Over the past 15 to 20 years, city governments have invested heavily in a wide array of information technology and technologies for fairly specific purposes including economic development, education, health, public safety and transportation.
Emerging high-technology industries include information technology and telecommunications.
Mr. Williams joined the newspaper in October 1998 from the Seagram Company's spirits and wine group, where he was vice president for information technology and chief technology officer.
Mr. Birkelund, 40, works with banking and financial services clients in the Manhattan office of Infosys Technologies, an information technology and consulting business in India.
Kangnam is developing into a second central business district of Seoul and attracts economic activity in such areas as tourism, design and fashion, information technology, and other new technology industries.
Scientific American, a unit of Holtzbrinck that covered everything in science from biology to zoology, Mr. Rennie said, will now pay more attention to technology, especially information technology and biotechnology.
A large-scale fusion of information technology and energy technology could have many benefits, but in a world of states competing for energy resources, and using these resources as geopolitical levers, there is no prospect of such a scheme operating at the global level.
