Rod Beckstrom: Congratulations about The Leading Positions of UNWE!

Monday, 07 November 2011 0:00

Much greater audience than the number of attendants at the university Conference Hall gathered together the lecture of Rod Beckstrom, President and Executive Director of ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that considers which domains to exist, determines the policy of the IP addresses obtaining, coordinates the Internet’s unique identifiers across the world and keeps the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. The direct webcast of his lecture on Young Leaders and The Future of The Internet Management was an opportunity for a lot of young people if only virtually to participate in the event. It was opened by the Rector of UNWE Prof. Dr. Borislav Borissov, at the attendance of Dr. Zorka Parvanova, Chairwoman of the Board of the Leadership Academy – co-organizer of the meeting, His Exellency James Warlick, Ambassador of USA in our country, Veny Markovsky, representative of ICANN for Russia and Eastern Europe, all the members of rector`s managing body of the university, Kaloyan Dimitrov, Chairman of the Students Council at UNWE.

The meeting opening.
From the left to the right: Prof. Borislav Borissov, Dr. Zorka Parvanova, Rod Beckstrom, His Exellency James Warlick.

The most dramatic changes in the modern world came in by the Internet and the global network entered our world with a lightning speed, said Dr. Zorka Parvanova who outlined that the uniting factor of the Leadership Academy is the belief that it should be encouraged and realized the leaders way of thinking and the innovatory ideas especially the ones of young people. “There`s no theory that could give what gives the live contact with the persons-leaders. Leadership is mostly related to the change. And this conversation is a chance for all of us to be provoked and to think much more about the changes”, added the Chairwoman of the Academy.


I am also here to learn something from you, turned Rod Bleckstrom to the students at the Hall. Congratulations about the leading positions of UNWE because you have deserved them, said the guest. “Internet is the technology that has opened the whole world as it has never been before”, pointed out Beckstrom and continued to speak about the foundation of the global network. The lecturer compared the internet with a large playground with a lot of connections as underlined that ICANN is the coordinating body that helps internet to look like one entire place. “We work with 242 countries and areas, our community includes the whole world but the world is changing and more and more organizations begin to look like the starfish – if you cut one of the legs it will regenerate and if you cut the five legs then five new starfishes will be created. It is like that because the starfish doesn`t have a central controlling organ”, explained Rod Beckstrom who is a co-author of the book “The Starfish and The Spider”.


The best ideas come from the university rooms and corridors especially from the people adherents to the social networks and internet, added Rod Beckstrom and spoke about the Internet security in the more and more vulnerable and transparent world. “We couldn`t go back. It is like the discovery of the fire. Now there are between 2 and 3 milliard devices connected to Internet and we “have opened” 360 trillion internet addresses that will be enough for all of us.”

The Rector of UNWE expressed his hopes for further success of the collaboration between UNWE and the Leadership Academy after today`s first event reminding about it the dictum that says: “The good beginning is half the way walked.”


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