SXSW 2017 Schedule | One of the Internet’s fathers, Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google and Founder of the People-Centered Internet (PCI) makes his first-ever SXSW appearance to provide a future Internet forecast. Find out about the unprecedented partnership opportunities between the technology community and international/private finance that will help connect the three billion Read More
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Vint Cerf at SXSW 2017
Vint Cerf, inventor of the Internet, discussed the movement of the People Centered Internet (PCI) with Susan Hassler, Editor of IEEE Spectrum at SXSW 2017. Not only do we want to connect to the 3 out of 5 people who do not have access to the Internet, Vint called on the packed hall of 400: “To Read More
Videos from the Internet Inclusion Conference
Videos from Internet Inclusion: Global Connect Stakeholders Advancing Solutions, Washington D.C., October 2016 Welcoming Remarks Mary Ward-Callan, Managing Director of IEEE Technical Activities, launches the event and introduces the notable speakers joining her in the opening remarks of Internet Inclusion: Global Stakeholders Advancing Solutions on October 5th and 6th, 2016 in Washington DC. Catherine A. Read More
An Inclusive Internet as Global Asset
Balancing Leadership & Control So All May Connect to Thrive By Carrie Ford Hilliker September 9, 2016 In a series of recent statements, the Obama Administration argues against “a fragmented Internet that divides us rather than unites us, that minimizes the voice of people and maximizes their ability to cloud the truth.” The United States recognizes Read More
Systems Thinking, Asymmetric Information, and the People Centered Internet
By Peter Whitehead August 10, 2016 In 2001, the Royal Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to Joseph Stiglitz, George Akerlof and Michael Spence for their seminal contribution to the economics of information [1]. Their concept shows how informational asymmetries can give rise to adverse selection in markets. George Akerlof called this Read More
How can we realistically connect the next billions of new Internet users by 2020?
By Yuliana Angelova July 6, 2016 Bulgaria has a very positive example of connecting the unconnected, and the example is even more relevant within the context of the SDGs, and the experience of developing and underdeveloped countries. Our first biggest expansion (we had later some more) of number of Internet users happened in 1996 – Read More
Decentralized Web: meeting report
By John Ryan July 5, 2016 This June, some of the founders of the web and the Internet, called for the web to be re-thought, building in new goals of openness, and security, and permanence, moving the architecture toward a decentralized model. Many of the ideas align strongly with the founding precepts of the People-Centered Read More
Helping countries connect and thrive, starting with Tunisia
July 5, 2016 The Internet is a powerful tool to connect people, organizations, and countries. In a strong partnership with IEEE, the People-Centered Internet (PCI) initiative – a global consortium of Internet professionals and organizations – is dedicated to bringing together a range of stakeholders to connect the unconnected. However, there are formidable barriers to Read More
Briefing: People Centered Internet Global Forum @ Stanford: Beginning a network of networks
Luci Abrahams Senior Lecturer, LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Nagy Hanna Visiting Associate Professor, LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and Senior Advisor to World Bank. July 5, 2016 In a one and half day meeting, October 24-25, 2015, a diverse group of information and communication technology and development practitioners, academics, venture Read More