[Asis-l] Information science book on Qatar's Way Towards Knowledge Society

[Wolfgang G. Stock]

Transitioning Towards a Knowledge Society.
Qatar as a Case Study

This is the first book to cover an understanding of an Arab oil state’s 
way into becoming a knowledge society. It discusses Qatar as a paradigm 
for other states encountering this knowledge society shift and concisely 
analyzes programs to configure knowledge society and – in contrast to 
the programs – the reality of the way into knowledge society.

The book offers a critical evaluation of Qatar’s path from oil- and 
gas-based industries to a knowledge-based economy. This book gives basic 
information about the region and the country, including the geographic 
and demographic data, the culture, the politics and the economy, the 
health care conditions and the education system. It introduces the 
concepts of knowledge society and knowledge-based development and adds 
factual details about Qatar by interpreting indicators of the 
development status. Subsequently, the research methods that underlie the 
study are described, which offers information on the eGovernment study 
analyzing the government-citizen relationship, higher education 
institutions and systems, its students and the students’ way into the 
labor market. This book has an audience with economists, sociologists, 
political scientists, geographers, information scientists and other 
researchers on the knowledge society, but also all researchers and 
practitioners interested in the Arab Oil States and their future.

Transitioning Towards a Knowledge Society. Qatar as a Case Study. By 
Julia Gremm, Julia Barth, Kaja J. Fietkiewicz,and Wolfgang G. Stock. 
Springer Nature, 2018. xvii, 244 pp.
ISBN 978-3-319-71194-2 (Hardcover)
ISBN 978-3-319-71195-9 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71195-9

The authors
Wolfgang G. Stock is full professor and head of the Information Science 
Dept. of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. His research 
areas include studies on smart cities, social network services and 
information behavior. He is author of more than 300 articles and books, 
thereof about 30 are on prototypical cities of the emerging knowledge 
society.
Kaja J. Fietkiewicz is research associate at Heinrich Heine University 
Düsseldorf. She is working on social media, e-government and on smart 
cities, especially in Japan.
Julia Barth and Julia Gremm have been assistant lecturers for Smart City 
Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. They conducted field 
researches on cities in the Gulf Region (especially, in Kuwait, Qatar, 
U.A.E. and Oman) and published articles on the “Arabian Way” into 
knowledge society.

Link to Springer
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-71195-9#toc