Today, Tuesday January 18 2022, at 6:15pm EST (23:15 UTC) in the 11th installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, on the 10th anniversary of the SOPA/PIPA Internet blackout, we feature a keynote by the late Aaron Swartz, ‘How We Stopped SOPA‘ from Freedom to Connect, Washington DC, May 21 2012.
On Tuesday 18 January 2022 at 2pm-3pm EST (19:00-20:00 UTC) Public Knowledge hosts a discussion ‘How Public Interest Values Shape A Better Internet‘. This month marks the anniversary of a series of coordinated protests that led to the withdrawal of two proposed laws in the United States Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). The panel will consider how public interest values have shaped the internet so far, how the internet has changed since the 2012 blackouts, and how the public interest community must ensure they continue building a better internet for everyone.
PANEL Catherine Stihler, CEO of Creative Commons Spencer Overton, President, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies April Glaser, Fellow of the Technology & Social Change Project Akriti Gaur, Resident Fellow, Yale Information Society Project
HOST / MODERATOR Chris Lewis, President and CEO, Public Knowledge
On 18 January 2022 from 3:00pm–5:30pm IST (09:30-12:00 UTC) CCAOI, CUTS International and ISOC Delhi host an online discussion ‘Data Protection Bill 2021: Deciphering Data Privacy & Rights of Minors‘. The objective of this discussion is to provide participants a better understanding of the provisions related to processing of data related to minors, the areas that need to be refined and then deliberate on what constructive regulations / codes of practice look like for minors’ privacy. based on the inputs from the session, a community document will be created on what constructive regulations / codes of practice look when dealing with data of minors.
KEYNOTES Dr Amar Patnaik, MP, Rajya Sabha & Member of JPC on PDPB’19 Manish Tewari, MP-Sri Anandpur Sahib
PRESENTERS Sreenidhi Srinivasan, Ikigai Law Sidharth Narayan, Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS)
PANEL S. Chandrasekhar, K&S Partners Uthara Ganesh, Snapchat Nikhil Pahwa, Medianama Aparajita Bharti, Young Leaders for Active Citizenship (YLAC) Amol Kulkarni, Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS)
HOST / MODERATOR Amrita Choudhury, CCAOI / ISOC Delhi
INTRODUCTION Bill Rockwood, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of Congressman Darren Soto
PANEL Tim Massad, Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Marta Belcher, Chair, Filecoin Foundation Jacob Hample, Director of Government Affairs & Policy, Blockchain Association
HOST / MODERATOR Tim Lordan, Executive Director, Internet Education Foundation (IEF)
On Tuesday 18 January 2022 at 11:00-12:30 EST (16:30-17:30 UTC) the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law hosts a webinar ‘Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout‘. Calls to regulate the internet more strictly are now commonplace, but a new report from Freedom House observes both the promise and peril of internet regulation. The global drive to control big tech thus carries a seeming contradiction: it can be an expression of democracy but can also support authoritarianism. On the tenth anniversary of the blackout of Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, and Mozilla in response to proposed internet regulation in the U.S., we ask what we learned from the SOPA/PIPA debates, take stock of where internet regulation stands today, and ask what internet regulations carry the most promise or risk today.
OPENING CONVERSATION Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia
PANEL Rebecca MacKinnon, Vice President, Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation Allie Funk, Senior research analyst for technology and democracy, Freedom House Vivek Krishnamurthy, Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law, University of Ottawa Konstantinos Komaitis, Independent Internet Policy consultant / Policy Fellow, Brave New Software Foundation
HOST / MODERATOR Anupam Chander, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown Law
On Monday 17 January 2022 at 12:30 UTC the Internet Governance Forum will host a ‘Roundtable on Teaching Internet Governance‘. Building on past and ongoing educational and training efforts, such as the summer schools on Internet governance, this round-table aims to engage with the multitude of approaches and formats of teaching Internet governance in academia, Internet governance summer schools, and specialized online Internet governance programs. Anybody who is involved with teaching and learning Internet governance is invited to join the conversation, which will inform the development of a modular syllabus that will allow others around the world to design their own Internet governance courses, summer schools, and other capacity building programs.
On Tuesday January 18 2022 at 19:00 EST (00:00 UTC / 09:00 JST Jan 20) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘A Voice For Virtual Reality: The Advocate’s Role‘ online. Two-time cancer survivor, Heather Bucalos, RN, knows firsthand of the benefits of VR for oncology patients. She used VR during her month-long hospital stay while being treated for blood cancer in 2020. The discomfort she experienced during cancer treatment led her on a search for better relief of common cancer treatment side effects. The idea to use VR during her own treatment proved beneficial for her as she is now a fierce advocate of VR in healthcare.
Conversations about digital accessibility are predominantly centered on the technical and monetary expenses of implementation in products and applications. Missing from these conversations are socioeconomic factors faced by people with disabilities that can be significant blockers to digital access more than any design or technical inaccessibility.
Crystal Preston Watson will dive into learning about the economic realities of disability in America and the repercussions of overlooking those realities in digital access.
On Thursday January 20 2022 at 4pm-5pm EST (21:00-22:00 UTC) the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center Queens of Code project will host a virtual session ‘Stories of NSA’s Computing Women‘. Queens of Code is a women’s technology history project that collects stories, experiences, and insights from women who worked in information technology at National Security Agency in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Laura Nelson, Kathy Jackson and Eileen Buckholtz will share their experiences of being technology pioneers at NSA as well as advice for students considering a STEM career.
Today, Thursday January 6 2022, at 08:30 EST (13:30 UTC) in the tenth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, we feature a session the Internet Society’s Fundamentals Series in April 2021, focusing on advocacy for encryption.
PRESENTERS Natalie Campbell, Director, Community Organizing and Public Advocacy, Internet Society Ryan Polk, Senior Policy Advisor, Internet Society
MODERATOR Nick Hyrka, Regional Community Manager – Europe, Internet Society
Today, Tuesday January 18 2022, at 6:15pm EST (23:15 UTC) in the 11th installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, on the 10th anniversary of the SOPA/PIPA Internet blackout, we feature a keynote by the late Aaron Swartz, ‘How We Stopped SOPA‘ from Freedom to Connect, Washington DC, May 21 2012.
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