Miscellaneous Resources


General Sites
People
Periodicals
Academic Institutions and Industry Affairs

General Sites

Davidson Data Center and Network
DDCN is an integrated, fully searchable online database on transition and emerging markets. It has three main components: a data locator, an archive and a clearinghouse. DDCN facilitates the discovery of existing data sets, preserves and makes widely available micro data and macro statistics from these economies free of charge.
Webconomist
A blog on web-related economics.
Cybergeography
Exploring the geographies of the Internet, the Web and other emerging Cyberspaces. See, in particular, An Atlas of Cyberspaces.
Portal on Global Digitalization
Focus is on the interaction between digital technologies and the conditions of the human life in the future.
Netcraft
Counts Web sites, reports various Web server statistics.
Economagic: Economic Time Series
68,000 time series of economic data.
Dr. T.'s EconLinks
Links to lots of economics sites.
Forecasting Principles
The accumulated wisdom of the ages ... about forecasting methods.
Peter Huber's homepage
Links to his writings, including his articles in Forbes.
Internet Culture
A Sociology Masters thesis by Tim North.
Idea Channel
Provides videotaped conversations between the world's leading scholars in a wide range of disciplines.
"Financial markets as Information Markets"
This paper is about financial markets as an example of information-focused markets.
The Institute of Economic Affairs
The IEA specialises in analysing market processes as a technical device for solving economic problems. The sections by the Health & Welfare Unit, and the Environment Unit will also have specialist appeal.
Office of Technology Assessment
Complete publications of the OTA from 1972-1996 available for downloading.
World Technology Evaluation Center
The World Technology Evaluation Center (WTEC) [formerly known as The Japanese Technology Evaluation Center (JTEC)] at Loyola College provide assessments of foreign research and development in selected technologies under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Center for Coordination Science at MIT
A group at MIT's Sloan School of Management that studies new ways of organizing human activity through the use of new technology.
Program for Research on Information Economics
At University of Michigan.
Computer History Association of California
 
Banques et Finance
a collection of links to financial resources and economic databases. The menus are in French, but they point to sources in English.
Internet Ecologies Area
The Internet Ecologies Area's research focuses on the relation between the local actions and the global behavior of large distributed systems, both social and computational. Foremost among these is the Internet. Other examples are provided by distributed information processing, large heuristic searches, ecologies, social organizations and markets.
Internet Millionaires List
A list of Internet related companies and their major shareholders that have reached that magical money barrier.
The Internet Society
A ton of useful information about the Internet.
The Reporters Network
The Reporters Network is a non-profit organization formed in October 1995 to promote the Internet as a research and communications medium for working journalists. Our goal is to provide a variety of services to the journalism community and the general public it serves.
Merit's Network Information Center
A wealth of information about the Internet, NSFNET, MERIT network, etc.
Educause
A collection of materials related to technology in higher education.
The Virtual Magistrate
The Virtual Magistrate is a specialized, on-line arbitration and fact-finding system for disputes involving online matters.
Web Site for Agent-based Computational Economics
Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) is roughly characterized as the bottom-up study of evolutionary economies modelled as decentralized systems of autonomous interacting agents.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
An organization concerned with issues involving public policy, privacy, and legal rights relating to electronic networks.
Coalition for Networked Information
The Coalition's mission is to promote the creation of and access to information resources in networked environments in order to enrich scholarship and to enhance intellectual productivity.
Telecom Information Server
Containing lots of useful links to information about telecommunications issues.
Total Telecom
Total Telecom is an online publication, from the publishers of Communications Week International and Communication International, that is the leading source for DAILY telecoms news and analysis on the WWW.
National Coordination Office for Computing, Information, and Communications
 
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
 
Commercial Internet Exchange
The Commercial Internet eXchange Association is a non-profit, 501(c)6, trade association of Public Data Internetwork service providers promoting and encouraging development of the public data communications internetworking services industry in both national and international markets.
Agorics
A Silicon Valley company that specializes in writing software for market processes. (The server they use is highly loaded so you may not always be able to access their home page.)
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
CPSR is a public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others interested in the impact of computer technology on society. As technical experts, CPSR members provide the public and policymakers with realistic assessments of the power, promise, and limitations of computer technology. As concerned citizens, we direct public attention to critical choices concerning the applications of computing and how those choices affect society.
internetMCI
MCI's Internet division's homepage.
Cable TV Labs
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. was established in May 1988 as a research and development consortium of cable television system operators.
The Bionomics Institute
A nonprofit educational foundation dedicated to replacing the traditional, mechanistic view of the economy with economy-as-ecosystem thinking.

People

Erik Brynjolfsson's homepage
Containing some interesting economics work on the "productivity paradox" and other aspects of information technology economics.
Jeff MacKie-Mason's homepage
Interesting work on information economics.
Joe Stiglit'z homepage
The Chief Economist at the World Bank.
 

Periodicals

Dow Jones Business Information Services
A service of the Wall Street Journal.
Personal Technology
A weekly artcile about computing and technology for intelligent non-technical people. Provided by the Wall Street Journal.
Wired Magazine's
If you're not Wired, you're not on the web!

Other Available Online Magazines

Academic Institutions and Industry Affairs

Telecommunications Program at the University of Pittsburgh.
 
Santa Fe Institute
Discovery Institute
Institute for the Future
 

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