« Bush: question reality! | Main | The Human Flower Project » The Next BillionDavid Isenberg just told me about the VON-sponsored conference called "The CEO Forum on the Next Billion: Finding ways to move access to communication from 1 billion people on earth to 2 billion and beyond" at the Berkman Center. David Weinberger is blogging the conference here and here (so far; I'm sure he'll blog more). Community network people have been talking about universal access for years, but as VoIP and other technologies progress, more and more recovering telco people are getting into the conversation, understanding that we must ensure pervasive freedom to connect, in developing as well as developed nations – and at the same time we have to think through the implications of Internet technology, the need for a "stupid network" with intelligence at the edges, and the fact that it will be increasingly tough for monolithic corporations to sustain revenues by providing access to communications networks. We're not just talking about technology here; a global, open communications network has far-reaching political and economic implications. And for obvious reasons it's not just going to happen. (Therefore, I'm paying attention to the current evolution of network thinking, and I hope you are, too.) jon posted this at 11:30 AM |
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