Date : 27-Feb-2019
Location: Singapore
The Internet Society, a global non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet, today, released the “2019 Global Internet Report – Consolidation in the Internet Economy.”
The report highlights the growing influence of a few powerful players in the Internet Economy and discusses what it could mean for the future of digital communications, connectivity and commerce.
The rise of a small group of large players who have so much control over the internet could contribute several risks to the Internet as we know it, these are:
Location: Singapore
The Internet Society, a global non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet, today, released the “2019 Global Internet Report – Consolidation in the Internet Economy.”
The report highlights the growing influence of a few powerful players in the Internet Economy and discusses what it could mean for the future of digital communications, connectivity and commerce.
The rise of a small group of large players who have so much control over the internet could contribute several risks to the Internet as we know it, these are:
- the potential for more limited choice in the marketplace
- the lack of platform diversity may create significant economic dependencies, including the risk that companies will become too big to fail
- the impact on interoperability and standardization
- regulatory responses to consolidation that may have unintended consequences to the global Internet
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