Importance of www research

In the last two years at the global level we witness intensive political developments in decision-making regarding the funding of research in the interdisciplinary field, which could be called "the future of the Internet".

The Internet has become an indispensable part of modern economics and no political elite wants to leave or miss its impact regarding its development and management. It is too important for all elements of society and life.

Internet technologies are an integral part of critical infrastructure - transport, energy and information. Energy and transport management and control of Internet technology and processing industries are dependent on locus of control. Also marketing, social networking, banking, stock exchanges and all other financial institutions can not function without the Internet technologies nowadays.

But I want to emphasize that this type of technology derives from the seventies and was not planned for such growth and such user applications, as we know them today. Therefore, despite the many new innovations Internet network is faced with increasing problems related to quality of service, security, privacy, data protection and mobility.

Problems relating to the limited radio spectrum and the monitoring of developments in the network, with its neutrality, policy management, internationalization, and many others, are crucial to the continued evolution of the Internet. Last but not least all of internets namespace is controlled by only 13 root name servers, which are vital for its operation. Without them, the Internet as we know it would stop. And this simply must not happen, of which, global superpowers are well aware off.

Problems that global powers see are deriving from the growth of devices connected to the Internet and constantly growing numbers of consumers who are slowly approaching two billion. Only Russian part of the Internet, which operates in most of Asia and in a large part of Europe in one year registered over 2.5 million new addresses of users who communicate with each other in Cyrillic Russian. Similar processes are happening in China and the Arabian Gulf. The number of new Internet users has increased by almost 900 percent. Can governments control such numbers?

Growth of the internet causes great concerns to technicians, researchers and political elites. Those processes should be therefore widely researched and discussed. Most developed countries already invest great funds into such research.
And what is happening in this field in Slovenia? Groups involved in Internet technologies research are marginalized and poorly financed. Therefore, regardless of the needs of the economy, they can not achieve a critical mass of research. In Slovenia technician and engineer, despite the excellent employability and researches in the labour market, are not respected profession; even more as compared with doctors and lawyers they are poorly paid. Also entry of students to the Slovenian technical faculties is hardly satisfactory.
In this point I would like to point out that the use of ICTs is essential to achieve efficiency, productivity, business optimization and production, reducing costs in order of faster entry into the market and better integration between providers and users for countries economy to be successful and competitive in wider region. So not only investing into research of the www, but also into www professions seems to be crucial and therefore implemented into our future policy