Information Technology in the

Netherlands

Internet Diffusion
	About The Netherlands	Currently there are roughly 30,000 business web sites for companies based in the Netherlands. Of the nearly 50 ISP’s some of the biggest ones are listed below. One in particular, XS4ALL Foundation, is a free ISP. XS4ALL recently won a law suit in which the XS4ALL was being sued by two of its competitors. XS4ALL had published on its site the privacy policies of Wanadoo and NokNok. Both Wanadoo and NokNok were selling their customer’s personal information.[1] Several of the major portals in the Netherlands are listed below. In addition, a country wide comparison of web usage in 1999 is provided. Based on the numbers given in it is safe to assume that roughly 28% of the Dutch population is on line. Internet service providers bART Bos Internet Services, Wageningen, Netherlands Business Internet Trends CompuServe Nederland CyberComm BV - Internet Services De Digitale Stad DelftNET Holland Online Internet Providers Rotterdam Internet Services Oost Brabant NLnet PSI Netherlands PublishNET Netherlands BV Stichting Knoware XS4ALL Foundation Portals NL-Menu http://www.nl-menu.nl/nlmenu.eng/nlmenu.shtml StartPagina http://www.startpagina.nl/ Ilse http://www.ilse.nl/ Planet Internet http://www.planet.nl/ Search.NL http://www.search.nl/ Zoek http://www.zoek.nl/ Dutch Version of Netscape's Netcenter http://home.netscape.com/nl/ WEB Users “Number of people in each language zone connected to the Net, and what this online population represents worldwide: English 129 M (57.4% of total world online population) Non-English 95.6 M (42.6%) European Languages 59.3 M (26.4%) German 14.0 M (6.2%) Spanish 9.6 M (4.3%) French 9.3 M (4.2%) Dutch 4.4 M (1.94%) ... Asian Languages 36.4 M (16.2%) Japanese 19.7 M (8.8%) Chinese 9.9 M (4.4%) Korean 4.3 M (1.9%)”[2]
	Telecommunication Infrastructure
	Liberalization and Deregulation
	Internet Diffusion
	Electronic Commerce
	Hardware manufacturing
	Software development
	Who Uses IT
	IT Geographics
	IT Financing
	IT Labor Market
	Government Policies
	Legal Environment
	Transborder Data Flows
	Analysis: IT strengths and weaknesses
	Analysis :Impacts on the Business
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Last update: December 18, 2000

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[1] http://www.cnn.com/1999/TECH/computing/12/08/xs4all.idg/

[2] http://www.glreach.com/eng/ed/gre/080999.html