Creating an Information Industry in Hawaii: the State Government's Pro-active Approach and its Potential for Success

Paper presented at the 8th International Telecommunications Society Conference, Venice, Italy March 18-21, 1990.This paper will briefly review the unique geographic, socioeconomic, and political background of the State of Hawaii, as well as the existing telecommunications and information infrastructures for the purpose of highlighting the recent efforts of the state government to encourage the creation and growth of an information industry. The State's efforts will be outlined as an example of a highly pro-active governmental stance vis-a-vis the "information industry" in the midst of the general climate of deregulation in the U.S. and Hawaii telecommunications sectors. The existing resources upon which an information industry in Hawaii could be based and factors both favorable to the success of this initiative as well as potential pitfalls and obstacles will be reviewed. Finally, new activity in this area of the Hawaiian economy as it relates to the initiatives that the government has taken will be looked at and possible scenarios for future development will be presented

Working Conditions Laws Report 2012: A Global Review

[Excerpt] Labour legislation to address working conditions can cover an array of subjects that affect the employment relationship and workers’ well-being in the workplace. This report will focus on legislation regarding three important elements: working time (Chapter 1), maternity protection (Chapter 2), and minimum wages (Chapter 3). The material used in this study will be drawn predominantly from the ILO Working Conditions Laws Database, which was most recently updated in 2011-2012 (see Box 1 below). Given that the information in the database covers a vast amount of legal information from over 150 countries, this report will focus on selected essential provisions. The framework for presenting the national legislative information in this publication is based on the structure of the relevant ILO Conventions and Recommendations for each subject, which is meant to help provide a simple method for presentation and comparison. This report builds upon previous editions produced in 2010 and 2008. The reports of 2008 and 2010, which used a similar framework to present the material, were based mainly on regions of the world. However, while the 2008 and 2010 reports disaggregated industrialised countries and CIS and Eastern European countries in Europe, for the 2012 edition a framework is adopted that better reflects the data contained in the Working Conditions Law Database and the working conditions legislation that exists in different regions of the world. Thus, while in the information in all other regions is ordered the same manner, the industrialised countries have been placed in the appropriate regions and the Eastern European countries have been classified with Europe and CIS countries