Information Technology & Economic Development

Facultatea de Studii Europene din cadrul Universitatii Babes-Bolyai anunta conferinta cu titlul Information Technology & Economic Development, ce se va desfasura joi, 22 mai, ora 16, sala Jean Monnet (sediul Facultatii de Studii Europene – Str. Em. de Martonne, nr. 1)
Prezintă :
Prof. Eileen M. Trauth, PhD
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Director, Center for the Information Society
Associate Dean for Diversity, Outreach & International Engagement

Ireland’s rise from a poor, peripheral country in Europe to a wealthy nation that is fully engaged on the global stage serves as an important illustrative case of how economic development can be achieved through the deployment of information technology. In the case of Ireland, the approach was to develop an indigenous IT sector by ‘importing’ expertise from foreign multinationals. In her Fulbright-sponsored, ethnographic study of the emergence of the information economy in Ireland, Trauth demonstrated the influence of factors in the socio-cultural context on the evolution of an information sector, its workers and workplaces. In particular, she showed the role that infrastructure, economy, culture and public policy each played in the evolution of Ireland’s information sector. Her latest work on IT and econmic development is examining the impact of the information sector on Irish society and the application of this research approach to regions in the USA.