The Hippie who Hooked-up South Africa

Posted by Richard Bennett

Have you ever wondered how South Africa got connected to the Internet? It happened during the bleak days of apartheid, thanks to the valiant efforts of self-proclaimed hippie Randy Bush: I suppose you are wondering what a computer scientist, engineer, and unrepentant hippie is doing at this lectern today. Well, I am also wondering the [...]

Guest Blog at GigaOm

Posted by Richard Bennett

My guest blog at GigaOm deals with paid peering and the net neutrality regulations, How Video Is Changing the Internet: But paid peering may be forbidden by Question 106 of the FCC’s proposed Open Internet rules because it’s essentially two-tiered network access, Norton points out. Paid peering illustrates how hard it is to write an [...]

Network Management and the Open Internet

Posted by Richard Bennett

Here’s the video from the Arts + Labs event at George Washington U on Oct. 29th. There’s a lot of back-and-forth since this was a diverse panel. The second panel begins about halfway in. Enjoy. New Media, New Networks Presented by Arts + Labs and GSPM’s Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet from GSPM [...]

Internet of the Future

Posted by Richard Bennett

Here’s the video of our Capitol Hill discussion of the Internet of the Future. Enjoy. FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.us