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Recommended Citation: Wei, J.  Global Competitive Internet Usage Forecasting Across Countries and Languages.  In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2003, v 20 (San Diego): §3114. ISSN: 1542-7382. (Revised version appears in Information Systems Education Journal 2(25). ISSN: 1545-679X.)
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Global Competitive Internet Usage Forecasting Across Countries and Languages

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Refereed13 pages
June Wei    [a1] [a2]
The University of West Florida    [u1] [u2]
Pensacola, Florida, USA    [c1] [c2]

With the Internet replacing the traditional style of doing business, the globalization of business is a factor changing traditional business practice. The worldwide Internet users have undergone a dramatic increase in the last three years. The key factors, which have led to this tremendous rise, include Internet technology development and reduced Internet surfing charges. This study projects and analyzes the global Internet users across the world using a panel in top 15 countries with the most Internet users and global online multi-linguistic population using a panel in 11 online languages in historical 6 years. Time series forecasting analysis is used to predict Internet users across countries and languages. The objective of this paper is to help people who are interested in global Internet business to better understand international Internet market, and to give them a large picture of international Internet industry and market in the future. It also helps people who are interested in the design of multi-linguistic Website in order to conduct global business.

Keywords: time series forecasting analysis, Internet users, online languages, multi-linguistic Website

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