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Mit dem immer rascheren Entstehen der Informationsgesellschaft gilt es, die Jugend angemessen auf die neuen Anforderungen vorzubereiten. Daher gibt der Autor einen Überblick über die Entstehungsgeschichte und Wirkungsweise des Internet und diskutiert die Folgen für die Gesellschaft. (DÜI-Wgm)

Explores the Internet computer network and emerging information technologies.

Internet and its governance have never been as much debates that since the revelations of Edward Snowden on the extent of electronic monitoring practices of the US government. While these events are not directly relevant organizations charged with governance of the internet, their consequences are as numerous as decisive for the future of the network, forcing the supporters of the status quo has an ineluctable Evolution. Adapted from the source document.

The French White Paper on the defense of national security (Le livre blanc sur la defense de la securite nationale) has designated Internet as a vital infrastructure, and thus strategic in the safeguarding of security. The present article is an analysis of Internet in a geopolitical context. Nations play an essential role in its governance and the legislation surrounding it: it as an open space of confrontations and clashes, a place of commercial and social exchange. The publication of the White Paper has led to the emergence of a National Agency for the security of information systems (ANSSI = Agence Nationale de la Securite des Systemes dInformation) within the future General Secretary of Defense and National Security (SGDSN = Secretariat General de la Defense et de la Securite Nationale). O. van Zijl

The explosion of the Internet and new technologies on the international scene has revolutionized the work of decision-makers and diplomats. But what exactly has been its impact? Has it increased freedom, improved responsiveness, or fundamentally challenged rules, at the risk of things spiraling out of control? No doubt all three. These days, revolutions brew on social networks and bloggers have become the new opinion leaders. But the Internet has created new vulnerabilities which has obliged states to review their defense strategies. Faced with a dramatic increase in cyber-attacks, it is necessary to build immediate and coordinated defenses, capable of tracing the attacks back to their perpetrators and limiting the scope of the attacks. In general, as a means of fighting against the proliferation of malefactors on the Net, some states have called for regulations designed to channel and regulate networks. But how do we regulate them without impeding innovation and the free circulation of ideas? That, indeed, is the question... Adapted from the source document.