Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are a persistent element in the North/South conflict. Inequities in access to these technologies have been debated since the early meetings of the UN General Assembly, were at the core of the 1970s UNESCO negotiations about a New International Information Order (NIIO) and were prominent on the agenda of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (2003-2005). Two factors were constant in all these debates and negotiations. One factor was that costs and benefits of ICTs were usually couched by marginalized actors in terms of colonialism versus de-colonization. The other factor was that the most powerful actors in the world arena appropriated a discourse on social progress as a vital instrument of hegemonic control. The new media and in particular the Internet are proliferating rapidly around the world and are sold with this discourse. Moreover, in spite of all the declarations about our times as a post-colonial era, the Internet Age is part of a continuing process of colonization. De-colonization can only be realized once the colonized expose the deceptive promise of global digital capitalism and resist control by the colonizers in digital disguise through a process of digital dissociation.
