Asian Panel

Theme: ICTs and Asian Countries

Patrick Pui-lam LAW ‧ David HEROLD

 

The penetration of the information and communication technologies (ICTs) has been fast and ubiquitous in the Asian countries. Their applications are in effect endless and their influences on the social, economic, and political aspects of social lives are often unpredictable. They may bring forth promises or pose challenges. This panel welcomes theoretical, methodological, and empirical contribution to the discussion of ICTs and the constitution of broadband societies in the Asian countries. The suggested topics are:

• the consequences of the use of these new communications technology for notions of identity (personal, national, diasporic, and global);
• the separation of the public/private domains;
• the uses of ICTs and asian values;
• localization of the Internet, e.g. local forms, usages, languages, contextualizations, etc.;
• virtual vs. real relationships;
• the basis for trust formation, and its effects on structures of governance;
• mobiles, landlines, PCs and, internet, complementarities, convergences, and competitors;
• ICTs content and specialized applications for development;
• ICTs and the informal economy;
• social practices, users’ design variants, innovations, and unexpected effects;
• ICTs and social participation;
• ICT4D.

 

This panel also welcomes related issues.

 

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