Document Type
Report
Publication Date
12-2000
Abstract
The Global Diffusion of the Internet Project was initiated in 1997 to study the diffusion and absorption of the Internet to, and within, many diverse countries. This research has resulted in an ongoing series of reports and articles that have developed an analytic framework for evaluating the Internet within countries and applied it to more than 25 countries. (Seehttp://mosaic.unomaha.edu/gdi.html for links to some of these reports and articles.)
The current report applies the analytic framework to compare and contrast the Internet experiences of Turkey and Pakistan, through mid-2000. Although historically these countries have not been closely related, there are significant parallels between the two that make them well suited for a comparative study of the absorption of the Internet. Turkey and Pakistan are among the largest non-Arab Muslim countries in the world. In contrast to most of their Arab counterparts, their governments were founded as secular, parliamentary democracies. Both countries have had stormy political histories, however, with periodic coups and authoritarian governments. Each country has firmly entrenched bureaucracies with closed and, to varying degrees, corrupt processes.
Recommended Citation
Wolcott, Peter and Goodman, Seymour E., "The Internet in Turkey and Pakistan: A Comparative Analysis" (2000). Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Publications. 35.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/isqafacpub/35
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Comments
A working paper prepared for the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University