Abstract This article engages with the constitution of anthropology infrastructure as an autonomous subdiscipline. Rather than laboring in service demarcating a new field study, anthropologists, I argue, should strive for critical deconstruction contemporary infrastructural moment. In first part article, engage arguments favor analytical lens by focusing on their treatment relationality and mat...

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...

The study examined the quantity and quality of infrastructure in Ibadan, Nigeria with a view to using information to providing policy guidelines for sustainable infrastructural development. Using stratified sampling technique, a total of fifteen wards from the five local government areas in Ibadan metropolis were selected for study. The selection of all the local government areas is based on th...

S. Pearson and G. Yee (eds.), Privacy and Security for Cloud Computing, Computer Communications and Networks, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4189-1_5, © Springer-Verlag London 2012 Abstract This chapter discusses conceptual issues, basic requirements and practical suggestions for designing dynamically configured security infrastructure provisioned on demand as part of the cloud-based infrastructure. Th...

This paper investigates the problem of financing infrastructure over time when the number of users also changes. The problem is confronted in many fast growing communities desiring to coordinate the timing of infrastructure and development, yet still achieve economies of scale where they exist. The temporal free rider problem is defined; whereby the group that finances the construction at a giv...