Internet or splinternet? - Al Jazeera English
Listers An interesting piece on Internet Governance. Who owns the internet? The answer is no one and everyone. The internet is a network of networks. Each of the separate networks belongs to different companies and organisations, and they rely on physical servers in different countries with varying laws and regulations. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/08/internet-splinternet-160810... Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad
Massive privacy violations by companies and governments, and cyber-attacks on civilian infrastructure such as power grids - as recently happened in Ukraine - could create insecurity that undercuts the internet's potential., are we likely to see scenarios similar to what we had on Sunday and Monday with lights blinking all night long? Regards On 1/8/17, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers
An interesting piece on Internet Governance.
Who owns the internet? The answer is no one and everyone. The internet is a network of networks. Each of the separate networks belongs to different companies and organisations, and they rely on physical servers in different countries with varying laws and regulations.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/08/internet-splinternet-160810...
Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113
Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
Sent from my iPad
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