IT Abroad:Resources

China

IT
Linux News Commentary China's Love of Linux Has Roots in Ancient Past [1]
China looks into Windows code CNET News.com [2]
Wellcome to Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. [3]

India

• Information and communication technology in development : cases from India / edited by Subhash Bhatnagar, Robert Schware, 2000
• IT landscape in India : focus, agriculture & rural development / A. Thaha, D. Vijayadharan, 2001
• Reading List for 12/9 North-South : What Works: Serving the Poor Profitably; IT for the Masses: Hope or Hype?
• And various online resources (what I could find using Google on ICT/India etc.)

Iran

Here are some notes of resources I've been looking into: Michel Perrin (AvenueA.com) - used to Amin Mohadjer mohadjera@yahoo.com (1992 paper in IT industry) Amin Mohadjef www.pooyak.com

Venture Capital in iran? Iran and WTO negotiations? NICTA National Information and Communication Technology Applications search Iranian.com

Iran. http://www.sanaray.com

Alcatel's underwater Fiber Optics Line (Jask<->Fukaira in UAE) he High council of informatics www.iranitreport.com TAKFA Dr. H. Salar Amoli - www.irica.com (laws here)

www.iranworld.com (translation of Iranian laws)

iranian.com: http://www.iranian.com/WebGuide/InternetIran/InternetIran.html Sepideh's site: http://www.american.edu/initeb/sk4484a/internet.htm

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=42710&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&SelectCountry=IRAN

try UNDP-iran.

Japan

Basic Background
Wikipedia:Japan
Wikipedia:Economy_of_Japan
CIA Japan Factbook

IT
OECD - Japan - useful papers, some dated though
Don't stop using Linux Japan gov't - News - CNETAsia [4]
iTV Japan Interactive Japan with Russel Cheng - Internet Television Japan [5]
MIRACLE LINUX Home [6]

Books
Coates, Ken and Holroyd, Carin. Japan and the Internet Revolution. (Palgrave,2003)

South Korea

IT
Korea jettisons Windows for Linux - silicon.com [7]

Vietnam

1. "Vietnam-Canada Information Technology Project" (GAIA 2001)
2. "Electronic and Information Technology in Vietnam" (www.vacets.org)
3. "Vietnamese Free/Open Source News" (http://www.iosn.net/country/vietnam/)
4. and more to come.

East Asia

IT
Report Japan, China, S. Korea developing next Net CNET News.com [8]
Asian Open Source Centre Promoting open source and free software in Asia [9]
Economist.com North-East Asian diplomacy [10]
Wired News Microsoft to Asia No Fair! [11]

Books
Hachigian, Nina and Wu, Lily. The Information Revolution in Asia. (RAND,2003)

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