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The Power and Promise of the Future Internet: A Global Perspective

Explore the future of the Internet through the lens of empowerment, community-building, technology, sustainability, and Asia-centric perspectives. Discuss the impact on lives, governance challenges, and the blurred lines between work and personal life. Delve into questions of truth, governance, knowledge dissemination, and the potential impact on society as a whole, raising thought-provoking issues on the evolving landscape of the Internet.

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The Power and Promise of the Future Internet: A Global Perspective

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  1. Future of Internet: a view from the emerging world Ashok JhunjhunwalaIIT Madras, India ashok@tenet.res.in Future of Internet, Brussels

  2. Outline • Internet is Power • Promises of Internet • Internet Communities • Technology and Governance • Sustainability • Asia-Centric Internet • Lives Future of Internet, Brussels

  3. Internet is Power • It has empowered people around the world • Enabled a large number of people who were left behind to overcome generations of deprivation • and compete with those in the developed world • But still a large number of people are not connected • India has just 100M connections for its 1.2B people • Content still dominated by 4 – 5 international languages • And what about illiterate or semi-literate • Can voice be used to access Internet? • Mobile phones may became the main interface for Internet • By when will we connect everyone? Future of Internet, Brussels

  4. Promises of Internet • Can Internet help strengthen health care? • Can education reach everyone? • Can it contribute to more egalitarian society? • Can it contribute to better understanding and peace in the world? Future of Internet, Brussels

  5. Internet Communities • Internet has created many virtual communities • Dis-empowered can connect with each other and fight against despotic laws / governments • Even people with very specific interest and views, not shared by anyone nearby, need no longer feel isolated • Can connect with similar people around the world • But can some people get lost in virtual community • and lose the ability to relate to real community? • Will it distort personality? • Will Internet encourage or discourage diversityin the society / world? Future of Internet, Brussels

  6. Technology and Governance • Can Internet be ever made totally secure? • Totally free of hacking? • Can Internet Governance be fair and decentralized? • Today some nations with large population have very few IP address (IPV4) • Local people / governments deciding on topology, configuration, controls? Future of Internet, Brussels

  7. Sustainability • World’s economies grow continuously • Increasing consumption everyday • But earth is retaliating • Can not sustain ever-growing consumption • Will Internet add to sustainability or take us further away? • Bits transmitted on Internet increasing everyday • Will it continuously increase energy consumption • Will wireless Internet continuously increase EM emission? • Is it necessary that same bits travel again and again on a link? • Will video-conferencing ever reduce human travel? • Will the transport of goods only increase, due to online purchase? Future of Internet, Brussels

  8. Asia-Centric Internet • India – China with nearly half the population of the world • After centuries of deprivation, these economies are suddenly growing to become lead economies of the world • As economic power moves to Asia, will they define Internet differently? Future of Internet, Brussels

  9. Lives • Internet has enabled working from homes • But will distinction between work-lives and home-lives also blur? • Internet is invading all aspects of our lives • Can there be any private life any more? Future of Internet, Brussels

  10. To Conclude • As Internet become increasingly powerful impacting all aspects of our lives • there are more and more questions! • Web-pages, Wiki, Blogs and twitter • Will they promote knowledge and understanding or spread disinformation? • Will we be able to distinguish truth and untruth? • Is Governance at all necessary? • Will the powerful be able to use it better than the weak or vice-versa? • Will Internet make us better human beings? • Will it make us happier? Future of Internet, Brussels

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