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Hypertext and the WWW
From 1973 the Internet has extendedbeyond the USA. Tim Berners-Lee and team
worked on the hypertext project to createthe World Wide Web in 1990. This made itpossible to link to text documents, imagesand other files and the World Wide Web,usable by users everywhere was born.
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Tim Berners-Lee
Note that this picture is in color while the pictures beforearen't. (Not intended but noticed)
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Internet Today
800 million computers worldwide
An estimated 1.46 billion users.
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Internet Tomorrow
Not the next billion, Next Billions.
Internet accessed not by Desktop andLaptop computers, by various types of Internet Devices and 'Things'
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Internet Tomorrow
Today: 256 KBPS / 512 KBPS
Tomorrow:
1 MBPS ? 8 MPBS ?
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Internet Tomorrow
Or 1 GBPS ? 10 GBPS ?
Download a HD quality movie in 3 seconds ?
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Internet Tomorrow
In experiments related to the CERN’s LHC data transfer speeds
in excess of 2.8 Giga bps have been achieved
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What is special aboutthe Internet?
• Evolved by Participation for participation
• Standards by Community Model
• has its own conventions, culture andethos, unwritten rules - all without ahierarchy of authority, with an inherentorder.
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What is special aboutthe Internet?
• Accessible worldwide. Transcends theboundaries of nations
• neutral of technology, nationhood,language, religion or race.
• open medium for freedom of speech
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What is special aboutthe Internet?
• brings together people from around theworld and has been considerably free of politics.
• Internet is a space without privilege orprejudice accorded by race, economicpower, military force, or station of birth
• legal concepts of property, expression,identity, movement, and context on theInternet are different
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• The Telephone / cable companies?• The Internet Hardware companies?• The computer companies?
• The Governments?
Or,
Is that you ?
Who owns the Internet?
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• Business?• Government?•
Any International Organization (s) ?
Should Internet be controlled ? Governed ?
Who controls the Internet?
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Internet requires an overall policy framework. TheseGovernance aspects are debated at the Internet
Governance Forum. Various stakeholdersparticipated in the World Summit on theInformation Society ( WSIS ) which during itsmeeting at Tunis gave the UN Secretary General a
mandate to convene teh Internet GovernanceForum, So far four IGF's have been held – atAthens, Rio de Jenario, Hyderabad and Sharm elSheik. Next IGF will be at Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Internet Governance
Mutli-stakeholderNo hierarchyNo seating arrangementsGovernment - Business - Civil Society -
International Organizations - Academic CommunityAll stakeholders are equal.
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The InternetGovernance Forum
World Summit on the Information Society
WSIS met at Geneva and Tunis in 2003
Decided that all stakeholders should jointogether to discuss about InternetGovernance
The Internet Governance Forum wasestablished to meet every year for 5 years
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The InternetGovernance Forum
Athens, Greece in 2006
Rio de Jeneiro, Brazil.
Hyderabad, India, December, 2008
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, 2009
Vilnius, Lithuania, 2010
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IGF Stakeholders
Business
Government
Civil Society
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What do you want the Internet to be?
Free and Open?
An Internet of Rules and Regulations?
Censorship?
Who decides?
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P A R T I C I P A T E
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How to participate?
The Internet Society
Founded in 1992 by Internet pioneersInternational non-profit organization90+ organization members
28,000+ individual members90+ chapters worldwide
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About ISOC
The Internet Society
• ISOC works for the open development and evolutionof the Internet• Works for Internet for all people.
• Works across the areas of technical standards,education and capacity-building as well as publicpolicy.
http://www.isoc.org
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ISOC India Chennai Chapter
• 200+ members from four states of India.
• Membership open to students.
http://isocmadras.blogspot.com
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Thank You
Sivasubramanian [email protected]
