Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Does the internet deserve everybody?

Research

Associated organisational units

Electronic data

  • 2015.08_dide

    Rights statement: © ACM, 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in NS Ethics '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2793013.2793018

    Accepted author manuscript, 144 KB, PDF document

    Available under license: CC BY: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Links

Text available via DOI:

Keywords

View graph of relations

Does the internet deserve everybody?

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

Published

Standard

Does the internet deserve everybody? / Elkhatib, Yehia; Tyson, Gareth; Sathiaseelan, Arjuna.
NS Ethics '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research . New York: ACM, 2015. p. 5-8.

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

Harvard

Elkhatib, Y, Tyson, G & Sathiaseelan, A 2015, Does the internet deserve everybody? in NS Ethics '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research . ACM, New York, pp. 5-8, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research, London, United Kingdom, 17/08/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2793013.2793018

APA

Elkhatib, Y., Tyson, G., & Sathiaseelan, A. (2015). Does the internet deserve everybody? In NS Ethics '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research (pp. 5-8). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2793013.2793018

Vancouver

Elkhatib Y, Tyson G, Sathiaseelan A. Does the internet deserve everybody? In NS Ethics '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research . New York: ACM. 2015. p. 5-8 doi: 10.1145/2793013.2793018

Author

Elkhatib, Yehia ; Tyson, Gareth ; Sathiaseelan, Arjuna. / Does the internet deserve everybody?. NS Ethics '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research . New York : ACM, 2015. pp. 5-8

Bibtex

@inproceedings{b696851d1fe74f30b6b4b92940c35656,
title = "Does the internet deserve everybody?",
abstract = "There has been a long standing tradition amongst developed nations of influencing, both directly and indirectly, the activities of developing economies. Behind this is one of a range of aims: building/improving living standards, bettering the social status of recipient communities, etc. In some cases, this has resulted in prosperous relations, yet often this has been seen as the exploitation of a power position or a veneer for other activities (e.g. to tap into new emerging markets). In this paper, we explore whether initiatives to improve Internet connectivity in developing regions are always ethical. We draw a list of issues that would aid in formulating Internet initiatives that are ethical, effective, and sustainable.",
keywords = "GAIA, ICT4D, developing regions, internet penetration",
author = "Yehia Elkhatib and Gareth Tyson and Arjuna Sathiaseelan",
note = "{\textcopyright} ACM, 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in NS Ethics '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2793013.2793018 ; ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research ; Conference date: 17-08-2015 Through 21-08-2015",
year = "2015",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1145/2793013.2793018",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450335416",
pages = "5--8",
booktitle = "NS Ethics '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research",
publisher = "ACM",

}

RIS

TY - GEN

T1 - Does the internet deserve everybody?

AU - Elkhatib, Yehia

AU - Tyson, Gareth

AU - Sathiaseelan, Arjuna

N1 - © ACM, 2015. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in NS Ethics '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2793013.2793018

PY - 2015/8

Y1 - 2015/8

N2 - There has been a long standing tradition amongst developed nations of influencing, both directly and indirectly, the activities of developing economies. Behind this is one of a range of aims: building/improving living standards, bettering the social status of recipient communities, etc. In some cases, this has resulted in prosperous relations, yet often this has been seen as the exploitation of a power position or a veneer for other activities (e.g. to tap into new emerging markets). In this paper, we explore whether initiatives to improve Internet connectivity in developing regions are always ethical. We draw a list of issues that would aid in formulating Internet initiatives that are ethical, effective, and sustainable.

AB - There has been a long standing tradition amongst developed nations of influencing, both directly and indirectly, the activities of developing economies. Behind this is one of a range of aims: building/improving living standards, bettering the social status of recipient communities, etc. In some cases, this has resulted in prosperous relations, yet often this has been seen as the exploitation of a power position or a veneer for other activities (e.g. to tap into new emerging markets). In this paper, we explore whether initiatives to improve Internet connectivity in developing regions are always ethical. We draw a list of issues that would aid in formulating Internet initiatives that are ethical, effective, and sustainable.

KW - GAIA

KW - ICT4D

KW - developing regions

KW - internet penetration

U2 - 10.1145/2793013.2793018

DO - 10.1145/2793013.2793018

M3 - Conference contribution/Paper

SN - 9781450335416

SP - 5

EP - 8

BT - NS Ethics '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research

PB - ACM

CY - New York

T2 - ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research

Y2 - 17 August 2015 through 21 August 2015

ER -