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Fostering Research on the Economic and Social Impacts of Information Technology
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To aid in identifying fruitful approaches to assessment of both the positive and negative impacts of using information technologies, the National Science Foundation asked the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council (NRC) to gather perspectives on the problem from experts in several relevant disciplines—in particular, economics, sociology, psychology, and anthropology, as well as computer science and engineering. It was thought that a sharing of ideas among individuals with pertinent experience as well as openness to the benefits of interdisciplinary analysis might suggest new ways of addressing what has proved so far to be a complex and difficult undertaking—assessing the diverse outcomes in a variety of contexts of the grow- ing use of computing and communications technology. The results of this explo- ration are intended to be useful to the National Science Foundation in its efforts to assess the impacts of computing and communications technology, to provide ex- amples of successful research and pose interesting questions to the research community, and to inform policy makers about the nature and utility of such research.
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1998
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