INTERNET: Making
the World a Global Village
It’s evolution, composition and revolution
‘Gbenga Sesan
Nigeria’s Information Technology Youth
Ambassador
www.gbengasesan.com
| [email protected]
Raising
Computer and
Internet Wizards
Otta, Ogun State, NIGERIA. 26 July 2003.
OVERVIEW
 Introduction to the Internet
 {A series of useful slides…}
 The World Wide Web
 New World, Global Village
 The New Economy: Factors and Trends
 The Future and You…
 Conclusion
Introduction to the
Internet
1. The Internet is a large network of interlinked computer
networks all over the world and any computer on the Internet
can be located anywhere in the world. This allows
communication between people, people groups, corporate
bodies and systems over the Internet no matter the distance
between them.
2. The Internet has since grown, extending services and creating
opportunities for more – by the day. Examples are File Transfer
protocol (FTP), Electronic Mail (eMail), World Wide Web
(WWW).
3. The Internet is still growing, and there are present efforts to
produce a next-generation Internet – speed, quality and other
attributes to be enhanced in Internet 2.
The Internet in charts…
Types of workers
with Internet access
(1)
Precision/Crafts
Executive/Manager
Professional
Clerical/Sales/Tech
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
The Internet in charts…
Telecommuters as(2)
a percentage of total US
workforce
100.00%
80.00%
60.00%
Non-telecommuters
Telecommuters
40.00%
20.00%
0.00%
1991
1999
2005
2020
The Internet in charts…
North American
(3) Information
Technology Spendings
$1,400
$1,200
$1,000
$800
$600
$400
$200
$0
Billions ($)
2000
2001
2002
2003
The Internet in charts…
(4) for eCommerce
Projected corporate spending
infrastructure: 2001
4%
16%
Decrease Spending
Maintain Spending
Increase Spending
80%
The Internet in charts…
Small/Medium (5)
Business Expenditures
on I.T. and Telecom (in $ Billions)
250
200
150
100
50
0
Australia
France
Germany
Britain
Japan
U. S.
The Internet in charts…
Orders placed(6)
between businesses
online ($ trillion)
5
4
3
Worldwide
United States
2
1
0
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
The Internet in charts…
(7) by category ($
Worldwide I.T. Spending
billions)
2000
1500
Hardware
Services
Software
Telecom
1000
500
0
1999
2001
2003
The World Wide Web
1. Tim Berners-Lee of the European High-Energy Particle Physics
Lab (CERN) created the World Wide Web in 1992.
2. Inspired by Ted Nelson's work on Xanadu and the hypertext
concept, the World Wide Web incorporated graphics, typographic
text styles, and-most importantly-hypertext links.
3. The Web uses three new technologies: HTML, or HyperText
Markup Language, is used to write Web pages; a Web server
computer uses HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) to transmit
those pages; and a Web browser client program receives the data,
interpretes it, and displays the results.
4. In 1993, the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana released
Mosaic, a Web browser designed by Marc Andersen and developed
by a team of students and staff at the University of Illinois.

New World, Global
The influence of Globalization
Village
 The need for Universal Access
 The dissolution of boundaries
 The discovery of Synergies
 Emergence of a knowledge-based economy
 The importance of Wired Societies
 It’s a NEW economy: The rules are changing fast!
 The New Economy and the Internet
The New Economy: Factors
and Trends
Trends and factors of the New Economy include:
· Economy: Organizations in the past were large, slow and
pyramidal. Power was based on who controlled capital. Today
we are moving toward a knowledge economy where creation
and dissemination of knowledge is the means to control. It’s the
quality and productivity, rather than the volume, of workers
that define the new economy.
· Politics: The politically powerful controlled the means to
production. Democracy was mitigated by economics.
Information was top-down, tightly controlled, and slow
moving. We are moving into a new information and knowledge
is more accessible; and the creation of knowledge and constant
learning is made easier, empowerment is made more tenable
(although not a given).
The New Economy: Factors
and
Trends
II
· Culture: New workplace designs and telecommuting afford
more time for leisure and family. Culture is based less on
capital attainment and more on knowledge acquisition.
· Technology: Early technology implementation devalued
workers as it was used to replace people and to reduce costs.
Emerging technology characteristics include:
1. creation of virtual spaces
2. interactivity of work
3. disintermediation, providing direct communication
4. immediacy of information to conduct work and make
decisions
5. bandwidth to exploit the potential of multimedia for work
6. accessibility of information both just-in-time (pull) and
broadcast (push)
The Future and YOU!
-1- What do you want to do in life? How does the Web come in?
-2- “The whole world steps aside for a man who knows where
he’s going” – Unknown.
-3- Acquire appropriate skills through self-study : Maximize the
Internet! MIT (ocw.mit.edu), itrainonline.org, TIG, etc
-4- Two are better than one! Synergy always works…
-5- Act Now! Don’t wait for a better Nigeria or a green card…
“I walk slowly but I never walk backwards” – Abraham Lincoln
-6- Paradigm Shift: A move away from Certificates to
Proficiency
-Energy Redirection: Moving from Vices to Virtue
--7- Information is potential power, knowledge is power,
PROFICIENCY puts you ahead of the pack
--8- Where will you be in 10 years?
Conclusion
“I see a new Nigeria emerging…one that will be built on
the labours of our heroes past, hewn out of the debris of the
present waste and engineered by the strength of the future
leaders: the youth. These young men and women will adopt
Information Technology for the purpose of personal
development, nation building, regional cooperation and global
participation. They exist unknown today, but in the secrecy
of their abode, they master the tool that will change their
lives and that of their nation. This presentation is
dedicated to such heroes; unknown but silently building the
nation’s tomorrow today”
THANK YOU
‘Gbenga Sesan
Nigeria’s Information Technology Youth
Ambassador
www.gbengasesan.com
| [email protected]
Raising
Computer and
Internet Wizards
Otta, Ogun State, NIGERIA. 26 July 2003.