WHAT MAKES UP INFRASTRUCTURE

Payam Dowlatyari
7 min readAug 24, 2020
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Considering the combination of things such as roads, railways, bridges, energy, the transportation system, etc., and their associations with the concept of infrastructure, one can have a general image of what infrastructure is about. In addition, it might be asked, what makes up infrastructure? What is its purpose? Why is it essential? As technology has improved and the internet becomes part of our lives, the notion of infrastructure has been generalized to the world of information technology and, as a result, IT infrastructure was introduced. In the 21st century, many people take advantage of using IT infrastructure, without consciously being aware of its existence, and the significance of its role in shaping society.

Imagine waking up in the morning and checking your cellphone as most people do at this time. Suddenly, you realize the weather application you check every day, which works based on the database Google provides, is not responding. In the meantime, once you check your Gmail inbox, you receive a message that states, ‘Google is not providing service anymore!’ Can you easily accept that and complete your daily tasks anyway? What might change for you? How impactful would that be? There is an outstanding article entitled How to Infrastructure by Susan Leigh Star and Geoffrey C. Bowker (2006). They suggest some essential points for defining infrastructure. Interestingly, as the authors…

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I am a software engineer, hobbyist photographer and blogger, and democratic socialist. Website: https://payamd.com/