Internet Society Fundamentals aims to develop new community leaders equipped to tell data-driven stories about the Internet Society’s key projects. This will equip members to work with their Chapters to create local awareness, extending the reach of our work for an Internet as a force for good.
In its first year, the program consists of two full weeks of webinars linked to Internet Society projects. Sessions will be held from 12-23 April, 2021.
During each webinar, we will cover the project’s main concepts with a focus on narrative and strategies to approach multiple audiences. In this way, Chapter members can feel empowered to raise awareness through concrete local initiatives that support the development and positioning of the Chapter.
On Saturday 10th April 2021 at 11:00 IST | 05:30 UTC the Internet Society India Hyderabad Chapter will hold its inaugural event online with the theme ‘Future of Internet‘. The ceremony includes sessions on the Internet and its Eco Systems by eminent speakers.
SPEAKERS Dr.Salman Abdul Moiz, Vice Chair, ISOC Hyderabad Christine Saegesser Baethge, Senior Director, Chapters and Individual Members, Internet Society K Mohan Raidu, President, ISOC Hyderabad Satish Babu, Chair, APRALO Samiran Gupta, India Head, ICANN Akriti Bopanna. Policy and Advocacy Manager, Internet Society Dhruv Dhody, Huawei, Bangalore Ajith Francis, Policy Manager, Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network J. Satyanarayana, Chief Advisor, C4IR, India Bala Prasad Beddigari, Secretary, ISOC Hyderabad
HOSTS Harini Ala, ISOC Hyderabad Renu G, ISOC Hyderabad
The United States’ position as the world’s leading hub in subsea networks can no longer be taken for granted. More of the world is coming online, and China is emerging rapidly as a leading subsea cable provider and owner. Join CSIS for a discussion of the U.S. economic and strategic interests at stake and recommendations for protecting U.S. centrality in the world’s information superhighways.
PANEL Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Catherine Creese, Director, US Naval Seafloor Cable Protection Office Lieutenant General (ret) William C. Mayville, Former Commanding General of the 1st Infantry Division, Director of Operations for the Joint Staff, and Vice Commander, U.S. Cybercom
MODERATOR Jonathan E. Hillman, Senior Fellow and Director of the Reconnecting Asia Project, CSIS
PANEL
Mr. Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General, ITU
Mr. Lv Shiming, Vice-Chairman China, Disabled Persons’ Federation
Mr. Shao Daoxin, Deputy Director General, Information and Communication Administration Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China (MIIT)
Mr. He Guili, Vice President & Deputy Secretary-General, Internet Society of China (ISC)
Ms. Wang Zhiqin, Vice President, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT)
Prof. Shahbaz Khan, Director and Representative, UNESCO Beijing Cluster Office
Ms. Gunela Astbrink, Vice President, Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group, ISOC
Ms. Selina Yuan, Vice president, Ali Group
Prof. Su Wei, Dean, Research Center of Information Accessibility, Lanzhou University
Ms. Enya Chen, General Manager, Customer Research & User Experience Design Center, Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Company Limited
Mr. James Lu, Senior Manager, Device Software Product Marketing, Huawei Consumer Business Group
MODERATOR
Ms. Pei Wei, Deputy Secretary-General, Internet Society of China (ISC)
On Tuesday April 27 2021 at 7pm EDT (23:00 UTC) the Accessibility NYC Meetup (A11yNYC) hosts an online meetup ‘Accessing Innovation‘. Humanity is innovating faster and more than ever before. Cat Noone, co-founder and CEO of Stark, will give an overview of: The misconceptions about accessibility; Bottlenecks in the product development process; Tips to getting started right now; How organizations profit when all of their customers benefit. Stark believes everyone deserves access to that innovation, and that’s why their mission is to build software that helps teams make the world’s products accessible.
On Thursday April 15 2021 at 18:30 EDT / 22:30 UTC / 07:30 JST(Fri) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Meeting in Multiple Dimensions: Reality for Audiences with Mixed Abilities‘ on Mozilla Hubs. Presenter Jonathan de Armas will walk us through a timeline of accessibility in group meeting software, including some of the recent XR offerings. He will touch on today’s fractured landscape of 2D and 3D tools following 2020’s online collaboration boom. Through a few examples, he will explore challenges and strategies as we engage audiences of mixed abilities with the tools available today.
PRESENTERS Jürg Lauber, PR Switzerland Stephanie Borg Psaila, Diplo Katarina Andjelkovic, Diplo Jovan Kurbalija, Diplo Andrijana Gavrilovic, Diplo Marco Lotti, Diplo Amrita Choudhry Hanane Boujemi Grace Mtung’u Ana Maria Corrêa
MODERATORS Vladimir Radunovic, Diplo Su Sonia Herring, Diplo
Arnaud Laprévote,On Wednesday March 31 2021, at 10:00-11:00 CEST (08:00-09:00 UTC)Encryption Europe invites experts from Fair&Smart and Lybero to discuss how three crucial components will interact to protect the future of Europe: Encryption, the Cloud, and the GDPR. The future is not as unpredictable as we may think. We know that the future of Europe relies on our capacity to innovate and keep innovation at home. We also know that people and businesses in Europe will care about the privacy and protection of their valuable data. And that cloud providers will play a crucial role in hosting our data at scale and cost-effectively. For all these reasons, we can safely say that our data will be processed in the cloud, under the legal safeguard of the GDPR, and enforced by strong encryption without backdoors. But there will be challenges for all organizations: from a technical point of view, how to handle encryption keys? how to handle backups and restoration? Is it compatible with web applications? And from a legal point of view: will our current processes and practices compatible with GDPR? how to protect data while allowing internal and external controls?
PRESENTATION Arnaud Laprêvote, Lybero
ROUNDTABLE Eric Bedell, Franklin Templeton Xavier Lefevre, CEO – Fair&Smart Christophe Buschmann, Commissioner – CNPD founder and CEO – Lybero
MODERATOR Jean-Christophe Le Toquin, Coordinator, Encryption Europe
Internet Society Fundamentals aims to develop new community leaders equipped to tell data-driven stories about the Internet Society’s key projects. This will equip members to work with their Chapters to create local awareness, extending the reach of our work for an Internet as a force for good.
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