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1 online resource |
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Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series |
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Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series.
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| Contents |
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." |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Strength of Networks: The Internet as an Inter-Institutional Project in Guatemala -- Of Networks and Lobbying: SVNet in El Salvador -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 6: Internet and Integration in the Era of Privatization -- Opening the Telecommunications Market in Central America -- Toward a Commercial Internet -- From X.25 to the Internet: A Forced Shift -- New Providers, New Tensions -- A Network in Search of Users -- On Digital Agendas and Public Policies -- Privatization and the Limits of Integration -- The "Central American Internet Backbone." |
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Many Institutions, Little Integration -- From Internet Access to Meaningful Use: Archaeology of a Latin American ICT4D Theory -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 7: The Inconclusive Project of Technological Integration -- Toward Transnational Internet Histories -- Of "Regional Arteries" and "Backbones" for Development -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This Palgrave Pivot analyzes how six countries in Central America--Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama--connected to and through computer networks such as UUCP, BITNET and the Internet from the 80s to the year 2000. It argues that this story can only be told from a transnational perspective. To connect to computer networks, Central America built a regional integration project with great implications for its development. By revealing the beginnings of the Internet in this part of the world, this study broadens our understanding of the development of computer networks in the global south. It also demonstrates that transnational flows of knowledge, data, and technologies are a constitutive feature of the historical development of the Internet |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2020) |
| Subject |
Internet -- Central America -- History
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History of the Americas.
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History of engineering & technology.
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General & world history.
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History -- Latin America -- General.
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Technology & Engineering -- History.
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History -- World.
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Internet
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Central America
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030489472 |
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3030489477 |
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