Joint NSF/OECD Workshop: Social and Economic Factors Shaping the Future of the Internet, January 29-31, 2007

互联网是支撑国际社会和经济发展的重要基础设施。在考虑一个新的基础设施，如GENI，全球网络调查环境，反思和对话是至关重要的，互联网作为创新的驱动力，导致经济增长和社会福祉，关于安全和隐私功能，可以嵌入到未来网络的设计中，以考虑隐私和个人选择的考虑，以及网络基础设施的演变过程。NSF/OECD联合研讨会“塑造互联网未来的社会和经济因素”将汇集研究人员、政策制定者、主要学者、私营部门组织和民间社会代表，讨论互联网作为支撑国际经济繁荣、科学创新和社会活动的关键基础设施的作用。更具体地说，研讨会参与者将寻求从与当前互联网演变相关的应用和使用中吸取教训，当前互联网正在演变为一个宽带网络，无线接入日益增加，以确定对互联网成功至关重要的特征，以及互联网社区在哪里和为什么无法以可扩展的方式解决互联网遇到的一些问题。研讨会的一个指导主题将是经济、责任和信任之间必要的良性动态，有助于确保经济、社会和技术紧张关系之间的平衡，以及将研究实验结果转化为现实世界情景的过程。

The Internet is a critical infrastructure underpinning international social and economicdevelopment. In considering a new infrastructure such as GENI, the Global Environment for Network Investigations, reflection and dialogue are vital on the Internet as a driver of innovation leading to economic growth and social well-being, on the security and privacy functions that can be embedded into the design of future networks to factor in privacy and personal choice considerations, as well as on the evolution process of networking infrastructures. The joint NSF/OECD Workshop "Social and Economic Factors Shaping the Future of the Internet" will bring together researchers, policy-makers, leading academics, private sector organizations, and civil society representatives to discuss the Internet's role as a critical infrastructure underpinning international economic prosperity, scientific innovations and social activity. More specifically, workshop participants will seek to draw lessons from the applications and usages associated with the evolution of the current Internet, which is evolving into a broadband network of networks with increasingly wireless access, to identify both the features that have been critical to the Internet's success, as well as where and why the Internet community has not been able to solve some of the issues the Internet has encountered in a scalable way. A guiding theme for the workshop will be the necessary virtuous dynamics of economics, responsibility and trust that help to ensure a balance between economic, social and technological tensions, as well as the process of transferring results from research experimentation into a real-world scenario.