31 January 2010
NTS Insight (Jan 2010 – Issue 1) | ASEAN’s Journey in Cyberspace: A Tale of ‘Divided’ Cities
Abstract
In 1997, ASEAN leaders envisaged Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as the technology that would foster the region’s economic integration and has since commissioned numerous projects and resources to that end. More than a decade later, it has emerged that the impediment towards a more integrated region lies neither in the vision nor in the collective political will, but rather in the consumption of technology itself. It appears that technology has the capacity to simultaneously integrate societies and ‘divide’ the people within them.
Abstract
In 1997, ASEAN leaders envisaged Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as the technology that would foster the region’s economic integration and has since commissioned numerous projects and resources to that end. More than a decade later, it has emerged that the impediment towards a more integrated region lies neither in the vision nor in the collective political will, but rather in the consumption of technology itself. It appears that technology has the capacity to simultaneously integrate societies and ‘divide’ the people within them.
