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Third world citizens and the information technology revolution

Saleh, Nivien

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\"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\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Information technology Egypt. / Information technology Political aspects Egypt. / Information technology Developing countries.
• ISBN: 9780230103641, 0230103642

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HN786.Z9 I566 2010	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE