Vision and Hindsight : First 25 Years of the International Institute of Communications

This study is a history of the International Institute of Communication (IIC) explored from the motives of its founder members through early funding and growing pains, its dominant figures and distinguished members, controversies such as the right to communicate, the role of public service broadcasting, questions about the flow of information and the liberalization of telecommunications, to the contemporary situation and future of the institute.

The IIC has always been at the centre of controversies about the future of global communications.

This book, therefore, should be of interest not only to past and present members of the IIC, but also to a much wider readership of all those who have studied, researched, participated in and contributed to the debates about global communications over the last quarter century.