Earlier this month, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski released a draft proposal on “net neutrality,” a strategy that aims to address concerns about the way large Internet service providers manage their networks. Today, the FCC will hold a meeting to consider … Read the rest “Webcast: FCC decision on Net Neutrality is today #netneutrality”
Once again ISOC-NY is happy to be a community sponsor of the annual New York Technical Community Party, co-hosted by Bootup and Girls in Tech NYC, taking place this year at Suspenders, 111 Broadway NYC on Tuesday 21 … Read the rest “NY Technical Community Holiday Party 2010 – Tuesday 12/21 6.30pm”
I’m attending the NY Technical Community Party Dec. 21.
Melissa C. Beckman
The Wikipedia Day 10th Birthday Bash NYC is a celebration and mini-conference to be held on Saturday, January 15, 2011, hosted by ITP at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and also supported by Wikimedia New York City, Free Culture 
Here is a Wiki X promo video featuring Jimmy Wales:
Kevin Bankston of the EFF reports a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly … Read the rest “EFF: Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment #privacy”
Reaction:
In another 4th Amendment court decision this week the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Obama administration’s contention that the government is never required to get a court warrant to obtain cell-site information that mobile-phone carriers retain on their customers.
In an extraordinary meeting on 6 December the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) decided to create a Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) (http://www.intgovforum.org/) with a membership made up … Read the rest “The Future of the Internet Governance Forum – sign the petition to keep it multi-stakeholder! #igf”
A UN session: Consultations on enhanced cooperation of international public policy issues pertaining to the Internet was webcast on Tue 14 December: See archived audio/video below
Morning: (audio only)
Afternoon:
Baher Esmat, ICANN’s Manager, Regional Relations for the Middle East has provided the wording of the CSTD resolution as finalized on Dec 17 2010.
Final Text:
The Chair of the CSTD establishes a Working Group of 15 member states plus the five member states which hosted the IGF meetings plus the two member states which hosted WSIS. This Working Group will seek, compile, and review inputs from all member states and all other stakeholders on improvement of the Internet Governance Forum in an open and inclusive manner throughout the process
The Chair invites the following stakeholders to interactively participate in the Working Group, bearing in mind the the established rules of procedure of the ECOSOC, who will remain fully engaged throughout the process:
5 Business community
5 Civil society
5 Technical and academic community
5 Intergovernmental organizationsPursuant to the ECOSOC decisions 2010 226, 2010 22, and 2010 228, maximum possible assistance, the diversity of ideas, and the equal representation of stakeholders from developing and developed countries in the Working Group should be ensured in consultation with the stakeholders.
The report of this Working Group will be adopted by consensus.
In the last lecture in the ISOC-NY sponsored Computers & Society speaker series at NYU, Evan Korth presents Ken Perlin on the topic “The Future of Human/User Interfaces” at NYU on Monday 13 December 2010. This event will be videotaped … Read the rest “Ken Perlin – The Future of Human/User Interfaces – Mon 12/13 NYU”
I will attend Dec 13 330 session
On Dec 10 2010 the Personal Democracy Forum presented a Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom in NYC. Participants included Mark Pesce, Esther Dyson, Jeff Jarvis, Rebecca MacKinnon, Jay Rosen, Carne Ross, Douglas Rushkoff, Katrin Verclas, Gideon Lichfield, Micah Sifry, … Read the rest “Video: PdF Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom #pdfleaks”
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas, debate the role that connection technologies will play in statecraft and foreign policy, and how governments and businesses in the West should foster the spread and use of these … Read the rest “Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen discuss digital disruption in foreign affairs #google”
As the FCC’s vote on Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposed Open Internet order approaches on Dec 21, Christine E. Goepp of CommLawBlog has written a brief analysis that concludes he and his staff’s options are very narrow, with opposing forces on … Read the rest “CommLawBlog: Genachowski between rock and hard place on Net Neutrality #fcc #netneutrality”
Publisher Springer has made available pdf’s of a number of textbooks for free on their website including Guide to Wireless Mesh Networks and Guide to Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.
Pretty good deal considering the books are $89.95 otherwise!… Read the rest “Free Online Textbooks on Mesh and Ad Hoc Wireless Networks”
Michael Dabbene is discussing.
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