by Kieren McCarthy on December 7, 2007
Speech by ICANN CEO Paul Twomey at Gala event to Vint Cerf on Tuesday 30 October 2007 at Sony Studios, 10202 West Washington Boulevard, Culver City, Los Angeles.
Welcome everybody, so glad you’re here. Hello to everybody in the far corners.
Unfortunately, I’m going to be really dull and a bit more serious, at least for a little while. Vint, as you know, I’m originally trained as a historian, and I was glad to see there was a lot of old faces here – I was particularly please to see Ira Magaziner here, I’m certain he’ll have lots of stories from the beginning to share with us…
I’ve been struggling for months to figure out what I’m going to say tonight, and I thought we would try and celebrate something in a bigger context.
You know, the great intellectual adventure of the early part of the 20th century was nuclear physics. And in that nuclear period, there were a relatively small handful of physicists and mathematicians who eventually transformed how we understood matter, transformed relationships between countries… unfortunately they developed nuclear weapons, but, they did this most amazing job.
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by Pablo Hinojosa on October 16, 2007
Se presenta a continuación el tercer programa de audio (podcast), esta vez con los operadores de los ccTLDs .pa de Panamá y .ni de Nicaragua.
En este programa, ya no se hablará tanto de la historia de Internet en estos países sino de cuáles son los retos que enfrentan estos ccTLDs y los proyectos que tienen en curso y pensados a futuro.
En esta ocasión hablan Armando Jipsion y Edna Samudio por .pa y Marvin Castañeda por .ni.
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This is the third audio podcast featuring ccTLD operators in Latin America. In this programme the ccTLD managers from .pa Panama and .ni Nicaragua talk about the challenges that their ccTLDs are facing and the projects they are implementing now and in the future.
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by Pablo Hinojosa on July 23, 2007
Internet history – the Latin American experience
Se presenta el segundo podcast sobre la historia de Internet, contada por las personas que ayudaron a desarrollar la red, entrevistadas por Pablo Hinojosa, enlace de ICANN para América Latina, quien pregunta a los administradores de los ccTLDs regionales cómo fue la primera conexión a Internet en sus países.
Photo by Joi Ito
This is the second of a series of podcasts covering the history of the Internet as told by the people that helped build it. ICANN’s regional relations manager for Latin America, Pablo Hinojosa, asks the managers of the region’s top-level domains the story behind how they first set up the network in their country.
En esta segunda parte, la historia la cuentan: Jorge Raúl Cabañas de Paraguay, Demi Getshko de Brasil, Patricio Poblete de Chile y Oscar Robles de México.
In this second part, the story is told by: Paraguay’s Jorge Raúl Cabañas; Brazil’s Demi Getschko; Chile’s Patricio Poblete; and Mexico’s Oscar Robles.
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by Pablo Hinojosa on June 23, 2007
Internet history – the Latin American experience
Se presenta el primero de una serie de podcasts que cubren la historia de Internet, contada por las personas que ayudaron a desarrollar la red, entrevistadas por Pablo Hinojosa, enlace de ICANN para América Latina, quien pregunta a los administradores de los ccTLDs regionales cómo fue la primera conexión a Internet en sus países.
In the first of a series of podcasts covering the history of the Internet as told by the people that helped build it, ICANN’s regional relations manager for Latin America, Pablo Hinojosa, asks the managers of the region’s top-level domains the story behind how they first set up the network in their country.
En esta primera parte, la historia la cuentan: Rafael Ibarra de El Salvador, Edna Samudio de Panamá, Marvin Castañeda de Nicaragua y Clara Collado de República Dominicana.
In this first part, the story is told by: El Salvador’s Rafael Ibarra; Panama’s Edna Samudio de Jaen; Nicaragua’s Marvin Castañeda; and the Dominican Republic’s Clara Collado.
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