Convergent Goals

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Convergent Goals

• Gerhard Rohde
• 1st UNI-Europa IBITS Conference
• Stockholm, 22 May 2003

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What is convergence?
Different trends
Convergenceas horizontalintegration
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Industrial Classification

• ICT Manufacturing
• Manufacture of Computer and peripheral equipment
• Manufacture of electronic components
• Manufacture of communications equipment and
  apparatus
• Manufacture of audio and video equipment

Towards aninformationsector
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Industrial Classification
ICT Services        Telecommunications o     
Telephony services o      Internet access and
services incidental to Internet o      Other
telecommunication services    Computer
services o      Hardware consultancy o     
Customized software provision and software
consultancy o      Pre-packaged software
publishing, o      Data processing
services o      Other computer services
Towards aninformationsector
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Industrial Classification
Content        Publishing industries       
Video games production (including animated
pictures production)        Motion picture and
video industries        Sound recording
industries and radio services       
Broadcasting and distribution of audio-visual
services        Information services       
Supporting industries
Towards aninformationsector
M. Aufrant, J.M. Nivlet
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Supply of services
National Officefor the InformationEconomy,Aust
ralia
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Intellectual Property Rights

• The more we move towards an information-based
  economy, the more IPR will be relevant to other
  converging sectors.
• clearly important the IT sector in relation to
  the creation of software and the delivery of
  software-enabled services
• Employees normally give up the IPR
• Value of their creative work has to be recognised
  and compensated

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The international dimension

• Digital service markets are international
• Concerns for trade unions
• Merciless process of undercutting
• Global resourcing, outsourcing
• Potential loss of national cultural and
  linguistic content

Internationaltrade inservices
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Conclusions

• Convergence progressing
• With different speeds
• Some horizontal/cross-sectoral convergence
• Vertical disintegration
• Increasing importance of intangible assets
  intellectual/human capital
• Need for closer internal cooperation
• Intellectual property rights
• Implications of GATS
• Privacy issues
• International regulatory policy