Egypt’s IT Stakeholders

Abstract

The previous chapters chronicled how pressures from the international economy bore down on the Egyptian state, pushing it to embrace globalization and the tenets of the IT regime. By the second half of the 1990s, the coalition between the World Bank, USAID, U.S. corporations, and the European Commission, on the one hand, and the Egyptian state and the globalization elite, on the other, tightened. Business conferences and events sponsored by those privileged civil society organizations that represented the globalization elite were the glue that held this coalition together.