To date, the debate in the United States on the construction and governance of information infrastructure has been largely focused on purely domestic strategies and policies. This parochialism in communication policy is a long-standing tradition in the United States, but is especially inappropriate in the current environment of economic globalization and privatization. The policy of benign neglect leaves many critical questions unanswered. The purpose of this presentation is to provide an overview of these and related questions, which will become increasingly important on the national and international agendas during the coming years. Bill Drake is a professor in the Department of Communication at UCSD who has written widely on the political economy of global telecommunications and information policy.
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