OECD Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy, Broadband driving growth: policy responses, 3 october 5
Beyond a certain level of connectivity (PC, Internet access, on-line information or marketing), not all SMES will necessarily â€oecatch up†with large firms,
SMES3 have recognised gradually the positive impact that ICTS, such as computer terminals e-mail and the Internet and their applications can have on their business. 4 In advanced OECD countries
computer terminal, usually with Internet access. Many types of business software can improve information and knowledge management within the firm, leading to more efficient business processes and better firm
computers increases the efficiency of business processes such as documentation, data processing and other back-office functions (e g. organising incoming orders
computer-mediated networks, such as the Internet, EDI (electronic data interchange), Minitel and interactive telephone systems 10
share valuable business knowledge and experience, once entered into the office computer, simultaneously This is very different from paper records,
performance, others have shown no relation between computer use and firm performance. 5 A study of
Eurostat survey on e-commerce shows that nine out of ten SMES were equipped with computers at the end
or sales, is associated not with computer use (Bitler, 2001 12 Differences in Internet access in the 21 countries for which data are available seem to be greater
Note 3. Internet and other computer-mediated networks Source: OECD, ICT database and Eurostat, Community Survey on ICT usage in enterprises 2002, May 2003
Computers and access to the Internet have become common in most OECD countries, but sales
Taking a wide definition of electronic commerce to cover transactions over computer-mediated networks including traditional EDI) and inter-firm transactions,
and placed refer to Internet and other computer-mediated networks 4. All businesses 5. Orders received
and placed over the Internet and other computer-mediated networks Source: OECD, ICT database, August 2002;
or placed over the Internet and other computer-mediated networks Source: OECD, ICT database, August 2002;
computers with Internet access in rural farming village. The computer, typically housed in the farmer†s
house, is linked to the Internet via phone lines or, increasingly by a VSAT connection. It serves an average
The farmers can use the computer to assess daily closing prices on local markets, as well as to track global price trends
In 1996 a company employee bought a personal computer at his own expense to use the Internet
Percentage of businesses using a computer with ten or more employees 0 5 10 15
as incompatibility between systems (e g. central/computer reservation systems) and the dominance of relatively small agents and suppliers with less ICT capability may impede efficient
violin, which the customer can listen to through a desktop computer. The price of the instruments ranges from
Not all SMES will â€oecatch up†with large firms beyond a certain level of connectivity (PC
buy a computer, get connected and set up a Web site and reports on ICT and e-commerce
contributes to building computer and Internet literacy in SMES United kingdom Learndirect SMES are a priority group for the on-line service.
/Bitler, M. P. 2001), â€oesmall Businesses and Computers: Adoption and Performanceâ€, preliminary draft October Bricklin, D. 2001), â€oewhat†s Been Successful in B2c†(available at
Finally, m-commerce (electronic commerce conducted from a mobile phone, tablet etc. in the EU plays a more modest part in the growth of electronic commerce than in the USA and
"computer knowledge "Stakeholders sometimes defend a differentiated approach on the basis that the means by
equipment, including computers, smartphones or other devices connected to the internet Users should be able to know
they can infect computers with viruses and the illegal offer of pharmaceuticals affects consumer confidence and threatens
Today, with the availability of adequate computer support for reading text, books have become services
computer that remotely communicates with the Smart Office application server, which runs local Linksmart middle ware and the Nosql system
Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, Valencia, Spain, January 2012 12) IS°FDIS 9241-210 (2009.
IEEE Computer Society WASHINGTON DC, USA, 254-259. DOI=10.1109 /ICSS. 2013.35 http://dx. doi. org/10.1109/ICSS. 2013.35
-chip, the company†s smallest computer. The fact that this chip is so small means it can be inte
the first to develop a mobile device for banking activ -ities, launched in May 2010. Square allows users in
The arrival of the ipad and its apps allowed the Finnish industry to break out of its frozen
•Computer skills as query languages, database design, mining and interactive data analysis scripting or programming languages, expert
enable digital components (including small computers and electronics to be embedded in them. Many intelligent clothing, smart clothing, wearable technology
-mination of origin and counting of mobile devices to establish where groups of people come from, litres
and computer engineers called Bellkor's Pragmatic Chaos. The group developed software that is at least 10%more accurate than Netflix's current software
2005, over a period of three weeks, by means of computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI.
and was implemented by means of computer-assisted telephone interviewing. Data collection was done over a 3-week period in December 2005.
and was implemented by means of computer-assisted telephone interviewing. Data collection was done over a 3-week period in December 2005.
and computer engineers called Bellkor's Pragmatic Chaos. The group developed software that is at least 10%more accurate than Netflix's current software
-ation is even worse in software and computer ser -vices. SAP was the only European company spending
1) computers and automated business equipment,(2) microorganisms and genetic engineering,(3) lasers, and (4) semi
class computer and automated business equipment the share of the EU-27 (the current 27 members of
fields such as †pharmaceuticalsâ€, †computers office machineryâ€, †telecommunications†and †electronics†than in medium technology fields
ICT hardware, including computers and peripherals semiconductors, and telecommunications equipment Europe declined from 63%in 1961 to 41%in 1994
largest effect were computer and office equipment and electronic components. In addition, these sectors showed the largest spillover effects to other indus
-search in the underlying fields, particularly computer science, and industrial competitiveness. We will use original evidence, admittedly of preliminary type, to
small panel of scientific authorities in computer sci -ence, in both European and US universities, to list
Luckily, computer science and the computer in -dustry have been the object of a massive historical literature, that has highlighted several key factors
-15 computer, based on Harry Huskey†s 1953 design at Wayne State university, Detroit, MI. Thus in the ear
-ing the computer. Soon after WWII, the University European competitiveness: IT and long-term scientific performance
by a group of universities and computer users which held a meeting at the Computation Center of the
personal computer (PC) in the 1980s, but also in the huge growth of the videogame industry and of soft
-tion of computers, while after the emergence of a dedicated computer industry they were rather com
Indeed, the origins of the computer technology are to be found in 20th century European science, particularly in the work of two intellectual
computer, the universal Turing machine (Davis 2000). ) He had visited Princeton in 1936, where he met the great logician Alonzo Church and von
-program computer, conformed to the Von neumann architecture, was completed and labelled the Man -chester automatic digital machine (MADM)( Lav
automatic computer (EDSAC) was realized at Cambridge. Here Maurice Wilkes developed ideas that prepared for high-level programming languages
years of the computer era the UK was head-to-head with the USA. Ironically, as Moreau notes
A commercial computer, known as LEO was installed at a company in 1951, well before ENIAC (Campbell-Kelly, 1989;
In France the theoretical roots of computer sci -ence were laid down as early as the 1930s.
computers started with the pioneering work of Konrad Zuse well before WWII. Zuse started his
and large computer manufacturers emerged. How -ever, a sharp difference seems to emerge between the evolution of the technology in the USA and
The computer originated in the academic envi -ronment. Zuse and IBM are special cases. From
computer has an essential abstract side, most visible in programming, and abstract automati -zation is at least not a usual industrial subject
The abstract nature of computer objects (e g. data procedures) allowed a process of progressive trans
This is roughly confirmed for computer science (79.4%on the diagonal cell) but not for mathematics and engineering
Mathematics Engineering Computer science Other disciplines No Phd Total Number%Number%Number%Number%Number%Number
-vations of the PC (in the 1980s) and the internet (in the 1990s) were introduced, the US system already
waves of IT associated to the PC and the internet ex -actly because they had experienced already the early
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no computer-assisted telephone interviews Nr. Basis Question/Information Answers 1<Filter for companies growing 20%or more
no computer-assisted telephone interviews Nr. Basis Question/Information Answers 1<Filter for companies growing 20%or more
school inside the Authomatics and Computer Faculty of the †Gheorghe Asachi†University another one inside the Electronics, Telecommunications and Information technology
telecommunications and software, computer programming, mecatronics, security, e-health, ITC for transport, new media, irrespectively
•High performance computing and new computational models A3. ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT •Increasing end-use energy efficiency
26 Computer, Electronic and Optical 2. 3 29 Motor vehicles 3. 1 NACE Description Location Quotient NACE Description
02 Forestry and Logging 19.9 26 Computer, Electronic and Optical 6. 1 05 Coal mining 17.1 27 Electrical Equipment 3. 5
Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products 2. 1 3. 2 3. 0 3. 4
Manufacture of Computers and Peripheral Equipment; Other Information technology and Computer Service Activities; Data processing, hosting and related activities;
Computer programming activities; Web portals; Computer programming activities networks of the future, networked marketing and media and 3d internet
flexible organic and large area electronics, personal health and preventive care systems, research and innovation IT network, etc
The local universities are especially strong in natural sciences, mathematics, computer science, food engineering, agriculture, as well as medical and veterinary sciences.
personal computers and the information available at the level of internet networks as well as the continuous development of services using as support the internet created
reduced use of personal computers (only 35%of the households have access to a PC), a reduced coverage of electronic broadband
communication services (30%of the population lives in cities with no coverage of broadband communication services) and low incomes, especially in the rural zones1
The purchase cost terminals (PCS, laptops, mobile phones, mobile smartphone, etc) is rather low as compared to previous years
-penetration rate of PC at the level of the population -penetration rate of broadband connections at the level of the
computer at the level of companies -penetration rate of broadband connections at the level of companies
computers with access to broadband connections -penetration of public buildings with broadband connections Providing relevant
computers and Internet -the degree of digital alphabetization of the public administration Based on the objectives formulated before the elaboration of the strategy on the
Rate of available computers at households level 26 (in 2006 40 60 Percentage of persons that use the
Companies with computer 98,4 98,6 Companies with Local area network 90,9 86,4 Companies with internet 97,9 97,2
Personal computer using 50,1 53,5 Staff using internet 42,7 43,8 Companies with website 66,6 67,0 Companies using digital signature 28,0 24,4
Households with computer 74,1 71,5 Households with Internet 69,0 63,9 Households with broadband 66,5 61,9
Population using computer 68,0 69,3 Population accessing Internet 70,1 67,1 Population purchase through internet 22,6 18,9
http://i3a. unizar. es, IT complex systems with the support of a super computer http://bifi. unizar. es
than 10 employees had compared computers with 71.6%at the national level. In the case of companies with more than 10 employees, these percentages increased to 98%.63.7
ratio of students per computer, this figure has been decreasing in Castilla y Leã n as well
with computers and devices and Internet access, high use of ecommerce, high percentage of digital natives;
mobile devices Public Government •Broad development of e-Government and availability of applications and resources
•†Computer  equipment  and  Internet  access  digital  natives
31.4%,Industrial and Commercial Machinery and Computer Equip -ment), SIC 34 (11.98%,Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery
%Industrial and commercial machinery and computer equipment 35 173 31.40 31.40 Fabricated metal products, except machinery and transportation equipment 34 66 11.98 43.38 2 10.00 10.00
Electronic and other electrical equipment and components, except computer equipment 36 43 7. 80 60.25
and your PC is connected to the Internet, simply click on the link. You†ll find Statlinks appearing in more OECD books
technologies such as computer-numerically-controlled production tools have made it possible for small firms in many industries to produce small batches as efficiently as large
circuit, the personal computer. Incremental innovations are the opposite: small improvements on existing products and processes.
computers and office machinery (30; electronics-communications (32 scientific instruments (33. KISA comprises: post and telecommunications (64;
computer and related activities (72; research and development (73 3. An overview on the ORBIS database is given in Annex 3. A1
including aerospace, pharmaceuticals, computers and office machinery, electronics -communications, and scientific instruments Incremental innovation An improvement on existing products or processes that is achieved through internal
computer and related activities; research and development Learning failure A type of systemic failure occurring when firms in an innovation system have not
Playroom, Visual Arts Room and Workshop, Computer Rooms, Dental care Office Cafeteria, Kitchen and Pantry, in addition to a Multipurpose Sports Court within its facilities
Computers and Society, September 13-19 Caves, R, . & Walshok, M. 1999). â€oeadopting Innovations in Information technology, †Cities, 16 (1), 3-12
Computer-Mediated Communication, 3 (1), http://www. ascusc. org/jcmc/vol3/issue1/garton. html GÃ tzl,
and Europe, †Proceeding of International Association of Computer Information systems Pacific 2005 Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, May 19-21
Mobile devices and social media have been an important driving force for example in the Healthcare industry, par ticularly around the power patient
PC ownership in the Southeast (70.0%)is below the national average (of 72.7%),especially in South Tipperary (65.7%).
computer software products and services Also in this sector are the traditional media stalwarts such as photography, print covering newspapers and magazines, radio, TV and book publishing and retail,
computer engineers. The ICT sector currently lacks people with the right skills to accomplish a number of functions
Computer algorithms are better at diagnosing severe cancer than humans, Kenneth Cukier told Euractiv, and big data can predict
It†s a demonstrable fact that a computer algorithm is better at diagnosing severe cancer than a human.
five has no computer experience Age disparities were detected also with high school pupils having sometimes better
1. The Computer Revolution, the"Productivity Paradox"and the Economists Over the past forty years, computers have evolved from a specialized and limited role in the information
processing and communication processes of modern organizations to become a general purpose tool that can be
computers"were surrounded large machines by peripheral equipment and tended by specialized technical staff working in specially constructed and air conditioned centers,
desktops and work areas of secretaries, factory workers and shipping clerks, often side by side with the telecommunication equipment linking organizations to their suppliers and customers.
In the process, computers and networks of computers have become an integral part of the research and design operations of most
enterprises and, increasingly, an essential tool supporting control and decision-making at both middle and top
In the latter half of this forty year revolution, microprocessors allowed computers to escape from their â€oeboxes, †embedding information processing in a growing array of artifacts as diverse as greeting cards
It was at that point, in the midst of the â€oepersonal computer revolution, †that mounting concerns about the
"You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.""1 Almost overnight this contrasting juxtaposition achieved the status of being treated as the leading
as a consequence, the emergence of modern computer, telecommunication and satellite technologies have changed fundamentally the structure of the American economy. â€
the rise of computer capital, and OCAM (office, computing and accounting machinery) capital more generally
such a small fraction of GDP that the rapid growth of real computer assets per se can hardly be expected to be
computers and related information equipment and software--due in part to misplaced technological enthusiasm and also to exaggeration of the relative scale of those capital expenditures, or
regard to the computer revolution's potential economic impact, I should make it clear from the outset that
disappointments with the impact of computers upon the more readily measurable forms of task-productivity.
argument here is that the historical course of the development of the personal computer as a general-purpose
and computer productivity paradox are first and foremost consequences of a mismeasurement problem must produce a consistent account of the timing and
questions we should briefly review their bearing on the puzzle of the slowdown and the computer productivity
The increasing proliferation of new goods and its connection with the application of computers, electronic
or computer software titles, the count of which is in the neighborhood of a quarter of a million), the multiplication of the number of models available for consumers to
Of course, some progress has been made in resolving the computer productivity paradox by virtue of the introduction of so-called â€oehedonic†price indexes for the output of the computer and electronic business
equipment industries themselves. These indexes reflect the spectacularly rapid decline in the price-performance ratios of such forms of capital.
Thus, the â€oehedonic†correction of computer and related equipment prices has done wonders as a boost to the growth rate of output and multifactor productivity in the producing industry;
token, the hedonic deflation of investment expenditures on computer equipment contributes to raising the measured growth of the computer capital services,
which are used intensively as inputs in a number of sectors including banking, financial services and wholesale trade within the service sector.
computer-capital intensity, and therefore in overall tangible capital-intensity, supports the growth rate of labor
The first involves the surprising appearance of â€oeexcess rates of return on computer capital. †These
industry producing computer equipment. See, e g.,, Wykoff (1995) for an evaluation of other dimensions of the distortions
computer investments, and the weaker (time series) effects gauged in terms of task productivity, might indicate simply that very high gross private rates of return are associated with such capital expenditures.
the price-performance ratio of new computer equipment has been falling, these seemingly â€oeexcess†private returns would be called for to equalize net private rates of return on various assets held by the company
value of company tangibles and the market valuation of computer-intensive firms for concluding that the
23 Brynolfsson and Yang (1997, revised 1999) report that computer usage is associated with very high calculated values of
The problem of non-market production of intangibles in the form of computer software was relatively
4. Troubles with Computers: Effects of General Purpose Machines on Task-Productivity Laying the whole burden of explanation on the notion that existing concepts and methods are inadequate
in accounting for the effects of the computer revolution is, however, not satisfactory. Even if a large share of
that there are real problems in delivering on the productivity promises of the computer revolution 4. 1 Component performance and system performance
A common focus of attention in the computer revolution is the rapidity with which the performance of
It is recognized now widely that the costs of personal computer ownership to the business organization may be tenfold the size of the acquisition costs of the computer itself. 24 Many of these costs are unrelated to the
24 Some of these costs are recorded directly while others are part of the learning investments being made by firms in formal
performance of microprocessor components and for many applications, the use of personal computers is therefore relatively unaffected by microprocessor performance improvements.
standpoint, the relatively constant unit costs imposed by personal computer ownership have been further compounded by the costs of the continuing spread of the technology throughout the organization.
however, it is apparent to most sophisticated users of computers that the extension of these capabilities also creates a vast new array of problems that must be solved to achieve desired
computer-assisted task may fill the time previously allotted for its completion. Surely, this is not the average
computer technology that has characterized the personal computer revolution, provided by David and Steinmueller (1999 Section 7 15
4. 2 The general purpose computing trajectory, from mainframes to the PC revolution The widespread diffusion of the stored program digital computer is intimately related to the
popularization of the personal computer as a"general purpose"technology for information processing, and the incremental transformation of this"information appliance"into the dominant technology of information
The historical process by which this was achieved in the case of the personal computer has had major implications,
not only for the success of personal computer technology and the hardware and software industries based upon it,
For the personal computer, as for its parent the mainframe, and its cousin the minicomputer, much
adaptation and specialization has been required to apply a general purpose information processing machine to particular purposes or tasks.
computer. It is something of an historical irony that the core elements of the adaptation problems attending this
The origins of the personal computer required the invention of the microprocessor which was a technical
computers to allow their use for specialized control and computation applications supported the birth of the
minicomputer industry. These two developments provided the key trajectories for the birth of the personal
computer. As microprocessors became cheaper and more sophisticated and applications for dedicated information processing continued to expand,
a variety of task-specific computers came into existence One of the largest markets for such task specific computers created during the 1970's was that for
dedicated word-processing systems, which appeared as an incremental step in office automation, aimed at the task of producing documents repetitive in content
dedicated word processors were displaced rapidly by personal computers during the mid-1980's, as the latter were perceived to be more"flexible
offered by sources other than the computer vendors. 27 The dedicated word processor's demise was mirrored by
Digital Equipment Corporation, the leading minicomputer manufacturer retreated from its vertical marketing strategy of offering computer systems specifically designed for newspapers, manufacturing
strategy, greatly accelerated during the 1980's with the advent of the large-scale personal computer platforms
Moreover, personal computers could use many of the same peripherals, such as printers: because the widespread adoption of the new technology raised the demand
28similar decisions were made by all of the U s. computer manufacturers. See the discussion in Steinmueller (1996
The disappearance of task-based computing in favor of general purpose personal computers and general purpose (or multipurpose) packaged software was completed
evolution of the personal computer can therefore be seen as cutting across the path of development of an entire
By 1990, then, the personal computer revolution while seizing control of the future of information processing had left carnage in its wake,
promise that the PC would match the computing performance of the mainframes of yesteryear. What was not
spread of partially networked personal computers supported the development of new database and data entry tasks, new analytical and reporting tasks,
The local activities within the organization that were identified as candidates for personal computer applications often could
embedded in mainframe computers and the growing proliferation of personal computers. The primary bridge between these application environments was the widespread use of the IBM 3270, the DEC VT-100 and other standards for"intelligent
"data display terminals, the basis for interactive data display and entry to mainframe and minicomputer systems.
introduction, personal computers had software enabling the emulation of these terminals, providing further justification for their adoption
which general purpose personal computers came to be furnished with"general purpose"personal computer software. It may be accepted that general purpose
hardware and software in combination did"empower"users to think of"insanely great"new applications--to
complementary of these dual"general purpose enginesâ€--personal computer hardware and packaged software --has the side-effect of foreclosing the apparent need for more specialized task-oriented software development. 31
community that continuous technological progress and upgrading of computers, with which they are centrally engaged, is ultimately for the benefit of the user.
â€oethe computer. †Recent work in the spirit of the new growth theory has sought to generalize on the idea (formulated by
32 As quoted in W. Wayt Gibbs, â€oetaking Computers to Taskâ€, Scientific American, July, 1997
By drawing an explicit analogy between â€oethe dynamo and the computer, †David (1991 sought to use the U s. historical experience to give a measure of concreteness to the general observation that an
5. 1 Diffusion, dynamos and computers Although central generating stations for electric lighting systems were introduced first by Edison in
Recent estimates of the growth of computer stocks and the flow of services therefrom are consistent with
when computers had evolved not yet so far beyond their limited role in information processing machinery, computer equipment and the larger category of office, accounting
and computing machinery OCAM) were providing only 0. 56 percent and 1. 5 percent, respectively, of the total flow of real services from
ratio of computer equipment services to all producers†durable equipment services in the U s Does the parallel carry over also,
experienced during the 1979-1997 phase of"the computer revolution";"it took 25 years for the electrified percent
the same quantitative change has been accomplished for the computer within with a span of only 18 years.
quality of the computer stock; whereas the electrification diffusion index simply compares horsepower rating of
growth of the ratio of computer equipment services to all producers'durable equipment services in the U s. turns
computer capital formation to make a substantial contribution to raising output growth in the economy point to the rapid
comparison of alternative estimates of net and gross basis computer service"contributions to growth "35 If we extrapolate from the (slowed) rate at
electrification of industry as to render illegitimate any attempt to gain insights into the dynamics of the computer
computer equipment has been plummeting so far exceeds the rate of fall in the real unit costs of electric energy
computer services for 1987-1993 to have been-7. 9 percent per annum, and compares that to-7. 0 percent per
electricity and quality adjusted computer services hardly warrants dismissing the relevance of seeking some insights into the dynamics of the transition to new general purpose technology by looking back at the dynamo
computer services--and, by implication, the comparison just reported--may be misleading. He contends that the hedonic price indexes for computers that come bundled with software actually would have fallen faster than
the (unbundled) price-performance ratios that have been used as deflators for investment in computer hardware If so, Sichel†s (1997) price indexes of quality adjusted â€oecomputer services†(from hardware and software) would
pointed out that the bundled PC operating system has grown so large that more processing power does not
Furthermore, in the same vein it may be noticed that the slower rate of fall in computer services prices as
inasmuch as the utility of (net) computer power 37 Fortuitously, these dates bound the period in
regime transition hypothesis on the grounds that the analogy between computer and dynamo is flawed by the
putative) discrepancy between the rate at which prices associated with electricity and computer services. Such
computer and dynamo, once again While there still seems to be considerable heuristic value in the historical analogy that has been drawn
between"the computer and the dynamo,"a cautious, even skeptical attitude is warranted in regard to the predictions for the future that some commentators have tried to extract from the existence of the points of close
it perhaps was still too soon to be disappointed that the computer revolution had failed to unleash a sustained
whatsoever about the future temporal pace of the computer's diffusion Least of all does it tell us that the detailed shape of the diffusion path that lies ahead will mirror the
likely to displace the use of personal computers in the production and distribution of information that must be
purpose computer was invented originally. What they do promise are greater and more systematic efforts to
mass-produced personal computer was neither appropriate nor robust. These more"task specialized"devices have become sufficiently ubiquitous to provide the infrastructure for task-oriented data acquisition and display
Secondly, the capabilities of advanced personal computers as â€oenetwork servers†have become sufficiently well developed that it is possible for companies to eliminate the chasm between the personal
computer and mainframe environment by developing the intermediate solution of client-server data processing systems. This development is still very much in progress
and resource sharing during the personal computer era. In this new networked environment, the re-configuration of work organization becomes a central issue;
virtually all personal computers can be configured similarly, facilitating not only intra-company network but also inter-company networking
The"general purpose"trajectory followed by the spectacular development of personal computer technology has reduced greatly the price-performance ratio of the hardware,
as personal computers were added to existing mainframe capacity rather than substituted for it, and, indeed, were utilized under by being allocated the role of intelligent terminals
them to be linked through sophisticated networks to other such appliances, mainframe computers and distributed databases, thereby creating complex and interactive intelligent systems.
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