Japan as Ubiquitous Economy
While others try to start into the era of ubiquitous computing – Japan tries harder. The country wants to become the lead in the Ubiquitous Economy. And their chances are quite good because they have a great infrastructure right now for example in web access via mobiles.
If you want to know more about just read the press release from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. [pdf, 26 pages]
Some of the facts:
What is the paper about:
○ Today, Japan faces various challenges associated with social life and economic activities due to changes in the social and economic environments including the declining and aging of the population.
○ Therefore, this paper studies the mechanism by which development of ubiquitous networks could transform the Japanese social and economic systems and create economic vitality.
Then they look into the IT market and it's development followed by an I would call it Web 2.0 overview. New forms of collaboration, new consumption and buying behaviors and new marketing trends, even labor economics is a topic:
Chapter 1 investigates and analyzes ubiquitous economy, which is the feature of this paper, and reports the results.
First, Section 1 indicates the trends in ICT industries, …
looking at economic activity toward achieving a ubiquitous
network society, and studies the impact of the increase in ICT investment and capital stock on the macroeconomy and
industrial productivity. Then, Section 2 to Section 6 discuss the impact of ubiquitous networks on social and economic
activities, mainly from the consumers' viewpoint, while Section 7 to Section 12 discuss such impact mainly from the
business and market viewpoint. Furthermore, Section 13 takes a look at information security and the digital divide as the
negative aspects of the development in ubiquitous networks.
Chapter 2 investigates and analyzes the current state of ICT industries supporting a ubiquitous economy.
Chapter 3 summarizes the basic trends in the ICT policies.