The Human Society and the Internet: Internet Related Socio-Economic Issues

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Digital Economy

   1. Market Strategies in the Internet Content Business

      • Minzheong Song, Seochogu Woomyundong

      Pages 1-18

   2. Government Initiatives and the Knowledge Economy: Case of Singapore

      • Chew Lay Lek, Suliman Al-Hawamdeh

      Pages 19-32

3. E-Commerce I

   1. Impacts and Limitations of Intelligent Agents in Electronic Commerce

      • Dong Su Jin, Kyoung Jun Lee

      Pages 33-48

   2. Appling the AHP Techniques to Electronic Commerce in a Special Attention to Fashion Website Selection

      • Nam Yong Lee, Eun Hee Choi

      Pages 49-60

   3. Catalog Sharing through Catalog Interoperability

      • Jaewon Oh, Geunduk Park, Kapsoo Kim, Sang-goo Lee, Chisu Wu

      Pages 61-77

4. Digital Divide I

   1. Digital Divide: Conceptual Discussions and Prospect

      • Mun-Cho Kim, Jong-Kil Kim

      Pages 78-91

   2. Merits of Open-Source Resolution to Resolve a Digital Divide in Information Technology

      • Takayuki Watanabe

      Pages 92-99

   3. Emancipatory Learning via the Internet: A Model for Reducing Maori Socio-economic Exclusion in Aotearoa/New Zealand

      • Andy Williamson

      Pages 100-113

5. Internet Status and New Applications

   1. Analysis of Internet Reference Behaviors in the Korean Education Network

      • Hyokyung Bahn, Yong H. Shin, Kern Koh

      Pages 114-127

   2. Load Balancing Studies on an H.323 Gatekeeper Prototype

      • Cheng-Yue Chang, Ming-Syan Chen⋆

      Pages 128-138

   3. Framework for Building Mobile Context-Aware Applications

      • Sei-Ie Jang, Joong-Han Kim, R. S. Ramakrishna

      Pages 139-150

6. E-Commerce II

   1. Personal Information Market: Toward a Secure and Efficient Trade of Privacy

      • Takuya Otsuka, Akira Onozawa

      Pages 151-163

   2. Security Enhancement on Mobile Commerce

      • Eun-Kyeong Kwon, Yong-Gu Cho, Ki-Joon Chae

      Pages 164-176

   3. The Innovation of E-marketing Combination Tactics

      • Qiuli Qin, Zhao Xi, Jingyan Chen

      Pages 177-184

7. Digital Divide II

   1. Online Branding: An Antipodean Experience

      • Jack Yan

      Pages 185-202

   2. Staying Put But Going Far: Empowering Online Rural Communities in Malaysia

      • Weng-Kin Lai, Chandran Elamvazuthi, Normaziah Abdul Aziz

      Pages 203-219

8. Virtual Enterprise

   1. Enterprise Alliance and Virtue Enterprise: A Systematic Analysis and Theoretical Explanation

      • Tao Meng, Ning Ding

      Pages 220-224

   2. Challenges in Building Design and the Construction Industry: The Future of Design and Construction in the Internet Age

      • Sanghyun Lee

      Pages 225-236

9. Cyber Education I

   1. Towards Policy-Based Management QoS in Multicommunicative Education

      • Oscar Díaz-Alcántara, Dermot McCluskey

      Pages 237-248

During the past several years, the world has entered the first phase of the Internet Revolution. Investors showed confidence and faith in the prospects of the Internet driven economy. In the US alone, some 30,000 dot com companies have sprung up to support electronic commerce with a wide variety of business models, technologies, and/or items or services to sell or even give away. Traditional businesses, so called brick and mortar, or offline, businesses, have started to respond to challenges by Internet based new competitors by augmenting their own businesses with Internet based, or online, businesses and/or filing lawsuits against them. The initial business to consumer orientation of electronic commerce is giving way to business to business commerce, with large corporations forming electronic exchanges or consortia to conduct commerce among members. Government, industry, and civic groups have started addressing social issues related to the Internet, such as taxation on electronic commerce, privacy, intellectual property rights, security, hacking, cyber crimes, digital divide, etc. Governments have started legitimizing electronic signatures and stepping up efforts to track down perpetrators of cyber crimes. The courts have started to wrestle with issues of privacy, intellectual property rights, crimes, and impediments to Internet driven economy.

• Digital Economy
• Digital Marketplaces
• E-Commerce
• Electronic Commerce
• HCI
• Information Society
• Internet
• Internet Services
• Internet-Based Business
• Internet-Based Education
• Medical Computing
• Mobile Computing
• digital

• Cyber Database Solutions, Inc., Austin, USA

  Won Kim

• Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  Tok-Wang Ling

• Department of Computer Science, KAIST, Taejon, Korea

  Yoon-Joon Lee

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

  Seung-Soo Park

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