1 IAVE.ORG and Future Developments of Volunteerism and the Internet in the Asia- Pacific By Anthony Carlisle, IAVE Presented at the Symposium on Volunteerism and Development of Human Capacity in the Information Society, Dakar, October 23-25, 2003

2 Contents Digital Divide in the Asia-Pacific Development of IAVE.ORG The Future of Volunteer Organizations and the Internet

3 Diversity and Imbalance in the Asia-Pacific High Penetration S Korea Hong Kong Taiwan metropolitan China Singapore High Potential Malaysia Thailand Indonesia Philippine China Low Penetration and Low Potential Vietnam Laos Cambodia Burma

4 Access for Women Korea56% Singapore44% Malaysia14% Philippines6% Indonesia1% Laos0.1% Cambodia0.1% Asia Women’s Resource Exchange, Philippines, 2001

5 Trade Flow Information Flow Europe North America Asia In billion US$, WTO, 2001 Europe N America Asia In Gbps, TeleGeography, 2002

6 Linguistic Diversity at Risk Servers English84.3% German4.5% Japanese3.1% French1.8% Spanish1.2% Swedish1.1% Italian1.0% Portuguese0.7% Dutch0.6% Norwegian0.6% Books English28.0% Chinese13.3% German11.8% French7.7% Spanish6.7% Japanese5.1% Russian4.7% Portuguese4.5% Korean4.4% Italian4.0% Network Users English53.7% Japanese7.1% Spanish6.2% Chinese5.4% German5.0% French3.9% Korean3.8% Italian3.5% Dutch2.2% Russian2.0% Source: Ministry of Public Management, Japan

7 Internet Traffic in Korea Internet first introduced - 98% traffic overseas bound rapid growth, increase of domestic traffic now 85% of traffic domestic, 15% overseas

8 IAVE.ORG Project IAVE Taiwan research, coordination NCHC server YouthOne software, graphic design ICV content IAVE

9 Links National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) IAVE Taiwan YouthOne International Conference Volunteers

10 Thank You Anthony Carlisle IAVE Taiwan 16F., No.10, Sihwei 4th Rd., Lingya District, Kaohsiung City 802, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel: ext 17 Fax: