National information infrastructure initiatives : vision and policy design / edited by Brian Kahin and Ernest J. Wilson III.

"In collaboration with the Global Infornation Infrastructure Commission."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the what, why, where and how of national information initiatives / Ernest J. Wilson III -- Implementing the NII vision : Singapore's experience and future challenges / Poh-Kam Wong -- Back to the future : Japan's NII plans / Joel West, Jason Dedrick, and Kenneth L. Kraemer -- Korea's national information infrastructure : vision and issues / Kuk-Hwan Jeong and John Leslie King -- The U.S. national information infrastructure initiative : the market, the web, and the virtual project / Brian Kahin -- Cultural sovereignty, public participation, and democratization of the public sphere : the Canadian debate on the new information infrastructure / Marc Raboy -- Information infrastructure initiatives in emerging economies : the case of India / Ben A. Petrazzini and G. Harindranath -- Brazil : is the world ready for when information highways cross the Amazon? / Lee McKnight and Antonio J.J. Botelho -- National information infrastructure in developing economies / Eduardo Talero -- Information superhighway policy in France : the end of the high tech Colbertism / Thierry Vedel -- Public policy and the information superhighway : the case of the United Kingdom / Andrew Graham -- Multimedia : Germany's third attempt to move to an information society / Herbert Kubicek -- The information welfare society : an assessment of Danish government initiatives preparing for the information age / Annemarie Munk Riis -- Information liberalization in the European Union / Shalini Venturelli -- European information infrastructure policy making in the context of the policy capacity of the European Union and its member-states : progress and obstacles / Milda K. Hedblom and William B. Garrison, Jr. -- Approaches for maximizing GII impacts on sustainable development / Thomas R. Spacek -- Will the global information infrastructure need transnational (or any) governance / Walter S. Baer -- Regional development and the information society : the IRISI initiative as a pilot project of the European Union / Wolfgang Kleinwächter / Materials from the Special Session on Information Infrastructure / OECD -- Chairs' conclusions from the G-7 Ministerial Conference on the Information Society.

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