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- From Professor Winograd's Lecture:
Cisco Moves to Address Looming IT Shortage Stratford.com, January 24, 2001. Along the lines of Professor Roberts' concerns about training, although mainly concentrated on India, has potential connections for the rest of the third world.
Latin fever cools, Nua Internet Survey, January 16, 2001. Describes consequences of US stock market's disenchantment with dot-coms, in Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia. Good prelimminary resource with links for greater detail.
You may also want to bookmark NUA's South America section, with links updated daily.
eMarketer's Latin America. Good listing of articles and research of Latin American Ecommerce.
- High Speed Internet Access: The Future for the World and the Implications for Developing Countries, by Lawrence Wolff, Inter-American Development Bank. Published in
TechKnowLogia Volume 2, Issue 2; March/April 2000. Requires free registration for the full text of the article. (Included in the Course Reader)
Latin America Wireless Internet Boom, Reuters/TechWeb 18 Jan 2001.
Latin America's getting pounded like piñatas Redherring Magazine, December 2000. by Hildy Medina. Good description of challenges and untapped market for Ecommerce in Latin America.
The Internet Party Didn't Last Long Business Week from November 27, 2000.
Developing World to Dominate the Internet: Nicholas
Negroponte believes that in the future the dominant player on the Internet will be the developing nations. November 13, 2000.
Study: Cybercultura on the Rise in Mexico, the Industry Standard, October 13, 2000.
Ka-Ching! That's the Sound of LatAm E-Commerce, the Industry Standard, October 10, 2000.
AOL's Southern Strategy, the Industry Standard, August 7, 2000.
Latin America's Credibility Gap, the Industry Standard, August 28, 2000.
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Industry's Standard report on the Argentian success of Endeavor.
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Business Week's How Latin Patients Can Step in for a Cyber
Consultation 11/99 article.
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Jupiter Communications' Research estimates that the
Online Population in Latin America to Reach 38 Million in 2003
Please click on the Nov. 8, 1999 link.
Readings and Study Questions for:
La vida latina hits the Web Article by ZDNet News on the
on-going Comdex Conference in Miami.
LatPro's "Can the Venture Capital Model Work for Latin
America?"
RAND Report
on "Universal Access to Email: Feasibility and Societal Implications"
BusinessWeek 10/24 Article:
Battle For The Net in Latin America. Latin American Edition
Cover Story, with special emphasis on Peru, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.
Here are some of the organizations suggested during 10/13 class:
LatinWorld's CyberCafe Listings, as referenced by Shauna on 10/13.
Overseas Students share findings about literary life with a little
help from Web,
handout for Charles Kern's and Reinhold
Steinbeck's class.
The IEEE/ACM
Computing Curricula 1991.
The Industry's Standard 10/1/99 article:
E-commerce Protection Sought for Latin America by Juan Carlos Perez.
San Francisco Chronicle's 9/27/99 Article:
Mexicans Divided by Digital Revolution: Large Sectors of
Society Lacks Access to Internet.
From the book "In Athena's Camp: Preparing for Conflict in
the Information Age,"
by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt:
Chapter 16: A Comment on the Zapatista "Netwar,"
by David Ronfeldt and Armando Martinez.
Wired Magazine, 5.04 - Apr 1997,
The Internet Revolution, by By David S. Bennahum (handout).
Communications of the ACM, Vol 40, No 11, November, 1997.
Tracking the Global Diffusion of the Internet, by Larry Press.
Professor Winograd's class
handouts
from Monday 9/27/99 on Internet Basics.
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