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The Internet in our Lives - Are We Ready? |
| Author: |
Aluizio Byrro |
| Title: |
Head of Information and Communications Division |
| Organisation: |
Siemens |
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| The digital world sometimes scares us, although we have been part of it for some time, perhaps because of its incredible, delirious, unforeseen, growth. Neither Aldous Hyxley nor Alvim Toffler, two authors famed for their views of the future, could foresee in their writings the development of the virtual global community. On the other hand, if this uncontrolled growth scares, it also fascinates us, because it impels people and companies, to innovate and update constantly. |
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Article no.: |
2 |
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Wireless Internet and Wireless Data - The Forthcoming Battle |
| Author: |
Barry Bystedt |
| Title: |
President |
| Organisation: |
TESS |
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| I know an old Special Forces sergeant who began his military career as a fortification engineer with the Swedish army. When he started his military career twenty years ago, military strategy was all about defending large, strong, fixed installations. His particular job was to build and maintain the fixed installations, according to specific instructions scheduling what he was to do as well as where and how it was to be done. The installations, as such, were huge underground facilities, often the size of 5 -10 storey buildings, and there were a lot of them. The installations were designed to resist all kinds of attacks, ranging from nuclear weapons to infiltration forces. The key to winning the battle back then was Firepower-Endurance-Cover. |
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Article no.: |
3 |
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The Importance of the Internet for SMEs in Latin America |
| Author: |
Carlos Alfredo Magariños |
| Title: |
Director-General |
| Organisation: |
United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) |
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| The different ways that the Internet will impact the growth and competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are presented. The importance of enabling business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce to flourish, thus leading to the possibility of building an integrated value chain, is demonstrated. It is also shown how the Internet can be used to network all the sources of specialised information and expertise as well as business support services needed in order to enable SMEs to prosper and grow. |
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Article no.: |
4 |
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A Response by the Americas to the Challenges for the Future |
| Author: |
Clovis Baptista |
| Title: |
Executive Secretary |
| Organisation: |
Inter-American Telecommunication Commission, CITEL |
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| New, low-cost technologies and globalisation have changed the way we work, play, think and govern our nations. They have given developing countries unprecedented opportunities for rapid development, but also confronted them with a new world economy that is highly dynamic, very innovative, knowledge-intensive, competitive and global. |
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Article no.: |
5 |
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Tying It All Together - The Power of Cable and Satellite - Getting the Solution Right |
| Author: |
Daniel Hourquescos |
| Title: |
Senior Vice-President |
| Organisation: |
Impsat Private Networks |
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| In the global world in which we are living, information speed and reliability are factors that may determine the success of a company. The field of business does not matter, we live in an unforeseeable ever changing environment and, we are increasingly facing situations in which strategic decisions involving people at distant locations - many times in other states or countries - need to be made immediately. At this point, no doubts subsist: the telecommunications services are essential parts to support the business competitiveness. |
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Article no.: |
6 |
| Topic: |
Regulatory Barriers to the Expansion of Internet Services in Latin America |
| Author: |
Eloy Vidal |
| Title: |
Information and Communications Technology Division |
| Organisation: |
The World Bank Group |
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| Increasingly in todays world economic growth is being driven by the Internet. Indeed, it is estimated that in the major OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries more than half of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is knowledge based. For developing countries, the Internet offers a range of growth opportunities that are qualitatively different from anything that has gone before and moreover would appear to be particularly benign from a development point of view. |
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Article no.: |
7 |
| Topic: |
How much Security is Necessary? |
| Author: |
Herbert Arturo Molina |
| Title: |
Vice-President & General Manager |
| Organisation: |
Latin America, Network Associates |
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| The need for active security management has never been greater. As companies continue to open up their computing infrastructures to outsiders, business integrity is at significant risk. An active approach to security management is required to adequately secure these open and dynamic environments. As the Senior Director of MIS at a large multinational bank organisation based in Brazil once stated to me in a business planning meeting, security as such was a non-existent matter 5 years ago,… now we cannot exist without it. |
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Article no.: |
8 |
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The Challenges of the "New" Wireless Network |
| Author: |
Jim Edson |
| Title: |
Vice-President |
| Organisation: |
Worldwide Sales |
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| The recent trend towards consolidation is narrowing the number of wireless operators around the world. This consolidation is creating cost efficiencies for large regional, national and global operators that increasingly compete on the basis of price. At the same time, government spectrum auctions will introduce new competitors over the next several years. The appetite for scarce spectrum has intensified as reflected by the enormous sums bid in the recent UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) auctions in Europe. |
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Article no.: |
9 |
| Topic: |
Internet Telephony How Latin American Carriers Can Compete |
| Author: |
John Musci |
| Title: |
Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice-President |
| Organisation: |
ITXC Corp |
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| The world of telecommunications is rapidly changing-countries are deregulating, prices are decreasing, and phone calls are traveling over the public Internet. How can Latin American carriers compete in this New World of telecommunications? According to Frost & Sullivan, "The Latin American telecommunications market, which two years ago was worth US$51 billion, will grow to more than US$90 billion by the end of 2000. South Americas biggest economies - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela - will account for nearly 70 percent of that total." Along with this growth, prices are decreasing. As Latin American countries deregulate, competition enters the country. In order to compete, carriers lower their prices. The good news is that teledensity is increasing, people are making more telephone calls, and as prices decrease, the duration of calls tends to increase. |
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Article no.: |
10 |
| Topic: |
Smart Card/Smart Mobile Internet The SIM - a Secure Device Really Gets Smart |
| Author: |
Klaus Vedder |
| Title: |
Executive Vice-President and Head of the Telecommunications Division |
| Organisation: |
Giesecke & Devrient |
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| Mobile Internet applications, such as on-line banking, are growing in importance in the Latin American market. GSM, although not yet an important factor in Latin America, promises to grow rapidly due to Brazils decision to allocate the frequency band used by GSM for new mobile services. In this context, the smart card chip, the SIM module, is sure to be widely used as a base for new GSM, security sensitve, applications in the region. In this article the history and development of the SIM module and its applications "toolkit," is traced. |
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Article no.: |
11 |
| Topic: |
Enterprise Networks - The Strategic Value of Information Deployment |
| Author: |
Mauricio Blanco |
| Title: |
Vice-President for Latin America and the Caribbean |
| Organisation: |
Enterasys |
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| The largest companies in the world are not those that sell technology, but those that use it to enhance existing businesses. A companys understanding of and ability to leverage, IT and more importantly, electronic communications will be the defining factor in their ability to compete in the future. Industry needs to promote a new school of thinking based on the idea of information primacy in business practice and the promotion of information delivery systems within the corporate decision making process. As much as a company invests in information technology today, it is only as good as the connected infrastructure it is deployed on. |
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Article no.: |
12 |
| Topic: |
ATM Forum - The Internet in Latin America "Moving the Message - Backbone Transmission and Access Strategies" |
| Author: |
Marlis Humphrey |
| Title: |
President |
| Organisation: |
The ATM Forum |
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| Often touted as a competitor to IP (Internet Protocol), ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) is actually at the heart of business-class IP services. Although it is ATM that makes possible many IP services, it also provides a platform for many non-IP services as well. ATM is a highly flexible and scalable networking transport technology supporting mixed voice, data, and video applications. ATM technology can be utilised in the LAN (local area network), MAN (metropolitan area network), and WAN (wide area network). ATM is used in both private and public networks. |
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Article no.: |
13 |
| Topic: |
Virtual City Models for Broadband Wireless Networks |
| Author: |
Nathalie Pisot |
| Title: |
Director of Product Marketing |
| Organisation: |
ISTAR |
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| Sustained by the ever-growing pressure for increased speed and bandwidth, broadband wireless telecommunication technologies are promised to a bright future. They provide economical solutions for fast and scalable network deployment, and solve the "last mile connection" problem. However these technologies also give rise to new requirements. |
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Article no.: |
14 |
| Topic: |
Internet and The New Millenium in Brazil |
| Author: |
Pimenta da Veiga |
| Title: |
Minister of Communications |
| Organisation: |
Brazil |
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| Brazil is poised to make dramatic breakthroughs throughout its entire society as the new millenium gets underway. Due to the resolve and determination of the Cardoso Administration during the last 6 years to create and implement the REAL PLAN [The Plano Real created the Real, Brazils new currency, cut inflation and stabilised the Brazilian economy. - Ed.], combined with the very rapid entrance of the INTERNET into our society, Brazil aim to make an historic breakthrough in economic growth, in the transparency and efficiency of its democratic institutions, and in providing opportunity for all classes of Brazilian society. |
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Article no.: |
15 |
| Topic: |
A Chess Game with Captain Kirk |
| Author: |
Yon Moreira da Silva Junior |
| Title: |
Vice President |
| Organisation: |
Telefónica Empresas |
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20KB |
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| This morning I woke up when the alarm clock rang. I shaved with a Gillette razor blade and shaving cream, listened to the news on the radio and went to the office in my four wheel car using fossil fuel - exactly like people did fifty years ago. On the way to work I was reminded of the movie I had seen the night before. Star Trek, one of the bibles of science fiction movies. |
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