Abstract
As a result of the rapid growth of Internet, people have acquired new way to acquire information. WWW (World Wide Web) is a tool of multimedia information service, and expected to play a key role in world-wide communication network in the near future. This study examined what kind of information was currently provided about forest and forestry on WWW in Japan. The survey results showed a tendency that information contents were different between the information servers; public administrations, business, and individuals. It was also concluded that targeting of users makes the providing of information more effective. However, the contents and the effects of providing of information surveyed in this study only reflected how the information system of each server is organized at the time of survey; Sept. -Dec. 1996. Contents of information on WWW will keep changing and improving through the interactive action. Organization and individuals related to forest and forestry were expected to construct system of communication network and make more efforts to find out the needs of the general public for information concerned with forest and forestry.
