...Bradley Fidler Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the emerging challenges of cybersecurity governance by analyzing the internet’s early history. Design/methodology/approach Tracing the design and management of early internet and network security technologies in the USA...

...Martin Cave; Tony Shortall Purpose The purpose of this paper is to set out the history and content of the European Commission's Recommendation on the regulation of next generation access networks, published in September 2010. The aim is to assess the Recommendation in terms of its likely...

... tradition of public service aligned to the postal services and finds hope in the renewal of public service telecommunications via the Right to Information movement. Design/methodology/approach This article follows a history of telecommunications approach that is conversant with the political...

... learning to read and recent immigrants learning English. Serving the public interest through closed captioning ended up having less to do with the needs of a small minority public, and more to do with the benefits to a large mainstream public. History Television Deaf people Public sector...

... published and archival sources to identify such examples in Canadian history. Findings The paper suggests that the concept of public service has been restricted to thinking in a sender‐receiver model based on consumption and applied accordingly to different media which has limited potentials...

... to give these infrastructures a massive and vital role within everyday life. To take adequate measure of this history, the concept of public service telecommunications itself needs to be revisited. More the stuff of controversy than of consensus, public service telecommunications evolved through...