The International Telecommunications Union (ITU)

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This paper explains that International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is the international agency, currently part of the United Nations but founded long before that institution, which serves as the leading global forum for discussion of issues related to telecommunications technology. The author points out that, to understanding the changes at the ITU, interrelationship of the state, capital and civil society must be explored. This paper indicates that the governance of this international institution has long been dominated by state actors, with capital playing a secondary role and civil society relegated to a supporting role.

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"The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is the international agency, currently part of the United Nations but founded long before that institution, that serves as the leading global forum for discussion of issues related to telecommunications technology. In understanding the changes that have taken place, and are currently underway at the ITU, we must understand the interrelationship of actors from the three primary categories: state, capital and civil society. As this essay shows, the governance of this international institution has long been dominated by state actors, with capital playing a secondary role and civil society relegated to a supporting role."

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