This site provides an overview of a case study analyzing adoption and diffusion factors for building an online community for the
India, China & America (ICA) Institute.
Online discussion forums provide centralized and accessible places for ICA Institute’s busy and engaged community of policy makers, scholars and industry leaders to interact with each other and the broader community of inquirers on this topic. To analyze the potential adoption and diffusion of online forums in the ICA Institute community, the following factors will be considered: attributes of the ICA Institute social system and the proposed innovation, role of the change agent and social networks, and the current stage of the innovation-decision process.