Moving Asia from grassroots to cyberspace.
C Wheeler · PubMed · 1996
Through International Development Research Center's Pan Asia Networking program (PAN), some of the least developing countries in Asia are acquiring the means to access information residing on the Internet. Most importantly, the program helps Asian nations share their information resources among them and the world electronically for the first time via the Internet. The PAN program will carry a number of content-based subnetworks which addresses biodiversity, natural resource management, social and economic policy, environmental technology, human health, and information and communication technology. The broad range of development-related issues provided by PAN will benefit researchers, development workers, academics, teachers, students, decision-makers, and people interested in Asian development. As PAN grows and matures, many more people in developing countries of Asia will have the opportunity to tap into the accumulated wisdom in the Internet.