Special Issue #8: A Web site with a view — The Third World on First Monday

 

Introduction by Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla
1. National analysis and policies Towards a national telecommunications strategy in Morocco by Mohammed Ibahrine (originally published in January 2004)
e–Government, e–Society and Jordan: Strategy, theory, practice, and assessment by Michael Blakemore and Roderic Dutton (originally published in November 2003)
A review of national information and communication technologies (ICT) and a proposed National Electronic Initiative Framework (NEIF) by Alan R. Peslak (originally published in May 2006)

1.2. Strategies for development: Technologies and media Wireless Internet connectivity for developing nations by Larry Press (originally published in September 2003)

The Internet in developing nations: Grand challenges by Larry Press (originally published in April 2004)

Refuting objections to a Global Rural Network (GRNet) for developing nations by Larry Press (originally published in August 2004)

E–media in development: Combining multiple e–media types by Robin van Koert (originally published in February 2003)

1.3. Issues of development: Openness Collaborative development of open content: A process model to unlock the potential for African universities by Derek Keats (originally published in February 2003)

Licence fees and GDP per capita: The case for open source in developing countries by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (originally published in December 2003)

Open access to law in developing countries by Daniel Poulin (originally published in December 2004)

1.4. Issues of development: Higher education A study of Internet usage in Nigerian universities: A case study of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile–Ife, Nigeria by K.O. Jagboro (originally published in February 2003)

Problems and the Epistemology of Electronic Publishing in the Arab World: The Case of Lebanon by Ramzi Nasser and Kamal Abouchedid (originally published in September 2001)

Using the Internet to enable developing country universities to meet the challenges of globalization through collaborative virtual programmes by Derek W. Keats, Maria Beebe, and Gunnar Kullenberg (originally published in October 2003)

2. Political consequences: Liberties and technology in developing nations The Internet and State Control in Authoritarian Regimes: China, Cuba, and the Counterrevolution by Shanthi Kalathil and Taylor C. Boas (originally published in August 2001)

Digitisation and Its Asian Discontents: The Internet, Politics and Hacking in China and Indonesia by Jeroen de Kloet (originally published in September 2002)

Censoring the Internet: The Situation in Turkey by Kemal Altintas, Tolga Aydin, and Varol Akman (originally published in June 2002)

The use of the Internet for political action by non–state dissident actors in the Middle East by W. Sean McLaughlin (originally published in November 2003)

Communicative practice and transgressive global politics: The D’ua of Sheikh Muhammed Al Mohaisany by Michael Dartnell (originally published in July 2005)

3. Cultural impacts Negotiating the Global and the Local: How Thai Culture Co–opts the Internet by Soraj Hongladarom (originally published in August 2000)

Africa Connected by Martin Hall (originally published in November 1998)

4. The Digital Divide, or how not to understand inequality WSIS: Whose vision of an information society? by Ajit Pyati (originally published in May 2005)

Who benefits from the digital divide? by Brendan Luyt (originally published in August 2004)

Zones of silence: A framework beyond the digital divide by Amelia Bryne Potter (originally published in May 2006)

Effective use: A community informatics strategy beyond the Digital Divide by Michael Gurstein (originally published in December 2003)

5. The travelogue Digital divide or digital development? The Internet in Mexico by James Curry and Martin Kenney (originally published in March 2006)

The Impact of the Internet on Myanmar by Viola Krebs (originally published in May 2001)

The impact of cybercafés on information services in Uganda by Samuel Gitta and J.R. Ikoja–Odongo (originally published in April 2003)

Indonesia: From Mainstream to Alternative Media by Andreas Harsono (originally published in September 1996)

The Internet in Sierra Leone: The way forward? by John Abdul Kargbo (originally published in February 1997)

6. Odds and ends Internet in the Lives of Turkish Women by Ayisigi B. Sevdik and Varol Akman (originally published in March 2002)

Ethnic media and politics: The case of the use of the Internet by Uyghur diaspora by Kilic Kanat (originally published in July 2005)

 

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