1. 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. 2 Contents Digital Divide in the Asia-Pacific Development of IAVE.ORG The Future of Volunteer Organizations and the Internet

3. 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. 4 Access for Women Korea56% Singapore44% Malaysia14% Philippines6% Indonesia1% Laos0.1% Cambodia0.1% Asia Women’s Resource Exchange, Philippines, 2001

5. 5 Trade Flow Information Flow Europe North America Asia 413 564 428 In billion US$, WTO, 2001 Europe N America Asia 162 42 1 In Gbps, TeleGeography, 2002

6. 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. 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. 8 IAVE.ORG Project IAVE Taiwan research, coordination NCHC server YouthOne software, graphic design ICV content IAVE

9. 9 Links National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) www.nchc.org.tw IAVE Taiwan www.iavetaiwan.org YouthOne www.youthone.org International Conference Volunteers www.icvolunteers.org

10. 10 Thank You Anthony Carlisle IAVE Taiwan 16F., No.10, Sihwei 4th Rd., Lingya District, Kaohsiung City 802, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel: 886-7-5379456 ext 17 Fax: 886-7-5374982 E-mail: appaf@ebtnet.netappaf@ebtnet.net http://www.iavetaiwan.org