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Footnotes
- Although the Internet grew out of US Defense Department research in the 1960s, this report - like the US Department of Commerce - uses 1993 (when the first graphical user interface to the World Wide Web was released) as the date when the Internet became truly open to the public.(1890).
- Source: International Data Corporation (IDC).
- OECD: The Economic and Social Impact of Electronic Commerce: Preliminary Findings and Research Agenda, October 1998.
- For a more detailed discussion of the impact of e-commerce
and digital technology on market structures, see the recent report by DTI's Future Unit: Converging Technologies: Consequences
for the New Knowledge Driven Economy, available at www.dti.gov.uk/future-unit.
- InternetTrak, commissioned by Ziff-Davis/Yahoo!/Dell.
- Carried out by Spectrum Strategy Consultants. In 1998, parallel studies were done for Scotland and Wales individually.
- Our Competitive Future: Building the Knowledge Driven Economy, Cm4176, December 1998.
- Our Competitive Future: Building the Knowledge Driven Economy, Cm4176, December 1998.
- Regulating Communications: approaching convergence in the Information Age, Cm4022, joint DTI/DCMS consultation, July 1998.
- IT for All survey, 1998.
- The Lifestyle Revolution, September 1998, commissioned by ICL and conducted by MORI.
- International Benchmarking Study, Spectrum Strategic Consultants, 1998.
- Institute of Directors/Oracle Blueprint for Business, 1998.
- Durlacher Quarterly Internet Report, quarter 3, 1998.
- Moreover, comparisons are distorted by the US practice of offering local calls without any per-minute charge, which may become unsustainable in future as the Internet accounts for a higher and higher percentage of telecoms traffic.
- The Skills Audit, DfEE and Cabinet Office, 1996.
- Driving Productivity and Growth in the UK Economy, McKinsey Global Institute, October 1998.
- OECD The Economic and Social Impact of Electronic Commerce: Preliminary Findings and Research AgendaÓ, October 1998.
- International Data Corporation, for Microsoft.
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