This paper considers the intergovernmental relationships on telecommunications policy in the U.S. and EU with a case of universal service system. I would like to examine the federal preemption of state universal service regulations comparing with the EU member states and European Commission. In conclusions, the federal preemption of state universal service regulations is quite limited so that if the European Comission will establish the European "FCC" replaced by the ERG, they may need to admit National Regulatory Agencies more flexibility in policy-making.

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This paper aims to analyze the interdependent relationships among ICT manufacturing industries in the East Asian region, using Asian international input-output tables. We examine the forward linkage effect and backward linkage effect of ICT manufacturing industries among countries and industrial sectors, respectively. The empirical results show the different interdependent structures among industries and countries.

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In 2000 the launch of Mobile-Internet in Korea and Japan was the first of the world. Now diffusion of Mobile-Internet is 80% in Japan nothing but be less than 50% in Korea. Our study purposes a hypothesis that the industrial structure has an impact on innovation of the mobile internet. In detail, we suggest three factors "open competition", "stable platform" and "the control of business strategy". Above three points we test through some conditions that specification of handset, authentication of content site and the relationship career and handset maker and so on.

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In this paper we explore the development of the learning environment of Japanese as a foreign language in a small European country with its own language, and suggest a method of improving it. We took the Republic of Slovenia, an EU member state with a population of approximately 2 million, as an example. Not only is the number of Japanologists in Slovenia quite small, the small number of purchasers drives the book prices up so publishing Japanese learning materials faces many difficulties. We set up a plan for improving the Japanese language learning environment by establishing an information system.

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This paper shows that information society has become a kind of game and the private < I >'s sphere is lost in this society. Recently, we can see information society has acquired more and more digital structure and has gradually developed characteristics of game. The one of the main characters of game is formalization of its elements. Therefore, the elements of game can be replaced with other elements. At present, "I" as a player of the game can be easily replaced in this society. Then we must distinguish irreplaceable < I > from replaceable "I". We should respect < I > in a way that is different from the way we operate "I" in the society as game.

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What are the factors that influence our moral behaviors on the Internet and our consciouness on such behaviors? This presentation discusses influences of sex and personal relationships, and their interaction. We use the result of an international online survey conducted in 2002, and we focus on the U.S. data.

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This research is about a community formation in region SNS. I did the investigation analysis in 220 regions SNS that existed within the country. In addition, the comparison analysis in region SNS was done as a regional community of SNS "mixi" of a maximum scale. As a result, more small-scale than "mixi", the amount of the remark and a speaker little became clear in region SNS. I want to expect that region SNS is used as activation of a regional community.

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The rural area faces to collapse the social infrastructure such as a medical treatment and education by depopulation, which is as the most serious problem as ever. We can see the interregional exchange program between rural and urban as one of the popular solution for depopulation all over the country. Thus our goal is to seek for the best method by ICT to support the exchange program. We tried to store a variety of opinion and information in virtual community from rural and urban so as to find the best solutions for depopulation. And we discussed the effect of virtual community. As a result, we concluded that the virtual community on the Internet is effective tool for active exchanges.

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Knowledge Workers are the assets which are important for a company. Many retired employees are regretted in these days who have abundant experience and knowledge and leave a place of work without succeeding enough knowledge. In addition, as for many managers, quantity and quality of "knowledge" are anxious about there being a big difference by a person in an everyday business action. Under the cause of such situation, this study are to elucidate how a knowledge worker's knowhow in a company diffuses to a person of many others.

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The digital office systems have brought to office workers, a big change in their working style. Many Japanese firms installed "Total office information system" in office for their process for more high performance and higer business growth. There are two major factors, both technical and management that point to the process integration and human environment. From technical point, the reduction in cost processing power is very strong driving force for business activities. But another standpoint, working process became to simplified routine process, it become no need intelligent job actions. This is a new issues. Workers in Japan are facing loses their motivation for their working because they cannot adequately human environment control the operation, Auther analyze offce worker's behavioral characteristic in at office working currently.

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This paper summarizes the results of a study on how mobile phones are used among high school students in Japan, and have what are their impacts on human relations. It is estimated that the use of mobile phones exerts a great influence of interpersonal relationship among high school students.

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This paper illustrates how family members construct their family relationships and family environments with mobile media, especially cellar phones. In order to get coherent and precise contextual data embedded in the day to day domestic family relationships, data has been collected by using in-depth ethnographic methods such as semi-structured interviews, field observations in the informants' homes and communication diaries. As a result, it was examined that people are getting their family identities such as a father or a mother with the relationships of outer personal communities.

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Mira project is a literacy through photography program focused on the positive effects that children can gain through visual stimulation. It encourages children to develop the ability to express and understand their complex visual life. Its commitment is to help children to recognize the worth of their own visions, paying stronger attention on children way of seeing the daily visual images that surround them.
The project is divided in three phases: 1) "Visual images in my life", images would be "read as texts" just as, through the use of imagination, texts can be read as images. 2) "I wanna take a photo", children's verbal and written communicational skills will be sharpened; they will be able to express better their ideas and feelings. 3) "Digitalizing me", children will be skillful creators and producers of web messages, through the use of a web site, children will be able to analyze and comment about other children's works.

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We have rsearched on the web content used by on-line elderly groups that is called "Senior Nets" and interview leaders of groups of elderly people that provide class for seniors. Based on the results, in this paper, we present suggest a web site for them that have functions of community. We use the contents management system called 'Net Commons' that is supplied for educational organization.

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We built the local information platform "e-community Shimada" which assume blog and WebGIS a main module. In this study, We performed an interview and a questionnaire about knowledge / the interest about the area, knowledge / the interest about the local action, trust to the people of the area inside and outside, ease of the acquisition of the area information. We show the questionnaire and findings and perform the consideration about the "Power of an area"

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This paper examines some problems on clearing rights to digital contents. First, we will show some problems in clearing rights to digital contents, especially the commons problem and the anticommons problem. We investigate some cause of them from the viewpoint of ecomonic aspects. Finally we will show some solusions on their problems for acceraleting criative activities with digital contents in digital society.

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In many of online communities like BBS, the members anonymously communicate with each other. Such anonymous communications cause "deindividuation." According to the SIDE model of social psychology, deindividuation has the effects on the individual inclination to conform to group norms. This paper shows how deindividuation affects the order of online community in terms of not individual psychology, but the structural processes of the social systems. This paper is based on the research of the two internet BBS. In this research, the discourse analysis is used which is based on the automatic coding by computer like text mining.

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This study analizes users' behavior of choosing anonymity on the Internet. When the Internet users post their opinions/comments on bulletin boards of the Internet, they choose the extent how much they expose their own and real identity such as name, age and sex. The result of the servey shows that users' behavior can be interpreted as a rational one since they seem to balance between merits and demerits they may get through posting to the bulletin board. This study also covers blogging and SNS(social netowork society) services which generally aims to have more personal relationship.

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This paper attempts to visualize mailing lists which are used to communication in R&D project which consists of geographically distant companies. The process of the communication which becomes lively is clarified by Path model in using the comment chains (the threads). From this examination, we search a happening factor of interactions through communication ,and clarify a generated process of trust (activity-based trust).

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Our research enhances information systems used in virtual team management with intelligent and adaptive automated searches to support information creation. Based on a domain knowledge base and mapping rules, our information management system creates user and project ontologies. It analyses each user's behavior and contribution, continuously updating the ontologies, based on which it performs automated searches and connects the virtual team members in a virtual network of competences. The algorithm creates and updates the ontologies then performs the automated searches taking into consideration semantic connections between users and projects.

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In order to assure information security on IP networks, this paper proposes to introduce a qualifying system for use of the networks, as the social system with which the use can be officially controlled according to required information security levels. Analogizing from transportation traffic system, the paper discusses some licenses and certifications which are issued to users based on security level checks. Gateways at the edge of the IP networks inspect the licenses and certifications and manage the transmission. The paper further describes image of IP network to achieve the proposal. In the end, the paper describes effectiveness of the introduction of the qualifying system and items to be studied in the future.

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The purpose of this study is to describe the actual condition of the community participation in non-industrial waste management in the city of Ichinomiya in Aichi prefecture. In this study, we grasp the circumstances and the present condition of non-industrial waste management at three stages. The major findings of this study is as follows; Especially in recycle stage, most of non-industrial waste management are actively performed by community participation, and sorted collection and composting of kitchen garbage are mainly executed.

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In recent years, quality of life (QOL) is becoming an important concept. However, the research of QOL in the information society is very few and it is a current state to lack for information-related QOL item almost in main QOL index. Then, in this research, we developed information-related QOL index to grasp the current situation of QOL in information society and improve QOL by use of multivariate analysis. After reliability and validity of the index were verified, we considered the method of using it.

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This paper argues the definitions of information from the static and dynamic point of view. While from the static point of view information is grasped as a static object , from the dynamic one as dynamic prosess , creating meaning as first step and changing meaning as second step. Yoshida defined information from static view point , Bateson did it from dynamic one but partly and Nisigaki did it fully from dynamic one.

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By formulating the plural definition of information in terms of the "formulas" of Symbolic logic, we obtained the following results.
1. We re-confirmed the fact that the changes of information through transformation-wares become understandable only after the use of the plural definition, and we provided the ground for this fact in symbolic logic.
2. We have succeeded in expressing information, information process, and transformation -ware by using the "external propositions" formulated by the symbolic expressions of formal logic.
While doing this, we also showed how the information processing of information in the real world are captured in stages, if we deal with the processes of plural definition in cumulative as well as success ways.

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Collective Creations, such as Open Source Software, youtube. Wikipedia, attract attentions n late years. Motivation of participants in Collective Creations is their feel of playing. The essence of playing is similar to the essence of internet. Collective Creations in internet are excellent for the decision-making in social problems because they attract meny people and can separate decision-makings from political strings

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Researches on the formation process of online community, especially on WWW are popular. But many researches base on analyses of "has formed" communities, and still gropes the community "how form." In this research, we focus on formation process of online community centering gratis-exhibition of learning-content, especially during initial state of community; we try clarification of factors which influence initial state of community's formation.

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