Recent Submissions

  • Editorial 

    Preston, Paschal; Wickham, James (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)
    This special issue of The Economic and Social Review presents a selection of papers from the conference Ireland, Europe and the Global Information Society held in Dublin in Spring 1997. The background to this conference ...
  • The internet and democratic participation: uses of ICTs by voluntary and community organisations in Ireland 

    Trench, Brian; O'Donnell, Susan (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)
    This paper explores the implications of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) for community and voluntary sector organisations in Ireland and reports on the initial findings of the authors' research ...
  • Beyond the "Information Society": selected atoms and bits of a national strategy in Ireland 

    Preston, Paschal (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)
    This paper seeks to explore a number of key issues related to the direction and components of a coherent information sector strategy and more targeted national innovation networks in the Irish context, with a particular ...
  • Where is Ireland in the global information society? 

    Wickham, James (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)
    Ireland's current position within the "global information society" depends upon the previous history of industrialisation by invitation. The paper begins by outlining this experience and then suggesting that it has created ...