The use of an Internet for the Educational Research, Social Business and Government

By Raul Bernardino, MSc ISM

Abstract:

Internet is a public domain and very interactive media whereas enable whole world to connect. Where each individuals, communities, intellectuals, independent personality around the globe are expressed their own opinions, ideas, entertainments, innovations, etc. In other hands, the individuals or group of people are utilizing that information or even collecting that information and interpret them according to their perceptions.  Internet also called a cyberspace or a virtual media.

As it is a public domain and it is intended for public consumption and public sharing. With the internet people are exposing and telling to the listeners or to the readers about their own ideas, histories, cultures, and it is also including the existing of themselves for intervening and to convince others to follow their own paths or ideas or even just spreading an information. The information or the fact of materials such as videos, pictures, and voice records can be also disclosed by someone about some interesting news or histories that are most important according to him or her in which is to let the rest of the world to know.

Since these information are publicly available and these can be accessed worldwide by and millions people at anytime and anywhere. As it is a public domain, there would be a good and bad personalities are involved. Therefore, it will be given a positive an a negative impacts to the society. However, final decisions are totally depends on the recipients or listeners cultures and knowledge’s, either those collection are accepted or rejected.

It is important for the rule governments to have a law and regulation in order to minimize the negative impacts to the society. We also understand that, the governments may have their own limitation with the geographically boundaries of the other nations law enforcement and it is because the nature of the cyberspace itself which has no geographically boundaries.

It’s quite risk for the academicals writers and student whereas uses the internet information as base for their own thesis or dissertation without have deep understanding on the mater.

Moreover, the internet technology can help companies to determine their own customer needs and create new products and brands but it’s also with time compression over technology disruption in the businesses and industries.

Introduction:

Internet is publicly accessible computer network which is connecting many smaller networks, computers or palm devices from around the world.

Internet means connecting a computer to any other computer from anywhere and at anytime in the world through a router and server. When computers are connected over the Internet, they can easily access all kind of information such as graphic, text, voice, and videos but also can be a victim of using the internet.

No one owns the Internet. It is a public domain and every individual, group, organizations or any society can express themselves and also able to collect an intended information. Internet has no boarder. On the internet, information can be traveled from one country to other countries without have any rules and controls.

Although several organizations around the world are collaborating to ensure the development and the functioning of the internet are publically available for public consumption.  They are telecom companies, ISPs, and data centers.

Several organizations are creating an exclusivity of the information that only visible to their staff and it owns branches. This information share over technology is called intranet. Moreover, we can also found that organization A and B agreed to share their information among themselves which is called extranet. The Intranet and Extranet cannot be accessed over public domain internet unless who have register and have access permissions. It’s only available in closed networks.

The Internet History:

The internet is grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), which is established in 1960s and later in 1969 with connections between computers at the University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford Research Institute, the University of California-Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah.

The purpose of the ARPANET was to conduct research into computer networking in order to provide a secure and survivable communications system in case of war. As the network quickly expanded, academics and researchers in other fields began to use it as well.

Moreover, in 1971 the first program for sending Electronic-Mail over a distributed network was developed

By 1973, the year international connections to ARPANET were made (from Britain and Norway), where e-mail represented most of the traffic on ARPANET. The 1970s also saw the development of mailing lists, newsgroup and bulletin-board system, and the TCP/IP communications Protocols, which were adopted as standard protocols for ARPANET in 1982–1983, leading to the widespread use of the term Internet. In 1984 the Domain name addressing system was introduced.

In 1986 the National Science Foundation established the NSFNET, a distributed network of networks capable of handling far greater traffic, and within a year more than 10,000 hosts were connected to the Internet.

In 1988 real-time conversation over the network became possible with the development of Internet Relay Chat protocols. In 1990 ARPANET ceased to exist, leaving behind the NSFNET, and the first commercial dial-up access to the Internet became available.

In 1991 the World Wide Web was released to the public. The Mosaic browser was released in 1993, and its popularity of the World Wide Web sites and users. Furthermore, in 1995 the NSFNET reverted to the role of a research network, leaving Internet traffic to be routed through network providers rather than NSF supercomputers.

In that year the Web became the most popular part of the Internet, surpassing the FTP protocols in traffic volume. The fact that in 1997 there were more than 10 million hosts on the Internet and more than 1 million registered domain names. Internet access can now be gained via radio signals, cable-television lines, satellites, and fibre-optic connections, though most traffic still uses a part of the public telecommunications (telephone) network. The Internet is widely regarded as a development of vast significance that will affect nearly every aspect of human culture and commerce in ways still only softly visible.

The Use internet for Educational Research:

Since internet is a public domain and no one guaranty and responsible of what are being wrote or spread. It may be an obsolete knowledge or information, or it is partially tested information or it is uncompleted information. Therefore, it is higher risk to consume internet information as base for academicals writing. Especial the information whereas is spread over the anonymous sites.

Although there were anonymous and uncompleted sites, we can found millions of popular journals, economic magazines, and bulletins such as New York Post, Strait times, Washington post, universities libraries etc.

All internet users have a high regard for the internet as a source of information, but the characteristic shows men look for a broader range of information online than women do.

According PewReserach report Internet project (2000), nearly all internet users, 91%, agreed that the internet is a good source of information for everyday interests like news, weather reports, and sports scores.

In Pewresearch shows that about 80% of both men and women also expect to find information online about more specialized topics of government issues and health or medical issues. The same number also say they expect to find information on particular products they want to purchase, although this includes more men, 82%, than women, 77%. About a third of internet users say they expect to find reliable information online about individuals.

Moreover Pewresearch (2000), asked users about the kinds of information they look for online. Men and women are equally likely to get travel information and to look up phone numbers and addresses. They also look for information about the government, about colleges, jobs, and places to live.

 For instance, the student is writing about free speech, “President Barak Obama reacted to the censorship of the government of the Egyptian. He stated “free speech is Human Right”. Furthermore, he stated "the people of Egypt have rights that are universal. That includes the right to peaceful assembly and association, the right to free speech, and the ability to determine their own destiny."  This is an idea of freedom of the speech to give a high value of the democracy. President Barak Obama tried to convince President Hosni Mubarak where protestors or people of Egyptian have absolute right to speak up and tell the truth of their problems that are not resolved by its own country.” This information quoted on January 28, 2011. The news above may be still new for the certain community or society but it is also obsoleted to the other societies. 

Social business Over Internet Technology:

Again the characteristic online transactions shows man do more than women, including some with less predictable or controlled outcomes.

It is about 75% of internet users believe that the internet offers them a good way to conduct their everyday business like banking or buying tickets etc.

The PewResearch  Internet Project has been tracking users’ participation in more than a dozen kinds of online transactions found that Men and women are about equally likely to go online to do many of these: to buy products, as well as everyday items like groceries, food, and household items and prescriptions; to make travel arrangements or to purchase tickets; to do their banking; and to donate to charities.

For online shopping, both men and women cite convenience and time savings as major reasons to like shopping online. Further, more men than women value cost savings, and more women than men appreciate the chance to find unusual gifts.

Government over Internet Technology:

The digital information enables you and your community to discuss and prioritize issues, then challenges our member of the government and parliament to respond. The positive aspects of using this digital technology are bringing global communities to your own desk and start to share and help one another with knowledge and best practices. It brings an effective and efficiency solution to the problems that you normally experience.

The digital technology also brings us some negatives aspect of it. It is a free place to express and interact. Technology helps to bring multi culture to interact and it might create a culture shock. Whereas, the use of social media for free expressing, - not use a common sense or constructive critiques anymore but use of threatening, negative arguments, offensive words, etc.

Conclusion:

Internet is public domain and unsecure. The academicals researchers use universities library, journal, and accredited sites as base for their research. Nowadays businesses are change the way of doing business; they become technology evangelist. The government needs to collaborate with the society and regulate information flows.

 

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