MEHEROO JUSSAWALLA is Research Economist with the Institute of Culture and Communication at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is the author of Communications Economics and Development and Communication and Information Economics: New Perspectives, the co-compiler of Telecommunications Economics and International Regulatory Policy: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1986), The Calculus of International Communications, and has written numerous related articles.

TADAYUKI OKUMA is Senior Research Fellow in the Japan Institute of International Affairs and a member of the Japanese Committee for TIDE 2000.

TOSHIHIRO ARAKI is with the Division of North American Affairs in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Japanese Committee for TIDE 2000.