Book Review: Planning Global Information Infrastructure

Book Review David Banister Transport Planning

1 From National Information Infrastructure To Global Collaboration Infrastructure

Today, the information infrastructure within the United States provides individual users with wide access to a growing, diverse population of information sources. The emergence of Web technology attracts additional users onto the information infrastructure every day. As the population of cyberspace users increases, traditional forms of computer-based communication, such as electronic mail, beco...

Book Review: Radio in the Global Age

The Need for a Book on Information Infrastructure Development

In the same way that infrastructures such as transportation, electricity, sewerage, and water supply are widely assumed to be integrators of urban spaces (Graham & Marvin, 2001), information infrastructures such as national health information networks and online social networks are assumed to be integrators of information spaces. Interest in information infrastructure development grew with the ...

The global information infrastructure: empowerment or imperialism?

The hope has arisen that the internet will ultimately evolve into a Global Information Infrastructure (GII). The GII will create a global information marketplace and in the process narrow the poverty gap and eliminate many of the geographic obstacles to prosperity and equality. However commerce— primarily US commerce—is driving the development of the internet. As a result investors will want a ...