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Today Tuesday June 9 2015, marking 20 years of the Internet in Sri Lanka, INET Colombo 2015 will celebrate this milestone, looking back on how the Internet came into being in Sri Lanka, investigating how it has affected the society and envisioning the future promises. The event brings together bring together over 300 participants from the Government agencies, Internet service providers, mobile operators, academic institution, banks, ICT entrepreneurs, commercial companies and general public. The live webcast is being relayed through and archived at the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
Today Thursday June 4Â 2015 and tomorrow Friday June 5Â 2015 the 12th Annual Personal Democracy Forum will be held at NYU’s Kimmel Center. This year the theme is Imagine All The People: The Future of Civic Tech. As usual a stellar line up of speakers from around the globe will take turns to address the assembly on the latest concepts in civic tech, including Nanjira Sambuli of iHub Nairobi and Sunil Abraham of CIS Bangalore. The plenary sessions will be webcast live via Major League Baseball Advanced Media,
Today Tuesday June 3 2015 the the Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-DC) presents MONEY 2020: #Bitcoin and Beyond at WeWork Chinatown in Washington DC. Is Bitcoin the future of digital money or will there be a Bitcoin 2.0–or something totally different? What are the technological, legal, and regulatory challenges posed by Bitcoin and similar forms of digital money? Will digital money make friction-free e-commerce possible around the globe or will laws to limit money laundering and sales of illegal goods and services limit anonymous “digital cash.” PANEL: James J. Angel, Ph.D., CFA, Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; Catherine D. Pelker, Federal Bureau of Investigation; John Collins, Head of Government Affairs, Coinbase; Peter Van Valkenburgh, Research Director, Coincenter. Moderator: Timothy B. Lee, Senior correspondent at Vox.com. The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
Information doesn’t want to be free…but people do.
We live in a world made of networked computers, but still our lawmakers treat the Internet as though it was a better video on demand system or a pornography distribution system or a jihadi recruiting system—instead of the nervous system of the 21st century.
How can libraries and activists strike alliances to demand that information policy be afforded the gravitas it’s due? And how can creators—who, after all, should always be on the side of free expression, privacy and freedom—be recruited to the fight?
The Computers is a 20 minute documentary about the six women who, during World War 2, programmed – from scratch – the first all-electronic computer, the ENIAC. By the time they were finished, ENIAC ran a ballistics trajectory — a differential calculus equation — in seconds. Yet when the ENIAC was unveiled to the press and the public in 1946, the women were never introduced; they remained invisible. Featuring Movietone footage of the 1940s and never-before-seen interviews with the ENIAC Programmers, The Computers is an inspiring story – lost for almost 70 years – about the founding of technologies we cannot live without — by six incredible young women everyone should know.
After premiering at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 24, The Computers is now enjoying its first theatrical run at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema in NYC. ISOC-NY has been able to obtain 20 free passes for the 7pm screening this Wednesday June 3 2015, which will include a Q&A with Co-Producer Kathy Kleiman. Further tickets will be available at the box office for $10 a pop.
Today Monday May 18 2015 the Internet Society’s InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG) will hold its 2nd Annual InterPlanetary Networking Conference in Washington DC. The conference has the theme Showcasing Delay & Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN): the Emerging Standard for Space Data Communications. Last year’s conference (video) —Space Technology Innovations: Enabling Exploration Above, Improving Life Below—presented how DTN can enable space data communications as well as provide network services in constrained terrestrial network environments. This year the focus is upon DTN in the space arena. Speakers include Vint Cerf, Brett Willman & Suzanne Davidson – the NASA/Boeing team working on DTN aboard the International Space Station, David Israel & Donald Cornwell the NASA team who concluded the very successful Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration in late 2013 and who are planning the 2017 Laser Relay Communication Demonstration, Scott Burleigh, JPL’s chief DTN architect, Keith Scott who leads the Consultative Consortium for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) DTN working group that is standardizing DTN protocols, Fred Templin of Boeing who will demonstrate a potentially important new security enhancement to DTN, and Scott Pace, the Director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. The conference will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
On Wednesday May 13 2015Fordham Law Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) presents its Ninth Law and Information Society Symposium – Solving Privacy Around the World. Trends in the global processing of data, developments in new technologies, privacy enforcement actions and government surveillance put international privacy at the center of the global law and policy agenda. Government regulators, policymakers, legal experts, and industry players need to find solutions to cross-border conflicts and to the issues presented by innovative technologies. This conference seeks to create a robust, but informal dialog that will explore possible solutions to current questions arising from the international legal framework, infrastructure architecture and commercial practices. The conference will use a unique format. Each panel will start with a short presentation on the technological and business context to set the stage. The panel will be an informal, moderated roundtable discussion with a select group of experts followed by a question and answer session from the audience. The conference will webcast live via the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
On May 8 2015 the New York Chapter of IEEE Systems, Man, Cybernetics (SMC) Society presented Immersive Technology– a talk by Dr. George Chang, Dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. Immersive technology is the bridge between the physical world and digital or simulated world. Many hardware/software technologies are developed to stimulate one or more of the five senses in order to achieve fully immersive environment. Most notably, the advances in 3D display and haptic devices enable developers to create and deploy meaningful and useable applications in training and the entertainment industry. Past, present and future technologies were discussed. Video is below.
Edward Snowden in Conversation with Bart Gellman
Edward Snowden. Barton Gellman, The Century Foundation, Princeton University, and The Washington Post.
PANEL 1: Determining the Role of Technology
Lead Speaker: Matthew Green, Johns Hopkins University. Commentators: Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge; Jonathan Mayer, Stanford University. Moderator: Joseph Bonneau, Stanford University and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
PANEL 2: Protecting Privacy and Security
Lead Speaker: The Honorable Patricia Wald, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board and former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Commentators: Richard Salgado, Google; Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University; Ben Wizner, American Civil Liberties Union. Moderator: Jonathan Hafetz, Seton Hall University and Princeton University.
PANEL 3: Reporting National Security Secrets
Lead Speaker: Barton Gellman, The Century Foundation, Princeton University, and The Washington Post. Commentators: Karen Kaiser, Associated Press; Matthew Olsen, Harvard University, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and former General Counsel for the National Security Agency. Moderator: Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University
Today, Wednesday May 6 2015, the ISOC-NY TV show will present an edited version of Silicon Harlem April Meetup at Madiba/MIST Harlem on April 22 2015. It kicks off with a keynote from FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn in which she talks about the recent FCC Open Internet Order (aka Net Neutrality) decision, E-Rate reform, among other issues. Then we skip forward to the 2nd Digital.NYC panel, which focuses on the Harlem Experience in building the City’s tech community. Speakers Clayton Banks, Silicon Harlem; Sam Sia, Co-Founder, Harlem Biospace; John Henry, Director of Strategy, Cofound Harlem, Moderator: Paul Jackson, Publisher, Harlem Times
On May 1 2015Â the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information presented Digital Financial Services & Emerging Payments:Â Disruption, Development And Innovation In A Global Context at Columbia University in NYC. The ability to pay efficiently, reliably and securely is one of the hallmarks of the development of modern economies. This was the 4th annual conference that looks at the disruptive effect and real-world implementation of mobile payments, mobile financial services and crypto currencies in the developing and developed world. It brings together a high-level group of international speakers featuring entrepreneurs, US & International regulators, investors, academics, payment aggregators, banks, philanthropists, manufacturers, lenders, law enforcement, payment organizations, and industry analysts. The conference was webcast live via the Internet Society livestream channel. Video is below
Today Thursday April 30 2015Tech Innovators – a civic initiative of Internet pioneers convened by VCXC founder Daniel Berninger – will celebrate the inaugural “Internet Independence Day” to mark the 20th anniversary of the commercialization of the Internet, following the decommissioning of the National Science Foundation’s NSFNET. The group has written to Congress requesting that April 30 be officially recognized as Internet Independence Day. Today’s inaugural event will include remarks by Bob Metcalfe, professor, University Texas; Bryan Martin, Chairman, 8×8; Charlie Giancarlo, senior advisor, Silver Lake; Dave Farber, professor emeritus CMU, board member, ISOC; George Gilder, author; Jeff Pulver, founder, Zula; John Gilmore, activist, co-founder EFF; John Perry Barlow, lyricist, co-founder EFF; Les Vadasz, former EVP, Intel; Mark Cuban, founder, AXS TV; Michael Robertson, founder, MP3.com; Ray Ozzie, founder, Talko; and Tim Draper, founder, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. It will webcast live on the Internet Society’s Livestream Channel.
An update on forthcoming Internet Governance events from the Internet Society’s Senior Director of Global Internet Policy Constance Bommelaer.
May has traditionally been a busy month for Internet governance discussions in Geneva. This year is no different, but the stakes are higher for those who care about the Internet and its future.
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2015 is the year where we celebrate the 10 years of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). For the past 10 years, governments, the private sector, civil society, academia and the Internet technical community have worked together at the local and the global levels to make the Internet a useful tool for development. We now have more than 3 billion people online, with growth mostly in developing countries. We have more work to do to reach the vision of an “Internet for Everyone”; but much has been achieved and we should celebrate success.Â
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May will be populated with a series of WSIS-related meetings taking place in Geneva. Here is some background information to help you navigate and engage in these discussions :
CSTD(4-8 May): This is the last phase of the WSIS review process before the UN General Assembly process begins in June. A report on ” Implementing WSIS outcomes: A ten-year review ” will be discussed, and a Resolution on WSIS will be negotiated, which will provide important guidance for the events to happen in New York in December. Raul Echeberria, VP Global Engagement (ISOC), has been invited to deliver a high-level statement at this occasion.
IGF MAG and Open Consultations(20-22 May): The Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) will continue preparations for the 2015 Internet Governance Forum, to be held 10-13 November 2015 in Brazil. Much efforts are spent on intersessional work and ongoing progress with Best Practice Forums, a format that focuses on sharing lessons learned from dealing with tangible issues such as spam. A new track on developing ” Policy menus forConnecting the Next Billion” has also been launched. We will be sending a separate note on how to concretely engage in this work next week.
ITU Council 2015(12-22 May): ITU Council meetings are open to all ITU Member States as well as ITU sector members and are available as webcasts to Member States and sector members. It is expected that the Council will discuss the role of the ITU in the WSIS process.Â
ITU WSIS Forum (25-29 May): WSIS Forums provide an annual avenue to take stock of progress on WSIS Action Lines. The Internet Society is organizing a set of sessions (collaborative security, local content) and will have high-level representatives delivering policy statements. The theme of this year’s forum is ” Innovating Together: Enabling ICTs for Sustainable Development “. More to follow as we get closer to the event.
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The original WSIS process took place soon after international agreement on the creation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Similarly, this year’s final WSIS+10 review takes place shortly after the follow-up to the MDGs, the so called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be adopted in New York, 25 – 27 September 2015. It is already quite apparent that the SDG process is going to influence the direction of the WSIS beyond 2015 towards the contribution of ICTs for development.Â
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As you can see, 2015 is a busy year for Internet Governance and the Internet Society will continue to be on the front and facilitate the participation of the Internet community. For an outlook and key global and local IG tracks this year, visit our Internet governance timeline : http://www.internetsociety.org/igtimeline
Additional information will be circulated w.r. to each of these events. In the meantime, if you plan to participate or have any questions, please let us know!
Constance Bommelaer
Senior Director, Global Internet Policy
The Internet Society http://www.isoc.org
On April 22 2015 the Copyright Society of the USA’s New York Chapter presented a luncheon panel – Old Agreements + New Media = Big Issues? Performing Rights Organizations, Rate Courts and the Department of Justice – at the Princeton Club in NYC. For decades, ASCAP and BMI have been subject to antitrust consent decrees with the Department of Justice, which include restrictions on the ways in which these Performing Rights Organizations can and can’t issue licenses and a framework on how disputes over royalty rates are to be resolved. Recent rulings in the “rate courts†have addressed the ability of publishers to withdraw their performing rights for certain digital uses, with different results coming out of the separate ASCAP and BMI proceedings. With these developments leading to headaches for licensors and licensees alike, everyone is starting to ask whether the consent decrees and rate court procedures themselves should be overhauled. Last year, the DOJ opened both consent decrees for review, asking important questions about their relevance and effectiveness. A panel of experts discussed the key considerations. Speakers: Richard Reimer, Senior Vice President, Legal Services, ASCAP; Stuart Rosen, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, BMI; Kenneth Steinthal, Partner, King & Spalding LLP. Moderator: Jacqueline C. Charlesworth, General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights, the U.S. Copyright Office. Video/audio is below.
On Wednesday April 22 2015Silicon Harlem hosted the Digital.NYC Five-Borough Tour– a series of public events to directly introduce New Yorkers to Digital.NYC, a first-of-its-kind comprehensive hub for the city’s tech ecosystem. The Five-Borough Tour events introduced the site features; presented panel discussions with City tech leaders and some of the city’s most celebrated tech company founders and investors; and offered networking time for attendees to connect with others in their local community. Leading New York City digital companies and organizations participating in the Five-Borough Tour included IBM, Control Group, TinyBop, Startup Box, Meetup, General Assembly, Vizalytics, and Harlem Biospace. This event had a special guest – FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. It was webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel Video is below.
Members of the Internet technical community – the African Top Level Domains Organization (AfTLD), Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), .au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA), Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Internet Society (ISOC), Latin American and Caribbean TLD Association (LACTLD), the Ripe Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC), Dr. Michael R. Nelson, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty, George Sadowsky and Andrew Sullivan, have issued a statement following the recent Global Conference on CyberSpace 2015 (GCCS2015) in The Hague.
April 17th 2015 9:00am-5:30pm the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, in collaboration with the International Telecommunications Society, presents Back From the Ashes? A Next Generation of ICT Regulations and Their Implications at Columbia University NYC. This Event/Workshop will cover the various regulatory aspects of emerging next generation technology in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. With the recent decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules on Open Internet or “Net Neutrality,” the role of regulation in the ICT sector has once again been highlighted. The ICT sector continues to undergo significant changes: OTT services are proliferating; Google is pushing into the wireless sector and deploying fiber in selected communities; the ubiquity of WiFi is encroaching on data services offered by traditional cellular providers and some firms are attempting to displace the voice cellular services with a network of WiFi. A series of panels will examine the ICT policy implications. The event will be webcast live via the Internet Society livestream channel.
Today Wednesday April 15 2015 at 9am EDT the Internet Society will hold a Community Forum – an open dialogue about a number of current issues. Hosts will be Raúl EcheberrÃa, Vice President for Global Engagement, and Olaf Kolkman, Chief Internet Technology Officer. Topics include: 1) A regional update the Latin American and Caribbean region: 2) Some of the top issues related to Internet Technology; 3) A review about where we are on the Internet Governance debate featuring data from the recently completed ISOC survey on the topic; 4) Details about our upcoming global virtual event: InterCommunity 2015. The Forum is open to all Internet Society members via the ISOC Connect platform. Simultaneous English & Spanish translation will be available.
On Wednesday April 8 2015Code for America presentsHow Do We Avoid the Next Healthcare.gov? at Civic Hall in NYC. Five years after she founded Code for America Jennifer Pahlka, along with a panel of government technology leaders, will share successes, challenges, and opportunities in building government that works in the 21st century. SPEAKERS: Jen Pahlka, Founder, Code for America; Steven Levy, Editor in Chief, Backchannel; and author of Hackers, In the Plex, and other books; Amen Ra Mashariki, Chief Analytics Officer, City of New York; Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Chief Information Officer, City of Boston; Matthew Klein, Executive Director, Center for Economic Opportunity & Senior Advisor for Service Innovation, NYC Mayor’s Office of Operations; Ariel Kennan, Director, Innovation and Design, NYC Mayor’s Office of Operations;Â Carl Malamud, President, Public.Resource.Org. The event will be webcast live via the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
Today Tuesday June 9 2015, marking 20 years of the Internet in Sri Lanka, INET Colombo 2015 will celebrate this milestone, looking back on how the Internet came into being in Sri Lanka, investigating how it has affected the society and envisioning the future promises. The event brings together bring together over 300 participants from the Government agencies, Internet service providers, mobile operators, academic institution, banks, ICT entrepreneurs, commercial companies and general public. The live webcast is being relayed through and archived at the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
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