[governance] WEBCAST TODAY: Internet Consolidation: What Lies Beneath the Application Layer? @ChathamHouse

[Joly MacFie]

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!


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"

New post on *ISOC LIVE NOTICEBOARD*

[image: Livestream]
<https://livestream.com/internetsociety/internetconsolidation>On *Tuesday
10 December 2019* at *18:00 UTC* (1pm EST) *Chatham House
<https://www.chathamhouse.org/>* hosts a discussion '*Internet
Consolidation: What Lies Beneath the Application Layer?*
<https://www.chathamhouse.org/event/internet-consolidation-what-lies-beneath-application-layer>'
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.

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.

Participants
*Andrew Sullivan*, President and CEO, Internet Society
*Jennifer Cobbe*, Research Associate, Department of Computer Science and
Technology, University of Cambridge
*Jesse Sowell*, Assistant Professor, Department of International Affairs,
Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
Chair: *Emily Taylo*r, Associate Fellow, International Security, Chatham
House, Editor, Journal of Cyber Policy

*VIEW ON LIVESTREAM:
https://livestream.com/internetsociety/internetconsolidation
<https://livestream.com/internetsociety/internetconsolidation>*

*TWITTER: #InternetConsolidation <http://bit.ly/internetconsolidation>
*@ChathamHouse
@SullivanISOC @jennifercobbe @jsowell78 #CHEvents

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