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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">NCSG Colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Forgive me if I reminisce a bit here. In November of 1992, a year and a half before China connected to the global Internet I was in Beijing delivering a 2400 baud Telebit Teleblazer to a scientific institute
in that city. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We used [expensive] dialup to connect to a similar modem at PeaceNet in the San Francisco Bay Area.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Earlier, in the 1980s, China was purchasing communications equipment from my research colleagues in Yugoslavia, in the part that is now Slovenia. Here I have a Canadian neighbor who was in charge of bringing
the Digital Equipment Corporation’s (DEC’s) PDP-10 to China in those years. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In the early '80s people from the San Francisco Bay Area, including the non-profits: ARC Foundation; Center for Innovative Diplomacy; Community Data Processing; and Foundation for the Arts of Peace came together
around a vision of a computer network to support the work of individuals and organizations working to reduce the risks of war and to promote peace. PeaceNet was launched. EcoNet, joined with PeaceNet to became the Institute for Global Communications (IGC),
which became a project of the Tides Foundation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Much of that early history is almost lost, especially as the private sector “Internet whales” push to shape the Internet in commercial directions and write its history in their favor. In June of 1997, in Toronto,
with help from the World Bank and numerous international organizations we secured global funding for “Global Knowledge 97: Knowledge for Development in the Information Age”, an early global conference focused on peace and development via the Internet. We also
secured multilateral funding for Bellanet, at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Bellanet was charged with promoting multilateral government use of the Internet. That early vision saw the Internet as a platform for global understanding,
peace and shared prosperity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Closing on a humorous note, I worked with the woman who convinced Canada’s public Canadian Broadcasting System to have its first web page. The only argument that worked was when she explained that they could
sell coffee mugs and tee shirts online. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sam Lanfranco, NCSG<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telebit">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telebit</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.igc.org/">https://www.igc.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Marilia Maciel<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 12, 2024 5:12 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Event: 30 years of internet in China: Between past growth and future challenges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The event below might be of interest. The 30th anniversary of China's connection to the global Internet will take place next week. Diplo and the Fuxi Institution jointly put together a very knowleageble panel, to look back at this period
of technological growth in China and in the West, and the challenges foreseen in the future. We hope you can join us on April 19th. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#202020">On 20 April 1994, China connected to the internet. It was one of the most important developments in the digital history
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In the 1990s, US technology was primarily employed to build the ‘eight vertical and eight horizontal’ fibre-optic backbone, a nationwide grid-shaped fibre-optic network representing the core of the Chinese internet. As globalisation boomed, China and the West
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In less than two decades, however, telecommunications and mobile technology have become the first well-established fields of
<strong><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">geopolitical rivalry</span></strong> between the USA and China. This dispute for leadership is spreading through a vast array of so-called ‘critical and emerging technologies’, including
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">What is the significance of the last 30 years of internet deployment in China for developing the global internet?</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">
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