Hurray for the Internet in Asia-Pacific!
New Thai IXP will improve Internet connectivity and sustainabilityI recently attended a talk by Dr Kanchana Kanchanasut, Internet Hall of Fame inductee and Vice-President of the Thai Network...
View ArticleAmong the Nerds in Paradise
Observations of a new attendee at the IETF 91, Honolulu Amelia Yeo
View ArticleWireless For Communities (W4C) - Best of a breed
It isn’t everyday that I get to sit on a panel to talk about our favourite development project in the Asia-Pacific region - the Wireless for Communities (W4C) project in India. So I jumped at the...
View ArticleThe many faces of technology, lessons from Asia-Pacific
May and June were filled with very interesting ICT events in Asia Pacific many of which I was lucky enough to attend because I was either fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to speak or,...
View ArticleISOC @ CommunicAsia – Asia’s largest ICT event
In June, the Internet Society shared a booth with the regional Internet community (APIA, APNIC and dotAsia) over four days in Singapore at Asia’s largest integrated ICT event – CommunicAsia 2015....
View ArticleInnovate or die - Asian SMEs move to cloud computing
At the recently held Cloud Asia Forum there was a session titled “Food for thought discussion: Innovate or Die – Business models and disruptive technologies”. It was during this session that it was...
View ArticleA superlative IETF94 Yokohama
I recently attended IETF94 Yokohama and most people who participated waxed lyrical over it. This consensus says a lot as this meeting saw the largest contingent in the last 10 years in Asia, with 1,320...
View ArticleAccess in India and the Digital India promise
I recently attended the 24th edition of Convergence India, the ICT and Broadcast expo in Delhi. The theme of the exhibition and a conference track was the much talked about Digital India. This topic,...
View ArticleAnother action–packed week for the APAC Bureau in Auckland
Members of the Internet Society Asia-Pacific Bureau team - Rajnesh Singh, Amelia Yeo and Naveed Haq (and joined by Kevin Meynell from the Deploy360 Team) - had a super busy and productive week at...
View ArticleSecuring the Internet for children in Asia-Pacific
At a recent UNICEF event, the role of the ICT industry in East Asia and the Pacific was examined in respect to promoting children’s rights and UNICEF’s “Guidelines for Industry on Child Online...
View ArticleIETF Outreach in Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines 2016
The initial idea for the IETF Outreach initiative came to me during my first IETF, when I noticed that there were very few people attending/participating in the IETF meeting who were from Asia-Pacific...
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