Rod Beckstrom,CEO and President of ICANN,provided the speech at the First Annual .ORG Forum,hosted by the Public Internet Registry.
He named his speech "The Future of ICANN" .
"Our plans, assessments and decisions will affect our ICANN and DNS community – and they also take place in the context of the universal Internet and all of its impact on society, the economy, the lives, hopes and aspirations of the close to two billion computer users of today’s Internet, and even more through phones that touch Internet protocol networks. 25% of the world uses the Internet by computer access today, with a global population of about 7 billion. World population will grow but the Internet penetration will grow even faster. The Internet will make it to the next billion and eventually spread to almost everyone on the planet. Indirectly, it touches almost everyone already. Internet users access approximately 100 billion web pages every day. This and other Internet activities invoke more than one trillion domain name system lookups per day. Just during this one hour speech, right now, 11,000 people who had never used the Internet before will join this world movement. A miracle of sorts is happening. We are all becoming connected through this amazing new global nervous system – this new fabric of our society and global economy. One of the most important things we need to do is simply do our best to keep the system working and stay out of the way.",said Rod Beckstrom in his speech .
You can read the entire speech here .