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The Internet community has lost one of our true innovators and pioneers. Ray Tomlinson, best known as the inventor of sending email over a computer network and choosing the @ sign, passed away this weekend. Our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends. Ray was an incredible contributor to the Internet and was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012 for his many achievements.Ray's breadth of work speaks for itself. You can read more on the Internet Hall of Fame website.
In addition, here are Ray's own words about his career:
We join with our...
Date published 06 March 2016
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Members of the Internet Society Asia-Pacific Bureau team - Rajnesh Singh, Amelia Yeo and Naveed Haq (and joined by Kevin Meynell from the Deploy360 Team) - had a super busy and productive week at the APRICOT 2016 conference in Auckland, New Zealand. The Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) is the premier forum that brings together regional Internet builders and operators to learn from their peers and experts from around the world.
ISOC’s Asia-Pacific Bureau is a long time partner of APRICOT and sponsors the...
Date published 05 March 2016
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The South Asian Telecommunication Regulators’ Council (SATRC) workshop on policy, regulation and services held three days of deliberations on various aspects of OTT services; measures to protect consumers’` interests; emerging licensing frameworks; and international connectivity for the provision of broadband services in Nepal late December. The workshop was organized by the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT), and jointly hosted by the Ministry of Information and Communication (MoIC) and Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA). This workshop was part of the implementation of the SATRC Action...
Date published 12 January 2016
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At the recently held Cloud Asia Forum there was a session titled “Food for thought discussion: Innovate or Die – Business models and disruptive technologies”. It was during this session that it was predicted that the number of companies embracing cloud computing in the next five years would double. SMEs sitting among the audience must have felt the pressure to change and to do so quickly.
Cloud computing and cloud computing technology seem to be a natural fit for SMEs. They have the potential to be a great equaliser as they allow SMEs access to the latest enterprise grade...
Date published 04 December 2015
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Reflecting on the 2015 IGF last week, the Internet Economy sub-theme featured prominently, for good reason. First of all, the Internet economy is a large sector in itself, accounting directly for over 5% of GDP in the G20 countries alone. More broadly, however, the Internet is what economists call a general purpose technology, which, as the name suggests, has economic impacts on almost every other sector. As an example of the broader impact of the Internet, today one could argue that the largest taxi company in the world is Uber, which owns no taxis and employees no drivers...
Date published 16 November 2015
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Is Internet connectivity enough? A growing body of data suggests that it isn’t. At the 52nd APEC TEL meeting in Auckland last week, member economies have started to shift the conversation to boosting online adoption, or what people do once the Internet becomes available.
The gap between access and use is being felt in advanced economies like New Zealand, where 96% of enterprises are connected to the Internet but only 50% have an online presence, and just 38% have a website. To improve this, TUANZ, an organisation of telecoms users in New Zealand, has launched a 10-minute online...
Date published 27 October 2015
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NOTE: On 19 October 2015, Mr. Osvaldo Larancuent spoke at the United Nations General Assembly as part of the WSIS+10 Second Informal Interactive Consultations. Mr. Larancuent is one of three WSIS Fellows sponsored by the Internet Society. Mr. Larancuent's comments relate to the "Zero Draft" document as part of the UN's WSIS+10 process. The Internet Society also submitted comments on the Zero Draft. More information about the WSIS+10 Review can be found at https://www.internetsociety.org/wsis.
Last Monday Mr. Osvaldo Larancuent, ICT professor at university INTEC in Santo Domingo,...
Date published 22 October 2015
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Every year the Marconi Prize, named after pioneering radio engineer Guglielmo Marconi, is awarded by the Marconi Society. This year the winner of the award is Internet Hall of Fame Pioneer Peter Kirstein, known for his work on TCP/IP and as one of the fathers of the European part of the Internet. The associated Marconi Symposium is a designer symposium: the winner gets to pick the topic and the speakers. The topic of choice this year was, “The Future Infrastructure of the Internet of Things.”
The symposium features presentations clustered around three broad themes: ‘Infrastructure...
Date published 21 October 2015
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How can the global Internet play a role in the future of a sustainable global society? And how can we bring the next 4 billion people online so that they, too, can participate in the Internet of Opportunity?
This week the United Nations will host in New York an important summit on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will guide future work by international community in alleviating poverty, advancing health and education and preserving our planet for the future.
The Internet Society is eager to discuss how the global Internet and related technologies can enable a world of greater...
Date published 22 September 2015
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Note: Today Sally Wentworth, our VP of Global Public Policy, gave the following speech at a meeting of the African Union Specialized Technical Committee on Communication and Information Technologies (STC-CICT) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Mr Chairman, Excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen,
Thank you for this opportunity to address this important gathering of leaders from across Africa. My name is Sally Wentworth and I am the Vice President of Global Public Policy at the Internet Society. We are grateful for the long-standing partnership with the African...
Date published 03 September 2015
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