On May 13 2011 The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) launched DigitalLiteracy.gov. The site’s goal, in partnership with nine Federal agencies, is to function as an online hub for librarians, educators, and other digital literacy … Read the rest “N.T.I.A. launches Digital Literacy Initiative #btop #education @NTIAgov”
On 8 June, 2011, the Internet Society will present World IPv6 Day. Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. … Read the rest “World IPv6 Day – Jun 8 – Wrap up meetup at NYU announced #worldipv6day #ipv6 #nyc”
ISOC-NY is happy to announce that this is a partner event in InternetWeekNY.
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ISOC’s Leslie Daigle appeared on the PBS Newshour later in the day.
A short video Cory Doctorow recorded for The Guardian called “Every Pirate Wants to Be an Admiral,” in which he lays out the case for a less-restrictive copyright as better for culture.
The 17th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council takes place in Geneva from 30 May – 17 June 2011. In preparation a number of reports have been filed, including one from Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection … Read the rest “UN Human Rights Council report on freedom of expression condemns Internet controls #netfreedom @UN_HRC”
The Internet Society has issued a press release in advance of the eg8 Forum in Paris. The release, issued in conjunction with the Number Resource Organization, the Internet Society France Chapter, ICANN, and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) calls … Read the rest “Internet Society issues #eG8 press release – emphasizes multistakeholder approach @InternetSociety”
The Broadband Bridge is a community based wireless mesh network program in the Bloomingdale & Eckington neighborhoods of Washington DC, supported by the Internet Society Community Grants Programme, to provide underserved people with free broadband wireless, computers, and digital … Read the rest “Video: Broadband Bridge community #mesh project in DC #broadband”
As revealed by the Level 3/Comcast contretemps late in 2011 the rules of peering are being upended as video becomes prevalent on the web and delivery networks own increasing degrees of backbone infrastructure. Peering itself is an esoteric subject. Here … Read the rest “Video: Peering 101 – primer from Fred Cannone of @TELEHOUSE #internet”
Mapping the Hood is conceived as a mapping initiative to define and empower New York City neighborhoods. It seeks to generate neighborhood maps by piggybacking on Transportation Alternatives’ 2011 Bikemonth. The maps will initially be displayed on NYCwiki.org, … Read the rest “Mapping the Hood Day – May 21, 2011 #NYC #nycwiki #bikenyc #gis #android @MappingTheHood”
The Internet Society, in collaboration with the ISOC Sri Lanka Chapter, will hold a regional conference in Colombo on 23-24 May, 2011. The conference, part of the Internet Society’s INET series of regional conferences, will be focused on the … Read the rest “INET Colombo – May 23-24 2011 Sri Lanka @InternetSociety”
Thank you very much for giving us publicity… we are so keen to explore opportunities and collaborations to deliver better internet experience for the people who are living in this region..
We will be webcasting it live.. I’ll share the link in couple of days
The twitter Hashtag is #INETcolombo
Cheers..!
Video of the New York Technology Council panel ‘The Pervasive Network‘ on May 3 2011.
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