@inproceedings{1ac98255e3024d8ba9e61360e3d4ad03,
title = "Digital Economy Planning in Kuwait",
abstract = "The aim of this paper is to provide a case study of digital economy planning in Kuwait, a country that is attempting to match the developments of neighboring middle eastern countries, but constrained by policy and cultural limitations. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), including Kuwait, push to be involved in digital and smart cities is not surprising. Dubai has no oil economy and those GCC countries reliant on oil wish to diversify their economies.",
keywords = "Kuwait digital economy, Smart cities, Urban living labs",
author = "Mark Balnaves",
note = "Funding Information: The thematic analysis in this study involved compiling documentation that could reasonably be coded as part of digital economy planning. This left open the possibility, of course, that there is no digital economy planning in Kuwait. What might count as digital economy planning was decided by contemporary policy and economic views on digital economy. {\textquoteleft}Digital economy{\textquoteright} as a phrase came from Don Tapscott{\textquoteright}s 1995 best seller, The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence. It is beyond the scope of this paper to analyse all the different definitions and conceptualisations of digital economy. However, University of Manchester{\textquoteright}s Centre for Development Informatics provides a useful breakdown of all if not most contemporary definitions and conceptualisation of digital economy in its 2017 working paper No. 68, Defining, Conceptualising, and Measuring the Digital Economy, developed as part of DIODE the “Development Implications of Digital Economies” strategic research network, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of its Global Challenges Research Fund initiative [4]. Perhaps not surprisingly, the working paper concludes that digital technologies are at the core of most conceptualisations of digital economy and skills and education key sectors that make both the production and application of those technologies possible. There are overlapping conceptualisations in areas like the sharing economy, such as the functional economy, the collaborative economy, the bio-based economy, the circular economy, the self-production economy, the we-economy, and so on. The Manchester working paper provides its own useful thematic visualisation of the different conceptualisation, provided in Figure 1. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 IEEE.; 11th CMI International Conference on Prospects and Challenges Towards Developing a Digital Economy within the EU, PCTDDE 2018 ; Conference date: 29-11-2018 Through 30-11-2018",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1109/PCTDDE.2018.8624795",
language = "English",
series = "11th CMI International Conference, 2018: Prospects and Challenges Towards Developing a Digital Economy within the EU, PCTDDE 2018",
publisher = "IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
pages = "32--37",
editor = "Idongesit Williams",
booktitle = "11th CMI International Conference, 2018",
address = "United States of America",
}
