Media Participation

Erin Waters and William Thompson

Special Thanks to Jeanne Stierman

This page contains information regarding sesources for finding information on media participation (ability to use / access / create media) in other countries

Country Commerical Guides

• Go to www.google.com
• Try a search as follows: You can also click here to run the search or on the image.

  That should take you to a link that looks as below: Click on the first link.

  

   

  This should take you to

   

  

   

  Once you get in the Country Commerical guide: Chapter 8 (and it is always chapter 8), Business Travel, contains a subsection specifically entitled "Telecommunications."

  However, if you search the document for the character string "telecommunications," you find more information. So it's smart to do both.

  

It is easy to locate Country Commercial Guides for the larger US trading partners (India, UK, China, Brazil) using the search above, but what if you want to look at, say, "Albania?" Click here or on the image to see the search,



You will get a similar link to the one above but...you won't be taken directly to the guide--but you will get there.



This link will take you to



Clicking on Doing Buisness in Albania takes you to a Market Research Page on which you will see a link to a Market Research Library see highlighted region below



This takes you to an database from which you can extract the country commerical guide. Select the country you want. See below. Click on go. You can search for any country's guide, here, too.



Click on the Commercial Guide and you are off... If you click on other reports, you will have to register.



 

International Telecommunications Union

Most of the data provided by the ITU costs money. However, you can access some basic data by country by going to http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/icteye/Default.aspx

1) Scroll down the page. You may see nothing but blankness at first.

Then you will see:



Then get the data you want.



Statistical Abstract of the United States: Telecommunications, Computers\

Go to:

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/international_statistics.html

Scroll Down to Telecommunications and Computers

Get Country Level Data. Note you can export as an Excel file.

Internet World Statistics

http://www.internetworldstats.com/

FCC

International Traffic Data

http://www.fcc.gov/ib/sand/mniab/traffic/

This is highly granular data that allows you to analyze a particular country's telecomunication relationship to the United States by carrier. It's hugely interesting in a geeky way, but may be more information than you want.