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‘commons’ and offer a guiding principle for the design of an emancipatory
public policy.
Notes
1. From Huxley’s (1932) perhaps sarcastic Brave New World to The
Cyborg Manifesto (Haraway 1991) the envisioning of the liberation
of human beings from all that binds them to the limitations of material
need, corporeal existence and the effects of social inequality,
such as alienation, poverty, hunger and imprisonment, has given rise
to the most exciting scholarly but also fictional works. Although it
is not within the remits of this work to provide an adequate account
of such works and their most important representations, we consider
such a body of works as a vital element of the counter-visions of the
so-called Information Society.
2. As the report by the Members of the High-Level Group on the Information
Society (1994), Recommendations to the European Council:
Europe and the Global Information Society, became known. Accessible
at http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/infosoc/backg/bangeman.html
3. Compare the GII and the GIS agendas and the ways in which they infiltrate
and define the Okinawa Charter and the WSIS programmatic
declarations in Tables 5.1 and 5.4.
4. ILO 2005. This is not to suggest that the quality of food that Europe’s
poor consume is good or that the intensification of food production
has born only good results, as we now know about the detrimental
effects that genetically modified crops and pesticides among other
things have on human health and the environment.
5. Focusing on gender, Swasti Mitter has led a comprehensive study,
in terms of studies on ICTs and employment, that shows both the
limits of high-tech development strategies adopted by a number of
countries in South and Southeast Asia (including an extensive study
on India where IT-related exports comprise the fastest growing sector
of the national economy) as well as means of possible progressive
intervention. For more see: Mitter 2000.
6. This issue is increasingly being explored by both researchers and
NGOs in both the North and South. For more on this issue in Silicon
Valley, see Pellow and Park (2002); for more on this in the South, see
Nair 2005.
7. The questions of democratic governance are not limited to the situation
in many authoritarian state regimes in the world but they
also concern the long-standing liberal democracies of the West. One