International: Internet Use in the Americas- A Research Workshop, January 2005; Mexico City, Mexico

0425173 FlammThis美国-墨西哥讲习班，由Kenneth Flamm教授在林登B。奥斯汀得克萨斯大学公共事务学院约翰逊教授和墨西哥经济研究和文献中心（锡德）的Judith Mariscal教授打算将美洲不同国家互联网使用研究前沿的学术研究人员与这些国家的国家决策者聚集在一起。研讨会将探讨社会经济因素和国家政策在解释西半球不同国家互联网渗透程度不同方面的作用，各国使用模式不同的原因，以及对各国经济的不同影响。要处理的政策问题包括国家政策在解释因特网普及率和各国使用因特网模式的差异方面的作用，因特网对经济和社会发展目标的创新应用，以及各国对影响因特网发展和使用的政策的不同做法。讲习班的形式将包括由各国政府决策者组成的小组讨论国家政策举措的理由、目标和绩效，学术界人士作为讨论者，其间穿插介绍其研究成果的研究人员小组，国家决策者作为讨论者。 会议的预期成果之一是出版和编辑了一卷会议文集。

0425173FlammThis U.S.-Mexico workshop, organized by Prof. Kenneth Flamm, at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, and Prof. Judith Mariscal of the Centro de Investigacion y Docencias Economicas (CIDE), Mexico, where it will be held, intends to bring together academic researchers at the leading edge of research on Internet use in different countries of the Americas, with national policymakers from those countries. The workshop will explore the roles of socioeconomic factors and national policies in explaining varying degrees of Internet penetration in different countries of the Western Hemisphere, reasons for varied patterns of use across countries, and differential impacts on national economies. Policy issues to be addressed include the role of national policy in explaining differences in rates of diffusion and national patterns of Internet use, innovative applications of the Internet toward economic and social development objectives, and differing national approaches to policies affecting the development and use of the Internet. The workshop format will include panels with policymakers from national governments discussing the rationale, objectives, and performance of national policy initiatives, with academics as discussants, interspersed with panels of researchers presenting the results of their research, with national policymakers as discussants. A published, edited conference volume is an expected outcome of the meeting.