Some weeks ago, Wenhog Chen, Jeph Boase and I asked AoIR-niks for leads to information on world wise use of the Internet. A number of folks were kind enough to respond privately. Wenhong has compiled the information. It appears below. She, Jeph and I thank you all. Our handiwork will appeat in The Internet in Everyday Life, edited by Caroline Haythornthwaite and myself, published by Blackwells in Spring-Summer 2002. Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman@chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________ To Live is To Network To Network is To Live ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 15:11:23 -0400 From: Wenhong Chen <wenchen@chass.utoronto.ca> To: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> Cc: Jeff Boase <jeff.boase@utoronto.ca> Subject: thanks to Air-l A couple of weeks ago, Barry, Jeff and I asked for your help for reliable data on international internet use. Now, we would like to thank Eszter Hargittai, Joan Koreman,, Ian Ketcheson, David Neice, Greg Wise, Jeremy Crampton, Gitte Stald, Jenni Shi and others for their valuable info. Furthermore, we compiled a short list of websites where you may find interesting data on global digital divide and internet usage in different countries. Commercial site: Industry Almanac: http://www.c-i-a.com/199809iu.htm Nua: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi), CyberAtlas - http://cyberatlas.internet.com E-Marketer - (http://www.emarketer.com www.telegeography.com Organizations: http://www.oecd.org//dsti/sti/it/prod/it-out2000-e.htm http://www.undp.org/hdr2001/ http://www.itu.int http://www.idc.com. We are working on our paper on international internet use and we are now using data on internet penetration rate from a report of international labor organization (http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pkits/). Thanks again! Wenhong ---------------------------------------- Wenhong Chen Graduate Student Department of Sociology U of T ----------------------------------------