History of Nordic Computing 4: 4th IFIP WG 9.7 Conference, HiNC 4, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 13-15, 2014, Revised Selected Papers [Hardcover]

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 4th IFIP WG 9.7 Conference on the History of Nordic Computing, HiNC 4, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2014. The 37 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. The papers focus on innovative ICT milestones that transformed the nordic societies and on the new ideas, systems and solutions that helped creating the welfare societies of today, in particular solutions and systems for public services, e.g., tax, social benefits, health care and education; solutions and systems for the infrastructure of the society, e.g., banking, insurance, telephones, transport and energy supply; and technologies and IT policies behind the major IT milestones, e.g., user centric innovation, programming techniques and IT ethics. They are organized in topical sections on IT policy, infrastructure, public services, private services, telesystems, health care, IT in banking, transport and IT technology.Computers and Welfare: The Swedish Debate on the Politics of Computerization in the 1970s and the 1980s.- TERESE -Telecommunications and Regional Development in Sweden: Early Telecommunication Development in a Regional and Social Perspective.- The Introduction of Computers to Primary and Secondary Schools.- Birth of Internet Ethics.- Reasons Behind the Privatization of Datacentralen.- The Creation of the Central Person Registry in Denmark.- The Danish Tax System and the No Touch Strategy.- Information Technology and Danish Agriculture.- ICT in Art in Sweden 19932011: Tool, Medium and Theme.- Dankort, the Danish National Debit Card System from the Early 1980s.- The Digital, Strategic and Citizen-Centric Project Genvej  Introducing ICT in Gentofte Kommune.- NEUCC.- UNI C  A True Internet Pioneer, the Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education.- Christian Rovsing A/S from 1970 to 1984.- The Story of Navision and Navision Stat.- Online Infrastructure in Supply Chain for Hardwarl#