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4. THINK GLOBALLY AND ACT LOCALLY

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  • The Internet is physiologically oriented towards a "perfect market" by definition "the Internet is for everyone", as stated once and for all by Vint Cerf .
  • "For everyone", "everywhere in the world".
  • This chapter documents local~global debate regarding the Internet from a geopolitical point of view.
  • "The Internet is for everyone" implies a general policy commitment which is everlasting and opposes each and every exclusion, or even limitation, of the development of the global interconnection of networks.
  • Against each and every "digital divide", as is popularly coined and originally very much associated with the socioeconomic development/underdevelopment gap.
  • But the efficacious category is to be extended correctly also to the policies of technological hibernation in the developed countries, and to a vocation which has no borders and can be inserted into the system of automatic information in the form of a distortion of "a delayed political filter ".
  • Consequently, a national contribution to the evolution of the Internet can therefore be measured on both faces of its indiscriminate integral establishment: local and global.
  • The reader can therefore not be surprised by the main line of thought of a long-term "foreign policy" of the Italian Internet: from the coordinations documented in the preceding chapters between local and international pioneers in order to ensure a transatlantic bridging as regards the Internetworking model...
  • As far as distinctions in the transfer of know-how oriented in exemplary fashion to the TEC, according to an early well-chosen definition of Stefano Trumpy, later absorbed into international ISOC jargon: the "technologically emerging countries"
    • Africa;
    • Latin America;
    • Asia;
    • Mediterranean.
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