One of the realities that developing countries like Nigeria have to face today is that national and international markets have become more and more interconnected through the global platform of telecommunications and the Internet. This global networked economy is creating a paradigm shift in the focus of development goals and strategies particularly for developing countries. Globalisation is driving the nations of the world more into political and economic integration. These integrations are enhanced by a globally interconnected network of economic and communication systems at the apex of which is the Internet. This network of networks thrives on and encourages the expansion of cross-border flows of ideas and information, goods and services, technology and capital. Being an active member of the global network economy is essential to Nigeria’s economic development. It must plug into the network or risk being shut out. The global market network operates by means of rules and standards that are largely set by the dominant players in the network. Data protection is a critical component of the regime of rules and standards that govern the global network economy; it is evolving into an international legal order that transcends geographical boundaries. The EU Directive on data protection is the de facto global standard for data protection; it threatens to exclude non-EU countries without an adequate level of privacy protection from the EU market. More than 50 countries have enacted data protection laws modelled on the EU standard. Access to the huge EU market is a major motivation for the current trend in global harmonisation of domestic data protection laws. This trend provides a compelling reason for examining the issues relating to data protection and trans-border data flows and their implications for Nigeria’s desire to integrate into the global network economy. There are two primary motivations for legislating restrictions on the flow of data across national boundaries. The first is the concern for the privacy of the citizens, and second, securing the economic well-being of a nation. It is important that Nigeria’s privacy protection keeps pace with international norms in the provision of adequate protection for information privacy order to prevent potential impediments to international trading opportunities. / Public, Constitutional, and International / LL. D.

Copyright is conventionally justified as an incentive to produce and disseminate works of authorship. We can justify and theorise copyright more richly, not least because empirical evidence does not support the incentive narrative. Rather than focussing on quantitative matters such as the number of works incentivised and produced, we should consider copyright's qualitative influence on culture. A threshold objection to such an approach is the risk of cultural paternalism. This objection can be overcome. Rather than specifying paternalistic standards of merit for works, we can target the conditions under which their creation and consumption takes place. I argue, firstly, that we should adopt the following high-level principles: (i) that the conditions of creation and consumption of works should be conducive to democratic deliberation (democracy) and (ii) that they should facilitate the development of human capabilities (autonomy). Secondly, I propose that we pursue three mid-level objectives, which are helpful indicia of democracy and autonomy: - a fair and wide distribution of communicative and cultural power (inclusiveness); - diversity in the content and perspectives available to the public (diversity); and - conditions that permit authors and users of works to engage rigorously with the conventions of the media in which they operate (rigour). It is often said that copyright obstructs important qualitative objectives, like freedom of expression, and that we could better pursue these goals by weakening copyright and relying on non-proprietary alternatives. My approach produces a more optimistic, but also more complicated, view of copyright. While copyright's qualitative influence is not optimal, reductions in the strength and scope of copyright sometimes produces conditions and incentive structures that are worse for inclusiveness, diversity and rigour than stronger copyright. For example, both attention and wealth are highly concentrated in networked information economies driven by free sharing of content, and this is bad for diversity or inclusiveness. Online business models, based on surveillance of users' consumption of free works, are corrosive of autonomy and democracy. Merely removing copyright-based restrictions on the sharing of works is not a panacea for copyright's ills. A qualitative theory such as mine equips us to better understand and calibrate more richly the trade-offs involved in copyright policy decisions, and encourages us to treat copyright as part of a broader, qualitatively-oriented information and cultural policy.

Submitted by Priscilla Araujo (priscilla@ibict.br) on 2017-10-09T19:00:27Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Tese doutorado alex.pdf: 2958664 bytes, checksum: 37b9701ef9ef903d88001588b2c917d9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-09T19:00:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Tese doutorado alex.pdf: 2958664 bytes, checksum: 37b9701ef9ef903d88001588b2c917d9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-08-28 / Este trabalho busca analisar as políticas públicas para o audiovisual no Brasil a partir da década de 1990 e, mais especificamente, as políticas de fomento à produção de longas metragens. Para tanto, foram utilizados referenciais comumente presentes nos estudos relativos à Ciência da Informação, tais como as políticas de informação e o próprio conceito de informação, e à Ciência Econômica – particularidades dos bens informacionais quando transacionados no mercado. Tais referenciais conferem sustentação à consideração da informação (e dos bens de informação) como elemento central da dinâmica econômica mundial. As políticas públicas para o audiovisual no Brasil são analisadas a partir de dois eixos: políticas de fomento por um lado e políticas de regulação de mercado, por outro lado – eixos a partir das quais é possível a comparação com políticas públicas de outros países. A análise tem como base a construção teórica de uma cadeia de valor do setor audiovisual (denominada cadeia ramificada) desenvolvida como ferramenta analítica capaz de revelar os gargalos à circulação do produto e ao fluxo financeiro no setor, assim como as estratégias de expansão e o exercício de poder econômico das empresas que aí atuam. Como resultado do trabalho, tem-se: (i) a constatação de que a política pública brasileira voltada ao setor audiovisual a partir do início da década de 1990 não integrou as reflexões, comuns nos países desenvolvidos, sobre a potencialidade socioeconômica associada à maior relevância da informação e dos produtos de informação na dinâmica da economia e das sociedades; (ii) que a natureza e o escopo das políticas de fomento implementadas está relacionado à constatação da incapacidade do Estado brasileiro em promover políticas de regulação de mercado que viessem a ampliar o espaço para o produto audiovisual nacional, e; (iii) que o “viés cinematográfico” da política pública, tendo o fomento público à produção de longas metragens como base, foi se consolidando diante dos limites políticos do Estado em abarcar outros segmentos do mercado audiovisual, especialmente os televisivos, no seio das ações voltada para o setor. / This work covers the analysis of the public policies for the audiovisual sector in Brazil since the 1990s and, more specifically, the production of feature film policies. To that purpose, several references related to Information Science were used, such as information policies and the concept of information itself, as well as references from Economic Science - particularities of informational goods when transacted in the market, for example. These references take the consideration of information (and information goods) as the central element of world economic dynamics. The Brazilian audiovisual public policies are analysed from two axes: promotion policies based on public subsidies and regulation policies – axes when used make possible to compare policies between countries. The analysis is based on the theoretical construction of an audiovisual sector value chain, denominated the branched audiovisual chain, developed as an analytical tool that intents to show the product circulation bottlenecks and financial flow in the sector, as well as the expansion strategies and the exercise of economic power of the companies acting in this field. As a result of the work, we have: (i) the observation that the Brazilian public policy focused on the audiovisual sector since the beginning of the 1990s did not integrate the reflections, common in developed countries, about the socioeconomic potential associated to the greater relevance of the information and information products in the dynamics of the economy and societies; (ii) that the understanding of the development policies implemented is related to the inability of the Brazilian State to promote market regulation policies that would expand the space for the national product, and; (iii) that the "cinematographic bias" of public policy, with public subsidies for the production of feature films as a base, has been consolidated in the face of the political limitations of the State in covering other segments of the audiovisual market, especially television, in the heart of the actions directed towards the sector.

(in English) The subject of the Diploma thesis is the process of sharing of economic information and knowledge suitable for corporate governance. A special attention is focused on an effective utilization and development of information and communication technologies (ICT). At the beginning, information society and basic terms are defined, such as information economy, economics of information, information management and knowledge management. Furthermore, the strategic importance of enterprise information systems and other solutions for improving business information processes are described in general. The final chapters deal with Competitive Intelligence (CI) and Business Intelligence (BI) and contain the overview and analyses of the most important information products of economic information from commercial and non-commercial sectors [Author's abstract].