Featured – Peter H. Hellmonds

May 25, 2026May 27, 2026Blog, Featured, Governance, ICT4D, IGF, InfoSoc, Internet

The Internet At A Crossroads

So here we are! How did we get here? And, … where are we going?

A little over thirty years ago, in 1993, the first browser for the World Wide Web made its appearance. The web browser made the Internet accessible for the first time to a larger audience. Before that, hardly anyone had heard of the Internet. It was new, it was exciting, and very few people thought about policy issues or policy consequences.

But today the Internet is everywhere, everyone is using it. It underlies our modern mobile network communications, where phone conversations run over the Internet. It underlies many business models where the Internet is considered essential. And more and more governments are using the Internet for their online services. (more…)

April 17, 2024May 27, 2026Blog, Book Project, Featured

The Pitfalls of ChatGPT 3.5

As I’ve been struggling a bit with a section of my book proposal, namely the “comparable literature” I thought why not make use of ChatGPT to help me do some research. No, in case you’re wondering, I will not let ChatGPT write my book. I still intend to write every word, formulate every sentence, by myself. No, what I wanted to do was an intelligent search of comparable literature on the subject of global public policy making, to help me narrow down, track down, and read the relevant literature in the subject, then to compare my upcoming book with these, then know how my work will fit into the canon of existing works by other authors. (more…)