Abstract

AbstractThis article tracks the development of the Internet in Israel over the period 1999- 20007. Insofar as possible, those developments are viewed from an international perspective by comparing the data for Israel with those for a nine other countries, some in which the Internet is more highly developed, and some in which it is less so.Three main elements of Internet progress studies are addressed. These are: infrastructure - comprising number of Internet hosts, international Internet bandwidth and broadband usage; pervasiveness of the Internet as evidenced by number of Internet users, some Internet development indices and the extent of broadband use; finally, the role of ITC industry is considered under the headings of ITC trade and ITC research.