Civil Society Goes Online: Civic Groups with Websites in 152 Countries,...
Over the last 10 years, nearly 10,000 civic groups in 152 countries around the world have asserted a digital presence. More than twice as many civic groups came online between 2000-04 as came online...
View ArticleDoes the Internet Speak English? Most of The World’s National Libraries Do
Three quarter’s of the world’s national libraries have an internet presence. But of the 165 countries researched, a quarter had no working website. One-third of the working websites load in English,...
View ArticleThe Balance of Trade in Telecommunications Equipment
A trade deficit, or a deficit in the balance of trade, occurs when imports are greater than exports. Over the last decade, there are 10 core countries that consistently account for around 75 percent of...
View ArticleDeveloping Countries Put More Content Online Than Into Books
Book publishing is big business in rich countries, and book production in developing nations is a fraction of that in developed nations. Yet there has been impressive growth in the amount of cultural...
View ArticlePatterns of International Inequality in Technology Access, 1995-2005
A decade into the information society, computing and communication technologies should be dispersed among a large number of countries in the world. But key computing and communication technologies are...
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Has Privatization Contributed to the Relative Decline of Internet Hosts in...
For several decades, international lending agencies have encouraged African governments to reform their telecommunications sector by privatizing the public telephone services, separating and...
View ArticleNational Dependency in the Information Age
While many governments are working to improve their information infrastructure, a significant number of governments throughout the world do not have the capacity to host their own websites. A third of...
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The World’s Libraries Online
In many parts of the world, the best developed information infrastructure is supported by libraries. A country’s national library typically houses information on legislation, historical archives,...
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The Urban Digital Divide II: Rich v. Poor Cities
Almost every city in the world offers cyber cafés or other commercial Internet access, but they cost average people in a developing city two times as much of their daily income as average residents in...
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Ownership Diversity in Muslim Media Systems
Across the 15 largest Muslim media systems, ownership patterns vary in interesting ways. In many Western countries, there is less and less diversity in the ownership of media assets because these...
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