Tadao Takahashi
termISP & telecomops culture
The founder of Brazil's National Education and Research Network (RNP) and the coordinator who turned scattered academic links into a national backbone - inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2017. He died in April 2022.
His decisive move was political as much as technical. When the state telecommunications monopoly proposed becoming the single access point for all Brazilian users, with everyone holding one company's email address, Takahashi and colleagues argued the government into a hierarchical, many-provider model instead. That argument is why Brazil got a competitive internet rather than a state portal, and it was won in 1995 in a meeting rather than in a protocol.
Also known as: eduardo tadao takahashi, fundador da rnp, livro verde