Telecommunications

MISUNDERSTANDING MEDIA by Brian Winston (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986---$22.50)

SERVICES IN TRANSITION: THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON THE SERVICE SECTOR edited by Gerald Faulhaber, et al. (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1986---$29.95)

BUSINESS TELEMATICS: CORPORATE NETWORKS FOR THE INFORMATION AGE by Byron Belitsos and Jay Misra (Homewood, IL: Dow, Jones-Irwin, 1986---$25.00)

COMPUTER & TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACRONYMS edited by Julie Towell and Helen Sheppard (Detroit: Gale Research, 1986---$60.00)

Three recent publications from the Program on Information Resources Policy (200 Aiken, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138---inquire of publisher for prices, paper)

COMPUTER III: A NEW ERA—A GUIDE TO THE FCC'S LANDMARK DEREGULATORY RULING edited by Dick Stirba (Telecom Publishing Group, Capitol Publications, 1101 King St., Alexandria, VA 22314---$140, paper)

MARKET AND STRATEGIC IMPACTS OF BYPASS by the Bethesda Research Institute (Phillips Publishing, 7811 Montrose Rd., Potomac, Md. 20854---price not given, paper)

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING by Wilbur Pritchard and Joseph Sciulli (Englwood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986---$42.95)

GUIDE TO SATELLITE TELEVISION INSTALLATION by John E. Traister (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986---$24.95)     

Telecommunications

Leland L. Johnson's Expanding the Use of Commercial and Noncommercial Broadcast Programming on Cable Television Systems (Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand Corp publication R-1677-MF, January 1975—$5.00, paper).

Ben Parks' An Introduction to Telemedicine: Interactive Television for Delivery of Health Services (Alternate Media Center, New York University School of the Arts, 144 Bleecker St., New York, N.Y. 10012—free on reouest).

CATV Today A Discussion of Current Issues (School for Summer and Continuing Education, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.—apparently free on request)

Oliver Berliner's Color TV Studio Design and Operation: for CATVL School and Industry (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1975— $9.95).     

Telecommunications

BEHIND THE TELEPHONE DEBATES by Carol Weinhaus and Anthony Oettinger (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1988—$45.00 institutional/$27.50 personal: ISBN 0-89381-452-5)

THE NEW TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY: EVOLUTION AND ORGANIZATION by Leonard S. Hyman, et al. (Public Utility Reports Inc., 1700 N. Moore St., Suite 2100, Arlington, VA 22209—price not given, two volumes: ISSN 0893-7516 and 0893-7559)

TELEPHONE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT by Lei and L. Johnson (Santa Monica , CA: Rand, 1988—price not given , paper—ask for item R-3603-NSF/MF)

National Regulatory Research Institute, four recent reports     

Telecommunications

Robert Lee Chartrand and James W. Norentz, Jr., eds. Information Technology Serving, Society (Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press, 1979—E12.50/$25.00)

Rosario Joseph Tosiello, The Birth and Early Years of the Bell Telephone System: 1376-1880 (New York: Aicno Press, 1979—$32.00)

James E. Brittain, ed. Turning Points in American Electrical History (New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Press [dist. by John Wiley], 1977– $20.00, paper)

Harry L. Van Trees, ed. Satellite Communications (New York: IEEE/John Wiley, 1979—$27.00, paper with a hardback edition available)

Dave Ingram's Oscar: The Ham Radio Satellites (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa: Tab Books, 1979—$8.95/4.95)

Clayton Hallmark's How to Repair Old-Time Radios (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1979—$12.95/7.95)

Telecommunications Law Reform (American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1150 17th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036 —price not given, paper)     

Telecommunications

SILICON VALLEY FEVER: GROWTH OF HIGH-TECHNOLOGY CULTURE by Everett M. Rogers and Judith K. Larsen (New York: Basic Books, 1984---$19.95)

TECHNOSTRESS: THE HUMAN COST OF THE COMPUTER REVOLUTION by Craig Brod (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1984---$16.95)

THE NAKED COMPUTER: A LAYPERSON'S ALMANAC OF COMPUTER LORE, WIZARDRY, PERSONALITIES, MEMORABILIA, WORLD RECORDS, MIND BLOWERS AND TOMFOOLERY by Jack Rochester and John Gantz (New York: William Morrow, l983---$15.95)

TELEMATICS AND INFORMATICS edited by Indu B. Singh and Jay Liebowitz (Pergamon Press, Fairview Park, Elmsford, NY 10523----$95.00 institutions/$45.00 to individuals, quarterly)

MICROCOMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS: A WINDOW ON THE WORLD by Barbara E. McMullen and John F. McMullen (New York: John Wiley, 1983---$14.95, paper)     

Broadcasting and Telecommunications

G.W.A. Dummer's Electronic Inventions: 1745-1976 (Oxford, England: Pergamon Press, 1976—£5.50 or $10.00)

Carl Dreher's Sarnoff: An American Success (New York: Quadrangle/ New York Times Book Co., 1977—$12.50)

George W. Bartlett, ed. NAB Engineering Handbook (Washington: National Association of Broadcasters, 1975—$45.00; $30.00 to NAB and BEA members)

Richard Veith's Talk-Back TV: Two-Way Cable Television (Blue Ridge Summit. Pa.: TAB Books, 1976—$9.95/5.95)

Dan Rather with Mickey Herskowitz' The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist (New York: Morros, 1977—$10.00)

F. Gifford's Tape: A Radio News Handbook (New York: Hastings House, 1977—$12.95/6.95)

F. Earle Barcus' Children's Television: An Analysis of Programming and Advertising (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1977—price not given, but likely around $18.00)

Douglas Davis and Allison Simmons' The New Television: A Public/Private Art (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977—$14.95)

The Videophile's Newsletter (Jim Lowe, 2014 South Magnolia Drive, Tallahassee, Fla. 32301—$7.50 for five issues)

Separations Procedures in the Telephone Industry: The Historical Origins of a Public Policy, by James W. Sichter (January 1977, Publication P-77-2, 146 pp. $23.40, paper)

The Communications Act Policy Toward Competition: The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Hamilton Loeb (March 1977, Working Paper W-77-1, 68 pp., $ 10.90)

Broadcasting: The Next Ten Years (New York: National Broadcasting Co., Department of Corporate Planning, 1977—apparently free on request, paper)

NFLCP Newsletter (P.O. Box 119, Cambridge, Mass. 02142—$7.50 annually, bimonthly; $15.00 to organizations)

Gary Gerani and Paul H. Schulman's Fantastic Television (New York: Harmony Books/Crown Publishers, 1977—$12.95/5.95)     

Telecommunications and Technology

Charles J. Sippl and Charles P. Sippl's Computer Dictionary and Handbook (Indianapolis: Howard W. Sams, 1976---$16.95)

Walter S. Baer, Leland L. Johnson, and Edward W. Merros's Analysis of Federally Funded Demonstration Projects (Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand Corp., R-1925, 1926, 1927-DOC, April 1976---price not given, but likely about $20.00 or so for the set, paper)

Lester G. Lindley's The Constitution Faces Technology: The Relationship of the National Government to the Telegraph, 1866-1884 (New York: Arno Press, 1975--- $22.00)

Nick Lyons's The Sony Vision (New York: Crown, 1976---$7.95)

SMPTE Journal (SMPTE Publications Office, 862 Scarsdale Ave., Scarsdale, N.Y. 10583---$3.00 for single issues)

The Classic Radio Newsletter ($5.00 per year for six issues)

Cable Television Information Center's Social Services and Cable TV (Washington: National Science Foundation, 1976---$3.10, paper, from Government Printing Office)

Charles F. Phillips, Jr. (ed.) Competition and Regulation: Some Economic Concepts (Department of Economics, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. 24450, 1976-43.00, paper)

Calvin A. Kent, Richard Oppedahl, and Lynn Stephens' Municipal Franchising and Regulation: An Evaluation of Policy-Related Research (Business Research Bureau, School of Business, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S.D. 57069---price not given, paper)

Edward Hyde's The Phone Book: What the Telephone Company Would Rather You Not Know (Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1976---$7.95)

Public Policy as a Determinant of Market Structure: The case of the Specialized Communications Market by Peter D. Shapiro (September 1974, Working Paper 74-10, 177 pp.)

Glossary of Costing and Ratemaking Terms in the U.S. Postal Service and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company by Arlene Karlin (January 1976, Working Paper 76-2, 28 pp.)

The U.S. Mail Network: Who Pays, Who Plays by Gordon Emrie (April 1976, Working Paper 76-3, 148 pp.)     

Broadcasting and Telecommunications

Arthur Hezlet's Electronics and Sea Power (New York: Stein & Day, 1975—$15.00)

W.M. Dalton's The Story of Radio (London: Adam Hilger Ltd., 1975—about $9.00 for each of three volumes)

Anita Klever's Women in Television (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975—$5.95)

Donald L. Guimary's Citizen's GrouRs and Broadcasting (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1975—$14.00)

John Blair & Co.'s Statistical-Trends in Broadcasting 1975: 11th Edition (New York: John Blair & Co., 1975—$2.50, paper)

Natan Katzman's Public Television Program Content: 1974 (Washington: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1975—price not given, paper)

James W. Brown (ed.) Educational Media Yearbook: 1975-76 (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1975—$21.95)

Alan Bermingham et al. The Small TV Studio: Equipment and Facilities (New York: Hastings House, 1975—$7.95, paper)

John H. Barwick and Stewart Kranz's Profiles in Video: Who's Using Television and How (White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industries Publications, 1975— $27.50)     

Telecommunications

TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT PLANNING: ISDN NETWORKS PRODUCTS AND SERVICES by Robert K. Heldman (Blue Ridge Summit, PA: TAB Books, 1987—$49.50)

TELECOMMUNICATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT by James B. Pruitt (Chicago: Telephony Publishing, 1987—$50.00)

COMMUNICATIONS (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1986 price not given)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND YOU (White Plains, NY: IBM Corporation, 1986—single copies may be free on request, paper)

1986—THE YEAR IN REVIEW (Telecommunications Reports, 1036 National Press Bldg., Washington, DC 20045—$7.95, paper, with quantity discounts available)

CROSS-SUBSIDIZATION AND DISCRIMINATION BY REGULATED MONOPOLISTS (EAG 87-2, March 19, 1987)

REGULATED FIRMS IN UNREGULATED MARKETS: UNDERSTANDING THE DIVESTITURE IN U.S. V. AT&T (EAG 86-5, April 11, 1986)

TAXING HOME AUDIO TAPING (EAG 86-6, April 15, 1986)

BIOSTATISTICAL REVIEW OF SELECTED LITERATURE ON THE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTYROMAGNETIC (RFEM) ENERGY by Murray Selwyn, et al. (Electromagnetic Energy Policy Alliance, 1255 23rd St. NW, Suite 850. Washington, DC 20037—$195, paper)

THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TELEMATICS: AN ESSAY ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY by Lars Qvortrup (Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 1984—price not given, paper)     

Telecommunications

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ALTERNATIVES FOR FEDERAL USERS: MARKET TRENDS AND DECISIONMAKING CRITERIA by Leland Johnson et al. (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, R-3355-NSF, 1985—$20.00)

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SELECTED RAND PUBLICATIONS (titles as follows—free on request, paper) include SB-1020 on communication satellites (19 pp.)

Rand publications, three recent titles

THE COMPUTER SECURITY HANDBOOK by Richard H. Baker (Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Tab Professional and Reference Books, 1985—$25.00)

BUSINESS DATA COMMUNICATIONS by David A. Stamper (Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing, 1986—price not given)

BEHIND THE TELEPHONE DEBATES 5: INTEGRATED SERVICES DIGITAL NETWORKS (ISDN): CONCEPTS AND ISSUES IN THE U.S. AND JAPAN by Masanao Tanase (Program on Information Resourcews Policy, 200 Aiken, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138—price not given, paper)     

Telecommunications

R. Terry Ellmore The Illustrated Dictionary of Broadcast-CATV-Telecommunications (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1977—$14.95)

first is Edward L. Safford CBer's Handy Manual of SSB (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1977—$2.25, paper)

Victor F.G. Veley Third Class FCC License Study Guide (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1977—$9.95/6.95)

Communication by Satellite: Perspectives for Users (Institut International de la Communication, 3535 Chemin de la Reine-Marie, bureau 218, Montreal H3V 1H8, Quebec, Canada—$12.00, paper).

Paul Polishuk and Michael O'Bryant, Exposition Proceedings: Telecommunications and Economic Development (Horizon House, 610 Washington St., Dedham, Mass. 02026—$100 for the set of two volumes, paper).     

Telecommunications

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS edited by B. G. Evans (London: The Institution of Electrical Engineers “Telecommunications Series 38,”; 1999 [3rd ed.]—$120.00, ISBN 0–85296–899‐X, 727 pp., photos, tables, charts, diagrams, appendices, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT by Robert A. Gable (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1999—$79.00, ISBN 0–89006–650–7,398 pp., diagrams, acronyms, bibliography, index)

GLOBAL WIRELESS STANDARDS GUIDE (Telecommunications Industry Assn., 2500 Wilson Blvd., Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22201–3834—$14.95, paper, no ISBN number given, 58 pp.)

CONNECTIONS: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES OF THE TELEPHONE IN AMERICAN LIFE by James E. Katz (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999—$34.95, ISBN 1–56000–394–4,364 pp., tables, charts, notes, index)

MASTERS OF THE WIRED WORLD: CYBERSPACE SPEAKS OUT edited by Anne Leer (London: Financial Times/Pitman Publishing, 1999—price not given, ISBN 0–273–63559‐X, 419 pp., photos, diagrams, index)

DESKTOP ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE INTERNET by Nathan ]. Muller (Norwood, MA: Artech House “Telecommunications Library,”; 1999—price not given, ISBN 0–89006–729–5, 558 pp., photos, diagrams, charts, tables, acronym list)

INTRODUCTION TO TELEPHONES AND TELEPHONE SYSTEMS by A. Michael Noll (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1999 [3rd ed.]—price not given, ISBN 1–58053–000–1, 373 pp., photos, diagrams, glossary, bibliography, index)

NEW INTERNATIONAL CARRIERS: THE GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIERS ASIA‐PACIFIC EDITION, 1999 (1999—$595.00, paper, ISBN 1–88614247–3, 235 pp., maps, charts, tables, index); and

NEW INTERNATIONAL CARRIERS: THE GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIERS EUROPE EDITION, 1999 (1999—$595.00, paper, ISBN 1–886142–18–1, 377 pp., maps, charts, tables, index)

INFORMATION WARFARE: PRINCIPLES AND OPERATIONS by Edward Waltz (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1999—price not given, ISBN 0–89006–511‐X, 397 pp., tables, diagrams, endnotes, index)     

Telecommunications

Mitchell L. Moss, ed. Telecommunications and Productivity (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Advanced Book Program, 1981—price not given)

William C. House, ed. Electronic Communications Systems (Petrocelli Batks, 1101 State Rd–Bldg D, Princeton, N.J. 08540 —$25.00)     

Telecommunications

Lawrence W. Lichty and Malachi C. Topping (eds.) American Broadcasting: A Sourcebook on the History of Radio and Television (New York: Hastings House, 1975—$26.50/15.00)

Raymond Flower and Michael Wynn Jones' Lloyd's of London: An Illustrated History (New York: Hastings House, 1974—$15.00)

S. Young Lee and Ronald J. Pedone's Status Report on Public Broadcasting 1973 (Washington: Corporation for Public Broadcasting and HEW, 1974—no price given)

Donald J. Bogue's The Radio Audience for Classical Music: The Case of Station WEFM, Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Community and Family Study Center Communication Laboratory, 1973—$2.00, paper)

A Report by the Norman [Oklahoma] Cable Communications Commission (write to Mr. Martin Bernert, Norman Cable Communications Commission, 111 North Peters, P.O. Box 370, Norman, Okla. 73069—$20.00, paper)     

Telecommunications

Thomas R. Brooks' Communications Workers of America: The Story of a Union (New York: Mason/Charter, 1977—$12.95)

Lorne A. Parker and Betsy Riccomini, comps. A Report on University Applications of Satellite/Cable Technology: First Annual International Communications Conference (153 pp., paper, no date)

Lorne A. Parker and Betsy Riccomini, comps. The Status of the Telephone in Education: Second Annual International Communications Conference (220 pp., paper, no date)

Lorne A. Parker and Betsy Riccomini, comps. The Telephone in Education: Book II: Third Annual International Communications Conference (201 pp., paper, no date)

Mavis Monson, et al., eds. A Design for Interactive Audio (132 pp., paper, 1977)

John A. Bunyan and James C. Crimmons' Television and Management: The Manager's Guide to Video (White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1977—$24.50)     

Telecommunications

Robert S. Magnant's Domestic Satellite: An FCC Giant Step– Toward Competitive Telecommunications Policy (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1977—$20.00)

Anthony G. Oettinger and Carol L. Weinhaus, National Stakes in the Communications Revolution: Jurisdictional Cost Separations (Program on Information Resources Policy, Harvard University, 200 Aiken, Cambridge, Mass. 02138—$10.90, paper—request Working Paper WP-79-2)

Clayton L. Hallmark's Lasers: The Light Fantastic (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1979—$9.95 with a paperback also available)

Fred B. Wood, et al. Videoconferencinq via Satellite: Opening Congress to the People (Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology, George Washington University, Washington D.C. 20052—free on request, paper)

Audience Diversion Due to Cable Television: A Statistical Analysis of New Data by Rolla Edward Park (April 1979, R-2403-FCC—$5.00, paper)

Audience Diversion Due to Cable Television: Supporting Data by Rolla Edward Pack (April 1979, R-2403/1-FCC—$7.00, paper)

The Spartanburg Interactive Cable Experiments in Home Education by William A. Lucas (February 1979, R-2271-NSF—$7.00, paper)     

Telecommunications

Rufus P. Turner's The Illustrated Dictionary of Electronics (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1980---$19.95/14.95)

Sam Fedida and Rex Malik's The Viewdata Revolution (New York: John Wiley, 1980--- $34.95)

The latest from the Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy (200 Aiken, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 02138)     

Realizing digital identity in government: Prioritizing design and implementation objectives for Aadhaar in India

With the increasing levels of digital transformation, focus on digital identities of individuals is increasingly getting prominence. It is the information captured as part of the identity surrounding the citizen which decides what services and products one is entitled to and can access. At present, there are still around 1.1 billion people in the world without any official identity and to address this concern, United Nations through its 16th Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recommended governments to provide their citizens with unique identities by 2030. India's Aadhaar is one consequential step in this direction as it has already reached over 1 billion enrolments in India. However establishing a national identity program successfully requires expertise, time, and huge financial commitments. This paper takes Aadhaar as a case study and uses Design Theory (DT) and Critical Success Factor theory (CSF) as a theoretical lens and attempts to evaluate design and execution choices made during the tenure of the project. The study also identifies and prioritizes primary goals of Aadhaar based on the secondary data, expert opinion through a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and subsequently systematic prioritization using mixed research methodologies. The expert opinion from the FGD was analyzed using the Best-Worst method (BWM), followed by the Total Interpretive Structural Modeling (TISM) method and Matrix of Cross Impact Multiplications Applied to Classification (MICMAC) analysis. The study identified uniqueness, security and privacy as the top priority goals in an identity system and is 11 times more crucial than scalability which is identified to be of lesser priority. These findings from this study could be considered as a reference for other countries that aim to develop and implement digital identity for its citizens.     

Cable and Telecommunications

William A. Lucas and Robert K. Yin's Serving Local Needs with Telecommunications (Santa Monica, Calif: Rand Corporation Report R-1345-MF, November 1973—$3.00, paper).

Fred B. Wood's The Potential for Congressional Use of Emergent Telecommunications: An Exploratory Assessment (Washington, D.C.: George Washington University, Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology, May 1974—apparently free on request)

Walter S. Baer, Michael Botein, Leland L. Johnson, Carl Pilnick, Monroe E. Price, and Robert K. Yin's Cable Television: Franchising Considerations (New York: Crane, Russak, & Co., 1974-=T13.50)

Charles G. Woodard's Cable Television: Acquisition and Operation of CATV Systems (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974—$27.50)

Planning Interconnection Systems: Options for the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (Washington, D.C.: Cable Television Information Center, 2100 M St. N.W., 1974-47.50, paper)

Cablelines (Cable Communications Resource Center, 1900 L St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036—monthly/free on request)     

Telecommunications and Cable

Ken Marsh's Independent Video (San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1974—$7.95, paper)

Richard H. Davis and Allen E. Edwards' Television: A Therapeutic Tool for the Aged (Publication and Media Projects, Andrus Gerontology Center, University Park, Los Angeles, Calif. 90007—$2.25, paper)

Irving W. Larson (ed.) EIA Electronics Multimedia Handbook (Indianapolis: Howard W. Sams, 1975—price not known, paper)

Kendall Webster Sessions' 2nd Class FCC Encyclopedia (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1975—$10.95/7.95)

Mary Louise Hollowell (ed.) Cable Handbook: 1975-1976—A Guide to Cable and New Communications Technologies (Communications Press, 1346 Connecticutt Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036—$7.35, including postage, paper)

Gilbert Gillespie's Public Access Cable Television in the United States and Canada (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1975—price not given, but likely around $12.00 or so)