[Chapter-delegates] PacINET 2006 keynote speeches

[Franck Martin]

Indeed,

I used to have the same problems in Fiji. Now we have better
connectivity. While this type of product is for high bandwidth country,
you have also to realize that other countries will move towards higher
bandwidth making the video available to all slowly.

We work with different media. Now that I have the videos digitally and
on the Internet, I can also put them on a CD, or someone in a country
with low bandwidth can grab them and duplicate them on a CD for local
participants. Many possibilities, it all depends how badly you want them.

They are kind of promotions about the region to more developed countries
as many in the Pacific Islands do not have enough bandwidth at home or
even at work to simply see them.

Finally, I'm curious to see the popularity of these products versus
putting them on air on TV. We would have to pay a lot for that, and we
certainly don't have these resources. We have to pay our local TV
channel to put community videos and you should see the crap they put
because they can't afford better...

Well, anyhow, different medium, different aims.

Alex Gakuru wrote:
> On 1/12/07, Franck Martin <franck at sopac.org> wrote:
>
>> You may want to share these links with your members and other
>> interested parties. It seems that google video and other similar
>> sites are a good approach to share local initiatives with the rest of
>> the world.
>
> True Franck, but my google video downloader tells me it will take more
> than 2 days to complete below for a media story.
>
> ----abstract----
> [Courtesy of Bill St. Arnaud http://www.canarie.ca/]
>
> Van Jacobson's talk:
>
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6972678839686672840&q=engedu
>
> Today's research community congratulates itself for the success of the
> internet and passionately argues whether circuits or datagrams are the
> One
> True Way. Meanwhile the list of unsolved problems grows.
>
> Security, mobility, ubiquitous computing, wireless, autonomous sensors,
> content distribution, digital divide, third world infrastructure,
> etc., are
> all poorly served by what's available from either the research
> community or
> the marketplace. I'll use various strained analogies and contrived
> examples
> to argue that network research is moribund because the only thing it
> knows
> how to do is fill in the details of a conversation between two
> applications.
> Today as in the 60s problems go unsolved due to our tunnel vision and not
> because of their intrinsic difficulty. And now, like then, simply
> changing
> our point of view may make many hard things easy.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> rgds,
>
> /Alex

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