Summit and represents a brief review of the status and trends in the area of ICT and Internet development in the UNECE region … report focuses on the state of the Internet critical resources and, consequently, on the ICT and Internet penetration across … countries and social groups. It also looks into existing Internet governance arrangements and makes some recommendations. The …

19th century, radio and television broadcasting in the 20th century, and most recently the Internet. This essay focuses …

Concern over the potential need to redefine universal service to account for Internet-related services and other … combinations of communication and computing motivates this study of the geographic spread of commercial Internet Service Providers … (ISPs), the leading suppliers of Internet access in the United States. The paper characterizes the location of 40,000 access …

countries¡¯ willingness to share resources in Volunteer Grids based on social sharing theory, this research argues that without … international data repositories. Our results show that R&D and Internet connection type (broadband or dial-up) are significant … solely achieved by interconnecting with developing countries through high-speed Internet backbones. …

levied by Internet service providers on content providers to reach users. This "zero-price" rule may prove desirable for … creation -- goals shared by copyright and patent laws. The rule also helps to solve a coordination problem: since Internet … Internet service providers with different libraries of accessible content, thereby foreclosing consumers and leading to …