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Global Internet Governance Is it possible?. www.derekwyatt.co.uk. www.derekwyatt.co.uk. 1950s Cold War. USSR Sputnik 4 th October 1957. www.derekwyatt.co.uk. Concern in Pentagon about whether Sputnik could launch nuclear weapons. www.derekwyatt.co.uk.
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Global Internet Governance Is it possible? www.derekwyatt.co.uk
www.derekwyatt.co.uk 1950s Cold War USSR Sputnik 4th October 1957
www.derekwyatt.co.uk Concern in Pentagon about whether Sputnik could launch nuclear weapons.
www.derekwyatt.co.uk Advanced Research Projects Agency Network UCLA, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara and Utah ARPA begat ARPAnet 29th October 1969 first email message sent (40 years this year)
www.derekwyatt.co.uk • Technology used was a “packet switch” • First paper on packet switching by Leonard Klienrock in 1961 • Formed core of internet technology • Conventional circuit based technology (telephony) required a dedicated sender receiver network
www.derekwyatt.co.uk Importance of packet switching meant if telephony closed down by overseas operatives (Cold War) it could still work as an independent network.
www.derekwyatt.co.uk Fall of Berlin Wall 9th November 1989 Cold War began to thaw so was ARPAnet really needed?
www.derekwyatt.co.uk ARPAnet set free into cyberspace JANET/SuperJANET UK academic links
www.derekwyatt.co.uk • Suddenly: • 1994 World Wide Web (Sir Tim Berners Lee) • 1995 Netscape browser • Browser Wars • ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
World Internet Users by Regions www.derekwyatt.co.uk
UNO – World Summit on Information Summit Geneva – 2003 Tunis – 2005 www.derekwyatt.co.uk
Alternatives to ICANN 2006 - China announces its own versions ; (creates its own domestic system: not available when travelling overseas) 2006 Arab countries follow suit www.derekwyatt.co.uk
WSIS begat • Internet Governance Forum • 2006 Athens • Rio • Hyderabad • Cairo • Lithuania • Talk Shop www.derekwyatt.co.uk
Participants in 2007 and 2008 www.derekwyatt.co.uk
G8 Subjects covered since 1997 1997 Cyber terrorism 1998 Fraud and Y2K 1999 Distance Learning 2000 Main Summit Agenda Digital opportunities 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, IT not in Main Summit 2009 Berlusconi plans to use Italy’s G8 Presidency to “regulate the Internet” (Telecoms, 3/12/08) www.derekwyatt.co.uk
www.derekwyatt.co.uk • Meanwhile: Child Safety • Internet Watch Foundation • Childnet International • FOSI • Byron Report
www.derekwyatt.co.uk • Types of Regulation UK • Statutory – Sexual Offences Act 2003 (UK) • Self regulation – IWF, ISPs • Individual regulation – filtering • Home Office, Ofcom and British Standards Institution ‘Kitemark for Child Safety Online’ standard for software EU spent €45m 2005-2006 Safer Internet plus Programme EU announced €55m 2009-2013 Safer Internet plus Programme
www.derekwyatt.co.uk G8 8-10 July 2009. L’Aquila,Italy (Science and Technology Ministerial Meeting 22-24 June 2009) • Is Berlusconi serious? • Some recognition of importance of Intellectual Property rights
www.derekwyatt.co.uk Internet Regulation currently resides in WTO A discredited organisation?
www.derekwyatt.co.uk • Can we regulate the internet? YES WE CAN
www.derekwyatt.co.uk • HOW?