Internet Development, Implications, and its Governance

By Naveed Ul Haq
ISOC Pakistan

While living in today’s world of technological modernization where humans and devices are in continuous interaction with each other, Internet evolved as a unique innovation that now has became a necessity. This evolution didn’t happen overnight, it has an historic link with ARPANET (a defense based project initiated in 1963 to exchange data packets over computer network).  Then after 25 years of research and development of standards, Internet came into use of common man during early 90’s.

The Internet is an amazing mean of communication spanning the globe. It is a multi flavor stage so open that anyone, anywhere can jump into it. Searching wholesome of information to paying electricity bill, downloading a multimedia video to playing an online cricket game, advertising your product to checking the status of your shipment, applying for a job to developing social networking, providing electronic government services to enabling cheap VoIP for remote areas and so on; Internet has captured all age-groups and sectors of an economy. Recent phenomenon of information based society has exploded the significance of Internet which till today is the most convenient technology to disseminate information.

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