Nets, Webs and the Information Infrastructure/For Further Reading

Information Infrastructure / Information & Communications Technologies
I Buy Broadband. 2002. “Broadband 101 - ISDN Frequently Asked Questions,” I Buy Broadband. Home page on-line. Available from https://www.ibuybroadband.com/ibb2/know-isdn.asp; Internet.

Naik, Dilip. 1998. Internet Standards and Protocols. Washington: Microsoft Press.

Palm.com. 2002. “ Bluetooth(tm) Create Wireless Personal Area Networks,” Palm.com. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.palm.com/wireless/bluetooth/. Internet.

Sheldon, Tom. 2002. “Internet Organizations and Committees,” Linktionary. Available from http://www.linktionary.com/i/internet_organizations.html; Internet.

The Living Internet. 2002. “The Living Internet,” The Living Internet. Home page online. Available from http://livinginternet.com/; Internet.

Viruses, Privacy and Security
Brain, Marshall. 2002. “How Computer Viruses Work,” Howstuffworks. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.howstuffworks.com/virus.htm; Internet.

Computer Knowledge. 2002. “Virus history,” Computer Knowledge. Home page online. Available from http://www.cknow.com/vtutor/vthistory.htm; Internet.

Electronic Privacy Information Center. 2002. “EPIC Online Guide to Practical Privacy Tools,” Electronic Privacy Information Center. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.html; Internet.

Electronic Privacy Information Center. 2002. “Cookies,” Electronic Privacy Information Center. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.epic.org/privacy/internet/ cookies/; Internet.

Huggins, James S. 2002. “Privacy Policy,” James S. Huggins. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/bas1/privacy.htm; Internet.

Lawson, Katherine T. 2002. “United States Internet Privacy Laws and the European Community Data Directive,” School of Information and Library Science. Available from http://www.ils.unc.edu/~lawsk/policypaper.html; Internet.

Platform for Privacy Preferences Initiative. 2002. “P3P 1.0: A New Standard in Online Privacy,” World Wide Web Consortium. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.w3.org/P3P/brochure.html; Internet.

Roziah, Sharifah. 2002. “Home PC Security,” National ICT Security & Emergency Response Centre. White paper on-line. Available from http://niser.org.my/resources/homepcsecurity.pdf; Internet.

Science Technology and Industry Directorate - OECD. 2002. “Information Security and Privacy,” Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.oecd.org/EN/relevant_links/0,,EN-relevant_links43-1-no-no-146-000.html; Internet.

Strauss, Jared and Ken Rogerson. 2002. “Policies for Online Privacy in the United States and the European Union,” University of Washington. Available from http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/europe/Netconference/Strauss-RogersonPaper.htm; Internet.

Tolman, Jarrett. 2002. “Computer Virus Timeline,” Information Please. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.infoplease.com/spot/virustime1.html; Internet.

White & Case News. 2002. “White & Case Privacy Law Survey Shows Rising Tide of Legal/Regulatory Controls in Major Countries Worldwide,” White & Case News. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.whitecase.com/pr_wc_privacy_law_survey.html; Internet.

Universal Service and Universal Access
Cairncross, Frances. 1997. The Death of Distance. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

Benton Foundation. 2002. “The Benton Foundation’s Universal Service and Universal Access Virtual Library,” Benton Foundation. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.benton.org/Policy/Uniserv/; Internet.

Björn Wellenius. 1997. “Extending Telecommunications Service to Rural Areas-The Chilean Experience,” Public Policy for the Private Sector. Publication online. Available from http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/telecoms/pdf/ruralchi.pdf; Internet.

Global Information & Communication Technologies Department. 2002. GICT. Home page on-line. Available from http://info.worldbank.org/ict/; Internet.

Purdue Universal Access Initiative. 2002. “Purdue Universal Access Initiative - Web Developer’s Resources,” Purdue University. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.purdue.edu/odos/puai/; Internet.

Telecommunication Sector Reform Unit. 2002. “Documents & Reports : Universal Service,” International Telecommunication Union. Available from http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/treg/related-links/links-docs/uso.html; Internet.

UNESCO Observatory on the Information Society. 2002. “Universal Access Overview,” UNESCO. Home page on-line. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/observatory/doc_uni_access/index.shtml; Internet.

Wolf, Jason and Natalie Zee. 2001. The Last Mile - Broadband and the Next Internet Revolution. USA: McGraw-Hill.

Language
Language Technologies Institute. 2002. “LTI Projects,” Language Technologies Institute. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/cmtprojects.html; Internet.

Translate-free.com. 2002. “Foreign Language Translation Services Available Free on the Internet,” Translate-free.com. Links page on-line. Available from http://translatefree.com/; Internet.

Translation Journal. 2002. “Translation Journal,” Accurapid Translations. Home page on-line. Available from http://accurapid.com/journal/index.html; Internet.

Competition / Monopoly
Accenture, Markle Foundation, United Nations Development Programme. 2002. “Appendix 3 National ICT Approaches: Selected Case Studies,” Digital Opportunity Initiative. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.opt-init.org/framework/pages/appendix3Case2.html; Internet.

Stiglitz, Joseph. 2002. “Creating Competition in Telecommunications,” The World Bank Group. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/extme/jssp042798.htm; Internet.

U. S. Department of Commerce - National Trade Data Bank. 2002. “Costa Rica: 1998 Country Report On Economic Policy and Trade Practices,” TradePort. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.tradeport.org/ts/countries/costarica/ecopol.html; Internet.

Internet History
Berners-Lee, Tim. 1999. Weaving the Web. New York: Harper San Francisco.

Berners-Lee, Tim. 2002. “The World Wide Web: A very short personal history,” World Wide Web Consortium. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html; Internet.

Croatian Academic and Research Network. 2002. “History of The Internet,” Croatian Academic and Research Network. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.carnet.hr/internet/eng/world/index_eng.htm; Internet.

Griffiths, Richard T. 2002. “History of the Internet, Internet for Historians (and just about everyone else),” Universiteit Leiden. Home page online. Available from http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.html; Internet.

Internet Society. 2002. “All about the Internet: History of the Internet,” Internet Society. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.isoc.org/internet/history; Internet.

Zakon, Robert H. 2002. “Hobbes’ Internet Timeline,” Hobbes’ Internet Timeline. Home page on-line. Available from http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/; Internet.

Figures
Figure 1. Schematic diagram by Edwin S. Soriano, digitally rendered by Corey Cruz ( http://geocities.com/mcxidesign).

Figure 2. Adapted from TeleGeography, “Major Interregional Internet Routes, 2001,” TeleGeography [home page online]; available from http://www.telegeography.com/resources/statistics/internet/pg02_major_internet_routes.html; accessed 18 September 2002.

Box 1 diagram. Adapted from Russ Haynal, “Schematic Diagram: Internet: ‘The Big Picture’,” Information Navigators [home page online]; available from http://navigators.com/internet_architecture.html; accessed 29 August 2002.

The Internet Time line. Adapted from “Hobbes’ Internet Timeline” Copyright (c) 19932003 by Robert H Zakon.

The cellular phone tower, fiber optic cable and satellite dish are building blocks of the global Internet infrastructure.

The cellular phone tower photograph is used with permission from EMF Services with website at http://www.emfservices.com.