Raymond Morel 3959 days ago
Digital Economy |
The shift from analogue to digital information technology led to a rapid decline in computing costs, the emergence of the internet as a communication tool and the proliferation of day-to-day applications on the internet that have profoundly affected businesses and other organisations, and private lives. It has brought many benefits to consumers, businesses and governments but it has also created new problems. Policy makers are confronted with these issues and are struggling to put in place appropriate policy responses.
These issues are also challenging for social scientists. They often require the design of new methodological tools to tackle the questions and the compilation of new data sets to test the various views and models. Traditional data supplies from national statistical offices are often insufficient since most digital economy data are held by private operators in the digital economy who are hesitant to share this commercially valuable information.
The JRC/IPTS Digital Economy Research Programme started in January 2012 and aims to address some of the most important economic issues linked to digital information technology. It examines the Digital Economy from different angles: