Today, Tuesday January 15 2019 at 7pm ET (00:00 UTC) NYC Mesh will hold its monthly Org Meeting at the St Francis School for the Deaf in Brooklyn. There will be a a few short presentations, including one from a member of Freifunk Karlsruhe, Germany’s mesh network, before participants break out into groups. The presentations will be webcast via ISOC.LIVE
The Digital Rights for Citizens online course was launched on January 15th 2019 and was live-streamed from Eurooppasali in Helsinki, Finland. Today, Thursday January 17 2019, at 14:00 UTC (9am ET)an edited version will be restreamed.
During the course, hosted byOpen Knowledge Finland (OKF), and funded by the Internet Society (ISOC) and the Finnish Foreign Ministry, students will learn about their new digital rights after the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came in to force on the 25th of May 2018, answering such questions as
– How can I stop irrelevant telemarketing?
– Why and how do companies use my Loyalty Card data?
– How can I find information on how organizations use my data?
– What benefits could I receive if I was able to receive my data?
– What would a society look like where I would be able to transfer MyData as needed?
Join us and learn concrete steps to make GDPR work for you! Know your rights and how to use them!
4 hosted webinars will be held on Tuesdays 22nd Jan, 29th Jan, 5th Feb and 12th Feb. Language will be both in English and in Finnish.
Today, Tuesday January 15 2019, from 9am-1:30pm ET (14:00-18:30 UTC) Next Century Cities, Public Knowledge, and the American Action Forum, will host Opportunities for Bipartisan Tech Policy – a half day event bringing together members of Congress, community leaders, and policy experts. Keynote conversations and panel discussions will work to determine key policy goals and action steps for the new Congress, with a specific focus on rural broadband and digital privacy legislation. Speakers include FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, Blair Levin of Brookings, Harold Feld of Public Knowledge, Will Rinehart of AAF, and Michael Calabrese of New America. The event will be webcast via ISOC.LIVE with AI captions.
Part celebration and part conference, the Wikipedia Day 18th Birthday Bash will be held on Sunday, January 13, 2019 at the Ace Hotel New York, hosted by Wikimedia NYC. One of a number of Wikipedia Days worldwide, the day will feature keynote presentations, breakout group discussions, lightning talks and yes, for those present, cake. More than 150 people are expected to join conversations about Wikimedia and allied projects presented by Free Culture Alliance NYC partners. The entire event will be webcast on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
On 10th January 10 2019 at 11:00 IST (05:30 UTC) the Internet Society India Delhi Chapter and CCAOI will host a webinar for ISOC Chapter leaders, select members, and other interested stakeholders, to clarify the rules plus the critical issues they raise.
On Tuesday January 29 2019 the Internet Education Foundation(IEF) will host the 2019 State of the Net Conference at the Newseum in Washington DC. As the 116th Congress kicks off, some 300 congressional staff and other policymakers will attend America’s premier Internet policy conference. Topic list: Commercial Privacy; Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms; Internet Policy on the Campaign Trail; Future of Work; The Internet Governance Cold War; Content Expression on the Internet Commons; Telecom and the Balance of Power; and more. Thanks to sponsorship from the Internet Society North America Bureau the entire three track event will be available via webcast on ISOC.LIVE.
Earlier today Monday January 7 2018 the United Nations High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation hosted a Virtual Town Hall. This comprised a briefing by co-Executive Director Dr Jovan Kurbalija and Senior Communications Officer Anoush Rima Tatevossian that covered the past month’s #digitalcooperation engagements, the first round of responses to the Call for Contributions, future events including the Panel’s 2nd meeting later in January, plus questions. A mildly edited version will be webcast tonight at 7pm ET | 00:00 UTC on ISOC.LIVE
Today, Sunday January 6 2019, at 7pm EST (00:00 UTC), in the twelfth and final installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights we feature a session from the Indigenous Connectivity Summit 2018 – Speaking with a Strong Voice – Advocating for Policy That Works for Us. Wrapping up the two day event in Inuvik, Katie Watson moderates Brian Beaton, First Mile Connectivity Consortium; Lia Kiessling, Senior Director, Strategic Communications, Internet Society; Madeleine Redfern, Mayor, City of Iqaluit; Matt Rantanen, Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association; Linnea Dick, We Matter Campaign; as they discuss how to best leverage civic influence on behalf of community connectivity.
Today, Saturday January 5 2019, at 7pm EST (00:00 UTC), in the eleventh installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights we feature two presentations from ISOC Portugal‘s “Welcome GDPR” event at the University of Lisbon Law School on May 25 2018 – the day the regulation came into force. First, Ceren Ünal, Regional Policy Manager-Europe, Internet Society talks about GDPR & IoT, and then Richard Hill, Vice-chair, ISOC Switzerland Chapter asks the question: Will the GDPR be Effective? and uses the Microsoft Ireland case as an example.
Today, Tuesday January 15 2019 at 7pm ET (00:00 UTC) NYC Mesh will hold its monthly Org Meeting at the St Francis School for the Deaf in Brooklyn. There will be a a few short presentations, including one from a member of Freifunk Karlsruhe, Germany’s mesh network, before participants break out into groups. The presentations will be webcast via ISOC.LIVE
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