Inverse Infrastructures

Edited by Tineke M. Egyedi, Delft Institute for Research on Standardization and Donna C. Mehos, Senior Researcher, Energy and Industry, Department of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

’The traditional analysis of infrastructure networks has provided the conceptual rationalization for centralized monopolies for a century. In recent years, liberalization has shown that much wider participation can be beneficial. Innovative development in decentralized networks can be driven from below if government policies permit it, as vividly demonstrated by the Internet. This book contributes to a much needed exploration into the characteristics and implications of decentralized networks being driven from below, introducing new perspectives on the conception and analysis of infrastructure networks.’

• Contents:Foreword1. Introducing Inverse InfrastructuresTineke M. Egyedi, Donna C. Mehos and Wim G. VreePART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES2. Inverse Infrastructures and their Emergence at the Edge of Order and Chaos: An Analytic Framework Jan van den Berg3. Mapping Institutional, Technological and Policy Configurations of Inverse InfrastructuresRolf KünnekePART II: EXPLORING INVERSE FEATURES4. Centralization and Decentralization: A History of Local Radio and Television DistributionThea Weijers5. Citizen-Driven Collection of Waste Paper (1945–2010): A Government-Sustained Inverse InfrastructureFrida de Jong and Karel Mulder6. Self-Organization in WikisIgor Nikolic and Chris Davis7. The Role of Policy in Inverse Developments: Comparing Dutch and Danish Wind EnergyLinda M. Kamp8. Who Cares? The Maintenance of a Wi-Fi Community InfrastructureStefan Verhaegh and Ellen van Oost9. Decentral Water Supply and SanitationAad Correljé and Thorsten SchuetzePART III: EXPLORING IMPLICATIONS10. Inverse Telecommunications: The Future for Rural Areas in Developing Countries?Rudi Westerveld11. Building a Syngas Infrastructure: Translating Inverse Properties into Design RecommendationsPaulien M. Herder and Rob M. Stikkelman12. Policy Implications of Top-down and Bottom-up Patterns in E-Government Infrastructure DevelopmentAnne Fleur van Veenstra and Marijn JanssenPART IV: CONCLUSION13. Disruptive Inverse Infrastructures: Conclusions and Policy RecommendationsTineke M. EgyediAPPENDICESAppendix I: The Internet and Rijkswaterstaat: An ICT Infrastructure for Roads and WaterwaysWim G. VreeAppendix II: Inverse Infrastructures: Coordination in Self-Organizing SystemsTineke M. Egyedi, Jos Vrancken and Jolien UbachtIndex