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Global employment trends -- The new information and communication technologies: genuine potential and real constraints -- The enterprise in the digital economy -- Toward job economies? employment in the information society -- The quality of work in th e information society: potential and challenges -- Overcoming the "digital divide": strategies for development and poverty alleviation -- Essential prerequisites for the information society: education, learning and training -- Employment institutions and intermediation in the information economy -- Decent work as social choice, industrial relations in the digital era -- Policy considerations for the information economy.