Impact of Internet in the Society and European actions for the develop of Internet

In this class, Josep Solé talks about the impact of internet in the society and the European actions for the internet development.

Actually, the decrease of traditional communications is obviously. A lot of people have noted this in the lasts telephone invoices that they have received.  That’s because the number of calls or sms have decreased.  In contrast, the use of Whatsapp or other applications to talk with everyone in everywhere (instantaneous mail) or social networks are the most successful form to communicate with other people at present. So, it produces an increase in the use of Internet and broadband and also the penetration of laptop computers, smart-phones and other intelligent portable devices.

A few years ago, the use of internet like a principal tool to meet people was unacceptable. But, today is a reality and all young people use it every day to communicate among themselves.  But not only the use of social networks or instantaneous mail have increased, other internet possibilities has an exponential increase in the latest times like blog writers/riders, wiki, microblogging, weblogs, Podcast, RSS, voive over IP, mashups, repositories. In all of this terms, Josep Solé explains us a little bit or what are everyone and show us graphics that proves the high impact of internet in the actual society.

From now on, Josep talks about how broadband will be increasingly ubiquitous.  It’s because the increase rate is higher in the case of mobiles with broadband access. He also said that the increasing presence of internet in society is a first step towards Smart-Cities and how the video traffic will dominate the Internet.

He also explains how organizations will take advantage of this situation. The 89% of companies believe that the private cloud will be the next logical step for organizations that have already implemented virtualization.  Those suppose 3 among 4 companies use cloud for flexibility and cost savings. In addition, publishing companies will use the increase of portable devices like a tool to reach the maximum possible people.

Finally, he explains what European actions are taking place at the moment for the development of Internet.  Lisbon Strategy or the i2010 initiative.  In near future, the support for eGovernment, the increase of bandwidth, the decrease of latency and provide broadband to everyone are the most important objectives to implement.