De la domination politique à la domination économique : une histoire des télécommunications au Sénégal
The telegraph, the first modern telecommunications tool, was introduced in Senegal during the second half of the nineteenth century to ease administrative and military control, economic exploitation and communication with France, as part of the colonial enterprise. The network architecture, concentr...
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| Language: | fra |
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Association de Recherche en Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication
2019-05-01
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| Series: | Tic & Société |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ticetsociete/1030 |
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| Summary: | The telegraph, the first modern telecommunications tool, was introduced in Senegal during the second half of the nineteenth century to ease administrative and military control, economic exploitation and communication with France, as part of the colonial enterprise. The network architecture, concentrated around few cities to the detriment of rural areas, later formed the basis of the telephone infrastructure. After independence, the telecommunications sector was assigned a critical role in economic and social development and it soon developed to become a mainstay of the Senegalese economy. However, liberalization and privatization policies have put this particularly strategic and profitable sector under the control of foreign multinational firms shortly after, thus causing Senegal the loss of mastery of an important development tool. |
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| ISSN: | 1961-9510 |