Chris Baillie ([email protected]) Peter Edwards Edoardo Pignotti This research is supported by the award made by the RCUK Digital Economy programme to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub; award reference: EP/G066051/1 Example A web service provides public transport information based on GPS observations (e.g. vehicle locations ) from passengers' mobile phones. The quality of these observations ...

digital credential, trust, negotiation, E-Services marketplaces, authorization, E-Services In the present economy, business-to-business (B2B) relationships are usually long-termed and characterised by a high degree of mutual pre-existing trust. With the advent of the Internet economy, E-Services marketplaces will provide an infrastructure where B2B relationships will be set up in a highly dynam...

A new approach is emerging for implementing e-Government. That approach draws on lessons learned by both “dot.coms” and brick-and-mortar (government and commercial) institutions in addressing challenges of the Digital Economy to enable “transformation by design”. “Transformation by design” marries a step-by-step approach to changing existing business infrastructure with innovation to accelerate...

Is there a 'new' economic geography of Information Technologies driven industries? Does the fast growth of the Digital Economy shape new regional specialization and industrial concentration? How do the different theories of agglomeration externalities contribute to the understanding of clustering dynamics in IT industries? This paper uses geographical data from 1992 and 1997 Census to examine s...

The third industrial revolution, combining Internet technology with globalization, produces an increasingly complicated e-business environment. There is no wonder that skew distributions, a striking empirical regularity in the hypercompetitive digital economy, have attracted the attention of many researchers recently. Little known by many, Herbert Simon had studied similar regularities in the i...

Each generation of digital innovation has caused a dramatic change in the way people work. Sharing economy is the latest trend of digital innovation, and it has fundamentally changed the traditional business models. In this paper, we empirically examine the impacts of the sharing economy platforms (specifically, Uber) on the labor market in terms of labor force participation, unemployment rate,...