Event Information - Proceedings - Part 09: Day 2 Opening Comments and Introductions; Day 2 Keynote Address - "The Impact on Teaching and Learning"; and Panel Discussion on "The International Partnerships" (November 30, 2007)

Abstract

Opening comments, introductions, and panel discussion; panelists discuss barriers to the adoption of Internet technology outside of the U.S. in the 1980s; how these barriers were overcome by early pioneers in other countries; how the NSF and the NSFNET team helped develop partnerships that led to the internationalization of the Internet; other drivers that led to the success of international networks; and the scope of the pre- and post-NSFNET global Internet. The early Internet included military links to European allies prior to the late 1980s, and these were augmented by a few between the NSFNET and European academic networks in the late 1980s. NSF’s International Connections Management (ICM) Project, the international adjunct to the NSFNET Program, began in 1991 to connect with budding academic networks throughout the world, and by its close in 1996 ICM assisted in connecting 25 national academic networks to the U.S. academic community