Internet Hall of Fame global connectors

The second part of my Internet Hall of Fame series. Today, the global connectors.

• Randy Bush –  founder of the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) to help develop and deploy networking technology in projects throughout the world
• Kilnam Chon – developed the first Internet in Asia, called SDN in 1982
• Al Gore –  sponsored legislation that funded the expansion of and greater public access to the Internet. Instrumental in helping to create the “Information Superhighway”
• Nancy Hafkin – work on African networking helped build the continent’s ICT framework
• Geoff Huston – played a critical role in bringing the Internet to Australia in the 1990s
• Brewster Kahle – founder and director of the Internet Archive
• Daniel Karrenberg – helped build EUnet, the first pan-European Internet Service Provider (ISP), co-founder of RIPE
• Toru Takahashi –  instrumental in bringing the Internet to Japan and promoting it throughout Asia
• Tan Tin Wee – an Internet pioneer in Singapore, founded the multilingual Internet domain name system

These people took the Internet from the United States and helped made it global.