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Net heavyweights launch Net think tank
News Jim Barksdale, Vint Cerf and other Internet heavyweights Tuesday announced plans to create an institute to study the Internet and society. The Internet is surrounded by noise, hype, rumours, marketing, IPOs and the hopes of starry-eyed startups...
[November 10, 1999, 11:42]
Briton appointed chair of IETF
News The Internet Society has announced that Brian Carpenter has been appointed the next chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body responsible for most of the standards that the Internet is built upon.
[March 4, 2005, 16:45]
Oxford University sets up Internet Institute
News Internet research team will research the effects of the Internet on society Oxford University is to create an Internet Institute aimed at researching the effects of the Internet on society which it hopes will put the UK at the centre of the debate...
[May 4, 2001, 16:59]
Study: Net is no Utopia
News The most extensive academic research yet done on the social implications of the Internet -- The Virtual Society programme taking place at 25 universities across the UK -- has found that the cyber world is mirroring the social divides of the real...
[September 10, 1999, 14:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As the Internet Society says: I once tried to write a science-fiction story where everything the proponents of strong intellectual property law enforcement claim was actually true, and the smallest act of creation resulted in something that was...
[October 20, 2006, 19:20]
EC to investigate digital divide
News The issue of who will have access to the Internet in a wired society is one that is currently high on governments' agendas. The idea that some sections of society are being excluded from the Internet revolution is of great concern on both sides of...
[March 22, 2001, 14:12]
the development of science
Blog The development of internet brings a great impact toward the society. The development of technology has a significant affact toward the society. Several technologies that we usually use are the internet, computer, and cellphone.
[August 4, 2009, 10:03]
Would you be lost without your PC?
News The vision (is) of someone glued to a chair, focused on a screen, interacting as an object, a person whose main identification is as a digital creature, who doesn't know what to do without a signal," said Zittrain, executive director of the...
[September 20, 2005, 17:20]
Internet governance battles to continue
News The top two contenders: the International Telecommunication Union, a UN body, and the Internet Society, which counts online pioneers from the United States and Europe on its board of directors and is located in Reston, Virginia.
[November 18, 2005, 15:50]
NSPCC calls for better online crime reporting
News The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is asking more than 185,000 of its supporters to write to David Blunkett, the home secretary, and call for better facilities to report Internet crimes against children.
[December 2, 2004, 12:15]
Politicians 'must start chatting online'
News The richer you are, the more likely you are to have a computer at home, and the Hansard Society survey also discovered a belief that a wholesale shift of government services onto the Internet might not be in the best interest of the nation.
[October 31, 2001, 13:13]
ICANN still rules the Internet roost
News Society, when the Bush administration agreed to the creation of a new Information Society, held in Tunisia last week. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received a last-minute reprieve at the World Summit on the...
[November 23, 2005, 12:20]
People down mice as Internet backlash begins
News Steve Woolgar, director of the Virtual Society project, is looking beyond the high expectations of Internet enthusiasts to find the real affects the Web has on our lives. In particular it turns out that large numbers of teenagers have stopped using...
[December 6, 2000, 12:21]
Tuesday
Blog There are certain obligations placed on people by society -- taxes, using a decent sewerage system and doing jury service not least among them. Perhaps we need civil society and the use of newsgroups to be taught in the primary schools.
[November 29, 2002, 16:35]
UN summit reopens debate over control of the net
News So does the venerable Internet Society, which called it a "constructive step in the direction of private sector management" of the domain name system. I welcome the US government's declared intention to grant more autonomy to ICANN," Viviane Reding...
[October 27, 2006, 16:00]
Analysis: What Labour should do with the e-minister
News The Internet has featured highly in New Labour's strategy to build a modern society and government. But core issues, such as BT's stranglehold on the phone network which in turn is key to rolling out Net services, the substance behind the targets...
[May 10, 2001, 11:15]
US stands firm over Internet control
News The UN's World Summit on the Information Society began with a high-minded purpose: to bridge the technological gap between richer and poorer nations. There are a lot of players — civil society and the private sector — that play an important role.
[November 11, 2005, 16:20]
Europe calls on US to let go of Icann
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is approaching a historic point in its development," said information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding in a statement on Thursday. Internet usage and penetration is now so high...
[June 19, 2009, 12:25]
Tech giants back ID interoperability project
News The project brings together more than 40 member organisations, and counts companies such as AOL, BT, CA, Intel, The Internet Society, Fidelity Investments, Novell, NRI, NTT, Oracle, PayPal and Sun on its board of trustees.
[June 18, 2009, 17:09]
Archbishop Carey bemoans 'dot.com society'
News He warned that these aspects of our "dot.com society" are, "transitory, paltry thing when compared with the ultimate things of the spirit. Carey also said that Christian values are of growing importance to such a technology worshipping culture and...
[April 25, 2000, 11:49]
