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5. INTERNET DIFFUSION OR PATHS OF IMPACTS
Pages 64-67

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... The military developed computer networking early to provide cross-networking for military information in the event of nuclear attack; early users of alternative computer networking protocols included airlines, the travel industry, banks, and others in the financial services industry. The academic sector quickly saw the advantages that the Internet offered in networking and information exchange, and growth of Internet use in the academic community has grown steadily in the 199Os.
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From page 65...
... Developed countries are much more homogeneous educationally than are African countries, and diffusion of the Internet in Africa can be expected to be slower in part because most citizens have had little schooling. In the United States the initial emphasis was to stimulate communication within the country, while the fact that developed countries are now heavily networked as Africa begins the process suggests that the effect of the Internet in Africa may be to increase international communication rather than internal communication.
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From page 66...
... organization may be: an enterprise acquires Internet access-> communication within the enterprise improves -> the enterprise talks to its clients via the Internet -> the enterpr~se's productiv~tv increases But the Committee research suggests that in Afiica interorga~zational communications may precede ~ntraorgaruzational communications. That is: an enterprise's leadership acquires Internet access the leadership communicates with foreign counterparts productivity increases (especially as communications costs decline)
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... For example, the NGO win begin to use the Internet for more than just electronic mail, perhaps designing its own Web page, providing information about its activities, and so forth. Communication with other domestic NGOs in the same sector follows.
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