TANYA GUPTA
Publications and an iBook
Here are some selected publications on different subjects ranging from the semantic web, national IT diffusion, to
the public sector and Caribbean travel.
Reduction of Price Dispersion through the Semantic Web
Abstract: The emergence of semantic web opens up boundless possibilities by enabling software agents to intelligently reason about its content. Over 300 million searches are conducted everyday on the Internet by people trying to find what they need. A majority of these searches are in the domain of consumer ecommerce, where a web user is looking for something to buy . This represents a huge cost in terms of people hours and an enormous drain of resources. Agent enabled semantic search will have a dramatic impact on the precision of these searches. It will reduce and possibly eliminate information asymmetry where a better informed buyer gets the best value. By impacting this key determinant of market prices semantic web will foster the evolution of different business and economic models. We submit that there is a need for developing these futuristic models based on our current understanding of e-commerce models and nascent semantic web technologies. We believe these business models will encourage mainstream web developers and businesses to join the "semantic web revolution. (Workshop at WWW2002, International Workshop on the Semantic Web, Hawaii, May 7, 2002)
Others
Public pay for private work: Some initial thinking on the implications of public subsidies for private sector firms for decisions about individual pay (2009)
“The role of e-government in building democratic governance,” Congreso Internacional del CLAD sobre la Reforma del Estado y de la Administración Pública, (Buenos Aires: November 2008) download link
IT diffusion: National Best Practices
Abstract: The effective use of computer and information technology contributes to an increase in an organization's capability in delivering its products and/or serves. Companies that wish to survive and computer in this information era are finding that effective use and management of IT is fast becoming the single biggest contributor to their competitive edge and thus, also to their bottom line. As a result, in recent years we have seen an exponential growth in the literature that deals with effective IT management. Although a country is a large and a complex organization and its economy can benefit as much from the effective use of information technology as any corporation, IT management at a national level has been widely ignored in IT literature.
This paper presents a set of best practice for management of IT at a national level. To arrive at these best practices, we have defined an abstract term "diffusion" to encapsulate the details of various IT management approaches. This abstraction helped us in identifying and classifying the national IT initiatives from literature. After the general classification, we have taken four successful Asian countries and gathered their specific practices under those general categories. Once we have the specific practices grouped, a simple frequency count revealed interesting insight into effective national level IT practices. (Google link to paper)
Knowledge
In this paper, we look at the current state of knowledge management at the Bank. Then we identify and analyze a knowledge-related activity. We analyze the activity by using a modified activity node tree of IDEF0 and identifying its potential knowledge leakage areas. We then propose a more efficient model of knowledge related activities and provide guidelines for institutionalizing the model.
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