--- Imam Ardhianto <imam.ardhianto@gmail.com> wrote: Dear Iman - These are old books, about Africa rather than Indonesia, but Jules-Rossette does an excellent job from a marxist perspective on ownerships of technology, particularly from a developing world perspective (she may have written something recently). For a marxist understanding of IT and its meaning to political economies generally, you can look to Steve Fuller, perhaps this is the best one I can refer you to. Fuller, S. 2001. Knowledgement management foundations. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann. Open Source will be the next problem . . . but these will give you some basics. Cheers, Denise Jules-Rossette, B. 1990. Terminal signs: Computers and social change in Africa. Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter. Jules-Rossette, B. 1992. Fragile and progressive computer contracts in Kenya and Ivory Coast: New social forms in the workplace. In Lewis, S. G. & J. Samoff (Eds.), Microcomputers in African Development. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Denise N. Rall, PhD Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Office: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email address. www.yahoo7.com.au/y7mail