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

[Joly MacFie]

There is now a transcription
<https://isoc.live/isoc/2019_12-10_internet_consolidation.pdf> available of
this. It may be especially helpful for those who might struggle with Ms,
Cobbe's brogue! The video will be restreamed with updated captions at
2:30pm ET (19:30 UTC) today, Saturday 14 December.

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 1:01 PM Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> *Permalink*:
> https://isoc.live/11567/
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