The Internet as we currently know it was the major catalyst for digital transformation during the pandemic and must continue to promote convergence and how human beings and business processes interact, said LACNIC CEO Oscar Robles in his presentation at the latest edition of the South School on Internet Governance (SSIG).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the \u201cDigital Transformation in a Changing Global Environment\u201d forum, Robles stressed that, if these objectives are to be achieved, today’s Internet must be protected considering the pillars on which it is founded: unicity, ubiquity, scalability, adaptability, flexibility, and resilience. In his opinion, these factors were the cornerstone of the Internet’s success during the recent pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scalability.<\/strong> Throughout history, no technology has demonstrated a greater degree of scalability than the Internet. \u201cWe went from zero to more than four billion users and more than ten billion connected devices. This means billions of users and connected devices and more than 70 thousand different networks. This is extraordinary,\u201d said Robles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The second pillar he mentioned was flexibility<\/strong>. When the first protocols were invented, not much was known about mobile networks or the possibilities that satellite or wireless networks would afford. Over the years, the Internet has shown flexibility and its ability to maintain the interconnection of all these various networks and types of connectivity despite significant differences between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, technologies that did not exist even in the imagination of the creators of the Internet 40 years ago are running on the protocols established in the 1980s and form the basis of the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n