Economics of communication

Web and Internet technologies initiated the fourth industrial revolution in less than 20 years since their entry into mainstream communication scenarios, significantly changing economics and society. Digitization and mobile technologies speed up communication and provide the tools to control value chains of ever increasing complexity, that have already crossed the limits of single organizations or countries. How can information and communication technologies (ICT) help to establish fair and more sustainable models of global and local economies and overcome serious disadvantages of current market forces?