• Recommended On-Line Reading
• Library of Background Material and Links

• Seminar Lectures (in Netmedia and RealAudio)
• Student Presentations and Background

• Information Society
• Information Economy
• Global Electronic Commerce and Smmes
• Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
• GII/GIS Applications

• Globalization
• Information Infrastructure
• Information and Communications Technologies
• International Regime Formation
• GII/GIS Applications

Recommended Journals

• The Economist
• Business Week
• Fortune
• Financial Times
• Atlantic Monthly
• Business 2.0
• Red Herring
• Wired
• Information Strategy
• Upside

Recommended Newspapers

• The Washington Post
• The New York Times
• The Wall Street Journal

Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

• Under Construction

Globalization

• Telecom Information Resources (Jeff Mackie-Mason)
• Globalization, Knowledge, Education and Training in the Information Age
• Expand the Debate on Globalization (Time Magazine)
• Globalization and Corporate Control
• Globalization a Misnomer
• BASF in Dialogue on Globalization
• Globalization and its Impact on Cities
• Globalization and the Environment
• No Globalization
• Globalization vs. Globalism
• Globalization and Labour
• Globalization and Corporate Rule
• Future Globalization
• Understanding Globalization
• UN Chief Fears Globalization Backlash
• What Does Globalization Mean to Me
• Think Globalization Series (Japan)
• Globalization: Selected Comments
• Globalization and the MAI (More links)
• Globalization at the Millennium

Information Society

• European Community Information Society Projects Office
• European Background Links on Information Society
• Information Society and Development Conference
• UK Government Information Society Initiative
• Paving the Way for the Information Society
• Ireland's Information Society Commission
• The Information Society: A Quarterly International Journal
• Global Inventory Project (of the Information Society)
• Globalisation and the Information Society (Initiative by Martin Bangemann, European Commission
• Information Society Forum
• G8 Information Society Conference
• G8 (G7) Information Society Pilot Projects
• EU Information Society Technologies (Working Paper)
• Learning in the Information Society
• Information Society Discussion Group

Information Infrastructure

• US GII Initiative
• Global Information Infrastructure Commission
• Computer Systems Policy Project
• Measuring the Global Information Infrastructure
• GII/GIS Policy Requirements
• Understanding the Global Information Infrastructure
• Harvard GII Papers
• Global Information Infrastructure: The Birth, Vision and Architecture
• "GII to Unite the World"
• ITU GII Links
• Lew Branscomb Notes on Internet and GII/NII
• Governance of the NII/GII
• US Department of Defense and the GII
• US Information Infrastructure Task Force
 

Information Economy

• Program for Research on the Information Economy
• Building Canada's Information Economy
• The Information Economy (Hal Varian)
• Understanding the Information Economy
• "The Economy's Identity Crisis"
• The Global Information Economy (Australia)

Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs)

• Community Information and Communications Technology Forum
• Commonwealth of Learning Archive
• Info21: UNDP ICT for Development
• ICTs and Governance: Linkages and Strategies

Global Electronic Commerce and Smmes

• Electronic Commerce Resources
• US Government Electronic Commerce Policy
• Electronic Commerce Europe
• Federal Electronic Commerce Office

International Regime Formation

• Global Information Infrastructure Commission
• Alliance for Converging Technologies
• World Trade Organization

GII/GIS Applications

• Getting Real About Technology-Based Learning

GII/GIS Applications

• PEOPLink

• Introductory Lecture
• Module I: 
• Globalization, Educational, Knowledge and Learning in the Information Age (Microsoft Netshow Format) 
• Module II: 
• The World Around Us: the Global Economy and the World System
• Module III: 
• The Information and Communications Technologies Revolution and the Information Age
• Module IV: 
• Globalization, Information Economics and Restructuring in the World System
• Module V: 
• Crisis, Continuity and Change in the Global Information Economy and Global Information Society
• Module VI: 
• International Regime Theory as an Analytical Approach to Governance of the World System

• Module VII: 
• The International Telecommunications Regime: Challenges and Restructuring
• Module VIII: 
• New Institutions and New Realities in the Governance of the Global Information Infrastructure/ Global Information Society (GII/GIS) Regime
• Module IX: 
• Student Presentations
• Module X: 
• The Global Politics, Economics and Technologies of E-Commerce
• Module XI: 
• Universal Access and Community Empowerment
• Module XII: 
• Implications of the Information Society for the Nation State and National Identity
• Module XIII and Module XIV:
• Group Presentations

• Kohei Yoshida, University of Michigan
• Introductory Presentation
• Nathaniel Poor, University of Michigan
• Introductory Presentation
• Kathleen Wolters, University of Michigan
• Introductory Presentation
• Lorna Mabunda, University of Michigan
• Introductory Presentation
• Daniel Bree, University of Michigan
• Introductory Presentation
• Connie Bridges, University of Michigan
• Introductory Presentation
• Marylin Coicou, American University
• Introductory Presentation
• Zoe E. Trohanis, American University
• Introductory Presentation
• Rattaphol Onsanit, American University
• Introductory Presentation
• Anita Day, American University
• Introductory Presentation
• Tamara Trownsell, American University
• Introductory Presentation
• Jennifer Marthia, American University
• Introductory Presentation
• Alex Sardar, AU
• Introductory Presentation

• Lynda Singletary, AU
• Introductory Presentation
• Ruth Gibbs, AU
• Introductory Presentation
• Francis Malema, Wits
• Introductory Presentation
• Misayo Matsumoto, AU
• Introductory Presentation
• Jason Dinter, AU
• Introductory Presentation
• Griselda P. Baquedano, AU
• Introductory Presentation
• Ashraf Patel, Wits
• Introductory Presentation
• Kristen Walker, Wits
• Introductory Presentation
• Masodi Xaba, Wits
• Introductory Presentation
• Stanley Motlala, Wits
• Introductory Presentation
• Sulieman Patel, Wits
• Introductory Presentation
• Thembekile Ndlovu, Wits
• Introductory Presentation
• Andrew Mackay, AU
• Introductory Presentation