John.Houghton@pobox.com
Research
Activities
Centre
for Strategic Economic Studies
Professor
and Director of the Information Technologies and the Information
Economy Program
Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria
University, Melbourne
The Information Technologies and the Information Economy Program focuses on the economic and organisational impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), including information industry development and policy, the application of ICTs across the economy and consequent structural change, emerging business models for information-based businesses and statistical indicators of information industry and infrastructure development
Current
& Recent Projects
Economic
implications of alternative scholarly publishing models for JISC (UK)
| Economics of Scholarly Publishing and the benefit/cost of Open
Access for DEST & OECD | Broadband & Internet Infrastructure
for the OECD | Globalisation and Trade in ICTs for the OECD |
Telecommunications in the Rapidly Emerging Economics for the OECD |
Statistical updates on Australia’s ICT Industries and Trade for
the ACS | Changing Research Practices in the Digital Information and
Communication Environment for DEST | State-based cluster studies of
the Electronics Industry for AEEMA | Investigation into General
Purpose Technologies ARC | and more...
Easi-OA
Research Project
Economic
and Social Impacts of Open Access
http://www.cfses.com/projects/Easi-OA.htm
Economic
Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models
Project
supported by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres/EconomicsScholarlyPublishing.aspx
'ICTs and the environment: A framework
for analysis'
Workshop on ICTs and Environmental
Challenges
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development and Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and
Innovation
Eigtveds Pakhus, Copenhagen (May 2008)
Available
from OECD
Webcast
at Danish Ministry
'Exploring the impacts of enhanced
access to publicly funded research'
The
Socioeconomic Effects of Public Sector Information on Digital
Networks: Toward a Better Understanding of Different Access and Reuse
Policies
U.S National Committee for CODATA Board on
International Scientific Organizations, U.S. National Academy of
Sciences
and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development
Paris (February 2008)
Available
from OECD
'Emerging ICT Market Strategy: South
Africa'
CSES & BMI-Techknowledge
Multimedia Victoria (December 2007)
Available
from MMV
'Global Chains: Australia's challenge in
the evolving global economy'
Competing from
Australia
Committee for Economic Development of Australia
(July 2007)
Available
from CEDA
'Broadband and Internet Infrastructure'
OECD Communications Outlook 2007 (July
2007)
Available
from OECD
'Communications in the Emerging BRICS
Economies'
OECD Communications Outlook 2007
(July 2007)
Available
from OECD
Australian ICT Trade
Update 2007
Australian Computer Society &
Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (March 2007)
Available
from CSES & ACS
Online delivery of
tourism services: Developments, issues and challenges
in
eds. Pease, W., Rowe, M. and Cooper, M.
Information
and Communication Technologies in Support of the Tourism Industry,
Idea Group, Hershey, PA.
Innovation in ICT: A
changing landscape
Telecommunications
Journal of Australia 56(3/4), pp93-105, Spring/Summer
2006
Available
from TSA
Global Chains:
Australia's Challenge in the Evolving World Economy
Committee
for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), Melbourne (November
2006)
Available
from CEDA
See also
Connecting
Global Chains
In Information Age,
15 Febraury 2007
Exploring the
Economic Impacts of Open Access: A Research Perspective
Keynote
Presentation at JISC Conference "Moving Towards Open Access",
Keble College, Oxford (September 2006)
PowerPoint
Available from JISC
Research
Communication Costs in Australia, Emerging Opportunities and Benefits
Report to the Department of Education,
Science and Training, Canberra (September 2006)
Report
available from DEST | Executive
Summary
'ICT Trade and
Globalisation of the ICT Sector'
In
OECD Information Technology Outlook 2006
OECD, Paris
(September 2006)
Available
from OECD
The
Economic Impact of Enhanced Access to Research Findings
CSES
Working Paper No.23, Victoria University, Melbourne (August 2006)
Available
from CSES
Scholarly
Communication Costs and Benefits: The Role of Repositories
Presentation at APSR event "The
Successful Repository" Brisbane (July 2006)
PowerPoint
Available from APSR
'The Global Knowledge
Economy'
In Ed. Rao,
J.N. Knowledge-Based Economy: An Introduction
ICFAI
University Press, Hydrabad (August 2006)
Available
from ICFAI Press
Research Practices &
Scholarly Communication in the Digital Environment
In
Eds. Grewal, B.S. and Kumnick, M. Engaging the New World:
Responses to the Knowledge Economy
Melbourne University
Publishing, Melbourne (May 2006)
Available
from Melbourne University Publishing
Australian ICT Trade
Update 2006
Australian Computer Society &
Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Sydney & Melbourne (March
2006)
Available
from CSES & ACS
Big Pipes: Connecting
Western Australia to the Global Knowledge Economy
Western
Australian Information and Communications Technology Forum, Perth,
April 2006
GQ-AAS
Available
from TIAC
The Australian
Software Industry & Vertical Applications Markets:
Globally
Competitive, Domestically Undervalued
(CIIER)
Department
of Communications, Information Technology and The Arts, Canberra,
April 2006
Available
from DCITA
Changing
Research Practices and Research Infrastructure Development
Higher
Education Management and Policy 17(1),
pp63-81, September 2005
Available
from OECD
Digital Broadband
Content: Scientific Publishing
Working
Party on the Information Economy, OECD, Paris, September 2005
Press
Release & Report Available from OECD
Scholarly
communication in a knowledge-based economy
ETD
2005: Evolution through discovery, Sydney, September 2005
Available
from ADT (ETD 2005)
Electronics Industry
Capability Mapping
Electronics
Industry Action Agenda, AEEMA, Canberra, August 2005
Available
from AEEMA
Internet and
Broadband Infrastructure
Employment and Productivity
Trade in
Communication Equipment
OECD Communications
Outlook 2005, OECD, Paris (August 2005)
Available
from OECD
Digital Delivery in
Distribution & Logistics
Working
Party on the Information Economy, OECD, Paris, May 2005
Available
from OECD
Economics of Publishing and the Future
of Scholarly Communication
In
Eds. Gorman, G.E. & Rowland, F. (2004) International Year Book
of Library and Information Management 2004-2005:
Scholarly
Publishing in an Electronic Era, Facet Publishing, London,
November 2004
Available
from Facet Publishing
Publications
& Project Reports
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