• Students and Faculty Participate in International Technology Conferences
• Center for eBusiness Awards Outstanding Service
• Center Director to speak at MSM Eleventh Annual Management Conference
• Kevin Rollins Addresses Advisory Board

• Register for the FREE newsletter
• Submit ideas for future articles
• Become a partner with the eBusiness Center

• Newsletter Archives

• Contact the editor of the eBusiness Center Newsletter:

Rachel Finley
574 TNRB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 422-3598
prspecialist@byu.edu

Kevin Rollins Addresses Advisory Board

The world is only beginning to see the far-reaching effects of Internet expansion in business and in every part of life, Kevin Rollins told the Center for eBusiness’ advisory board.

Those effects are both good and bad, he said. The key is to develop and accentuate the positive uses of Internet technology.

“We can watch pornography take over the Internet, or we can provide new vehicles and capabilities to promulgate good things globally,” Rollins said. “The Internet can be swamped with bad things, but we need to make sure that there is a massive availability of good things particularly in markets and nations where the Internet is emerging.”

Rollins noted that computers will soon outnumber TVs in third-world countries and there will be more broadband Internet available than cable television.

He also discussed some emerging Internet advances that are positively changing the medical field. Making health records available online will help medical professionals record treatments and assessments; it will allow doctors and facilities separated by thousands of miles to access patients’ health records. Patients in turn will be able to compare and contrast hospitals and health care facilities across the nation to find the best fit for their needs. Currently, these advances are only being tested in highly populated cities. But expansion is both necessary and imminent.

“We just need more people experimenting and moving ahead on this so we have confidence that it will work,” he said.

Such development and experimentation depends, not on industry powerhouses like Dell, but on students and faculty, he said. Continuing to find students who will bring to light the ways e-business and the Internet benefit all industries is essential to the future of the center.

“The only thing that will hold us back is our imagination of what can be done and where it can be done,” Rollins said.