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A workshop on the history of the International Telecommunication Union with presenters from Europe, US and Asia. The history of transnational telecommunications from the telegraph to the internet
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Gabriele Balbi, Andreas Fickers, Christiane Berth, Gianluigi Negro, Maria Rikitianskaia, Leonard Laborie, Roxane Gray, nina wormbs
This book focuses on the history of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), from its origins in the mid-19th century to nowadays. ITU was the fi rst international organization ever and still plays a crucial role in managing global telecommunications today. Putting together some of the most relevant scholars in the fi eld of transnational communications, the book covers the history of ITU from 1865 to digital times in a truly global perspective, taking into account several technologies like the telegraph, the telephone, cables, wireless, radio, television, satellites, mobile phone, the internet and others. The main goal is to identify the long-term strategies of regulation and the techno-diplomatic manoeuvres taken inside ITU, from convincing the majority of the nations to establish the offi cial seat of the Telegraph Union bureau in Switzerland in the 1860s, to contrasting the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance (supported by US and ICANN). History of the International Telecommunication Union is a trans-disciplinary text and can be interesting for scholars and students in the fi elds of telecommunications, media, international organizations, transnational communication, diplomacy, political economy of communication, STS, and others. It has the ambition to become a reference point in the history of ITU and, at the same time, just the fi rst comprehensive step towards a longer, inter-technological, political and cultural history of transnational communications to be written in the future.
In, Christopher T. Marsden, ed., Regulating the Global Information Society. London: Routledge, pp. 124-177.
William J. Drake. 2000. “The Rise and Decline of the International Telecommunications Regime.”Telecommunications Policy
Papers from recent European regional conferences of the International Telecommunications Society2019 •
1999 •
Computer Networks (1976)
The Brussels mandate: An alliance for the future of world communications and information policy1979 •
Cambridge Scholars Press
International Telecommunications Law and Policy2018 •
Since the revolution in modern telecommunications that followed the invention of the telegraph, telecommunication networks have provided channels for the fast delivery of communications across national borders. This transnational nature of telecommunication networks have led to the establishment of international regulatory regimes on the subject. On the other hand, developing countries consider regional economic integration as a major strategy for promoting trade and development, telecommunications have been seen within this context as a strategic tool for facilitating regional economic integration. This has also led to the establishment of regional telecommunication regulatory regimes that aim to promote regional integration and regulatory harmonization. This book discusses telecommunication regimes established by international and regional organizations such as the United Nations, the International Telecommunication Union, the World Trade Organization, the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States, and the Southern African Development Community, among a number of others. It will be relevant to policy makers, regulators, lawyers, law students, investors and telecommunication operators, as well as any person interested in international and African regional telecommunication regimes.
Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy
2013 World Telecommunications and ICT Policy Forum2013 •
This paper describes progress reached in the ITU?s 5th World Telecommunications Policy Forum and ICT Policy Forum, held in Geneva in May 2013.
2018 •
The Second World War stopped most of the activities of the international infrastructure organisations like the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) or the Universal Postal Union (UPU), which had managed the transnational flows of communication since the mid-19th century. Nevertheless, this did not stop international postal and telecommunication cooperation completely. In 1942 the German PTT administration convened a European postal and telecommunication congress in Vienna that pursued the work done by the ITU and UPU. They founded a ‘European Postal and Telecommunication Union’ (EPTU) in accordance with the ITU and UPU conventions. This article argues that the EPTU was an important step toward the Europeanization of intra-European connections. Within EPTU ideas as well as norms, values and practices of postal and telecommunication governance in view of uniting Europe continued (nearly unbroken) from the interwar to the post Second World War era.
In, Eli M. Noam and Gerard Pogorel, eds., Asymmetric Deregulation: The Dynamics of Telecommunications Policies in Europe and the United States. Norwood: Ablex, pp. 137-203.
William J. Drake. 1994. “Asymmetric Deregulation and the Transformation of the International Telecommunications Regime.”Loading Preview
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