Time’s Person of the Year You La réponse de Lynn Saint Amour ISOC à Time Magazine

Time’s Person of the Year : You La réponse de Lynn Saint Amour, ISOC, à Time Magazine

Time Magazine a désigné l’internaute comme personne de l’année 2006, dans cet article.

Lynn Saint Amour, President & CEO de l’Internet Society a fait la réponse suivante :

Letter to the Editor,

We were delighted by Time’s choice of Person of the Year. This is well-deserved recognition for the users that are coming together to shape the future of applications and tools empowering advancements and communities in virtually every sphere of our lives.

But it is also an opportunity to reflect on how a unique global infrastructure - the Internet - has made these developments possible.

The fact that the Internet itself is a product of the work of collaborating communities means there is no central control, and no restriction on the creativity and genius that brings new applications online each day.

Open standards such as those produced by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as well as collaboration amongst all those communities and organizations that have contributed to the Internet’s development, rather than top down or centralized governance, has ensured that the Internet’s development remains in the hands of those who know most what they need.

For the last 14 years, the Internet Society has encouraged and supported these communities - and today we are working to promote and defend the open, collaborative processes to ensure that today’s Person of the Year will continue to not only have the ability to innovate, but also to choose how he or she uses the Internet tomorrow.

People sometimes refer to the famous 1993 New Yorker cartoon entitled ’On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog’. But in 2007, a more appropriate tag line would be ’On the Internet, anybody can help shape the future’.

Remember - YOU are not only a user, YOU can decide how the Internet will evolve for the benefit of people everywhere.

Sincerely,

Lynn St.Amour President & CEO, Internet Society

Source :ISOC France