Mark Graham: E-society and E-citizens: From technology transfer to human empowerment and development
1. Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation
in the Internet Era
Mark Graham
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford
web: www.geospace.co.uk
email: mark.graham@oii.ox.ac.uk
twitter: @geoplace
8. “Once embedded in the published text the lines
on the map acquire an authority that may be
hard to dislodge. Maps are authoritarian images.
Without our being aware of it maps can
reinforce and legitimate the status quo.”
(Harley 1989, 14)
11. “We’re trying to build a virtual mirror of
the world at all times”
Marissa Mayer, Google’s Vice President of Location Services
LeWeb Conference, Paris 2010.
12. “…all the world’s citizens will have the
potential to access unlimited knowledge, to
express themselves freely, and to contribute to
and enjoy the benefits of the knowledge
society.”
Dr. Hamadoun I. Touré, Secretary-General of the International
Telecommunication Union. November 2012
56. “The right to the city is far more than the individual
liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to
change ourselves by changing the city.”
“The freedom to make and remake our cities and
ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most
precious yet most neglected of our human rights.”
- Harvey 2008