Today, Monday March 18 2019, at 10am ET (14:00 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channel will webcast an edited version of Scott Bradner‘s recent presentation ‘A History of the Internet‘ at the Berkman Klein Institute in Boston. A veteran of ARPANET and the IETF, among Scott Bradner’s many roles are Internet Society Trustee from 1993 to 1996 and secretary of the Board of Trustees from 2003 to 2016. This talk provides a history of the reasons for and the technology of the Internet. It also presents some of the reasons that the Internet has had such an impact and some of the challenges that may cause the Internet of tomorrow to be significantly less revolutionary than the Internet to date. The presentation is followed by a vigorous Q&A.
Today, Wednesday March 13 2019 at 5pm EDT (21:00 UTC) WHCR 90.3FM‘s Community & Technology program hosts Stuart Reid, Lena Marvin, and Dave Burstein welcome Andrew Sullivan, CEO & President of the Internet Society, to the ‘Voice of Harlem’. The program will be simulcast on theInternet Society Livestream Channel.
In 1989 the world’s largest physics laboratory, CERN, was a hive of ideas and information stored on multiple incompatible computers. Sir Tim Berners-Lee envisioned a unifying structure for linking information across different computers, and wrote a proposal in March 1989 called “Information Management: A Proposal“.
By 1991 this vision of universal connectivity had become the World Wide Web.
Sir Tim spoke at both events, and both will be restreamed in full today Wednesday 13 March on the Internet Society Livestream Channel, starting at 09:00 EDT (13:00 UTC).
Today, Thursday March 7 2019, at 3pm EST (20:00 UTC) the Internet Society and Pew Research Center will host an event to launch groundbreaking research from Pew on how mobile technology is shaping communities and the Internet around the world. Mobile Internet usage is quickly becoming a primary means of access in many developing countries. The Social-Mobile Leap will explore the results of Pew Research Center’s upcoming study, Mobile Connectivity in Emerging Economies, on mobile phone usage and its social impact in 11 countries worldwide. The participating countries include Colombia, India, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Philippines, South Africa, Tunisia, Venezuela and Vietnam. The event will also feature a panel entitled Defining Internet access: How mobile trends are shaping online experiences in developing countries. Leading industry experts including Mozilla Policy Advisor Alice Munyua and Next Century Cities’ Executive Director Deb Socia will discuss how the findings can help inform sound policy on Internet access solutions for the rest of the world to get online.
Yesterday Monday 4 March 2019 the United Nations High-level Panel on Digital Cooperationhosted its monthly Virtual Town Hall hosted by Jovan Kurbalija and Anoush Rima. A mildly edited version of the Town Hall will be webcast today 5 March 2019 at 1pm ET (18:00 UTC) via ISOC.LIVE
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The High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation was established by the UN Secretary-General in July 2018 to identify good examples and propose modalities for working cooperatively across sectors, disciplines and borders to address challenges in the digital age. The panel will deliver a final report with actionable recommendations in June 2019. https://digitalcooperation.org/
The 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting was held in Washington, DC earlier in February with the theme ‘Science Transcending Boundaries‘. Attendees celebrated three scientific milestones: 1) 150 years ago Dmitri Mendeleev presented the Periodic Table to the Russian Chemical Society; 2) 50 years ago the first moon walk by Neil Armstrong, made possible by Apollo 11’s successful landing on the moon; and 3) the first ARPANET message was sent from the University of California, Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute. This early network became the basis for today’s Internet. In the case of the latter two, not only was a large cake cut and distributed, but also a panel convened of original ARPANET researchers/engineers Vint Cerf, Stephen D. Crocker, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock and David Walden. Today, Wednesday 27 February 2019 at 2pm ET (19:00 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channelwill restream that panel.
Today, Tuesday February 26 2019 at 2pm ET (19:00 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channel will restream AI and the Future of Employment. This Internet Society Canada Chapter (ISCC) event on November 20 2018 brought together thought leaders from the government, civil society and legal, financial and technology sectors to discuss what’s being done to ensure Canadians are skills-ready for industry demands with the digital transformation of business, in particular the advent of AI technologies. Speakers: Steve de Eyre – Head of Public Policy, Amazon.ca; Sunil Johai, Policy Director, Mowat Centre; Timothy Lane, Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada; Mandy Rennehan, Blue Collar CEO & Founder, Freshco.ca; Regan Watts, Head: Innovation, Citizenship and Government Affairs, IBM Canada; Vivian Ntiri, Litigation Associate, McCarthy Tetrault; Fawad Bajwa, Executive Director, Russell Reynolds Associates. Moderator: Jermey Depow, Vice President, Policy and Research, Information and Communications Technology Council.
Today, Friday March 22nd 2019 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM AST (13:00-19:00 UTC) the Barbados Chapter of the Internet Society is hosting the 2nd Annual Barbados Youth Internet Governance Forum with the theme “Smart Youth for a Smart Barbados“. The forum is a condensed version of the full Internet Governance Forum, but geared towards young people, ages 16 – 25. The event will be webcast on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
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