Third World Citizens and the Information Technology Revolution [Hardcover]

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.A Humanist Approach to Globalization PART I: THE RULES OF THE GAME ARE FORGED Telephony for the Global Economy Introducing the Internet PART II: THE RULES OF THE GAME ARE ENFORCED Bringing Poor Economies in Line Egypt in the World Economy Creditors Close In The Telecom Monopolist Egypt's IT Stakeholders A New Ministry for an Old Country PART III: LESSONS Inferences from the Egyptian Case

I am blown away. The book is engaging and well written, theoretically grounded, and rich in empirical detail. It will make an immediate contribution to our understanding of global governance processes for information and communication technologies. - Derrick L. Cogburn, Associate Professor of International Relations, International Communication Program, School of International Service, American University, and editor of the Palgrave series Information Technology and Global Governance

Nivien Saleh has written a brilliant and long overdue account of how information technology and communication, far from liberating and democratizing the world, tend far more to serve the interests of corporations and those sitting atop the global political economy. This is a very good book by a promising young writer. - Robert W. McChesney, co-author, The Death and Life of American Journalism

In this engaging book Saleh successfully lays to rest the wrong-headed notion that the IT revolution is a great equalizer between rich and poor. Instead the rules of the international game and the way they are enforced put poor countries like Egypt at a great disadvantage. For the majority of the people in a globalizing world the IT revolutilól