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Courtney Ashley Vaughan, Principal, Anca Novacovici, LEED AP, President, CourtneyVaughan LLC Eco*Coach
 
Dr. Lotus Tresor Marie, President, Panel discussion with Dr. Hancock
Synthesize Strategies LLC Program Summary:
On October 29, 1969 the Internet was born when Leonard Kleinrock, a University of California Los Angeles college engineering professor, and his team sent one word massage “login” to a computer at Stanford Research Institute, through a system called ARPANET. This humble beginning has grown to connecting some 16 million people in 1985, with 513 million people were online in 2001 after the web browsers were introduced, and now over 1.7 billion people are connected to the Internet and these numbers are growing daily. Just in the third quarter [3Q] of the 2009 global economic downturn only five [5] of the most recognized Internet based companies of Google; YAHOO!; eBay; Amazon.com ; and Microsoft earned combined earnings of US$28.94 billion which if extrapolated for 2009 exceeds the Gross National Product (GNP) of 50 nations in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Caribbean.
The Internet, recognized as the economic engine triggering the global information age, has charged life for every human being on the global whether connected or not. The Internet linking personal and laptop computers, created the miniaturized processors along with high speed data/voice/media transfers which are linked by cell telephones through emails, blogs, social networking sites including Twitter, YouTube, FaceBook, and many other features not even conceived 20 years ago.
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