SANDHYA RAO is Graduate Adviser and Associate Professor in the Department of Mass Communication at Southwest Texas State University. She has contributed articles to several books and is the co-editor of Critical Issues in Communication: Looking Inward for Answers (2001).BRUCE C. KLOPFENSTEIN is the director of the Dowden Center for New Media Studies and a Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Georgia. An expert in the field of new communication technologies, he is the co-author of The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog—Academic Edition (1996).

• Preface Foreword by Everett M. Rogers Introduction: Cyberpath to Development in Some Asian Countries by Sandhya Rao The Role of the United States in Global Internet Innovation and Diffusion by Bruce C. Klopfenstein The Internet in Japan by Yuji Mori and Vir Phoha Let a Hundred Modems Bloom: The Internet in Today's China by Bruce T. McIntyre The Skills Route to Cyberspace: India's Internet Experience by Sandhya Rao The Engine for the Next Economic Leap: Internet in Korea by Steve Kang The Internet in Malaysia by Musa Bin Abu Hassan Wiring an Intelligent Island: The Internet in Singapore by Peng Hwa Ang and Brian Lee Taiwan: Epicenter in the Hi-Tech world by Zenaida Sarabia Panol and Sandhya Rao Index