[Air-L] Informatization?

[michael gurstein]

I'm fairly sure it is an anglicization of the French "informatisation"...
Which if I'm not mistaken was first used in the Nora/Minc Report 
	
L'informatisation de la société: rapport à M. le Président de la République

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapport_Nora-Minc and wikipedia even seems to
have had the same thought :)

Informatization - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatization - 

Origin of the term. The term informatisation was coined by Simon Nora and
Alain Minc in their publication L'Informatisation de la société: Rapport à
M. le ...

M

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I have largely seen this term used in Japanese (in which the -ization suffix
is a lot less cumbersome), and used in the sense of other developmental
-izations, like "modernization,"  "industrialization," and
"internationalization," to refer to public policy designed to encourage
changes in social and economic structure. I have seen it used in other
contexts--e.g., by IGOs--but always assumed for some reason it was borrowed
from the Japanese.

Alex
On Jul 8, 2012 10:26 AM, "Katja Mayer" <katja.mayer at univie.ac.at> wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> if you hear or read "informatization", how would you contextualize 
> this term?
>
> I am asking this, because I have a rather specific idea of what 
> informatization entails (a rather quantitative, technocratic context, 
> looking for measurements of technological diffusion and impact on 
> labour, e-commerce and other fields...) and I would like to know more 
> about other approaches.
>
> Are there any other connotations? Maybe in french literature? (Since 
> the term was used in the 1978 presidential report by Nora/Minc: 
> L'informatisation de la societe.)
>
> Thanks for your assistence,
> Katja
>
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