Determinants of Internet standards adoption: The case of South Korea

We develop an adoption model of infrastructure technologies and test it with survey data collected from companies in six industries in South Korea (hereafter: Korea). The implementation of a new Internet standard such as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) depends on the usefulness of the technology to the adopting organizations and the environment in which they operate. The adoption of IPv6 in Korea is mostly driven by a governmental strategy that created user demand, and normative pressure. IPv6 adoption in Korea is also driven by perceived resource concentration and power due to the uneven allocation of IPv4 addresses. Conversely, killer applications, technical sponsorship and financial factors had no influence on the adoption decision by Korean companies. Taken together, the findings of our explorative study suggest the need to consider technical as well as social and policy factors to understand the adoption dynamics of infrastructure technologies.     

Electronic commerce and free speech

For commercial purveyors of digital speech, information and entertainment, the biggest threat posed by the Internet isn't the threat of piracy, but the threat posed by free speech -- speech that doesn't cost any money. Free speech has the potential to squeeze out expensive speech. A glut of high quality free stuff has the potential to run companies in the business of selling speech out of business. We haven't had to worry about this before, because speaking in a meaningful way to a large audience was expensive, and people couldn't afford to do serious mass speaking for free for very long. The Internet has made it much cheaper. It doesn't take much to give out information to the whole world, every day, for free, for years. And people do. If we are trying to increase the abundant dissemination of information, free speech is good. If we are trying to increase commerce in information, free speech is arguably bad, in that it competes with pay speech. Information merchants would obviously prefer that the only speech in the marketplace be pay speech. In the past two years, commercial content owners have scored significant progress in herding free speakers off the Net. There's an important synergy between persuading the government to give your industry some friendly new laws or regulations, and using new and old legal tools to make life more difficult or expensive for inconvenient competitors who aren't necessarily doing anything illegal. Recently, businesses have been able to combine the two strategies to make the Internet a much safer place to sell speech, by making the Internet a less friendly, more dangerous place to give away speech for free.     

论韩国造船工业的发展和技术创新

韩国作为新兴工业化国家,其造船工业的兴起是世界工业发展史上的一个奇迹。韩国造船工业于20世纪70年代初从零点起步,经过短短二十多年的发展,年造船产量超过欧美传统造船强国,并在90年代几次取代日本而居世界第一位。本文着重分析韩国造船工业的发展和技术创新状况,探讨韩国造船工业发展和技术创新的若干促进因素,为中国的工业发展寻找国外借鉴。     

从历史文化视角看中韩教育热现象

随着社会的发展和社会竞争的加剧,在现代中韩两国社会,人们对教育表现出了前所未有的高涨热情。其行为表现方式形成了“择校热”“补习热”“留学热”等多种教育热现象。中韩两国有着几千年重教的传统历史文化,在诸多因素中,源远流长的传统历史文化是当今社会教育热现象产生的根源。本文从传统的家族主义、重教的教育观、科举文化以及古代私学的兴起等四个角度,通过文献分析和史料收集对当今中韩社会的教育热现象进行了探索分析,旨在能够增强对不同社会体制的中韩两国出现的教育热现象的理性认识。     

Entering the European Information Society: Four Rural Development Projects

This article compares four European information and communication technologies (ICT) development projects spawned by national and EU initiatives to create the “European information society.” These projects, which sought to support learning and better use of ICT, were all the result of opportunities opened up by political initiatives. The analysis indicates that the main problems that afflict these projects stem from varied expectations and interests of the major actors. These problems can be mitigated considerably if a feeling of ownership is generated among the participants. This sense of belonging, however, is difficult to foster in a “top-down” project. Hence there is a need for a better balance between the “top-down” and “bottom-up” influences in the development of such projects.     

Dreams and realities: The international dimension of the 1991 white house conference on library and information services

Using longitudinal time-series data, this article analyzes the causes of the recent sharp increase in household expenditure on telecommunications in South Korea with an almost ideal demand system (AIDS) model. The analysis shows that the Korean household demand for telecommunications has become highly price elastic following structural changes associated with the rapid diffusion of mobile phones and the Internet during 1998–2008. Following these structural changes, telecommunications services have become complements for transportation, books and printed matter, and culture and recreation services, but substitutes for culture and recreation durable goods. Consequently, one important reason for the increase in the expenditure on telecommunications in Korea is the migration of many services from offline to online by means of telecommunications.     

工业互联网与能源互联网的对比研究与融合发展探析

首先，阐述了“工业互联网”和“能源互联网”的概念，简要说明了工业互联网和能源互联网的起源、内涵、关键技术等。然后，对工业互联网和能源互联网的研究现状和发展情况进行综述，对比分析了国内外工业互联网和能源互联网的发展水平。进一步，深刻总结工业互联网和能源互联网的体系框架，指出工业互联网和能源互联网的核心索引分别是工业大数据和能源大数据。基于此，对工业互联网和能源互联网的核心技术进行详细的对比分析，除了共同关注的通信、控制、数据分析等技术，工业互联网发展需要工业软件的支持，而能源互联网则需要攻克先进储能、智能输电等技术。最后，从工业互联网多层次、多元化发展，新技术驱动能源互联网高质量发展和工业互联网与能源互联网深度融合发展三方面讨论工业互联网和能源互联网的融合发展趋势。     

Government support for SME innovations in the regional industries: The case of government financial support program in South Korea

This study explores the impact of governmental support policies on the innovation of SMEs in the regional strategic industries in South Korea. We use the technological development assistance funds as a proxy for governmental support policies for SMEs in the regional industries in Korea. The innovation of SMEs is measured by technological innovation: patent, utility model, trademark, and new design registrations. Before empirically testing the impact of governmental support policies on the innovation of SMEs, this study reviews the literature concerning the innovation and the governmental support policies of SMEs in regional industries. Results from empirical models, which simultaneously control for factors which were thought to affect the innovation of regional SMEs, indicate that a positive relationship exists among the technological development assistance by the Korean government and patent acquisitions and new design registrations of regional SMEs. Networks with universities also have a positive relationship with patent acquisitions and new design registrations of regional SMEs. This study suggests there is an importance to governmental financial aids for regional SME innovations, and there is an importance to the need to build a strong social relationship in today's networked economy.     

互联网科技发展新趋势及对金融发展的影响分析和对策研究

近年来由于互联网创新的推动,互联网在中国经济中扮演越来越重要的角色,随着携号转网和5G牌照发放等新举措推出,中国移动互联网将会迎来跨越式发展,也会对金融发展产生更深远的影响。在这个背景下,本文对互联网技术发展趋势进行了研判,分析了互联网技术对金融发展的影响,为了分析互联网后发地区如何缩小与发达城市的差距,本文调研了常州市互联网科技与金融耦合发展情况,分析了该地区的金融发展存在的问题,并根据调研情况给出了促进科技金融发展的具有可操作性的对策建议。     

Digital Museums and Diverse Cultural Knowledges: Moving Past the Traditional Catalog

Web 2.0 technologies have introduced increasingly participatory practices to creating content, and museums are becoming interested in the potentials of “Museum 2.0” for reaching and engaging with new audiences. As technological advances are opening up the ways in which museums share information about the objects in their collections, the means by which museums create, handle, process, and transmit knowledge has become more transparent. For this to be done effectively, however, some underlying contradictions must be resolved between museum practices, which privilege the account of the “expert,” and distributed social technology practices, whose strengths lie in allowing for many, sometimes contradictory, perspectives. This article presents a theoretical position and framework for the adaptation of Web 2.0 technologies within the traditional work of the museum, in ways that support the generation and representation of knowledge in, by, and for diverse communities. We then expand on this theoretical perspective by discussing several case studies of exploratory work in this area, and close the article by presenting a few tactical, bottom-up initiatives that museums and distributed communities can take to facilitate the diffusion of this new conceptual framework. Though the subject of this article is online museums, the issues are relevant to all online collections, in particular portals, online public access catalogs (OPAC), and content management systems.     

浅谈韩国教育及其对我国的启示

韩国是世界高等教育发达的国家之一。韩国与我国同属东亚,风俗相近,从古至今,在政治经济和文化交流上,两国都有着紧密的联系。韩国和中国有着相似的文化背景,作为正从教育大国迈向教育强国的中国,韩国教育的一些成功经验可为我国所借鉴和学习。     

互联网发展与技术创新：专利生产、更新与引用视角

本文在理论上分析互联网发展对技术创新的可能影响机制,利用2007—2014年我国230个地级市的面板数据,通过主成分分析法构建了互联网发展指数。并进一步应用工具变量法实证研究了互联网发展对技术创新产生的影响及其内在传导机制。本文采用1984年各城市每百人固定电话数量与电信投资量的交互项作为研究的工具变量。实证表明：（1）无论从专利数据还是城市创新指数来看,互联网发展都显著促进了技术创新;（2）互联网发展加速了专利的折旧速度,有利于提高创新知识的更新速度;（3）互联网发展加快信息的传播,提升了专利的国内外引用,显著增加了创新知识的溢出。本文为我国“互联网＋”行动计划、创新型国家建设奠定了理论与事实基础。     

中韩产业技术政策下的东亚经济融扩及区域性选择

中韩两国在人种、文化、政治、经济等方面有源远流长的密切关系。分析、比较中韩两国的产业技术和产业技术政策,借鉴韩国产业政策演变的经验教训,对我国沿海经济较发达地区的持续发展和对韩互补经济交往具有现实意义。中韩两国地处东亚,地缘形成的经济空间场使得两国的经济发展既具有互补性又具有竞争性,两国现阶段产业技术政策支持下的东亚经济融扩行为上采用了不同的逻辑。山东对韩交往浓缩了中国东亚经济融扩的几乎所有内容和阶段,研究山东应对韩国东亚经济融扩的区域理性选择和安排既具有一般理论背景又具有典型实践意义。     

The Quality of Online and Offline Relationships: The Role of Multiplexity and Duration of Social Relationships

Recent studies have shown that adolescents use the Internet not only to maintain social relationships with distant relatives and friends but also to create new relationships online; some of these friendships become integrated into their social circle. Research has focused mainly on the effect of the Internet on existing relationships or the nature of online-only ties, so studies comparing the quality of online and face-to-face relationships are missing. The goal of this study is to bridge this gap. In keeping with previous studies on social association, we argue that the quality of social relationships is dependent on duration and diversity of topics and activities carried together. Time is important, as it facilitates the development of a collective shared history and identity. Intimacy develops through the participation in shared activities and discussion of diverse issues of personal concern. Using a representative sample of the adolescent population in Israel, we find that closeness to a friend is a function of social similarity, content and activity multiplexity, and duration of the relationships. Friendships originated in the Internet are perceived as less close and supportive because they are relatively new and online friends are involved in less joint activities and less topics of discussion. The implications of the findings are discussed.     

What’s mine is mine; what’s yours is mine: private ownership of ICTs as a threat to transparency

In the face of ubiquitous information communication technology, the presence of blogs, personal websites, and public message boards give the illusion of uncensored criticism and discussion of the ethical implications of business activities. However, little attention has been paid to the limitations on free speech posed by the control of access to the Internet by private entities, enabling them to censor content that is deemed critical of corporate or public policy. The premise of this research is that transparency alone will not achieve the desired results if ICT is used in a one way system, controlled by the provider of information. Stakeholders must have an avenue using the same technology to respond to and interact with the information. We propose a model that imposes on corporations a public trust, requiring these gatekeepers of communication technology to preserve individual rights to criticism and review.     

韩国紧密型政企关系的形成、变革及其启示

20世纪60年代以后,韩国逐渐建立起一种紧密型的政企关系。这种紧密型的政企关系对韩国的经济发展起到过积极的促进作用,但也存在着不少缺陷和问题。亚洲金融危机爆发后,韩国对其紧密型政企关系进行了改革,并取得了较明显的效果。韩国政企关系的研究对中国的政企关系改革具有很大的启示。     

The Quality of Online and Offline Relationships: The Role of Multiplexity and Duration of Social Relationships

Recent studies have shown that adolescents use the Internet not only to maintain social relationships with distant relatives and friends but also to create new relationships online; some of these friendships become integrated into their social circle. Research has focused mainly on the effect of the Internet on existing relationships or the nature of online-only ties, so studies comparing the quality of online and face-to-face relationships are missing. The goal of this study is to bridge this gap. In keeping with previous studies on social association, we argue that the quality of social relationships is dependent on duration and diversity of topics and activities carried together. Time is important, as it facilitates the development of a collective shared history and identity. Intimacy develops through the participation in shared activities and discussion of diverse issues of personal concern. Using a representative sample of the adolescent population in Israel, we find that closeness to a friend is a function of social similarity, content and activity multiplexity, and duration of the relationships. Friendships originated in the Internet are perceived as less close and supportive because they are relatively new and online friends are involved in less joint activities and less topics of discussion. The implications of the findings are discussed.     

The Reality beyond the Hype: Mobile Internet is Primarily an Extension of PC-Based Internet

The mobile Internet (MI) has been hyped as the next big thing by telecom operators, handset manufacturers, and content providers. However, recent studies indicate that the usage of Internet via mobile phones has remained quite flat. The authors inquire into this discrepancy by focusing on actual usage of the MI and the motivating factors behind its use. Based on focus-group interviews in Norway and Hungary, they argue that MI usage is interrelated with and is an extension of the personal computer (PC)–based Internet. The key motivation behind MI use is to attain information in situations in which the PC is out of reach. In effect, MI has not led to the development of new usages. The expectation that the development of new killer applications will lead to an explosion of new usage is therefore misguided. MI usage is and will perhaps continue to be a mere extension of PC-based Internet usage—and such use activities are the very nature of MI.     

从《家门的荣光》看中国文化对韩剧的影响

随着时代的发展、观念的更新,韩国也经历了无数的变化,但是变来变去,都抹不掉中国传统文化对其根深蒂固的影响。作为主流文化传播方式之一的韩剧也处处渗透着中国传统文化的魅力。     

网络银行与银行创新简介

随着信息和通讯的迅速发展，尤其是网络技术，正在改变着银行业。银行业中出现的新的商业模式正取代旧式的模式，以先进的IT技术引导整个银行业务流程、经营管理模式和功能的再造。传统银行发展网络银行作为新的分销渠道，带来了银行的业务及经营管理方面的创新。同时，网络带来了新的商业模式，这些模式颠覆了传统银行业的一体化经营模式，带来了银行业及金融业的创新。本文从网络银行的发展实际情况着手，分析了网络银行给传统银行带来的创新，并着重探讨了网络银行带来的银行模式的创新。