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History of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) : Transnational techno-diplomacy from the telegraph to the Internet / ed. by Andreas Fickers, Gabriele Balbi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Innovation and Diplomacy in Modern Europe ; 1Publisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (VI, 354 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110669602
  • 9783110669770
  • 9783110669701
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HE7700 .H57 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The ITU as Actor, Arena, and Antenna of Techno-Diplomacy -- Part I. ITU as a Global Actor in the History of Telecommunications -- 1 The Russian Empire and the International Telegraph Union, 1856–1875 -- 2 ITU, Submarine Cables and African Colonies, 1850s–1900s -- 3 When Techno-Diplomacy Failed: Walter S. Rogers, the Universal Electrical Communications Union, and the Limitations of the International Telegraph Union as a Global Actor in the 1920s -- 4 ITU, the Development Debate, and Technical Cooperation in the Global South, 1950–1992 -- 5 The Rising Role of China in the Promotion of Multilateral Internet Governance, 1994–2014 -- 6 Is the International Telecommunication Union Still Relevant in “the Internet Age?” Lessons From the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) -- Part II. ITU as an Arena of Techno-Diplomatic Negotiations for Emerging Technologies -- 7 Telegraphic Diplomacy From the Origins to the Formative Years of the ITU, 1849–1875 -- 8 The International Radiotelegraph Union Over the Course of World War I, 1912–1927 -- 9 Technology Taking Over Diplomacy? The ‘Comité Consultatif International (for) Fernschreiben’ (CCIF) and Its Relationship to the ITU in the Early History of Telephone Standardization, 1923–1947 -- 10 A Union of Nations or Administrations? Voting Rights, Representation, and Sovereignty at the International Telecommunication Union in the 1930s -- 11 ITU Exhibitions in Switzerland: Displaying the “Big Family of Telecommunications,” 1960s–1970s -- 12 Techno-Diplomacy of the Planetary Periphery, 1960s–1970s -- 13 The ITU Facing the Emergence of the Internet, 1960s–Early 2000s -- Index
Summary: 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 first international organization ever and still plays a crucial role in managing global telecommunications today. Putting together some of the most relevant scholars in the field 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 official 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 fields 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.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The ITU as Actor, Arena, and Antenna of Techno-Diplomacy -- Part I. ITU as a Global Actor in the History of Telecommunications -- 1 The Russian Empire and the International Telegraph Union, 1856–1875 -- 2 ITU, Submarine Cables and African Colonies, 1850s–1900s -- 3 When Techno-Diplomacy Failed: Walter S. Rogers, the Universal Electrical Communications Union, and the Limitations of the International Telegraph Union as a Global Actor in the 1920s -- 4 ITU, the Development Debate, and Technical Cooperation in the Global South, 1950–1992 -- 5 The Rising Role of China in the Promotion of Multilateral Internet Governance, 1994–2014 -- 6 Is the International Telecommunication Union Still Relevant in “the Internet Age?” Lessons From the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) -- Part II. ITU as an Arena of Techno-Diplomatic Negotiations for Emerging Technologies -- 7 Telegraphic Diplomacy From the Origins to the Formative Years of the ITU, 1849–1875 -- 8 The International Radiotelegraph Union Over the Course of World War I, 1912–1927 -- 9 Technology Taking Over Diplomacy? The ‘Comité Consultatif International (for) Fernschreiben’ (CCIF) and Its Relationship to the ITU in the Early History of Telephone Standardization, 1923–1947 -- 10 A Union of Nations or Administrations? Voting Rights, Representation, and Sovereignty at the International Telecommunication Union in the 1930s -- 11 ITU Exhibitions in Switzerland: Displaying the “Big Family of Telecommunications,” 1960s–1970s -- 12 Techno-Diplomacy of the Planetary Periphery, 1960s–1970s -- 13 The ITU Facing the Emergence of the Internet, 1960s–Early 2000s -- Index

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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 first international organization ever and still plays a crucial role in managing global telecommunications today. Putting together some of the most relevant scholars in the field 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 official 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 fields 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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