Cyrus Farivar: The Internet of Elsewhere – The Emergent Effects of a Wired World

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Cyrus Farivar

@cfarivar

@netofelsewhere

April 14, 2011Re:publica, Berlin


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http://dw-world.de/spectrum@dw_scitech


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1995: Nicholas Negroponte (Professor, MIT):

The Internet can:

atten organizations, globalize society,decentralize control and harmonize people.The nation-state may go away.

~1858: Henry Field(pastor, author, brother of Cyrus Field)

The Telegraph: unites distant nations, makingthem feel that they are members of one greatfamily By such strong ties does it tend to bind

the human race in unity, peace and concord.


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Country + Internet =Awesome

(political/economic/socialdevelopment)


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"We are aware of how the Internet is fundamentally ameans to transmit individual, discrete ideas from oneplace to another, but we are often not fully cognizant ofhow the Internet can transmit the collective spirit of anation as well. When the Internet arrives in all countries, it

does so at a particular moment in history, and evolves in away that is irrevocably stamped with those countriesmodern histories and economic environments."

-- Cyrus Farivar

It's complicated.


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Sina MotalebiWorld's first arrested bloggerApril 20, 2003


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I. South Korea


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1910: Japan annexes Korean peninsula

1941: Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

January 1943: Pentagon dedicated

March 1943: Chon Kilnam born in Japan

September 1945: WWII ends

1950-1953: Korean War. Peninsula divided into North and South.

1961: General Park Chung-hee takes power in SK. Embarks onmassive economic development program. (1961: 30,000 carsregistered --> 1996: 10 million)

1966: Chon Kilnam enters graduate program at UCLA


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First message sent onthe ARPANET - "lo"

October 29, 1969

UCLA

Los Angeles,California (USA)


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May 1982: System Development Network(SDN) launched.

1984: SDN connects to Internet

1994: Jin Ho Hur, former Chon student,founds first private Korean ISP

1998: Thrunet launches first broadband service in Korea

1998: Jake Song, former Chon student, releases Lineage

1999: Korean eSports Players Association founded

2007: 90 percent broadband penetration


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II. Senegal


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1946: IBM arrives in French colonial Senegal

1947: Amadou Top born

1960: Senegal becomes independent

1969: Top wins logic competition at IBM Dakar

January 1995: Top attends CES in Las Vegas

1995: Sonatel privatized, France Telecom buys 42 percent

May 1998: Top advises to put voter rolls online

2000: Youssou N'Dour founds Joko clubs, folds by 2002

2003: Digital Freedom Initiative established


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December 2003: Pres.Abdoulaye Wade proposes

"digital solidarity"

2005: Digital Solidarity Fundfounded in Lyon, Geneva

2007: Sonatel's net profit is $310million

2009: Nearly 60,000 DSL

subscribers out of a populationof12 million

2011: Internet penetration ~ 14%


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III. Estonia

1941 1944 N i t l E t i


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1941-1944: Nazis control Estonia

1945: Soviets invade Estonia

1960: Institute for Cyberneticsestablished in Tallinn

1967: Veljo Haamer born

1991: Estonia re-gains independence

1995: Tiger Leap (tiigrihppe in Estonian)

2000: Digital Signatures Act, e-Parliament project begins

2002: WiFi.ee established

April 2003: First Skype prototype born, Institute of Cybernetics


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November 2006: President George W. Bushreceives a Skype phone from Estonian PMAndrus Ansip

2007: First online voting

April 2007: Two-week cyberattack beginsagainst Estonian websites

January 2008: Dmitri Galushkevich fined $1700

May 2008: CCDCOE established

2011: Digital ID card can be used to authenticate for onlinevoting


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Sina MotalebiWorld's first arrested bloggerApril 20, 2003

IV. Iran


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1993: Iran connected to Internet viaAustria. By 1995, 30,000 are online.

1997: Khatami elected President

2000: One million Iranians online

December 2000: Montazeri.com vs.

Montazery.com

Fall 2001: First Iranian blogs online. Hoder's guide published.

September 2002: Then-Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Shahroudi callsfor the creation of a special committee" on Internet-relatedcrimes

March 2003: Sina Motalebi arrested

Fall 2004: Man blo ers includin Omid Memarian arrested


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"God is with us / Are you filtering him too?!"-- Tehran sign, June 2009

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June 12, 2009: Ahmadinejad"re-elected" president

June 21, 2009: Gerdab.ir

launches crowdsourcing effort

September 2009: Revolutionary

Guard purchases 50 percent plusone share of Telecommunications Company of Iran (TCI)

November 2010: Kiosk releases "Love and Death in the time ofFacebook"

March 2011: Iranian blogging competition, only open to unfiltered(pro-regime) blogs


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Cyrus Farivar

@cfarivar@netofelsewhere

April 14, 2011Re:publica, Berlin

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