Internet on Janik von Rotz

How China is changing our internet

Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:47:56 +0000

Yesterday I visited the world press photo award exhibition in Zürich. The exhibition displays the best press photos of recent years. It’s mostly about conflicts and rights activism happening all over the world. This time not only pictures where shown, but also videos. One of those videos gave me a lot of thought. It was about how China is changing the internet or already has changed it for its people. A short and concise reportage tells how the internet has developed behind the great firewall. You should definitely watch it, it’s impressive and frightening:

Hiking for Emails - Internet for the developing world

Sat, 30 Jan 2016 11:51:34 +0000

This video is a beautiful example of how internet access in remote areas improves the standards of health, education and prosperity. With the help from people all over the world Mahabir Pun has connected over 60.000 people to the world wide web.

This video is also a good example of how to bring the internet to the developing world. Google and Facebook have launched campaigns and programs to achieve such goal, however, the only allow certain access to websites for free. Which means, they are able to control the internet traffic and makes them a threat to the net neutrality. Net neutrality is the principle that all internet traffic should be treated equally.

Thank you internet for: Peek by UserTesting

Thu, 15 May 2014 12:44:00 +0000

Peek is a free service offered by User Testing where you can get real people to test your websites usability.

I have to admit, first I didn’t really believe that there will be real person visiting my site and give my a feedback. But within in one hour I have been suprised.

Here’s the video done by a random guy from the internet: