Surveying the Digital Future: Contextual Interdependence, Digital Divide, and Policy Implications

We hope to build on the previous research results and findings and extend the investigation into the four interdependent levels—individual, community, national, and global—of Internet-related issues, from the theoretical, topical, and methodological perspectives. We conducted a survey in 2002 and compared the results with Hong Kong and Mainland China.

We also analyzed the 2000 survey results and did a comparative study with other participating countries. A more qualitative study on the market of digital convergence was also performed. Policy implications were discussed in this study.