with Francisco Rodriguez, infoDev, 2000
New IT and Social Inequality: Resetting the Research and Policy Agenda
The Information Society, 2000
Inventing the Global Information Future
Futures, 1998
This essay analysis four possible outcomes of the transition to tomorrow’s global information society. Using scenario building methods the essay describes and
analysis the pathways the transitions may take, in the hopes of guiding proactive thinking about the most desirable information and communication strategies
for developing countries. Read More »
Globalization Information Technology, and Conflict in the Second and Third Worlds
Project on World Security, Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, 1998
The United States and Africa: Toward A New Relationship
Center for International Development and Conflict, 1997
with David F. Gordon, report of a study funded by the Ford Foundation, published by the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, April 16, 1997
The What, Why, Where, and How of National Information Initiatives
In the development of any body of knowledge, there are always shifting emphases and changing foci. A close reading of policy studies reveals a kind of “product cycle” within each of the substantive policy areas, especially for the newer, more technologically driven subjects like energy, the environment and, more recently, information and communications policies. Read More »