What May the WTO Telecommunication Agreement Mean for Emerging Nations?

Larry Press
OnTheInternet, Vol. 3, No. 3, May/June, 1997, pp 36-38.
In February 69 World Trade Organization (WTO) member nations {footnote 1} agreed to open their telecommunication services markets [1]. The agreement was signed by a mix of industrialized and emerging nations, which, according to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), [...]

Seeding Networks: the Federal Role

by Larry Press, lpress@isi.edu
Communications of the ACM, pp 11-18, Vol 39., No. 10, October, 1996.
Many federal agencies have contributed to the development of networking, but the work of ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense, and NSF, the National Science Foundation, stands out. The ARPANET established [...]

Latin American and Caribbean Concerns

Larry Press, lpress@isi.edu
The fifth Latin American and Caribbean Networking Forum, hosted by Jose Soriano of the Peruvian Scientific Network, was held in Lima on April 14-19, 1996. At the first Forum, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1991, most of the networks were small UUCP experiments, but, by this year, nearly all [...]

The Role of Computer Networks in Development

The Role of Computer Networks in Development
Larry Press
California State University
The good news is that the Internet has grown like a weed, and many welcome it as a tool for productivity and enlightenment; the bad news is that it is almost unknown in developing nations (see Table 1). This article offers [...]

Toward an Internet Census for Developing Nations

Larry Press, lpress@isi.edu
Abstract
Governments and international organizations regularly gather economic and census data for use by administrators, policy makers, legislators, investors, and others. This paper discusses the extension of such work to the Internet, with emphasis on developing nations. The paper begins with a description of a survey of 23 academic networks with international [...]

Interconectividad en Cuba

Jesús Martinez con Vint Cerf
Por Larry Press
Carlos Armas
En un articulo previo [7] se resume el estado de la interconexion de redes en Cuba en 1992. En aquel momento existia conectividad limitada via X.25 y un unico y poco confiable enlace telefonico conmutado UUCP. Todo el trafico internacional era enrutado via CENIAI, el Centro [...]