Measuring worldwide connectivity: Expansion of the internet |
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| Institution: | 1. State and Foreign Documents Librarian, University Libraries, Campus Box 184, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0184, USA;7. Deborah Hollis is the State and Foreign Documents Librarian at the University of Colorado at Boulder USA;1. Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Clínico Universitario «Lozano Blesa», Zaragoza, España;2. Servicio de Endocrinología, Hospital Clínico Universitario «Lozano Blesa», Zaragoza, España;1. Division of Fetal and Transitional Medicine, Fetal Medicine Institute, Children’s National Health System, 111 Michigan Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA;2. Division of Neonatology, Children’s National – 111 Michigan Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA;3. Division of Neurology, Children’s National – 111 Michigan Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA;1. Institute of Physics, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, 85090 Bydgoszcz, Poland;2. Laboratory for Optoelectronic Materials, Department of Electronics, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 79017 Lviv, Ukraine;3. Institute for Single Crystals, NAS of Ukraine, 61001 Kharkiv, Ukraine;4. Institute of Physics, AS CR, 16253 Prague, Czech Republic;5. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Science, 31342 Krakow, Poland |
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| Abstract: | The media have focused a great deal of attention on the Internet in the United States, but what is the status of connectivity outside the United States? The Human Development Index (HDI) created by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ranks 174 countries by human development status, e.g., average life expectancy, GDP per capita, and adult literacy. Since 1991, Larry Landweber, a member of the Internet Society (ISO), has tracked the growth of Internet connectivity worldwide and made this information available via the Internet. Landweber's list is converted into high, medium, and low HDI rankings in order to note the growth of Internet connectivity for 174 countries during the past five years. Additionally, international media reports translated by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) are examined to track discussion of telecommunications or Internet expansion. FBIS citations show substantial coverage of telecommunications development and satellite projects in Asia and the Pacific, and Oceania. It is only within the last two years that the Internet has surfaced in international news reports. FBIS reports also reveal that foreign government officials are confronted with their inability to regulate the Internet. One example involves dissident groups circumventing traditional information channels to broadcast opposing views. |
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