ABSTRACT
This chapter works through the traces of discourse that depict the intersections of technology, expertise, the market logic, and the ways in which these intersections work together toward the consolidation of resources in the hands of the global elite. It focuses on mainstream frameworks of organizing technology in global structures, situating these frameworks in the context of communicative processes and the flow of communication. The chapter then interrogates the health correlates of a techno-deterministic framework. The advent of information communication technologies enabled realtime financial transactions in world financial markets, thus integrating these markets in a global financial network, connecting them, and enabling online transactions in globally distributed, interconnected, and intertwined networks. Digital divide refers to the gaps in access to communication technologies between and within different sectors of the population. The technological determinism of neoliberal governance is rooted in the pervasiveness of technocratic solutions and in the positioning of technology as the solution to global health problems.
