ISBN:
9780230103641
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xix, 273 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Information technology and global governance
Parallel Title:
Print version Third World Citizens and the Information Technology Revolution
DDC:
303.48/330962
Keywords:
Information technology
;
Information technology
;
Information technology Political aspects
;
Ägypten
;
Kommunikationstechnik
;
Politik
Abstract:
"This book challenges the widely-held view that the information technology (IT) revolution has empowered people in the Third World. Tracing the making of the global IT regime, it shows that governments and corporations of the wealthy countries dominated this process, systematically excluding representatives of low-income countries, who might have embraced alternative visions of the global information society. Once the IT regime was in place, these same actors pressured Third World countries into conforming to it. In the case of Egypt, these pressures resulted in a new ministry for IT, which helped integrate the country into a world economy governed by the rules of the haves. Ordinary Egyptians were, of course, not asked for their opinions"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Acronyms; Preface; Chapter 1 A Human Rights Approach to Globalization; Inside the Giant Globe; Turning the Globe; Meet a Nineteen-Year-Old Egyptian; Ways of Looking at Information Technology; Embarking on a Dissertation; From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation; The IT Revolution from a Post-Marxist Perspective; The Social Construction of the IT Revolution; On Regime Theory; Transformation of the State; Autonomy; Measuring Respect for Autonomy; Looking Ahead; Part I: The Rules of the Game are Forged; Chapter 2 Telephony for the Global Economy
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 3 Introducing the InternetPart II: The Rules of the Game are Enforced; Chapter 4 Bringing Poor Economies in Line; Chapter 5 Egypt in the World Economy; Chapter 6 Creditors Close In; Chapter 7 The Telecom Monopolist; Chapter 8 Egypt's IT Stakeholders; Chapter 9 A New Ministry for an Old Country; Part III: Lessons; Chapter 10 Inferences from the Egyptian Case; Chapter 11 Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
