Preface : beyond infrastructure : Canadian and European identities in cyberspace / Leen dHaenens Part one. Stationary travelers? The Trans-Canada Highway vs the information highway : the road less traveled? / Irwin Shubert On the (information) highway : so is this a journey or what? / Robert Kroetsch Part two. Cyberlaw Human rights in cyberspace / Cees J. Hamelink Internet and public order / Stylianos Garipis The legal aspects of digital signatures / Patrick van Eecke Part three. Communities in cyberspace How comfortably does the internet sit on Canadas tundra? Reflections on public access to the information highway in the North / Lorna Roth Policy-making and the value of electronic forms of public debate : underpinning, assumptions and first experiences / Gees Leeuwis Two Canadian models of communities on the net : Schoolnet and Community Access / Alan L. Cobb Teledemocracy in the province : an experiment with internet-based software and public debate / Nicholas Jankowski [and others] Part four. (Business) opportunities on the net Work and community in networked organizations / Caroline Haythornthwaite ICTs for SMEs : the SME wins on the information highway / Karel Uyttendaele The Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts (CEECT) and cyberspace / Mary Jane Edwards Part five. The role of government The position of Flanders with regard to some internet-related matters / Luc Van Fleteren Québécois policy and the development of the information highway / Serge Proulx Advancing Canadas information highway : strategies for the new millennium / David Johnston and Natasha H. Faraqui Electronic commerce policy and the European Commission / Paul Timmers.
Summary
This innovative study explores diverse aspects of Canadian and European identity on the information highway and reaches beyond technical issues to confront and explore communication, culture and the culture of communication.