Appeared in the Toronto Star on December 10, 2007 as How the Next Billion Will Reshape the Internet Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on December 11, 2007 as How the Next Billion Users Will Reshape All Aspects of the Internet Last month hundreds of people descended on Rio de Janiero, […]
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The Next Billion Internet Users
I'm currently in Rio, Brazil for the Internet Governance Forum. This Associated Press story captures the most challenging question of the event – how does the network deal with the next billion Internet users?

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