David and Goliath in cyberspace : creative uses of the net in Mexico

The Internet is too new to be understood by projecting old hopes and fears. Hopes can be dazzled by possibilities of the new technologies, utopian fantasies replacing political analysis. Fears continue old political analyses into a future in which somehow the dominant will easily cope with whatever is new in these technologies and turn them into yet another instrument of domination. In this article we suggest a different tack. As we scan the rapidly emerging situation in one corner of cyberspace, the part located in Mexico, we see signs that maybe some fears are based on faulty analysis, and some hopes can stay on the agenda. We use the myth of David and Goliath as an image of the potential of supposedly weaker players like Mexico in cyberspace.