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Little engines that could: computing in small energetic countries

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 38 , Issue 5 (May 1995) table of contents

Pages: 21 - 26

Year of Publication: 1995

ISSN:0001-0782

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J. L. Dedrick	Senior Fellow
S. E. Goodman	Center for International Security and Arms Control, Galvez House, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
K. L. Kraemer	Director of the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations at the University of California, Irvine, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

How do very small countries, here defined as having fewer than 10 million people, find places for themselves in the information technologies (IT) arena? Does success require accommodation in the global IT regime that often seems dominated by the U.S. and Japan? Do the little countries scurry around, like birds among the lions and other predators looking for scraps? Are they relegated to second tier “appropriate technologies,” or do they operate in the mainstream?

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