Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Computer networks
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Author : Marisa Elena Duarte
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 029574183X
In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments. Given the significance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to social and political life, many U.S. tribes and Native organizations have created their own projects, from streaming radio to building networks to telecommunications advocacy. In Network Sovereignty, Marisa Duarte examines these ICT projects to explore the significance of information flows and information systems to Native sovereignty, and toward self-governance, self-determination, and decolonization. By reframing how tribes and Native organizations harness these technologies as a means to overcome colonial disconnections, Network Sovereignty shifts the discussion of information and communication technologies in Native communities from one of exploitation to one of Indigenous possibility.
Author : Richard R. John
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 2010-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674024298
Making a neighborhood of a nation -- Professor Morse's lightning -- Antimonopoly -- The new postalic dispensation -- Rich man's mail -- The talking telegraph -- Telephomania -- Second nature -- Gray wolves -- Universal service -- One great medium?
Author : Ms.Thornton Matheson
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1484329279
Developing countries apply numerous sector-specific taxes to telecommunications, whose buoyant revenues and formal enterprises provide a convenient “tax handle”. This paper explores whether there is an economic rationale for sector-specific taxes on telecommunications and, if so, what form they should take to balance the competing goals of promoting connectivity and mobilizing revenues. A survey of the literature finds that limited telecoms competition likely creates rents that could efficiently be taxed. We propose a “pecking order” of sector-specific taxes that could be levied in addition to standard income and value-added taxes, based on capturing rents and minimizing distortions. Taxes that target possible economic rents or profits are preferable, but their administrative challenges may necessitate reliance on service excises at the cost of higher consumer prices and lower connectivity. Taxes on capital inputs and consumer access, which distort production and restrict network access, should be avoided; so should tax incentives, which are not needed to attract foreign capital to tap a local market.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN :
Author : Assa Doron
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674074270
In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. The Great Indian Phone Book investigates the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history, one which has disrupted more people and relationships than the printing press, wristwatch, automobile, or railways, though it has qualities of all four. In this fast-paced study, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey explore the whole ecosystem of the cheap mobile phone. Blending journalistic immediacy with years of field-research experience in India, they portray the capitalists and bureaucrats who control the cellular infrastructure and wrestle over bandwidth rights, the marketers and technicians who bring mobile phones to the masses, and the often poor, village-bound users who adapt these addictive and sometimes troublesome devices to their daily lives. Examining the challenges cell phones pose to a hierarchy-bound country, the authors argue that in India, where caste and gender restrictions have defined power for generations, the disruptive potential of mobile phones is even greater than elsewhere. The Great Indian Phone Book is a rigorously researched, multidimensional tale of what can happen when a powerful and readily available technology is placed in the hands of a large, still predominantly poor population.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher :
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Computers
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 1995
Category :
ISBN : 1428920439
'Telecommunications Technology and Native Americans: Opportunities and Challenges' examines the potential of telecommunications to improve the socioeconomic conditions of Native Americans - American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians - living in rural, remote areas, and to help them maintain their cultures and exercise control over their lives and destinies. The report discusses the opportunities for Native Americans to use telecommunications (including computer networking, videoconferencing, multimedia, digital and wireless technologies, and the like) in the realms of culture, education, health care, economic development, and governance. It also explores the challenges and barriers to realizing these opportunities, notably the need to improve the technology infrastructure (and access to it), technical training, leadership, strategic partnerships, and telecommunications planning on Indian reservations and in Alaska Native villages and Native Hawaiian communities. Prepared at the request of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, this is the first federal government report on Native American telecommunications. It provides a framework for technology planning and policy actions by Congress and relevant federal agencies, as well as by Native leaders and governments. Native Americans were involved throughout the study. OTA made site visits to six states and consulted with Native leaders and technology experts in about two dozen other states. Computer networking was used extensively for research and outreach, and OTA developed the Native American Resource Page for this study, a World Wide Web home page accessible via OTA Online (http://www.ota.gov/nativea.html).
