1. Raising Computer and Internet Wizards Otta, Ogun State, NIGERIA. 26 July 2003. ‘Gbenga Sesan Nigeria’s Information Technology Youth Ambassador www.gbengasesan.com | me@gbengasesan.com INTERNET: Making the World a Global Village It’s evolution, composition and revolution

2. 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

3. 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.

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11. 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.

12. New World, Global Village The influence of Globalization 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

13. The New Economy: Factors and Trends Trends and factors of the New Economy include: · Econom y: 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).

14. The New Economy: Factors and Trends II · Cultur e: New workplace designs and telecommuting afford more time for leisure and family. Culture is based less on capital attainment and more on knowledge acquisition. · Technolog y: 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)

15. 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?

16. 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 ”

17. Raising Computer and Internet Wizards Otta, Ogun State, NIGERIA. 26 July 2003. ‘Gbenga Sesan Nigeria’s Information Technology Youth Ambassador www.gbengasesan.com | me@gbengasesan.com THANK YOU