Research Interests
Diffusion of Internet and E-commerce in Asia, Impact of Internet on USAsia supply chains, Impact of Internet on Arizona, E-commerce, Internet and Environment
- Proposals
- Current Research
- Books & Book Chapters
- Refereed Journal Articles
- Other Publications
- Speeches and Conference Proceedings
- Academic Organizations
Proposals
Current Research
Books and Books Chapters
| Author(s) | Title & Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | The CIXtra Papers: Telecommunications Act of 1996 and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) Between 1996 and 2001, William Foster was the government editor for the Commercial Internet Exchange, the world’s first Internet Service Provider Association. In this role, he documented the evolution of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 from its inception in Congress, through its interpretation by the FCC and the courts. | 2009/11 |
| William Foster, Kenneth Kramer, Jason Dedrick and Zhang Cheng | Multinational Corporations and the Emerging Network Economy in Asia and the Pacific Chapter 4 (Information and Communication Technologies and inter-corporate production networks: global information technology and local quanxi in the Taiwanese personal computer industry) of the book. published by Routledge | 2008 |
| William Foster, Eric M. K. Osiakwan and Anne Pitsch Santiago | Ghana: The Politics of Entrepreneurship Chapter 2 of Negotiating the Net in Africa. This chapter surveys how the Internet developed in Ghana between 1994 and 2004. | |
| William Foster and Seymour Goodman | The Diffusion of the Internet in China. (Palo Alto: Center for International Studies and Cooperation, Stanford University | 2000/11 |
| William Foster | Registering Domain Names: An Exercise in Global Decision Making Coordinating the Internet, James Keller and Brian Kahin eds., Boston: MIT Press | 1997 |
Refereed Journal Articles
| Author(s) | Title | Publication | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Foster, Seymour Goodman, and Zixiang (Alex) Tan | China’s State Coordinated Internet Infrastructure | Communications of the ACM, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 44-52. | 1999/06 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, A. M. Rutkowski, S. E. Goodman | Multilateral Cyber Security Solutions: Contemporary Realities | Public Interest Report, Federation of American Scientists, Vol. 65(1) | 2012/06 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | Research Note: Huawei and America | Southwestern Journal of International Studies, Vol. 4., Number 1, pages 107-112 | 2011/10 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Nicholas O. Alozie, Patience Akpan-Obong1 | Sizing up information and communication technologies as agents of political development in sub-Saharan Africa (For an earlier version of this article please see “Cell Phone vs. Internet: The Impact on Democratization in Africa” | Faculty of Social Sciences, Arizona State University, USA ScienceDirect, Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 35, Issue 8, Pages 752-763. | 2011/09 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Russ Reinsch | Huawei’s Leadership Role in IMS standards development and in its own proprietary Softswitch | Chinese Management Studies journal | 2010/02 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD and Patience Akpan | Africa Telecommunication Giant Awakens | Computing & Communications Africa, Vol. 3, Number 2, pages 12-16. | 2007/06 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Sherry Thatcher and Ling Zhu | B2B E-Commerce Adoption Decisons in Taiwan: The Interaction of Cultural and other Factors | Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 92-1004 | 2006/07 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Seymour Goodman, Eric Osiakwan, Adam Bernstein, | Global Diffusion of the Internet IV: The Internet in Ghana | Communications of the Association for Information Systems, v. 13 article 38. | 2004/06 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Larry Press, Peter Wolcott and William McHenry, | The Internet in India and China | Information Technologies and International Development,” MIT Press, Volume 1, Number 1, p. 41-60. | 2003/10 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Peter Wolcott, Larry Press, William McHenry, Seymour E Goodman | “A Framework for Assessing the Global Diffusion of the Internet | Journal of the Association of Information Systems, v. 2 article 6. | 2001/10 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Zixiang (Alex) Tan and Seymour Goodman | China’s State Coordinated Internet Infrastructure | Communications of the ACM, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 44-52. | 1999/06 |
| Larry Press, Grey Burkhart, Will Foster, William Abbott Foster, PhD, Seymour Goodman, Jon Woodward, and Peter Wolcott | An Internet Diffusion Framework | Communications of the ACM, vol. 41, no. 10, pp. 21-26. | 1998/10 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Zixiang (Alex) Tan and Milton Mueller | China’s New Internet Regulations | Communications of the ACM, Vol. 40, No. 12. | 1997/12 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Anthony M. Rutkowski, and Seymour E. Goodman | Who Governs the Internet | Communications of the ACM, Vol. 40, No. 8. | 1997/08 |
Other Publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publication | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, , Hannah Thoreson, Xiaowen Xu | Is STIX (Structured Threat Information eXpression) an appropriate technology for the world finance community? An opportunity for US – Chinese collaboration? | 2013/01/23 | |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | Commentary: The US House Intelligence Committee Scapegoats Huawei | China Currents, Vol. 11, No. 2. | 2012/12/20 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | Technology Drivers of World Water Scenarios | World Water Assessment Project (WWAP), Round 2. | 2010/03/19 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD and Xiangyu Liu (Shandong University of Arts (P.R. China)) | China’s Next Generation Internet: The Adoption of IPv6 Eight Chinese government organizations have joined together in an Expert Committee to oversee the construction and trial of China’s Next Generation Internet (CNGI). In 2006, the CNGI will connect 100 universities, 100 research institutes, and 100 enterprises using the IPv6 protocol. | 2006/08/23 | |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Zhang Cheng (Fudan University), Jason Dedrick, and Kenneth L. Kraemer | Technology and Organizational Factors in the Notebook Industry Supply Chain The Chinese computer supply chain is a “human” neural network that optimizes production and minimizes costs. This study is relevant to purchasing managers both inside and outside the notebook industry as it provides insights into the relationship between their digital supply chains and Chinese business networks. | 2005/11/23 | |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Jane Carey, Pierre Balthazard | School of Management, ASU West | 2003/05 | |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | ISO14000 Environmental Standards and E-Commerce | School of Management, ASU West | 2001/07 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Seymour Goodman, Zixiang (Alex) Tan | The Internet and E-Commerce in Greater South China | Fairfax, VA: The Global Information Technology Assessment Group | 1999/11 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Seymour E. Goodman, Grey E. Burkhart, Arun Mittal, Laurence I. Press, Zixiang (Alex) Tan | The Global Diffusion of the Internet Project: Asian Giants On-Line | Fairfax, VA: The MOSAIC Group | 1998/12 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Larry Press, with Grey Burkhart, Seymour Goodman, Alex Tan, and Jon Woodard | Studying Internet Diffusion | On The Internet, pp. 36-39. | 1998/07 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Seymour E. Goodman, Grey E. Burkhart, Laurence I. Press, Zixiang (Alex) Tan, and Jonathan Woodard | People’s Republic of China The Global Diffusion of the Internet Project: An Initial Inductive Study | Fairfax , VA: The MOSAIC Group, | 1998/03 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | Making the Internet Safe for Commerce A case study of Mosaic and Netscape | 1995 |
Speeches and Conference Proceedings
| Speaker(s) | Title | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | Seminar on US – China Cyber-Relations | US - Georgia - Emory University | 2014/03/22 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD and XiaowenXu, Chinese telecommunications | The 25 year history of Informatization ‘Xin xi hua’ in China | US - Georgia - Georgia Tech | 2013/09 |
| William Foster, Soheil Shayegh | Challenges in Smartphone Health Informatics in Africa | US - Georgia - Georgia Institute of Technology | 2013/11/16 |
| William Foster, Lawrence Rubin, John Swegle | Assessing Nuclear Sentiments in Egypt Using Social Media: A Pilot Project | US - Georgia - Georgia Institute of Technology | 2013/04/04 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | Huawei and America | US - Nevada - Las Vegas - Southwest International Studies Association Conference | 2011/03 |
| William Foster, Patience Akpan-Obong and Nicholas Alozie | Cell Phone vs. Internet: The Impact on Democratization in Africa | US - Virginia - Arlington - Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) | 2010/10 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | Why Huawei is going to be the number one telecom manufacturer in the world It is a common assumption that China is a copier of technology and not one of the world’s leaders in terms of technical innovation. China’s Huawei Technologies Company Ltd. (Huáwei Jíshu Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) is rapidly becoming one of the world’s largest telecom manufacturers and one of the key innovators in the telecom field. | US - Arizona - Arizona State University - Proceedings of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies | 2009/10/23 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Hongli Hu and Zhangxi Lin | “China’s Software Industry — Current Status and Development Strategies,” | Canada - Calgary - Global Information Technology Management (GITM) Conference | 2003/06 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD, Hongli Hu and Zhangxi Lin | “Agile Methodology in CMM Framework: An Approach to Success for Software Companies in China,” | Canada - Calgary - Global Information Technology Management (GITM) Conference | 2003/06 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD and Sherry Thatcher | B2B e-commerce adoption decisions in Taiwan: The interaction of organizational, industrial, governmental and cultural factors | US - Hawaii - HICCS | 2003 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | “E-commerce in Greater South China,” | Japan - Yokohama - INET 2000 | 2000/07 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | “Factors affecting B2B adoption in the Chinese Electronics Industry,” | US - Alaska - Anchorage - IRMA Conference | 2000/05 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | “The Reusable Industrial Packing Industry and Electronic Commerce,” | US - Nevada - Las Vegas - REPA Annual Conference | 1999/10 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | “Internet Diffusion in India and China” | US - California - San Jose - INET 99 | 1999/07 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | "ISP: Rights and Responsibilities” Law & Order in Electronic Commerce | AZ - Tucson | 1998/02 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD and Robert Collet | “Who Governs the Internet” | Switzerland - Geneva - ITU Telecom Interactive | 1997/10 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | “International Dimensions of Copyright” | US - California - San Fransisco - ISPCon’97 | 1997/08 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | “Copyright: ISP Rights and Responsibilities” | Malasia - INET’97 | 1997/06 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | “Key issues in Internet Governance” | Hong Kong - APPLE | 1997/01 |
| William Abbott Foster, PhD | Registering Domain Names: An Exercise in Global Decision Making | US - Massachusetts - Kennedy School - Coordinating the Internet | 1996/10 |
Academic Organizations
