Assorted Materials: Johnny Ryan

Posts Tagged ‘internet

The IIEA and the European Commission have just signed a contract to begin a study on non-legislative measures that might prevent the spread of violent radical content on the Internet. Our job is to examine the measures currently in practice, determine whether any are appropriate and functional, and whether these would work if applied across [...]

ICANN becomes Independent!

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 1 October 2009

Yesterday’s announcement from ICANN ends a lingering point of controversy surrounding the governance of the Internet: the United States’ continued control of the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS). ICANN’s announcement of 30 September 2009 ends that controversy. A relevant snippet from the forthcoming book gives the background to ICANN, the controversy, and the importance of [...]

The Big Idea: the death of the center and the new centrifugal trend

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 21 September 2009

Now that it is complete, a clear narrative has emerged from the forthcoming book. The  Internet, like many readers of the book itself, is a child of the industrial era. Long before digital communications, the steam engine, telegraph pole, and coalmine quickened the pace of the world. Industrialized commerce, communications and war spun the globe [...]

Al Gore and the Internet

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 23 August 2009

With the forthcoming book almost complete, there are one or two matters that I had to get to the bottom of. Foremost among them, Al Gore’s involvement in the development of the Internet, and the controversy that surrounded this question in the 2000 presidential election…
For a brief moment during the 2000 presidential election in the [...]

Silicon Valley Landmark: Zott’s and the packet radio test

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 9 June 2009

San Francisco features disproportionately in the history of the digital age. Yet despite the historical coverage it receives, little attention has been given to one of its landmarks, a small wood paneled tavern known as “Zott’s” – officially named “The Alpine Inn”

A new statement from Ireland’s Science Advisory Counsel calls for an exploration of how “Ireland can maximise the revenue potential of its investment in STI”. The Irish Science Advisory Counsel is composed of senior figures in industry and research including Sean Baker of IONA and Roger Whatmore of the Tyndall Institute. The question coming to [...]

Update on next book – on the history of the Net

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 23 December 2008

This is among the most interesting things I have done yet. In September 2009, I am due

Videos of Next Leap launch

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 19 December 2008

Tanaiste’s (deputy prime minister) launch statement

my presentation

chair person’s introduction

BBC interviews – on the UK Home Secretary’s proposals

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 18 January 2008

There was little detail in the speech by the UK Home Secretary yesterday, but one possibility is that the CleanFeed system of hybrid URL filtering might be applied to attempt censorship of radical material on the Internet.
I was interviewed for the BBC World News Service and BBC Radio’s Simon Mayo programme. One thought which occurred [...]

The militant Islamist call and its echo

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 2 August 2007

Published on openDemocracy (http://opendemocracy.net/article/democracy_terror/islamism_web)
On the internet, in gymnasiums, bookshops and video-clubs, recruitment propaganda is viewed by and debated among prospective Islamist militants. This wide-ranging material contains four recurrent themes; understanding them is the first step to forming an effective counter-narrative to dissuade the next generation of would-be militants from embracing [...]

DOSSIER SECURITY AND DEFENCE: EU must take its anti-terrorism fight to the Internet

Islamists on the internet: brotherhood of belief

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 2 May 2005

This title should have read “Islamist militants on the Internet”.
Published in Magill, May 2005.
In Britain the speed with which the Muslim diaspora embraced the internet was demonstrated by the British Muslim Parliament’s order to all mosques and Muslim schools to install web access as early as 1996. With so many young Muslims in [...]


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I'm interested in 4 things: A) THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET AND ITS LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE; B) Ireland’s Digital Competitiveness; c) the Political Impact of the Internet; D) How ideas - including violent political ideas - are communicated online.