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The US National Information Infrastructure (NII)
Virtual Library offers information about the information
superhighway, in particular as part of the Global
Inventory Project (GIP).
From an Australian
perspective an excellent introduction to some questions of
value in public policymaking about the Web is provided by
Graham Greenleaf's 1998 Uni of NSW Law Journal article
An Endnote on Regulating Cyberspace: Architecture vs
Law
There's an outstanding
overview of national and international regulatory
mechanisms in Global Business Regulation
(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 00) by John
Braithwaite & Peter Drahos. The New
Sovereignty: Compliance With International Regulatory
Agreements (Cambridge, Harvard Uni Press 95) by Abram
& Antonia Chayes focuses on 'rogue states'. The New
World Trade Organization Agreements: Globalizing Law
Through Services & Intellectual Property
(Cambridge, Cambridge Uni Press 2000), by Australia's
Christopher Arup explores the evolving WTO-WIPO
relationship highlighted in our copyright
guide.
policy development
For personal perspectives
on how US cyber policy is developed - often on the hop, at
great expense, with much noise from the media - you could
do worse than turn to Reed Hundt's You Say You Want A
Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics (New
Haven, Yale Uni Press 00) and Cyber Rights: Defending
Free Speech in the Digital Age (New York, Times 98), a
memoir by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF)
Mike Godwin. Hundt is a former chair of the Federal
Communications Commission.
The Gordian Knot - Political Gridlock on the Information
Highway (Cambridge, MIT Press 97) by W Russell Neuman,
Lee McKnight & Richard Solomon is less personal but
ultimately more convincing.
There's no Australian
equivalent and much of the online examination of policy
development is disfigured by ad hominem attacks. Two
recent books on the 'old media' provide some perspective
on local horse-trading, foot shuffling, hot air and
incomprehension. They are Trevor Barr's Newmedia.com.au:
The Changing Face of Australia's Media and Communications
(St Leonards, Allen & Unwin 00) - a leading academic
on the interaction between politicians, bureaucrats,
business, consumers and technology - and a blow by blow
account in The Gatekeepers: The Global Media Battle to
control Australia's Pay TV (Annandale, Pluto Press 00)
by AFR journalist Mark Westfield.
Australian government
Australia's National
Office for the Information Economy (NOIE)
has produced a range of reports, some of value, on aspects
of electronic commerce.
There's other information at the Australian Bureau of
Statistics (ABS) site.
The Australian Electronic Business Network (AEBN)
is a government program meant to "foster awareness of
electronic commerce among small to medium
enterprises"
international
The
Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD)
generates detailed statistical and other reports.
The World Trade Organization (WTO)
site - currently being reconstructed - provides access to
statistical data, research and international agreements
such as TRIPS.
overseas government
The website of the US
government Electronic
Commerce agency contains a wealth of information about
policy-making and research initiatives in the US.
Last year the US
Internet Council (USIC), comprising state and national
legislators, released State of the Net 1999,
The US Department of Commerce's Digital
Economy office publishes significant reports. It has
largely superseded the National Telecommunications &
Information Administration (NTIA)
and the independent National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
as a major 'new economy' data source.
The US National Information
Infrastructure (NII) Virtual
Library offers information about the information superhighway, in
particular as part of the Global Inventory Project (GIP).
Statistics Canada (StatCan)
offers outstanding coverage of developments in the land of
the moose, the muskrat and the mountie. It is superior to
the UK National Statistics (NStats)
Office.
The European Community Information Society Project
Office (ISPO) has an
array of statistics, generally deeply buried.
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