health queries, and which contributed

and more people turning to Google with their broader health questions, thereby introducing additional search terms (due to different

and producers of big data (Google, Facebook etc.)) †have an important role globally. More work is needed to understand fully the potential

6 See https://www. google. org/denguetrends /7 A good example of this is the Conference Board Help Wanted Online (HWOL) data series that measures the number of new

http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Deep packet inspection 16 It should be noted that there is not a harmonized methodology for the allocation of revenues from bundled packages to

http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Deep packet inspection 43 Based on interviews between LIRNEASIA and operators in South and Southeast asia

For more information, see http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Sector antenna 46 A media access control (MAC) address is a unique identifier that is assigned to network interfaces mostly by a hardware

http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/MAC ADDRESS 47 An international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number is a 15-digit number unique to the particular SIM in a subscriber†s

http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/International mobile subscriber identity 213 Measuring the Information Society Report 2014 List of references

Askitas, N. and Zimmermann, K. F. 2009), Google econometrics and unemployment forecasting. Retrieved from http://ftp. iza. org/dp4201. pdf

http://static. googleusercontent. com/media/research. google. com/en//archive/papers/initialclaimsus. pdf Choi, H. and Varian, H. 2012), Predicting the present with Google trends.

Economic Record, 88, 2†9. doi: 10.1111/j. 1475 -4932.2012.00809. x Cisco (2013), Cisco Visual Networking Index:

The parable of Google Flu: traps in big data analysis. Science New york, N y.),343 (6176), 1203†5. doi:

a comparison of traditional surveillance systems with Google Flu Trends. Plos One, 6 (4), e18687. doi:


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