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Speakers:
Michael Frumin, Systems Engineering Manager, MTA
Jeff Maki, Head of Transportation, OpenPlans
Benjamin Stein, CTO, Mobile Commons
Scott Kolber, COO, Roadify
The second Innovate / Activate Conference will start today April 20 2012 at the University of California’s Berkeley Law School. The conference’s purpose is “improving global welfare by diagnosing new and existing Intellectual Property-related challenges to activism, developing strategies for overcoming IP obstacles, and delivering practical solutions.” ISOC-NY participated in last year’s inaugural event at New York Law School. reddit co-Founder Alexis Ohanian is giving the opening keynote at 2.15pm PDT (5.15pm EDT | 2115 UTC) today. Other participants include Parker Higgins, James Grimmelmann, and Elizabeth Stark. The event will be webcast live and archived. It will be directly followed by the Students for Free Culture Summit on Sunday April 22.
On April 19 2012  NDN and the New Policy Institute presented a panel The Future of Internet Governance in Washington DC. The panel included the Internet Society’s Karen Rose.
Speakers:
Daniel Weitzner – Deputy Chief Technology Officer, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Tom Tauke – Executive Vice President for Public Affairs and Policy, Verizon Karen Rose – Senior Director of Strategic Development and Business Planning, The Internet Society
This discussion is the third in a series of events and papers NDN/NPI has held in recent weeks on global telecom . The first event focused on the employment impact of the move from 2G to 3G and on to 4G. The second took an in-depth look at the explosion of mobile technology and featured former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt and the State Department’s Suzanne Hall.
reason.tv have published a short video exploring copyright issues – Too Much Copyright. Speakers include Cheezburger founder Ben Huh, law professor Tom Bell, and MPAA lawyer Ben Sheffner.
On April 15, 2012, the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic (BLIP) hosted their first-ever Legal Hackathon. An all-day event, the Hackathon explorde how technology can improve the law and vice versa.
Hacking the Act: Why Do SOPA and PIPA Matter? Speakers: Lon Jacobs (News Corp), Derek Bambauer (BLS Professor), Robert Levine (Journalist/Author), and Amyt Eckstein (Moses & Singer)
Government 2.0: A Primer on Crowdsourced Policymaking and Fostering Civic Engagement Through Technology.
Speakers: Art Chang (Tipping Point), Sherwin Siy (Public Knowledge), John Bergmayer (Public Knowledge)
Plus Andrew McLaughin (Tumblr), Tim Wu (FTC), Nina Paley (Question Copyright), Tim Hwang (Robot Robot and Hwang), and Jonathan Askin (BLS Professor and director of the BLIP Clinic)
HACK THE ACT
A week-long competition beginning the day of the Hackathon, interested teams will tackle a discreet issue of IP policy and collaboratively propose a new policy reform through online collaboration tool Docracy.
WORKSHOPS
Docracy is challenging participants to use their service to translate a legalese agreement into plain English using their service.
PriView is hacking an assessment standard to help people better understand the privacy policies they deal with every day.
Wikipedia will discuss the role of crowdsourcing in legal research
WhyNot is brainstorming how to create a platform that will crowdsource the next Mayor of NYC.
The Calyx Institute is challenging participants to hack a model privacy policy for Internet service providers.
Creative Rights for Creative Children (CREATE) is hacking a new IP curriculum for students that properly accounts for creative privileges like fair use.
On Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 the Internet Society’s New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) met with new North American Regional Bureau Director of the Internet Society, Paul Brigner. Paul has worked on policy at Verizon, and is the former Chief Technology Policy Officer of the Motion Picture Association of the America (MPAA), in both of which roles he has advocated positions that might not absolutely concur with the prevailing outlook at the Chapter. He is also an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
This was an opportunity to talk to Paul about his views, ways in which the global organization can build better working relationships with its Chapters, and means of furthering ISOC’s mission of promoting an Open Internet.
What: The Latest Developments in Internet Privacy Where: Arlington, VA When: Thursday March 29 2012 – 8.30am-10.30am EDT | 1230-1430 UTC Webcast: http://www.livestream.com/internetsocietychapters Speakers:
Justin Brookman Erica Newland, Center for Democracy and Technology
On Tuesday April 17, Intelligence Squared U.S. (iq2us) will host a public policy debate, When it comes to politics, the internet is closing our mindsfeaturing Eli Pariser (The Filter Bubble), Evgeny Morozov (The Net Delusion) and Jacob Weisberg (Editor-in-Chief Slate Group). The motion will argue that the increasing personalization of Internet content is serving to reinforce bias. The debate will be broadcast live on NPR, webcast via fora.tv, and be archived on the iq2us site.
The hackNY Spring 2012 Hackathon has been underway since 2pm yesterday.. At noon today – Sun Mar 25 2012 – the participating students will present their projects, and be judged according to awesomeness. There is a live webcast. A list of projects can be found at the Hackers League.
What: HackNY Spring 2012 Hackathon – judging When: Sunday March 25 2012 (Noon-2pm) Where: Warren Weaver Hall Rm 109, 251 Mercer St, NY NY 10012 Who: Free. Public welcome. Capacity limited. Webcast: http://new.livestream.com/hackNYlive/spring2012 Twitter: #hackny
A public hearing on NYC’s allocation of the .nyc contract to Neustar was held on Friday March 23 2012, in Brooklyn.
Information Technology and Telecommunications Public Hearing
Notice is hereby given that a Contract Public Hearing will be held on Friday, March 23, 2012 at DoITT, 2 MetroTech Center, 4th Floor, Brooklyn NY 11209, commencing at 2:00 P.M. on the following:
In the matter of a proposed contract between the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications and Neustar located at 21575 Ridgetop Circle, Sterling, VA 20166, to apply for, and if obtained, operate, administer, manage and market nyc. The term of the contract shall be for five (5) years with two (2) five (5) year renewal options at the City’s discretion. The contract is a Revenue contract, PIN: 85812P0001.
“Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists.”
This event is open to the public and will include remarks by Commissioner Clyburn followed by a “meet-and-greet,†providing an opportunity for attendees to meet the Commissioner in person. Coffee and refreshments will also be provided. What: Mignon Clyburn meet-and-greet Where: Albany Law School, 80 New Scotland Ave, Albany, NY When: Friday, March 30th, 10:30 am – Noon Register: $25.00 for Non-FCBA Members, Now FREE. Contact:LaVonda Reed-Huff, or Michele Thomas
On Tuesday, March 27 the Center for Cybercrime Studies at John Jay College will host  Dr. Richard Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation,  giving a talk “For a Free Digital Society.â€
What: Richard Stallman: For a Free Digital Society When: Tuesday March 27, 2012 – 1:30pm Where: Room L61, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC (@59th St) Register: email Nicole Daniels ndaniels@jjay.cuny.edu Webcast: will be videotaped for DVD distribution. Twitter: #FOSS | #stallman | @JohnJayCollege
What: State of the Digital City: Government 2.0 and its Impact on Policymaking When: Weds. March 21 2012. 7:15pm-9:00pm Where: The Puck Building, 2nd Fl. 295 Lafayette Street, NYC Register: http://wagner.nyu.edu/events/wpa-03-21-2012 (free) Webcast: unknown Twitter: @nyuwagner | #NYUWevents | #nycgov Speakers:
Gale Brewer, NYC Council Member
Noel Hidalgo, World Economic Forum (Noel is unable to attend.)
As city TLDs are a new policy area for city government, it would be great if there were guidelines for the responsible agencies. For example, recommendations of research, education, and public engagement processes for entities like DoITT to follow when addressing an issue such as the design and development of a digital infrastructure, such as the .nyc Top Level Domain.
NYC Council Member Gale A. Brewer has long campaigned for an Open Data statute for the City. Indeed her original public hearing was back in June 2009, when she first introduced draft legislation. Another public hearing was held in June 2010. The law has finally passed, and was signed into law by Mayor Bloomberg on March 7 2012.
Tom Lowenhaupt of ConnectingNYC in a post DoITT: Submit Application THEN Ask Public In response reports that, at a recent press conference and in response to his questioning, NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) Commissioner Carole Wallace Post confirmed the City’s intention to file an application for a .nyc generic top level domain (gTLD) within the current window, which ends April 12.
joly 4:16 pm on 04/20/2012 Permalink |
I’ve spotted a couple of titling errors in the above. I will update the files in the next day or so.