Third World Citizens and the Information Technology Revolution

✍ Scribed by Nivien Saleh (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 279
• Series: Information Technology and Global Governance
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
A Human Rights Approach to Globalization....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Telephony for the Global Economy....Pages 27-53
Introducing the Internet....Pages 55-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Bringing Poor Economies in Line....Pages 81-100
Egypt in the World Economy....Pages 101-119
Creditors Close In....Pages 121-142
The Telecom Monopolist....Pages 143-163
Egypt’s IT Stakeholders....Pages 165-185
A New Ministry for an Old Country....Pages 187-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Inferences from the Egyptian Case....Pages 209-228
Epilogue....Pages 229-233
Back Matter....Pages 235-273

✦ Subjects

International Relations;Political Sociology;Political Science;Globalization