Diffusion of Internet and E-commerce in Asia, Impact of Internet on US­Asia supply chains, Impact of Internet on Arizona, E-commerce, Internet and Environment

William Foster, book (10Mb) "The CIXtra Papers: Telecommunications Act of 1996 and Internet Service Providers (ISPs)" Between 1996 and 2001, William Foster was the government editor for the Commercial Internet Exchange, the world's first Internet Service Provider Association. In this role, he documented the evolution of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 from its inception in Congress, through its interpretation by the FCC and the courts.

William Foster, Kenneth Kramer, Jason Dedrick  and Zhang Cheng, Chapter 4 (Information and Communication Technologies and inter-corporate production networks: global information technology and local quanxi in the Taiwanese personal computer industry) of the book "Multinational Corporations and the Emerging Network Economy in Asia and the Pacific" published  2008 by Routledge

William Foster, Eric M. K. Osiakwan and Anne Pitsch Santiago. Chapter 2 of Negotiating the Net in Africa "Ghana: The Politics of Entrepreneurship". This chapter surveys how the Internet developed in Ghana between 1994 and 2004.

William Foster and Seymour Goodman, "The Diffusion of the Internet in China", (Palo Alto: Center for International Studies and Cooperation, Stanford University, November 2000).

William Foster, “Registering Domain Names: An Exercise in Global Decision Making” Coordinating the Internet, James Keller and Brian Kahin eds., (Boston: MIT Press, 1997)

Refereed Journal Articles

William Abbott Foster, "Research Note: Huawei and America"
Southwestern Journal of International Studies, Vol. 4., Number 1, Fall 2011, pages 107-112

Nicholas O. Alozie, Patience Akpan-Obong1, and William A. Foster
"Sizing up information and communication technologies as agents of political development in sub-Saharan Africa"  Faculty of Social Sciences, Arizona State University, USA
ScienceDirect, Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 35, Issue 8, September 2011, Pages 752-763.
(For an earlier version of this article please see "Cell Phone vs. Internet: The Impact on Democratization in Africa" under Recent Speeches and Conference Proceedings.)

William Abbott Foster, Feb-2010
"Huawei's Leadership Role in IMS standards development and in its own proprietary Softswitch"  A case study of Huawei's leadership role in the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) international standards effort and the development of its own proprietary Softswitch solution. Accepted for publication by Chinese Management Studies journal.

Patience Akpan and William A. Foster,  "Africa Telecommunication Giant Awakens",
Computing & Communications Africa, Vol. 3, Number 2, pages 12-16.

Sherry Thatcher, William Foster, and Ling Zhu, "B2B E-Commerce Adoption Decisons in Taiwan: The Interaction of Cultural and other Factors", Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Volume 5, Issue 2, Summer 2006, Pages 92-1004

William Foster, Seymour Goodman, Eric Osiakwan, Adam Bernstein, "Global Diffusion of the Internet IV: The Internet in Ghana", Communications of the Association for Information Systems, June 2004, v. 13 article 38.

Larry Press, William Foster, Peter Wolcott and William McHenry, “The Internet in India and China,” Information Technologies and International Development,”  MIT Press, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 2003, p. 41-60. 

Peter Wolcott, Larry Press, William McHenry, Seymour E Goodman, William Foster, "A Framework for Assessing the Global Diffusion of the Internet", Journal of the Association of Information Systems, October, 2001, v. 2 article 6.

Zixiang (Alex) Tan, William Foster, and Seymour Goodman, “China’s State Coordinated Internet Infrastructure”, Communications of the ACM, June 1999, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 44-52.

Larry Press, Grey Burkhart, Will Foster, Seymour Goodman, Jon Woodward, and Peter Wolcott, "An Internet Diffusion Framework", Communications of the ACM, Oct., 1998, vol. 41, no. 10, pp. 21-26.

Zixiang (Alex) Tan, Milton Mueller, and Will Foster, “China’s New Internet Regulations”, Communications of the ACM, December 1997/Vol. 40, No. 12.

 

William A. Foster, Anthony M. Rutkowski, and Seymour E. Goodman, “Who Governs the Internet”, Communications of the ACM, August 1997/Vol. 40, No. 8.

Other Publications

William Foster, Xiangyu Liu (Shandong University of Arts (P.R. China)) August23, 2006
China’s Next Generation Internet: The Adoption of IPv6   China is taking a leadership role in driving the adoption of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Eight Chinese government organizations have joined together in an Expert Committee to oversee the construction and trial of China’s Next Generation Internet (CNGI). In 2006, the CNGI will connect 100 universities, 100 research institutes, and 100 enterprises using the IPv6 protocol.

William Foster, Zhang Cheng (Fudan University), Jason Dedrick, and Kenneth L. Kraemer
"Technology and Organizational Factors in the Notebook Industry Supply Chain"  The Chinese computer supply chain is a “human” neural network that optimizes production and minimizes costs. This study is relevant to purchasing managers both inside and outside the notebook industry as it provides insights into the relationship between their digital supply chains and Chinese business networks.

William Foster, Jane Carey, Pierre Balthazard, “Technical Report: West Valley Globalization and Information Technology Inventory,” School of Management, ASU West, May 2003.

William Foster, "ISO14000 Environmental Standards and E-Commerce," School of Management, ASU West, July 2001

William Foster, Seymour Goodman, Zixiang (Alex) Tan, The Internet and E-Commerce in Greater South China, (Fairfax, VA: The Global Information Technology Assessment Group, November 1999).

Seymour E. Goodman, Grey E. Burkhart, William A. Foster, Arun Mittal, 
Laurence I. Press, Zixiang (Alex) Tan, The Global Diffusion of the 
Internet Project: Asian Giants On-Line (Fairfax, VA: The MOSAIC Group, December 1998).

Larry Press, with Grey Burkhart, Will Foster, Seymour Goodman, Alex Tan, and Jon Woodard, "Studying Internet Diffusion," On The Internet, July/August 
1998, pp. 36-39.

Seymour E. Goodman, Grey E. Burkhart, William A. Foster, Laurence I. Press, Zixiang (Alex) Tan, and Jonathan Woodard, “People’s Republic of China,” The Global Diffusion of the Internet Project: An Initial Inductive Study, (Fairfax , VA: The MOSAIC Group, March 1998). 

Recent Speeches and Conference Proceedings

William Abbott Foster, "Huawei and America" Southwest International Studies Association Conference, Las Vegas, March 2011.

Patience Akpan-Obong, Nicholas Alozie, and William Abbott Foster, "Cell Phone vs. Internet: The Impact on Democratization in Africa", Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC), Arlington, VA, Oct. 2010.

William A. Foster, "Why Huawei is going to be the number one telecom manufacturer in the world". Proceedings of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (Oct. 23, 2009)
It is a common assumption that China is a copier of technology and not one of the world’s leaders in terms of technical innovation. China’s Huawei Technologies Company Ltd. (Huáwei Jíshu Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) is rapidly becoming one of the world’s largest telecom manufacturers and one of the key innovators in the telecom field.

"China's Software Industry -- Current Status and Development Strategies," with Hongli Hu and Zhangxi Lin, Global Information Technology Management (GITM) Conference, Calgary, Canada, June 2003.

"Agile Methodology in CMM Framework: An Approach to Success for Software Companies in China," with Yan Xu and Zhangxi Lin, Global Information Technology Management (GITM) Conference, Calgary, Canada, June 2003.

“B2B e-commerce adoption decisions in Taiwan: The interaction of organizational, industrial, governmental and cultural factors,” with Sherry Thatcher, HICCS, Hawaii, 2003.

 

“E-commerce in Greater South China,” INET 2000, Yokohama, Japan, July 2000.

 

“Factors affecting B2B adoption in the Chinese Electronics Industry,” IRMA Conference, Anchorage, AK, May 2000.

“The Reusable Industrial Packing Industry and Electronic Commerce,” REPA Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Oct. 1999.

“Internet Diffusion in India and China” INET 99, San Jose, CA,  July 1999.

ISP: Rights and Responsibilities” Law & Order in Electronic Commerce, Tucson, AZ. Feb. 1998.

“Who Governs the Internet” with Robert Collet, ITU Telecom Interactive, Geneva, October 1997.

“International Dimensions of Copyright” ISPCon’97, San Francisco, August 1997.

“Copyright: ISP Rights and Responsibilities” INET’97, Malaysia, June 1997.

“Key issues in Internet Governance” APPLE, Hong Kong, January 1997.

“Registering Domain Names: An Exercise in Global Decision Making,” Coordinating the Internet, Kennedy School, Mass., October 1996.