Papers

Counting the Net: Internet Access Indicators

"The Internet has had a major impact on society and business during the last decade of the 20th century. Yet ... there is a lack of comparable data on its spread across the world."... Read More

Domain Name Conflict Resolution Under the .CL Top-Level Domain

"For over a year, the .CL top-level domain has been operating under a set of rules that allows for the resolution of conflicts for domain names by an arbitration system."... Read More

Comparative Study: School Networks in Latin America

"Several Latin American and Caribbean countries have made progress in designing and implementing school network projects at a national level. These projects have been undertaken as part of an educational system modernization process."... Read More

Alternative Paths to Internet Infrastructure: The Case of Haiti

"Haiti does not appear to be the most fertile ground for Internet growth. It is a poor nation with low literacy rates, difficult terrain, and few working telephone lines outside the capital city."... Read More

A Legal Technical Framework for the Online Resolution of Domain Name Disputes

"As Internet technologies and applications evolve, along with emerging e-commerce, the legal issues surrounding the use of intellectual property on the Internet have given rise to complex international disputes."... Read More

Regional Integration of Central American Countries and Opportunities for Internetworking

"The Central American countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and Belize) have recently decided to go into a process of political, economic, social, cultural, and ecological integration through a Central American Integration System."... Read More

Domain Names and Trademarks: At the Intersection

"A trademark ... is either a word, phrase, symbol or design, or combination of words, phrases, symbols or designs, which identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods or services of one party from those of others."... Read More

REUNA: How an Academic Network can be Self-Funded

“REUNA is … a consortia of 19 public and semi-private universities and Chile’s National Sciences Council (CONICYT) that operates and manages Chile’s main access to the Internet.”... Read More

Development of WWW Services in Mexico, Toward a National Information Infrastructure

“1994 was a year of fast growth in the number of nodes of the Mexican Internet. Its popularity and demand have increased dramatically since the appearance of the World Wide Web (W3) browser ‘Mosaic’.”... Read More

Networking In Latin America and the Caribbean and the OAS/RedHUCyT Project

“RedHUCyT’s main objective is to connect the member countries to Internet, by integrating an electronic network for the exchange of specialized information among different academic and scientific institutions …”... Read More
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