PowerPoint Presentation Slide 1

Building the Internet

• Nations regulate telecommunications internationally: agree on bandwidth of electronic transmission, spacing of satellites, sharing of costs/ interconnection
• Also develop technical standards for interconnection ( IP protocols such as MP3)
• This is the international standards role of nations, businesses and technical experts in creating a market for technology, and ensuring consumers don’t buy technology which will not work
• Business play a bigger and bigger role influencing this shadow world of standards: citizens underrepresented
• But: companies still need states to rule on standards