Format:
1 online resource (160 pages)
ISBN:
9783030489472
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Ser.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: "Follow the Networks" -- Networks, Integration and Development: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations -- A Transnational History of the Internet -- Technology as a Political Integration Project -- Sociotechnical Configurations of Development -- A Note on Method -- The Nodes of This Journey -- References -- Chapter 2: Matters of Central American Integration (1960s-1990s) -- The Central American Common Market and the Telecommunications "Regional Artery" -- Crisis, Peace, and a Tangled Integration -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: The Founding Networks of Central America -- RACSAPAC: The Central American X.25 Network -- UUCP: A Technology for Peace and Development -- Nicarao and Progressive Networks for Social Change -- A Node Called Huracán -- Toward a Central American UUCP "Backbone" -- BITNET: Overcoming Academic Isolation -- The First Central American Node: UCRVM2 -- From Costa Rica to Panama: UTPVM1 -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4: An Internet for the Global South -- NSFNET Outside of the United States -- RedHUCyT: Internet and Academic Development in Latin America -- UNDP: The Internet as the Path Toward Development -- A Latin American Telecommunications Network -- A Sustainable Development Network -- A Front Divided by a Common Goal -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 5: A Central American Internet -- The Costa Rican Catalyst -- Nicaragua and the First "Pure Link" to the Internet -- Another Rung on the Transnational Ladder: The Internet in Panama -- The Internet and the Conflictive Top-Level Domain in Honduras -- The Strength of Networks: The Internet as an Inter-Institutional Project in Guatemala -- Of Networks and Lobbying: SVNet in El Salvador -- Concluding Remarks.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030489465
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030489465
Language:
English
Author information:
Siles González, Ignacio
