Dejitaru Tsunagari (Digitally Connected), coauthored by Senior Fellow Izumi Harada and Research Analyst Kazuko Yuma, was published from NTT Publishing. This book focuses on how various communities are established on the Internet in a manner or form that is different from what we saw in the past -- in the process of the transition from personal computer communications to the Internet, the rapid popularization of the Internet, the extension of broadband networks, and the permeation of computer networks into the society.

Dejitaru Tsunagari (Digitally Connected)
Supervised by the Foundation for C&C Promotion
Written and edited by Izumi Harada and Motohiro Tsuchiya

The book contains:

Introduction	Rules in Network Communities and Liberty in the Internet Community (Izumi Harada)
Chapter 1	The Evolution of Network Communities as Seen in Personal Computer Communications and the Internet Communications (Keisuke Kamimura)
Chapter 2	Transformation of the Real World and the Online Communities (Shunsuke Watarai)
Chapter 3	Information Ethics in Network Communities -- Privacy and Illegal, Harmful Information on the Networks (Yusuke Koizumi)
Chapter 4	The Role of Network Communities in Software Localization (Keisuke Kamimura)
Chapter 5	The Internet Community That Supports "Information Developing Countries" (Tomoko Noguchi)
Chapter 6	Two Aspects of Participation in Network Community Planning -- Information Accessibility and Security (Kazuko Yuma)
Chapter 7	The Internet Community and Security Assurance -- The Influence of Wire Tapping on the Freedom of Networks (Motohiro Tsuchiya)
Final Chapter	Networks That Interconnect People -- The Emerging Community (Motohiro Tsuchiya)