情報基盤建設のパラダイムと国家の役割

マルチメディア時代の国際政治

抄録

Increasingly, countries are undertaking National Information Infrastructure (NII) policies. This governmental approach toward market activities is meant to strengthen domestic economies and industry competitiveness by the construction of an innovative social infrastructure. Interaction between states and markets is extremely complex because it is taking place in the most advanced economic sectors of developed capitalist countries. Also, state-market interaction is significantly different from country to country. This paper explains (a) information policies in economically and geographically different states (the United States and Singapore), and (b) theoretical differences between the NII and the GII (Global Information Infrastructure) from the view point of institutional evolution. A central conclusion is that although different policy paradigms for the construction of information infrastructure have developed in recent years, NII policy programs work commonly as political external-forces acting on markets to stimulate new information industries.