WIA Report

The 2007 WIA Report analyzed the websites of political parties in over 50 Muslim countries. An overwhelming number of the political parties online were secular and represented the diverse ideological spectrum of political parties found in many other countries around the world. This year the sample includes 74 nations with significant Muslim populations. Political parties are assessed for the volume of content they have online and how internally complex they are. (more…)

Political life in Muslim countries is surprisingly wired. In 2000, fewer than 50 political parties from Muslim countries had Web sites. By 2007, there were more than 200 parties online, the majority of them secular. The expansion of politics online in the Muslim world is out-pacing that of the rest of the developing world. (more…)

Many developing countries have a rapidly growing online news industry.  Controlling for the number of internet users, hosts, and print newspapers,  which countries have a surprisingly large online news industry? (more…)

Among the large mobile phone service providers in Latin America, most have a corporate structure that leads out of Latin America. (more…)

Both China and India have booming information technology industries and claim some of the highest-rates of growth in Internet access. But in important ways, the information society in these large countries is highly concentrated around large, coastal cities. (more…)