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NY INET announced for June 14 2011 – Vint Cerf and Tim Berners Lee to speak

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New York INET - Jun 14 2010The Internet Society (ISOC) will present an INET Regional Conference on June 14 2011 at the Sentry Center in NYC. The theme is “It’s your call. What kind Of Internet do you want? “. The distinguished line up of speakers will include ‘Father of the Internet’ Vint Cerf, World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners Lee, and Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information at the U.S. Department of Commerce Lawrence Strickling.

What: INET New York
When: Tuesday June 14, 2011: 9am-5.30pm EDT
Where: Sentry Center, 730 Third Avenue, NY NY 10017
Who: ISOC Members $25, Others $50
Register: http://isoc.org/nyinet
Agenda: http://bit.ly/inetnyagenda
Hashtag: #inetny
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145503388852445
Linked In http://events.linkedin.com/INET-New-York/pub/649653
Shorturl: http://bit.ly/inetny

With almost two billion people online, the Internet is a catalyst for boundless creativity and growth. But the decisions we make in the coming months and years will determine whether it remains a global platform for innovation and expression for people everywhere. Join us on June 14 as we set the agenda for the future of an open Internet. We’ll identify and examine the critical decisions that will shape the future of the Internet:

  • Who will help define the Internet’s evolution?
  • What role should government and private industry play?
  • How do we provide greater bandwidth and access?
  • What does online privacy mean in the age of Facebook and Wikileaks?

This is a unique opportunity to network with the thought leaders and policy makers who are designing the global networks of tomorrow and help develop the policies that will drive future Internet innovation. Space is limited so it is advisable to register a.s.a.p.

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ISOC-NY Event: Cyrus Farivar – The Internet of Elsewhere 5/4

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Cyrus FarivarOn May 4 2011 the Internet Society’s New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) will present broadcaster, author & journalist Cyrus Farivar reading and discussing his imminent (May 8 ) book ‘The Internet of Elsewhere‘ (Rutgers University Press). All welcome. There will be a live webcast.

In the book Farivar explores the Internet’s history and effects in four distinct and, to some, surprising societies — Iran, Estonia, South Korea, and Senegal. He profiles Web pioneers in these countries and, at the same time, surveys the environments in which they each work. After all, contends Farivar, despite California’s great success in creating the Internet and spawning companies like Apple and Google, in some areas the United States is still years behind other nations.

What: Cyrus Farivar – The Internet of Elsewhere
When: Wednesday 4 May 2011 7pm-9pm EDT (1100-0100 UTC)
Where: Warren Weaver Hall, rm 201, 251 Mercer Street, NY NY 10012
Webcast: http://livestream.com/internetsocietychapters
Who: Free. All welcome. Capacity limited. No RSVP reqd.
Hashtags: #isocny; #farivar
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ISOC-NY EVENT: Building tomorrow’s broadband – Nov 17 2010

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isoc-nyDiscussion of Net Neutrality has often involved policy discussions about regulating or rationing bandwidth as a scarce resource.

On Wednesday, November 17th, ISOC-NY will host a panel with people who are building tomorrow’s broadband infrastructure to create an abundance of bandwidth that could one day make these issues moot.

Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Time: 7-9 pm
Place: Room 201 Warren Weaver Hall 251 Mercer St NYC (just southeast of Washington Square)
Webcast: http://livestream.com/isocny
Hashtag #isoc-ny
The event is free and open to the public. Photo ID must be presented to gain access to the building.
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Computers & Society speakers announced

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In 2010 ISOC-NY is once again sponsoring a speaker series as part of Evan Korth’s Computers and Society course at the Courant Institute at NYU. ISOC-NY members and friends are welcome to attend.  All sessions are held from 3.30-5pm in Room 109 of the Courant Institute, Warren Weaver Hall, NYU at 251 Mercer St NYC. Please RSVP to admin@isoc-ny.org.

Speakers:

Oct 18: moot  (4Chan)
Oct 20: Evan Hill-Ries
Oct 25: Fred Benenson  (KickStarter)
Nov 1: Hilary Mason  (bit.ly)
Nov 3: Douglas Rushkoff
Nov 29: Susan Crawford  (Cardozo / Princeton CITP)

The Computers & Society Series receives financial support from the Internet
Society Community Grant Programme.
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OneWebDay – Wed Sep 22 2010 – NYC events

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OneWebDay 2010 NYCThe 5th annual OneWebDay global celebration will take place on Wednesday September 22 2010. Two events are planned for the day in New York City. Two further events will occur over the course of the rest of the week. Join the NYC group at http://onewebday2010.org/groups/new-york-city/

HAPPY ONEWEBDAY !

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Wed Sep 22 2010: 1.30pm – 2.30pm
Harlem Internet Computer Access Project
The Chauncey Hooper Towers
10 West 138th Street
Harlem, USA 10037 (map)

At this event we plan to meet up with some of the seniors who have been learning Internet skills through this valuable program, and to introduce them to the new NYCwiki neighborhood initiative. It is hoped they can be persuaded to contribute to the project their memories, and even photographs of their mementos, of the good old days.
http://hicap.blogspot.com/

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Wed Sep 22 2010: 5 pm – 6.45 pm
ISOC-NY OneWebDay 2010
Warren Weaver Hall NYU – Rm. 512
251 Mercer St, NYC 10012 (map)

At this event Alex Goldman will make a presentation on this year’s OneWebDay theme of recognizing three core Internet principles:
* The end-to-end principle
* Open Internetworking
* The Internet Model

This will be followed by an open discussion on the state of the Internet, and also the development of OneWebDay itself.
https://isoc-ny.org

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Thu Sep 23 2010: 8.30 am – 7.30pm
Open Hardware Summit
New York Hall of Science.
47-01 111th Street Queens, NY 11368 (map)
718-699-0005

The devices that attach to the Internet are as important as the network itself. The freedom to develop new devices requires the same kind of open generative frameworks that have broken open the programming world. A prelude to the Maker Faire that will happen in the same venue over the weekend, at this – the first conference of its kind – open source hardware producers will come together to hammer out some of the basics.
* Registration required – It’s almost sold out so get in fast!
http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/

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Fri September 24: Noon – 6.30 pm
Sat September 25: 9 am – 8.30 pm
Innovate/Activate
New York Law School
185 West Broadway
New York, NY 10013 (map)
212.431.2100

Innovate/Activate is an Unconference on IP and Activism, presented by the Institute for Information Law & Policy at NYLS, and cosponsored by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. The stated purpose is to “reexamine our approaches to improving global welfare by identifying new and existing IP-related challenges to activism, developing strategies for overcoming IP obstacles, and delivering practical solutions to spur social, political, environmental, scientific, technological and legal change.”
* Registration required
* Joly MacFie of ISOC-NY will be on the Replicate / Recreate panel on Sep 24 at 1:15-2:45 pm
http://www.nyls.edu/innovateactivate

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ISOC-NY Member Meeting – Monday 6/14

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ISOC-NY will have a planning meeting on Jun 14 2010. We will be welcoming ISOC North American Regional Bureau Manager Sally Shipman Wentworth. Sally is representing the Internet Society in planning for a Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) so we are sure to have plenty to talk about. We intend to webcast this meeting live so that other North American Chapters can participate.

  • What: ISOC-NY Member meeting
  • When: Mon Jun 14 2010 7.00pm-9pm
  • Where: Room 412, Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street NYC (SW corner of West 4th) (See note below)
  • Who: All are welcome. Come along for a chat!
  • Webcast: http://livestream.com/isocny

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Audio/video – ISOC-NY EVENT: dot nyc – How are we doing? May 8 @ NYU

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dot nyc

** Audio and video now posted below!**

Last October the NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT) issued a request for proposals for “services to obtain, manage, administer, maintain and market the geographic Top Domain name .nyc.”. At ICANN’s recent 37th meeting in Nairobi, consensus was reached on the “overarching” issue of intellectual property protection. This leaves only the issue of the final (4th) draft of the Applicants Guidebook, expected before the 38th meeting in Brussels in June 2010, before the much delayed new generic top level domain (gTLD) delegation process can finally grind into action. (One caveat – a policy forbidding cross-ownership of registries and registrars is still not totally set in stone.)

The Internet Society – New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) has for some years been following the .nyc and ICANN process on behalf of the NYC community and, on May 8 2010, hosted a seminar “dot nyc – How are we doing?” at NYU. NYC Council Member Gale Brewer delivered keynote remarks, then vendor Eric Brunner-Williams of CORE Internet Council of Registrars revealed details of their proposal to the City, and Antony Van Couvering of Minds + Machines and Public Advocate Beill DeBlasio’s earlier comments to the City Council were shown in video. There was a discussion “What’s it for?” about possible applications – civic, community, commercial, and “outside the box” – for a local top level domain. Speakers included Tom Lowenhaupt of Connecting .nyc and Richard Knipel of Wikimedia NYC.

Audio/video is below:

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ISOC-NY Event: Censorship Circumvention via Kaleidoscope – NYU 3/25

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On Thurs. Mar 25 ISOC-NY hosted Prof. Jinyang Li in a talk about the use of distributed systems, and particularly the use of the Kaleidoscope Firefox plug-in, in circumventing censorship. This is part of her ongoing research into “exploiting the real world social relationships among users to improve the security and reliability of open distributed systems.” The talk explains how traditional censorship workarounds like proxies and P2P can easily be discovered and defeated, but how Kaleidoscope – which passes encrypted data through trusted relays – defies such efforts.

Video + audio is below. A DVD of this talk is available free ($5 paypal donation optional) from dvd@isoc-ny.org. Ask for DVD1725

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ISOC-NY Film Night – Mar 5: Copyright Criminals

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What: ISOC-NY Movie Night : Copyright Criminals
Where: Rm. 109, Warren Weaver Hall NYU, 250 Mercer St NYC
When: Friday Mar 5, 7:00pm,
Who: Public Welcome. Admission Free.
Sponsors: ISOC-NY, FreeCulture NYU, NYU ACM, Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic, tech@nyu

Join producer Kembrew McLeod and legendary remixer Steve Steinski Stein, the inspiration for many recent artists including Girl Talk, for a Q&A session after the screening.

We are thankful that Kembrew (yes, the same prankster professor who trademarked “Freedom Of Expression” and went after AT&T for using the term in an ad) is giving ISOC-NY the opportunity to screen this film so shortly after its successful run at the Film Forum.

Trailer below
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ISOC-NY Event: Eben Moglen ‘Freedom in the Cloud’ – 2/5/2010

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Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University, and founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, spoke about “Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing” on Friday, February 5, 2010.

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Q&A:

Video is below:

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Harlem Meeting 1/13/10

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As you may be aware from our recent newsletter, the Internet Society has granted funds to The Harlem Computer/Internet Access Programme.

We are going to have an informal visit with the project leads next Wednesday, and would like to take this opportunity to invite anyone interested to come along.

What: Introduction to The Harlem Computer/Internet Access Programme
When: Weds 13 Jan 2010 – 6pm
Where: 10 W 138 St (off 5th Ave) (map)
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NYC Council Hearing on Innovation 12/16/09

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NYCNew York, NY – On Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 10 AM in the Council Chambers of City Hall, the New York City Council Committees on Technology in Government and Small Business held a joint public hearing to examine how small technology start-ups are surviving in this tough economy.  This hearing will help the Council understand the dynamics behind successful firms as well as what options are available to the City in aiding these important businesses in their struggle to remain competitive and viable in a global environment.

Archived webcast and the twitter feed are embedded below.

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TEDxNYED: NYC March 2010

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tedxnyTEDxNYED will be an all day conference in NYC on Mar 6, 2010. It is designed to examine education and the impact of new media and technology. Speakers are challenged to share innovative insights and inspire conversations about the future of education. Attendees are challenged to rise to the occasion: learn for themselves, educate each other and, following the spirit of TED, spread these ideas.

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