Plugging the Microstate: A History of Technology Adoption, ICT Policy, and Software Development in the Small Island State of Malta - Couverture souple

Aloisio, Mario

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1475084021 ISBN 13 : 9781475084023

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

An area in which Malta has made considerable progress over the last two decades is that of Information and Communications Technology. Today, ICT is being applied throughout Maltese society: high-technology applications such as Internet Banking, I-Gaming, and E-Commerce are widely in use. Often taken for granted, these services have required a great deal of effort to develop, including the telecommunications infrastructure needed for their deployment. The situation regarding the introduction of computers in Malta—a small Mediterranean state which was once a British fortress colony—has not always been so captivating, however. In fact, notwithstanding an early start with programmable, punch-type, calculators and tabulators, Malta was a relatively late adopter of computing technology, the first mainframe not being installed until 1973. There are, of course, reasons for this slow take-up, just as there are reasons for the more recent rapid advances in the ICT sector. This study explains these reasons and tells the story of how, from humble beginnings, Malta has “plugged” into the information revolution and managed to become a recognised leader in today’s global, knowledge-based economy. Plugging the Microstate will be of interest to a variety of audience, including technology and business historians, government officials involved in policy making, IT practitioners, computing students and educators, and anyone curious to know how information processing, the software industry and telecommunications have developed in Malta.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mario Aloisio has over thirty years of combined teaching and industrial experience in computing. After spending part of his career in software development, Dr. Aloisio switched to full-time lecturing in 1993 when he first joined Malta’s former Paola Technical Institute and later the University of Malta Junior College. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Warwick.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1475084021
• ISBN 13: 9781475084023
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 414
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible