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The 56th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN 56) is taking place June 21-25 2015 in Helsinki, Finland. Remote participation/webcast is available via Adobe Connect. Live english transcription plus 7 languages of audio streams are also available. Helsinki, Finland is on EEST, seven hours ahead of NYC (UTC+3)
Roundtable 1: How do we structure a modern digital music distribution music-licensing ecosystem to be more competitive and work efficiently and fairly for all stakeholders?
Moderator: Larry Miller, Clinical Associate Professor and Director, Music Business Program, NYU Steinhardt; Panelists: Michael Katz, Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership and Professor, Economics Department and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley; David Levin, Vice President, Digital Licensing, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI); Steven Marks, Chief, Digital Business & General Counsel, Recording Industry Association of America; Katherine Oyama, Senior Policy Counsel, Google, Inc.; Daniel Rubinfeld, Robert L. Bridges, Professor of Law and Professor of Economics Emeritus, UC Berkeley; Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Christopher Sprigman, Professor, NYU School of Law.
Moderator: Christopher Sprigman, Professor, NYU School of Law. Panelists: Jacqueline Charlesworth, General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights, United States Copyright Office; Mark Eisenberg, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, SoundExchange, Inc.; Andrea Finkelstein, EVP Global Business Affairs Operations, Sony Music Entertainment; James Griffin, Managing Director, OneHouse; Casey Rae, Director of Music Licensing, Sirius XM; Lawrence White, Robert Kavesh, Professor of Economics and Deputy Chair, Economic Department, NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
Roundtable 3: What Changes to the Current System Are Feasible that Would Facilitate a Transition to a More Competitive Market?
Moderator: Thomas Lenard, President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute. Panelists: Dale Collins, Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP; Adjunct Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Lee Knife, Executive Director, Digital Media Association; Richard Masio, Director of Music Licensing, Pandora; Brad Prendergast, Senior Counsel, Licensing & Enforcement, SoundExchange, Inc.; Tim Quirk, Founder/CEO, Freeform Development; David Wolfert, Songwriter and Producer; Co-Founder, Council of Music Creators and Music Answers; Songwriting Faculty, NYU Steinhardt.
On June 16 2016 ICANN held two Pre-ICANN 56 Policy Update Webinars to brief participants in preparation for the upcoming ICANN Policy Forum in Helsinki. The purpose of the webinar is to summarize policy activities across the ICANN policy development community and the Cross-Community sessions taking place in Helsinki. This webcast is the recording of the second of those sessions:
Today Friday June 17 2015 netCommons and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia aka BarcelonaTech are hosting Workshop on community networking infrastructures with the theme Efficient collaboration between government, citizens and enterprises. The workshop will discuss how they can strengthen ties among these three actors to optimize a specific case of these infrastructures, community networks, with a particular focus on fiber deployment. Sessions will cover 1) governance, 2) regulation, and 3) implementation. The conference has two main objectives: expand knowledge about this type of collaboration and identify specific lines of action to make them more efficient in the future. The event, conducted in English, Catalan, and Spanish, is being streamed live on guifi tv, and mirrored on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
On Tuesday June 14 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing FCC Overreach: Examining the Proposed Privacy Rules. The hearing follows up on a letter sent to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding the agency’s proposed privacy and data breach notification requirements for broadband ISPs. The FTC had its jurisdiction removed when the FCC reclassified broadband as a common carrier. The letter suggests the FCC’s making a separate set of rules governing only ISPs, and not other parts of the Internet ecosystem, would “create confusion and harm competition”. Witnessess were Doug Brake, Telecommunications Policy Analyst, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; Jon Leibowitz Co-Chair, 21st Century Privacy Coalition (and former FTC Chair); and Paul Ohm, Professor, Center on Privacy and Technology, Georgetown University Law Center. Video is below:
11am-Noon UN Special Rapporteur on privacy – Prof. Joseph Cannataci
ISOC Members webinar on privacy http://bit.ly/isocprivacy
5:30pm-8pm The Things Network NYC Community meetup #3 (no webcast)
Burgeoning Open IoT Network’s NYC team get together – https://thethingsnetwork.org/c/newyork/
Wednesday 15 June 8:30am-10am Is the Internet Fragmenting? Part 2: The Technical Lens
ISOC-DC and Microsoft ongoing series about keeping it together, or not.
Opening keynote from Dave Farber https://livestream.com/internetsociety/fragmentation2
Thursday 16 June 4pm-5pm IPN-ISOC Virtual Chapter Meeting – http://bit.ly/ipnisoc2016 Code: 923 494 316 Password: 7pQcvHDF
An opportunity to virtually meet with leading interplanetary networking experts like Vint Cerf, Keith Scott, Scott Burleigh and Jay Wyatt.
Friday 17 June
A big Happy Birthday to ISOC Chapters Director Joyce Dogniez!
Today Monday June 5 2016 the Internet Society will present a session “Connected Women” at the African Internet Summit 2016 in Gaborone, Botswana. The Connected Women event will explore how we can all work together to overcome cultural barriers and promote greater involvement of women developing and utilising Internet technology across Africa. It will be centered on shining the light on Africa’s digital trailblazers; celebrating the success of African women and men who have brought about significant change through their work in ICT and promoting open dialogue amongst participants in the room. Speakers: Evelyn Namara, Founder & CTO, Innovate Uganda; Dorcas Muthoni, Founder & CEO, OpenWorld Ltd (Kenya);  Agang Ditlhogo, Co-Founder, The Clicking Generation (Botswana); Michuki Mwangi, Regional Development Manager – Africa & Middle East, Internet Society. Moderator: Kathryn Brown, President & CEO, Internet Society. The session will be webcast on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
Next Century Cities has published the audio of its June Members call, a webinar on Digital Inclusion. Participants were Susan Corbett – CEO, Axiom Technology and Axiom Education Training Center (Maine); David Keyes – Community Technology Program Director, Seattle; Pat Millen, Founder/President, E2D (Charlotte NC), and Anne Schwieger – Broadband and Digital Equity Advocate, Boston. Moderator was Chris Mitchell. Listen below:
Today Wednesday May 25 2016 the New York Network Operators Group (NYNOG) will hold its inaugural meetup at LMHQ in NYC. The meetup features a panel discussion ‘The Big City, The Big Networks: NYC’s Current State of Network Infrastructure‘ which will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2016, or EMWCon Spring 2016, will be held Wednesday to Friday, May 25-27, 2016, in NYC. It will be a three-day conference featuring discussions of topics related to “Enterprise MediaWiki”, i.e. the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies, non-profits, governments and other organizations. The first two days’ presentations will be streamed live on theInternet Society Livestream Channel. The third day “creative camp’ workshops will not be streamed.
Today Tuesday May 24 2016 at 10am EDT (14:00 UTC) the the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee hearing titled “Examining the Multistakeholder Plan for Transitioning the Internet Assigned Number Authorityâ€. The hearing will examine the proposed transition of oversight of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), a department of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that allocates Internet IP addresses and domain names, to the global multistakeholder community. Two years ago, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intention to transition IANA functions. On March 10, 2016, ICANN forwarded to the NTIA a transition proposal developed by the international community of Internet stakeholders. The NTIA set a target of 90 days to complete its review. Witnesses will testify on advantages and disadvantages of the proposed transition of IANA functions to the global multistakeholder community.
Witnesses:
*Mr. Michael Beckerman, President and CEO, The Internet Association
*Mr. Steve DelBianco, Executive Director, NetChoice
*The Honorable David A. Gross, former U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. State Department
*Mr. Rick Manning, President, Americans for Limited Government
*Mr. Brett Schaefer, Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs, Heritage Foundation
*Mr. Andrew Sullivan, Chair, Internet Architecture Board
On May 18 2016Vint Cerf was one of many distinguished speakers at the Washington Post’s Transformers live journalism event in Washington DC. Vint, sounding familiar themes, emphasized the need for robust authentication, and the capacity to minimize bugs, as vital for continuing Internet development. See video below:
From Friday May 20 through Sunday May 22 2016alt-AI will happen at the school for poetic computation in NYC. alt-AI explores artificial intelligence through the lens of artistic practice. What role can artists, writers, coders, and curators play in mediating scientific research to the public? How do we critically examine the implications, artifacts, and applications that follow. Various works will exhibited. The talks and performance at the event will be streamed live via the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
Today Thursday, May 19 2016 is the fifth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). Events are happening all over the world including NYC. The purpose of GAAD is to get people talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with different disabilities. The target audience of GAAD is the design, development, usability, and related communities who build, shape, fund and influence technology and its use. While people may be interested in the topic of making technology accessible and usable by persons with disabilities, the reality is that they often do not know how or where to start. Awareness comes first.
we are discovering that people with so-called disabilities also have interesting strengths we call “coolabilities” and these are often well-suited to particular kinds of work. Accentuate the positive!
Indeed, and one good example of this is the Open Steno Project, which is recruiting blind people as stenographers. It turns out that lifelong listening to screen readers gives one a remarkable capacity to process language. The blind leading the deaf one might say. See below:
On Friday 13 May 2016 the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School (Fordham CLIP) will host the Tenth Law & Information Society Symposium at Fordham University in NYC. It was the first of these symposiums in 2005 that originally launched Fordham CLIP. This conference will revisit the themes from 2005 to see how far we’ve come and where we might be going in the next 10 years. Speakers include: Daniel J. Weitzner (MIT), Kevin Werbach (Wharton), Felix Wu (Cardozo), Jennifer L. Pariser (MPAA), Catherine Crump (Berkeley), Judge Jeremy Fogel, Julie Samuels (Tech:NYC), and Andrea Glorioso (EU). The event will be webcast live by Fordham’s AV Team.
Today, Tuesday May 10 2016 theMicrosoft Innovation & Policy Center and the Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-DC) for a panel discussion Is The Internet Fragmenting? in Washington DC. Recent developments related to the Internet have prompted alarming questions about whether it is fragmenting. They include a diverse set of technical, economic, and policy developments and decisions that have been taken in response to the continued growth and globalization of the Internet, and its evolving role as critical infrastructure for the digital economy. Examples include a rise in DNS content filtering, deployment of distinct IPv4 and IPv6 networks, introduction of zero rating services, and an increasing number of laws related to data localization and restriction of cross-border data flow. Taken together, they raise an overarching concern over whether the global Internet is moving from a universal system to one characterized by various types of fragmentation that are caused either by intended or unintended consequences of technical, commercial, and/or political decision taken without full consideration of their potential impact. Policy stakeholders, including government, the technical community, civil society, industry, and other organizations to consider these issues more fully. Panelists will discuss the different types of Internet fragmentation, their associated technical, economic, and political impacts and when fragmentation may be desirable or problematic. Additionally, the panelists will examine how these should be taken into consideration in policy making. Keynote: Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Panel: Kathryn Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer, Internet Society; Dr. Laura DeNardis, Professor and Associate Dean, School of Communication at American University, Director of Research, Global Commission on Internet Governance; Danil Kerimi, Head of Digital Economy, World Economic Forum; Paul Mitchell, Senior Director of Technology Policy, Microsoft; Jeremy West, Senior Policy Analyst, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The event will be streamed live via Skype by Microsoft, and relayed on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
On Monday/Tuesday May 9-10 2016 the Thai Network Information Center Foundation (THNICF) is hosting the 1st BKNIX Peering Forum (BPF) in Bangkok, Thailand. The event brings together managers, engineers and business decision makers from both local and international ISPs, IXPs, CDNs, IDCs, Cloud and Interconnection Service Providers for two days of meetings, presentations, and networking events. Speakers include Goff Huston, Jane Coffi. The event is being webcast live via the THNIC Foundation YouTube Channel. Bangkok is UTC+7 = 11 hours ahead of NYC.
Peering Dynamics in SE Asia – Jane Coffin (ISOC); George Michaelson (APNIC); Katsuyasu Toyama (APIX association)
Fiber Optic Interconnection around the Globe – Anahà Rebatta (TeleGeography); Kempei Fukuda (NTT Communications Corporation); Douglas Wilson (Hurricane Electric)
Today Monday May 2 2016 New America NYC will present a panel discussionFAST AND FREE : New York’s Vision for Public Wi-Fi Everywhere at Civic Hall in NYC. Noting New York City’s growing dependence on Wi-Fi, in particular through new initiatives such as the LinkNYC franchise to turn phone booths into hotspots, and the NYCEDC’s RISE : NYC resiliency initiative, New America is specifically concerned about possible congestion if LTE-U is broadly implemented by telcos. After a technical introduction by OTI’s Michael Calabrese, Maya Wiley of the NYC Mayor’s Office will deliver a keynote on the policy and planning aspects. The Panel: Dmytro Pokhylko – Vice President, NYC Economic Development Corporation; Colin O’Donnell – Chief Innovation Officer, Intersection; Andrew Afflerbach – CEO and Director of Engineering, CTC Technology & Energy; Chris Szymanski – Director of Product Marketing & Government Affairs, Broadcom; & Greta Byrum, Acting Director, Resilient Communities Program, New America. The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
This week May 2–6 2016 ITU, UNESCO, UNCTAD and UNDP host the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2016in Geneva, Switzerland. The WSIS Forum serves the UN as a mechanism for coordination of multi-stakeholder implementation activities, information exchange, creation of knowledge, sharing of best practices and continues to provide assistance in developing multi-stakeholder and public/private partnerships to advance development goals, building on the UN General Assembly Overall Review of the implementation of the WSIS outcomes which recognized the necessity of holding this Forum on an annual basis, and called for a close alignment between WSIS and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) processes. Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda (USA) will serve as Chairman Designate of the WSIS Forum 2016 High-Level Track. The Policy Sessions will be moderated by High-Level Track Facilitators (HLTF) nominated and identified by Civil Society, Private Sector, Technical Community and Academia stakeholders. Remote participation is available through both Adobe Connect and live webcast. Geneva time is CEST, 6 hours ahead of NYC.
The 56th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN 56) is taking place June 21-25 2015 in Helsinki, Finland. Remote participation/webcast is available via Adobe Connect. Live english transcription plus 7 languages of audio streams are also available. Helsinki, Finland is on EEST, seven hours ahead of NYC (UTC+3)
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