Kenneth E. Corey

e-Business and e-Commerce

e-business uses information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve and expand the operation and functions of an organization. It is a recent phenomenon, with online commerce dating from the commercialization of the Internet in the early 1990s. e-business has many dimensions, including its relationships between business, government, and consumers, as well as in terms of intermediate and final goods and services. The global nature of the network society, combined with changing production locations and different economic, cultural, linguistic, and legal norms creates a complex set of geographies for each element of e-business.

Intelligent Corridors: Outcomes of Electronic Space Policies

coalescing urban and urbanizing areas was recognized as a new form of urban development for its time. In addition to physical development, the U.S. Northeastern Megalopolitan corridor was composed of intangible activities that Gottmann called “quaternary” economic activities. These services were concerned mostly with the processing of information, especially information that could be used in decision making. In those days, the information largely was stored and transmitted on paper. Today, new kinds of corridors are emerging, composed of, and driven by, both tangible physical development and intangible services development; however, the development of these new corridors is driven by information technology (IT) and telecommunications technologies, both infrastructural and informational. The result is a form of digital development and electronic space known as “intelligent corridors.” Intelligent corridors represent the physical source of electronic space. The term “electronic space” is used to encompass the locational relationships and interplay between information technology (IT) and telecommunications technologies on the one hand, and the economy, society, and public policies on the other hand. These dynamics have changed our perception of space and distance. For example, the use of the World Wide Web enables us to access information swiftly and, IN the 1950s, geographer Jean Gottmann began the systematic study of Virginia and other areas of the U.S. northeastern seaboard, a region that he termed Megalopolis. This corridor of Gottmann

Approaching Ubiquity: Global Trends and Issues in ICT Access and Use

After more than a century of telephony and twenty years of the Internet, the world presents a mosaic of the application and use of information and communication technologies. The influences of ICT form and function are organized by the authors into four realms of ICT characteristics. Each dimension is a classification employed across space to show the scale and scope of ICT use. Within each dimension there is a range of experiences evident across the global information society, so that it forms a spectrum. The four spectra that help define information society are devices, access, culture, and governance. The paper examines how different places are experiencing recent and new information technologies, and draws attention to the importance of the local, as well as the global, when analyzing ICT. The four spectra are represented by data from 19 city states and heavily urban areas globally to illustrate the rich diversity of the ICT landscape. Evolving characteristics of ICT application and use show how different places—cities, regions, countries—create different environments for ICT.

Planning and Implementing Capital Cities – Lessons from the Past and Prospects for Intelligent Development in the Future: The Case of Korea

Some of history’s largest engineering projects have been planned capital cities and administrative governmental centers. They are important because of their various long-term and costly impacts on their respective regions, countries and global affairs. Process improvements are illustrated here by using the empirical context of a 2002 presidential campaign pledge by and recent initiatives of the preceding president of the Republic of Korea to establish a new capital for South Korea. The chapter illustrates an approach whereby the ideas and concepts of local planners and decision makers, along with input from other informants, may be used to construct and integrate futures planning scenarios intended to promote initial broad public debate. Further, this approach may be used to stimulate forward-leaning strategic planning innovation in on-going preparation for the ultimate possible reunification of the two countries of Korea and the realization of the development of one nation throughout the Korean peninsula. This approach to the planning practice has been characterized as intelligent development. The approach has potential for enhancing the effectiveness of planning and implementing other megaengineering efforts, especially ones that are expected to have a significant impact at the community, regional, societal and economy levels.