| 项目编号: | 1418268
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| 项目名称: | Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Economic and Socialcultural Effects of Developing Cyber-Infrastructure for Global information Storage in Iceland |
| 作者: | Lisa Rofel
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| 承担单位: | University of California-Santa Cruz
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| 批准年: | 2014
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| 开始日期: | 2015-02-01
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| 结束日期: | 2017-01-31
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| 资助金额: | USD30240
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Geosciences - Polar
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| 英文关键词: | information technology
; iceland
; research
; icelandic infrastructure
; dissertation research project
; new infrastructure
; economic challenge
; information haven
; economic self-sufficiency
; global information infrastructure
; local icelandic livelihood
; research project
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| 英文摘要: | This award supports the dissertation research project of Alix Johnson, PhD candidate at the University of California Santa Cruz. Ms. Johnson's research investigates how the increase in private and public investment in global information infrastructure in Iceland affects social-cultural, economic, and governance systems, as well as national identity. Information technology and trade is often proposed as a solution to the economic challenges of many rural Artic communities. This research has the potential to inform other Arctic communities about the societal impacts of information technology as an approach to economic self-sufficiency in the north.
This research project examines a range of ongoing efforts by private and public entities to make Iceland an "information haven" - an attractive location for storing data from around the world. By building data centers, founding start-ups, and passing "information-friendly" legislation, Icelanders hope to carve out a national niche and attract global data to Icelandic infrastructure. The project will explore how the development of this new infrastructure is changing local Icelandic livelihoods and senses of national identity. Juxtaposing the globalization of information with nationalism and sovereignty, identity and place-making is a new look at these processes in the Arctic, processes that Arctic communities will see more of in the coming decades. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/95167
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候减缓与适应
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Lisa Rofel. Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Economic and Socialcultural Effects of Developing Cyber-Infrastructure for Global information Storage in Iceland. 2014-01-01.
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