Access means much higher user fees and costs to ISPs for connecting to the global Net, and geographic dispersion limited to a few big cities.Ben Petrazzini, Mugo Kibati Pages 31-36
New high-capacity links in Europe and Asia could represent the beginning of the end of the rest of the world's having to send its Internet traffic through U.S.-based networks.
Robert B. Cohen Pages 37-40
How can the government use the Internet to promote economic development while maintaining its political and economic control?Zixiang (Alex) Tan, William Foster, Seymour Goodman Pages 44-52
The government wants it to link the country's huge rural population, as well as its own district offices and new private ISPs, to the Web and the world.P. K. Agarwal Pages 53-58
Why data communications should be part of the basic service when building new wireless voice networks in Africa and Southeast Asia.Mugo Kibati, Donyaprueth Krairit Pages 60-66
The country's expanding Internet sector has largely bypassed the government's telephone monopoly, and outpaced regulatory reform, due largely to the innovative use of wireless technologies.Jon M. Peha Pages 67-72
Learning critical thinking and interdisciplinary teamwork by building your own animal.
Randall D. Beer, Hillel J. Chiel, Richard F. Drushel Pages 85-92
Today's university is at a turning point, and turn it must. The time has come to recognize that education is a business and students are the customers.Dennis Tsichritzis Pages 93-100
A helpful introduction to the new additions and alterations to this pioneering policy, particularly since the advent of digital libraries.
David S. Wise Pages 116-119
As we approach January 1, 2000, considerable uncertainty continues; optimists predict only minor problems; pessimists claim that the effects will be far-reaching.
Peter G. Neumann, Declan McCullagh Page 144
