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Introduction and Rationale (download Introduction MSWord file ".zip") Chapter 1 - Diverse Approaches and Assumptions (download Thesis Chapter 1 MSWord file ".zip") 1.1 Technology does not drive History 1.2 Introducing the Role of Telecoms in Sustainable Development 1.3 Privatisation of Public Utilities and a Definition 1.4 Effectiveness, Monitoring and Transparency Chapter 2 - Sustainability via a Global Information Society? (download Thesis Chapter 2 MSWord file ".zip") 2.1 The Western Model of Development 2.2 Growth versus Development 2.3 A Critical Appraisement of Sustainable Development 2.4 Sustainability, GII and Global Information Society 2.5 Utopian and Ideological Aspects Chapter 3 - Globalisation & Telecommunications (download Thesis Chapter 3 MSWord file ".zip") 3.1 Historical Preconditions 3.2 Globalisation as Triadic Trans-Nationalisation 3.3 Future Scenarios and Global Sustainability 3.4 Priority for Telecommunications 3.5 Globalisation of Technology and Telecommunications Chapter 4 - The Role of Telecoms in Development 4.1 Basic and Advanced Services 4.2 The Missing Link and Diverse Points of View 4.3 The Development Gain: Measurable and Indirect Benefits 4.4 Investment Gap and Technological Advantages 4.5 Satellites Telecommunication Chapter 5 - A New Regulatory System 5.1 End of the Cross-Subsidisation System 5.2 Multilateralism versus Bilateralism 5.3 Trade in Telecoms 5.4 From GATT to WTO via GATS, TRIP's and MAI 5.5 The Agreement on Basic Telecommunication Services Chapter 6 - International Techno-Governance and Technology Transfer (download Thesis Chapter 6 MSWord file ".zip") 6.1 Main Institutions of Telecoms Governance: A New Regime 6.2 Debt Servicing and Telecoms 6.3 Past and Present Strategies of Technology Transfer 6.4 Funding and the International Accounting Rate Reform Bibliography (download Bibliography MSWord file ".zip") |