ABSTRACT
The main national providers of Internet services in the country were firmly established by 1996. Around this time, the Mexico chapter of the Internet Society was formed, part of the international non-government organization working on global Internet coordination and cooperation. The e-Mexico project consisted of four subsystems: technologies and interconnection; contents and programs; legal and price frameworks; and administration and management. The effects of Internet-related digital technologies within cultural contexts have also been important. Mexicans are exposed to different cultural expressions that combine with local ones, and this phenomenon gives rise to new hybrid forms of expression that are empowered thanks to digital technologies. The last five years of the World Internet Project’s research in Mexico have helped better understand the social effects of the Internet on the Mexican population. The new Internet-linked communications media create new ways of associating and facilitate new kinds of knowledge.
