This book systematically reviews the development process of the world
Internet and comprehensively reveals the great contributions of the
Internet to economic development and social progress. The world today is
marked by changes unseen in a century, and Internet development is
facing new opportunities and challenges. In 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic
broke out and spread at the global scale, which enormously impacted the
global economy and society. Internet played an increasingly important
role.
Meanwhile, based on the development status of the global Internet, this
book fully reflects the development process, status and trend of the
world Internet in 2020, systematically summarizes the development status
and highlights of the Internet in the major countries around the world,
and makes an in-depth analysis of the new conditions, new dynamics and
new trends of the development in the key Internet fields; the contents
cover the information infrastructure, information technology, digital
economy, digital government, internet media, network security, and
international cyberspace governance, and other aspects. Moreover, this
book further adjusts and enriches the development index systems of the
world Internet, in the hope of better showing the development strength
and development advantages of the Internet in various countries, and
reflecting the overall development trend of the world Internet more
comprehensively, accurately and objectively.
From an objective perspective, this book collects the latest research
results in the global internet field, featuring comprehensive contents
and highlights; from a historical perspective, this book reviews the
significant development process of the global internet, summarizes the
experience and faces the future; from a global perspective, this book
tries to construct the cyberspace community with a common future based
on the new concepts, new ideas and new achievements of various countries
in participating in cyberspace development and construction. This book
provides an important reference value for employees in Internet fields,
such as government departments, Internet enterprises, scientific
research institutions, colleges and universities, to fully understand
and master the development of the world internet.
