The GII Initiative: Its Significance and the Challenges for Japan

mation-processing and communications; (ii) that the national information infrastructure will determine the pace of progress in that overall process; and (iii), that these developments in the digitization and NII arenas will form multimedia as the 'break-through industry'. Around 1992, America witnessed an emerging consensus on three specific points: namely, (i) that digitization is powering a trend toward the fusion of inforGII Infrastructure