Preparing the Philippines and the Overseas Filipinos for the “Exaflood” (Part One) |
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Monday, 19 November 2007 07:27 | |||
Today the “Internet Innovation Alliance (IiA)” took out a full-page ad (back page, at that) in the Los Angeles Times and other major newspapers in the United States. The IiA is a broad-based coalition of business and non-profit organizations working to find practical solutions to the challenges facing the Internet. It is committed to upgrading American broadband networks and ensuring every American has access to all the Internet has to offer. As we reported this morning about the progress of this online publication as the fastest-growing Filipino community web site, we said that our counter has reported visits (hits or clicks) of more-than 2.361-billion (spelled with a B) in less than seven months of operation. To read the article, “The New Kid on the Online Block Has Now the Bragging Rights,” at this link http://www.mabuhayradio.com/content/view/724/51/ The IiA ad said that “in 3 years, 20 typical California households will generate as much (online) traffic as the entire Internet did in 1995.” The source of this statement is Charles Giancarlo of the San Francisco Chronicle, (Dec. 14, 2006, issue). The MabuhayRadio.com staff has been discussing with our colleagues about the formation of a Filipino-American media cooperative that would use the Internet as the foundation of providing an “Alternative Press” to the Philippines and its more-than 8-million strong Overseas Filipinos. Part of our program called “Vision Philippines 2021” is to hook up all Filipino-American households to the Internet as Phase One. Our Phase Two will involve “reinventing” the Internet in the Philippines, so as to provide online services to the Filipino families that can afford them. Affordability can be made easier by their kin who are working abroad or who have migrated to other countries such as the United States. We were, therefore, pleasantly surprised when we read today the IiA ad. We immediately sent an e-mail of inquiry on how we could join the alliance. We are reproducing hereunder excerpts of today’s press release from the Internet Innovation Alliance. QUOTE. User Demand for the Internet Could Outpace Network Capacity by 2010 First Study to Independently Assess User Demand and Internet Capacity Finds Internet Exaflood Could Strike as Early as 2010 $137 Billion Global Infrastructure Investment Could be Required to Prevent Declines in Service UNQUOTE. To read the above-quoted article in its entirety and other studies about the so-called “Exaflood,” please go to http://www.internetinnovation.org/ and browse its News Section. (To be continued . . .)
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