Publishers’
foreword Shahid Akhtar, Claude-Yves Charron, Maria Ng Lee Hoon vii
Acronyms
xv
Editor’s preface Chin Saik Yoon xviii
Quantitative
evidence for the digital divide George Sciadas xx Issues
for the region
Building information societies: Bridging
the digital divide in Asia Pacific Gopi Pradhan,
Chin Saik Yoon, João
Câncio Freitas, Malika Ibrahim, Huixin Ke, Muhammad Aimal Marjan, Jamshed
Masood, and Esther Batiri Williams 3
Internet governance and the Asia Pacific: Urgent issues for the region
Adam Peake 15
Social, political and cultural aspects of ICTs: E-governance, popular participation
and
international politics Lelia Green, Emmanuel C. Lallana, Masoud Shafiee,
and Zaharom Nain 31
Appropriate ICT for the Asia Pacific: Opting for open source, localisation,
internationalisation and free access Onno W. Purbo, Chin Saik Yoon, Samudra
Haque,
Keisuke Kamimura, Thaweesak Koanantakool, Nguyen Trung Quynh, Sushil
Pandey,
and Kalaya Udomvitid 47
Review
of individual Internet domains | .af | Afghanistan:
Muhammad Aimal Marjan 63 | | .au |
Australia: Lelia Green 67 | | .bd | Bangladesh:
Samudra E. Haque 74 | | .bn | Brunei:
Yong Chee Tuan 78 | | .bt | Bhutan:
Gopi Pradhan 83 | | .cn | China:
Huixin Ke 89 | | .hk | Hong
Kong: John Yat Chu Fung 96 | | .id | Indonesia:
Onno W. Purbo 100 | | .in | India:
Madanmohan Rao 107 | | .ir |
Iran: Masoud Shafiee 114 | | .jp | Japan:
Keisuke Kamimura, Motohiro Tsuchiya and Adam Peake 118 | | .kh | Cambodia:
Norbert Klein 124 | | .kr | South
Korea: Jong-Sung Hwang 128 | | .la
| Laos:
Phonpasit Phissamay 134 | | .lk | Sri
Lanka: Nalaka Gunawardene 138 | | .mm | Myanmar:
Khin Aye Wyn 147 | | .mn | Mongolia:
Lkhagvasuren Ariunaa 150 | | .mo | Macau:
Eric Sautedé 155 | | .mv | Maldives:
Malika Ibrahim 160 | | .my | Malaysia:
Zaharom Nain 169 | | .np | Nepal:
Basanta Shrestha and Sushil Pandey 175 | | .nz | New
Zealand: Danny Butt 181 | | .ph |
Philippines: Emmanuel C. Lallana 188 | | .pk |
Pakistan: Jamshed Masood 196 | | .sg |
Singapore: Goh Seow Hiong 201 | | .th |
Thailand: Hugh Thaweesak Koanantakool 212 | | .tp |
Timor-Leste: João Câncio Freitas and Abdullah Zainol Abidin 215 | | .tw |
Taiwan: Ching-Yi Liu 218 | | .vn |
Vietnam: Nguyen Trung Quynh 223 |
Review
of sub regions
Pacific Island States: Esther Batiri Williams 229
Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Lorraine Carlos Salazar and Shelah
D. Lardizabal 237
Asia Pacific Economic Forum Cooperation: Lorraine Carlos Salazar and Shelah
D. Lardizabal 245
About
the contributing authors 253
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