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Course Objectives:
The course aims to impart students with the knowledge on basic fundamentals of an economy
based on digital technologies .
Course Description
This course is designed to help students build cognitive foundation for fully understanding the
linkages among digital technologies, economy and society at large in the context of emerging
knowledge economy and knowledge societies. At the completion of the course, the students will
be able to articulate overarching fundamentals of digital economy and would have developed
sufficient conceptual grounding for further studying and analyzing key elements of digital
economy. The course delivery method would entail class room lectures based on both primary
and secondary sources of information and knowledge backed by deliberations on case studies
and real world examples. Pedagogical method to be employed would encourage classroom
discussions and references to materials from varied sources.
Course Outcome
Students completing the course will have sufficient theoretical and conceptual grounding on
fundamentals that define emerging knowledge and digital economy for them to be able either to
effectively pursue advanced studies in emerging paradigm or enter job market that is more and
more geared towards ensuring multi-disciplinary orientation on prospective employees. The
course is designed to equip students with knowledge on ways and means of creating
organizational value and leveraging ICTs and knowledge resources as tools for securing
competitive advantages in organizations.
Course Contents:
Text Books:
Don Tapscott: The Digital Economy, McGraw Hill Professional Book Group, 1996,
Copyright 1996 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Don Tapscott, Alex Lowy, David Ticoll: Blueprint to the Digital Economy, McGraw
Hill Professional Book Group, 1998 Copyright 1998 Alliance for Converging
Technologies Corporation.
Rene Tissen, Daniel Andriessen, Frank Lekanne Deprez: The Knowledge Dividend,
Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2000, Copyright Pearson Education Limited 2000.
Paul Timmers: Electronic Commerce, John wily & Sons, Ltd, 1999, Copyright 1999
by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Reference:
Charles Trepper: E-Commerce Strategies, Microsoft Press 2000, Copyright 2000 by
Microsoft Corporation
IT Policy 2000, National Planning Commission, His Majesty's Government of Nepal
Electronic Transaction Ordiance, 2061, his Majesty's Government of Nepal.