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Broadband may be common these days, but there are plenty of places in the world where fat pipes are harder to come by.
The UN's communications agency, the International Telecommunications Union, is touting the importance of satellite technology in bridging the world's communications divide - as it can offer high-capacity transmission capabilities over wide areas, and bypasses the need to lay cabling and install other fixed infrastructure. |
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30th Public ICANN Meeting
29 October - 2 November 2007 The 30th International Public ICANN Meeting comes to Los Angeles! This meeting should prove to be particularly important for the future of the network thanks to the main topics under discussion. Internationalised domain names will make the Internet more intuitive for billions of non-English speakers around the world. Likewise, new generic top-level domains may change the whole way we approach the Internet in the future. |
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The Internet Society has been participating in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) http://www.itu.int/wsis/ and will participate in the next meeting in Tunis this coming November. An important part of the discussions at the summit will be focused on Internet Governance. The way that some are seeking to govern the Internet has direct impacts on all Internet users and your voice needs to be heard. |
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To encourage greater participation from developing countries, where Internet usage is growing, the nonprofit Internet Society is offering grants for up to five people to attend each Internet Engineering Task Force meeting. Covered expenses include meeting registration, airfare and hotels. |
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The ongoing Telecom World 2006 of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is to launch a forum themed Countering Spam Cooperation Agenda on Friday, a press release said in Hong Kong on Monday. The release issued by the ITU, the United Nation's telecom governing arm, said key international and regional organizations involved in the fight against spam will gather to discuss on greater collaborative efforts to combat spam and related threats. |
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Network consultant Michael Biber says IPv4 is on its last legs. IPv4's 32-bit format can describe 4.3 billion unique addresses. That's not enough. "It's one address for every two people," Mr Biber says. "Obviously not all of them have a computer . . . but there is an enormous spread of mobile phones and radio wireless in Africa and throughout Asia - Bangladesh has higher mobile phone penetration than Australia. All the new voice over IP phones and G3 mobile phones need an IP address." |
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