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

[Michel Menou]

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Subject: 	[Asis-l] Information science book on Qatar's Way Towards 
Knowledge Society
Date: 	Fri, 5 Jan 2018 14:32:13 +0100
From: 	Wolfgang G. Stock <stock at phil.hhu.de>
To: 	asis-l at asis.org



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


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