Future Internet Research & Ecological Internet

AfriNIC 2012.11.27

Kilnam ChonKeio University and KAIST

2012.11.26rev

Are you ready for One Billion Internet Users in Africa?

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Are you ready for One Billion Internet Users in Africa?

Human resource development may be the main issue.

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Contents

1. Global Internet Users2. Internet as Social Infrastructure3. Engineering Systems4. Future Internet Research5. Recent Development6. Ecological Internet7. RemarkBibliography

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1. Global Internet Users

2010: ~2 billion Internet users(out of 7 billions) - Passed the tipping point of 25%2020: ~5 billion Internet users(out of 7.5 billions) - Most of people in the world

How do we facilitate new (and current) Internet users ecologically sound manner?

- environment preservation: how do we control CO2?

- culture preservation: how do we enrich local culture?

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2. Internet as Social Infrastructure• What kinds of the social infrastructure is the

Internet being developed around the world?

• Example: Transportation - Train: Good social infrastructure - Car: Need to avoid USA phenomena

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3. Engineering Systems

• All engineering systems go through periodic major changes.

- Road: unpaved paved high speed - Train: steam engine electric engine high

speed - Phone: manual automatic mobile smart - Television: black & white color high definition

• Is it time for the Internet to go through the major change?

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4. Future (of the) Internet Research

• Long term research on fundamental issues

• Future Internet research started in 2000s. 2005~ USA/NSF 2006~ EU/FP 2006~ Asia

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4.1 Future Internet Research

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Current Internet

Future Internet

Issues - Security - Mobility - Scalability - Management

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4.2 Future Internet Research(addition)

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Current Internet

Future Internet

Issues - Security - Mobility - Scalability - Management

Applications - eHealth - eEducation - eSociety

Technologies - Cloud Computing - Internet of Things

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4.3 Future Internet Research(addition)

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Current Internet

Future Internet

Issues - Security - Mobility - Scalability - Management

Applications - eHealth - eGovernment - eSociety

Technologies - Cloud Computing - Internet of Things

New Users - The Other Billions

Green - Green Internet - Green Society

Data Explosion

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5. Recent Development

• Walled Garden• Video as Major Application• Data Explosion• Fundamental Study• Problems• Internet Governance

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5.1 Walled Garden?

• Facebook with one billion users• Broadband Services in Japan(NTT),

Korea(KT),...• Great Firewall(China)

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5.3 Data Explosion

• Video Traffic - Smart TV,….

• Internet of Things/Smart Device/M2M - Machine as the Internet user

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5.4 Fundamental Studies

• May need fundamental studies on the Internet

- Computer Science 1960s~ - Data Science 2000s~ - Web Science 2000s~ - Language Science 2000s~ - Network Science 2010s~

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5.5 Problems and Abuse • Global - Cyber Attack - Cyber Terrorism - Cyber Warfare/Cyber Weapon

• Personal - Privacy - Addiction - Cyber Violence

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5.6 Internet Governance

• Current Stakeholders on Internet Governance

- USA Federal Government - Other Governments(EU, National

Governments,..) - ICANN and NRO - Standardization Organizations(IETF, ITU,

ISO,...) - Internet Governance Forum

• What Internet governance model are we looking for?

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6. Ecological Internet • Why Ecological Internet?• Shall we call Ecological Internet?• What are the Issues?

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6.1 Why Ecological Internet Now? • It may be time to think of the long term

perspective of the Internet as critical global social infrastructure

• We need to develop social infrastructure based on consensus rather than market driven.

• Future Internet research & development may address

- for all people in the world, not just current users - harmonization with human society and global environment

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6.2 Ecological Internet

We may call the emerging global social infrastructure based as

Ecological Internet;

- The Internet we can sustain and we want to sustain - The Internet, which is harmonized with human

society - The Internet governance based on consensus like

ecological democracy - The Internet like Green State proposed by Robyn

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6.3 What are the Issues?

• New Internet Users How do we facilitate new Internet users(and

current Internet users) in ecologically sound manner?• Carbon How do we comply with the carbon reduction?• Local Culture How do we harmonize with local culture and

society?• Market Driven How do we move away from the market driven development as appropriate?

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7. Remark• It is only the beginning of the Internet revolution now.

• Are we making the mistakes of other global infrastructures like automobile, nuclear systems,..?

• Are we having good global coordination now?

• Openness( data, education, research,..) are changing the world as the important element of Ecological Internet.

• Human resource development may be most important.

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Bibliography

Global Internet Governance Forum ITU/ISO Internet Society/IETF/IRTFEU FP7(FI Week, FI Assembly, EIFFLE,..)USA NSFAsia AsiaFI, CNGI, NWGN, FIFRobyn Eckersley The Green State: Rethinking

Democracy and Sovereighty, 2004.David Sanger Confront and Conceal, Crown, 2012.

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Appendix: VoIP

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