The editors (both of the U. of Maryland's Center for International Development and Conflict Management) present the results of a research project that sought to understand the patterns of Internet expansion in Africa and identify the policy and other interventionist that shaped outcomes. The project developed a model of Internet diffusion that emphasizes the negotiations that take place among competing and cooperating parties in society over "critical negotiation issues." The critical negotiation issues include policy reform issues of privatization, liberalization, and regulation; access issues of access to facilities, monopoly pricing, and access legality; national information and communication technology policy issues of information society, universal access and services, policymaking capacity, and implementation capacity; and technical issues of Internet exchange point and voice over Internet protocol. The is applied to separate case studies of Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, and Tanzania. Following the case studies is a discussion of the role of international cooperation in Internet diffusion. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)