Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise
Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise BIN3025
Module Leader & Tutor
Dr Sina Joneidy
Lecture 9
Week 9
What is the aim of the lecture and workshop in Week 9?
To discuss the notion of Digital Tech Policy
Linked to ECA Part 2 – where you need to discuss the implications for policy-makers
Emerging Digital Technologies Policy
Theories on the socio-economic significance
Areas of Digital Technology policy
Looking critically at Digital Technology policy case studies
Emerging Digital Technologies Policy
Why the study of Digital Tech policy is important for managers and professionals?
Managers are at the frontier of tech innovation with their organisations and often play advisory role in policy making at a macro-level.
They need to understand the broader issues of concerns.
Effective Digital strategy formulation and Digital Transformation require broader understanding of the context within which the organisation is embedded. So understanding national and international policies are important. New liberation of X or New regulation of Y!
Messages from international Development Institutions
UNDP 2001: Making new technologies work for human development.
Fundamental interrelation between technological innovation and the development of human capabilities in order to live a fulfilled life.
Messages from international Development Institutions
UNDP 2001: Making new technologies work for human development.
Tech innovation enhance human capabilities
To live a health life.
To acquire knowledge.
To be creative.
To participate in social, economic and political life of a community.
Messages from international Development Institutions
UNDP 2001: Making new technologies work for human development.
At the same time, human capabilities are an important means of achieving technological innovation.
Messages from international Development Institutions
UNDP 2001: Making new technologies work for human development.
Question for policy makers:
“How to foster such a virtuous circle of associating tech innovation in business and government organisations, as well as in the everyday life of individuals, with the enhancement of human capabilities for longer and more prosperous lives, better educated citizens and social and political freedom?”
Complex issues that need policy attention
Why the interrelation between tech innovation and human development is hardly felt in some countries, some cities, some region and towns?
Ability to translate tech capabilities to human development effect.
Tech innovation on its own does not produce any effect for anyone.
How to use it? how to design it? how to implement it?
Even in most advanced economies tech innovation does not necessary help productivity.
Deployment of tech means redesigning business processes
Change of jobs
Social mechanism
Change of education
Gathering more information about individuals:
lead to more freedom or more control?
Avoiding technology-deterministic conception
Technology does not define your destiny – it is just one of the pieces of the puzzle
It is not enough to foster and deploy latest tech.
Business and government must pursue appropriate organisational change.
Business and government must pursue appropriate organisational adaptation.
The “Information Society”
For the purpose of Digital Tech policy, a better understanding of the information society concept is needed.
Webster provided us with five different definitions of information Society:
Technological – ICT innovation signals a major socio-economic transformation.
Economic – Shift from tech to information and its impact on economic growth.
Occupational – related to information-based activities in all industries.
Spatial – geographical location of businesses does not matter anymore.
Cultural – circulation of cultural messages by media.
References:
"UNDP. 2001. Human Development Report 2001: Making New Technologies Work for Human Development. http://www.hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-report-2001."
Thank you
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