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E-Space was originally developed with IPPSR’s support in the early 1990s to examine the oncoming influence of information technology on society. Since its inception, it has produced a number of research initiatives and projects, growing at the same rapid pace that technology has grown to be a central part of society’s core. Today, E-Space is described as an exploration of the economic, social, political, cultural, spatial and policy forces that shape technology and science-based development. The Project hosts and supports cross-national debate and a global network of scholars and practitioners working on various facets of information and communication technologies. E-Space founding conveners, Kenneth E. Corey and Mark Wilson, have engaged IPPSR resources including research project grants, survey expertise and outreach services to assist expansion of the working network. Numerous surveys of the public mood toward technology have been completed, and notable reports have followed. In addition, these two faculty standouts have wrapped IPPSR’s project support into the book Urban and Regional Planning: Planning Practice in the Global Knowledge Economy, London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Lessons for this publication as well as experiential knowledge taken from this project are introduced to students through an Honors Research Seminar, entitled “Engaging the Global Knowledge Economy: Planning for Michigan's Intelligent Development (UGS 200H-016).” More can be learned about E-Space by contacting the faculty conveners, through the E-Space website maintained by MSU faculty conveners, or by contacting AnnMarie Schneider at the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research. What started it all? Survey research and a public policy forum…. Legislating the Net |
