<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">The title of this event is variable. It is also "Who Runs the Internet: Internet Consolidation and Control" however the topic is the same, either way. One wonders when Andrew Sullivan last slept in his own bed!</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u>
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ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday 10 December 2019 at 18:00 UTC (1pm EST) Chatham House hosts a discussion 'Internet Consolidation: What Lies Beneath the Application Layer?' in London. In recent years, there has been a growing debate around the influence of a few large internet" </span>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><a style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/internetconsolidation" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/internetconsolidation-300x169.png" alt="Livestream" width="300" height="169" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"></a><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span>On <strong>Tuesday 10 December 2019</strong> at <strong>18:00 UTC</strong> (1pm EST) <strong><a style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://www.chathamhouse.org/" target="_blank">Chatham House</a></strong> hosts a discussion '<a href="https://www.chathamhouse.org/event/internet-consolidation-what-lies-beneath-application-layer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)"><strong>Internet Consolidation: What Lies Beneath the Application Layer?</strong></a>' in London. In recent years, there has been a growing debate around the influence of a few large internet technology companies on the internet’s infrastructure and over the popular applications and social media platforms that we use every day. The internet which was once widely viewed as a collective platform for limitless, permissionless innovation, competition and growth, is now increasingly viewed as a consolidated environment dominated by a few. Such market dominance threatens to undermine the internet’s fundamental benefits as a distributed network in which no single entity has control.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">The panel will examine the risks of consolidation throughout the internet’s technology stack such as the impact on complex supply chains that support applications, including cloud provisions, ‘as a service’. It will also explore the potential benefits, for example, when building out essential infrastructure to support faster and cheaper internet services in developing economies, consolidation can create economies of scale that bring the resource-intensive building blocks of the internet economy within the reach of new start-ups and innovators. The panel will provide an interdisciplinary perspective exploring the relationship between consolidation and evolutions in the internet infrastructure as well as unpacking its policy implications.</p>
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Chair: <strong>Emily Taylo</strong>r, Associate Fellow, International Security, Chatham House, Editor, Journal of Cyber Policy</p>
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