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Telematics and Informatics 33 (2016) 139–149 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Telematics and Informatics journal homepage: www.else /locate/tele A socio-technical contract: Network governance and ICT4D in Turkey Rolien Hoyng Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Critiques of Information and Communication for Development (ICT4D) often highlight the Received 26 October 2014 ways in which programs are disempowering rather than empowering, due to their further- Received in revised form 3 May 2015 ing of capitalism and/or neoliberalism. While not denying the relevance of these critiques, Accepted 23 June 2015 this article looks at the multiple, unstable, and at times contradictory effects of the microp- Available online 23 June 2015 olitics of ICT4D assemblages and their articulation to the more general project of the ‘‘information society’’ in Turkey. Mobilizing a Foucauldian framework of governmentality, Keywords: this article considers norms, rationalities, and models of governance as technologies of ICT4D power that are productive of certain socio-technical orders, while distributing agency Technology and politics Network governance within them. In the Turkish context, ICT4D is implicated in the trend towa