[NCUC-DISCUSS] RESPOND NOW! Internet Society survey on Consolidation in the Internet Economy

[Joly MacFie]

 Is big bad? Or the natural order of network effects? Will the new trend
towards autonomous decentralization transcend the hegemoths? Have your say
in this survey!.My own favorite piece on this topic is Geoff Huston's  The
Internet’s Gilded Age <https://labs.apnic.net/?p=973> from March 2017.

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[image: Internet Society]Last year, the *Internet Society
<https://www.internetsociety.org/>* published a comprehensive study to
better understand the forces of change that will shape the Internet over
the next five to seven years: *The 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to
Our Digital Future <https://future.internetsociety.org/>*. By focusing
attention on the significant potential of the Internet for innovation and
sustainable development, but without denying or shirking the challenges it
also introduces, the 2017 report has become a powerful tool in the global
awareness and advocacy work of the Internet Society and its chapters.

We now want to work with you as our most important stakeholders on a new
report that takes a closer look at one of those forces and how it may
impact the future, namely* Consolidation in the Internet Economy
<https://www.internetsociety.org/globalinternetreport/2018/concept-note/>*.
Understood as growing forces of concentration, vertical and horizontal
integration, and fewer opportunities for market entry and competition, this
topic includes the impact of consolidating forces on all stakeholders as
well as on the Internet’s underlying and evolving technology.

We have selected this theme because findings from last year’s report, and
developments since its release, indicated increasing concerns about a
growing concentration of power in the Internet economy. They point to
market and technical forces that may be driving consolidation at different
‘layers’ of the Internet, from traffic to communications providers to
applications, as well as processes of vertical integration that allows for
some companies to own the user experience at every stage and in an
increasingly wide range of human activity. As users experience the Internet
through a smaller number of providers, for example, there is the potential
to restrict our access, choice and future ability to innovate. On the other
hand, consolidation is not a new phenomenon but can be expected as markets
and industries mature. To some, it is an evolution foremost characterized
by lower prices and better services available to more people.

*Today we are launching a survey available in English
<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/C887LQ8>, French
<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/T583DNM> and Spanish
<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MTVJ7JS> seeking your input on this
perceived trend of consolidation.* Tell us your perspective; how it might
be affecting you and your community, and what you foresee for the future of
the Internet in the next five years.

*Take the survey! <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/C887LQ8>*



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