[Air-l] comparative cross-national diffusion of the internet

[catherine middleton]

Hi Nik,

Take a look at the International Telecommunication Union's Internet Reports
The Internet Story: ITU Internet Reports 1997-2003, 
http://www.itu.int/pub/S-POL-IR.ISTORY-2005/en

International Telecommunication Union. (2005). The internet of 
things. Geneva: ITU.
International Telecommunication Union. (2004). The portable internet. 
Geneva: ITU.
International Telecommunication Union. (2003). Birth of broadband. Geneva: ITU.

Also look at the Promoting Broadband website. The various country 
case studies provide background information on general internet 
adoption, not just broadband. 
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/ni/promotebroadband/

You may find some OECD publications useful too, e.g OECD 
communications outlook. Paris: OECD., published every other year 
(2005, 2003, etc.)

For Canada, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Road 
Map provides a detailed account of ICT initiatives in Canada. 
http://www3.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/cracin/policy/e-policy_map.html

CA*Net Institute. (2001). A nation goes online. Ottawa: CANARIE.  
http://www.canarie.ca/press/publications/ango.pdf

I've got a searchable bibliography of references on internet 
(especially broadband) adoption at 
http://www.broadbandresearch.ca/endnote/endnote.php. The interface 
isn't perfect, but you might find something useful by searching 
"anywhere" on isp or adoption or picking a specific country name.

Good luck with this research.

catherine middleton

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>From: Nik John <nikjohn at mscc.huji.ac.il>
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>Plenty of histories of the Internet in the US have been written. Much has
>been said on the variables that it is claimed predict rates of Internet
>adoption in other countries around the world. However, I'm interested in
>when different countries first hooked up and especially when the first
>commercial ISPs started operating in different countries.
>Can anyone give me that information for the country they live in? Or direct
>me to historical reviews of the network in various countries?