The Impact of New Communication Technologies on International Telecommunication Law and Policy : Cyberspace and the Restructuring of the International Telecommunication Union

We are in the midst of a fundamental economic and social transformation whose extent and implications we only partially grasp. This transformation and the more richly interconnected, complex and turbulent world, the vast increase in information availability, and the compression in both time and space that result, has been labelled 'the information society.' In this interconnected, turbulent environment, older ways of organizing and governing, which are premised on a more restricted flow of information and more limited interconnections (including public and corporate bureaucracies, and even representative democracy and the nation-state) seem to be overwhelmed