Eastern Europe and western and central Asia are well represented by the 22 contributors discussing computer and communication networks in education. Their topics include managing information technology in an academic environment, the evolution of NYU-NET (New York University) in the context of regional and national networking in the US, pan-European networking structure for research and education, telecommunication regulation in the European Union, bandwidth as a valuable resource, the Nordic approach to distance education and learning, perspectives of collaboration in Albania, structure and infrastructure, information technology for science and education in Uzbekistan, Greek research and technology networks, and the telecommunication infrastructure in Azerbaijan. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR