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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