A Special Issue on Science & Technology in Southern Africa and East and South Asia / Rubin Patterson -- Who Needs Post-Development? Discourses of Difference, Green Revolution and Agrarian Populism in India / Meera Nanda -- Institutional Reactions to the Information Highway: Namibia's First Year on the Internet / William Wresch -- Development of National Information and Communications Services: A Comparison of Malaysia and South Africa / Ernest J. Wilson III -- Can "the Miracle" be Replicated?: Official Development Assistance and Technological Transfer from Japan to East Asia and Southern Africa / Takahashi Motoki and Sakano Taichi -- A Study on the Implementation Body of Local Informationization in Korea: A Comparative Perspective / Jong-Ho Kim -- Comparativist Study of State Promotion of Science and Technology. Cases: Botswana and Singapore / Rubin Patterson and James Bozeman