If you care about the latest in Internet policy, you probably
wish you were side by side with industry and world leaders at
the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — maybe
participating in a panel with Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, and
Angela Merkel. (I understand the feeling; my invitation must have
been lost in the mail.)
But don't worry – a lot of good Davos analysis is
available even to those of us far from the Matterhorn. The
"future of the Internet" is one of the 10 global
challenges that Davos is examining in 2015, and the forum's
organizers have posted online a lot of interesting materials on
this topic.
How do people feel about privacy?
For example, Microsoft's poll on how personal technology is
changing lives, available online as PowerPoint slides, highlights differences in
how first and third world citizens view the Internet. In developing
countries, there is more skepticism about how technology benefits
social bonds and far more skepticism of
