An article Moving Toward a Censorship-free Internet by Dr. Johan Pouwelse in the October 2012 IETF Journal follows up on a meeting at IETF84 in Vancouver that discussed various technical solutions to government Internet censorship of the kind seen in the Arab Spring.
Technologies include:
Bluetooth Transfer – offline peer-to-peer.
Musubi – distributed crypto-enabled smartphone IM app
In 2012 the Internet Society’s New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) will once again sponsor Evan Korth’s Computers & Society Speaker Series at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. This lecture series, part of an undergraduate course, are also open to the public (space is limited), and will be recorded for later webcast. The first talk, unfortunately, has had to be postponed due to the closing of NYU for the rest of this week – but it was to be Aram Sinnreich, Assistant Professor at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information, in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, speaking on the topic: “The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry’s War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties“.
You can still register at meetup.com and we will apprise you of the rescheduled date.
Blurb:
In the name of combating “digital piracy,” the music industry and its allies have spent billions of dollars to lobby for stronger copyright laws, shuttered hundreds of promising businesses, and sued tens of thousands of American internet users. Rutgers University Media Studies Professor Aram Sinnreich investigates the rationale behind these decisions, and explores their implications for free speech, civil liberties, and market innovation, in his soon-to-be published book, The Piracy Crusade. Ultimately, he argues, we are squandering our best hopes for a functional democracy and a thriving marketplace in the 21st Century in order to chase a phantom in an unwinnable war. Instead, we must focus on new laws, policies and economic models that reward and thrive on the free sharing of information in cyberspace and beyond.
Bio:
Aram Sinnreich is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information, in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies. Sinnreich’s work focuses on the intersection of culture, law and technology, with an emphasis on subjects such as emerging media and music. He is the author of two books, “Mashed Up” (published in 2010), and “The Piracy Crusade” (to be published in 2013), and has written for publications including the New York Times, Billboard and Wired. Prior to coming to Rutgers, Sinnreich served as Director at media innovation lab OMD Ignition Factory, Managing Partner of media/tech consultancy Radar Research, Visiting Professor at NYU Steinhardt, and Senior Analyst at Jupiter Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Southern California, and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.
On Thursday October 11 2012 the New York Technology Council and ISOC-NY hosted author Andrew Blum discussing his book Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet. Andrew’s book, prompted when his Internet was disconnected by a squirrel, accessibly examines the raw physical infrastructure of the network, and the people who put and hold it together. Video is below.
One point he made in the talk was that the only people that wouldn’t give him access to their inner workings were Google. Within days after the talk Google announced a new datacenter info website including a street-view walk-through their Lenoir NC data-center.
The Institute for Law and Information Policy at New York Law School is hosting In re Books: A Conference on Law and the Future of Books on October 26-27 2012. This one-and-a-half-day conference will bring together leading thinkers about law and the printed word. Speakers from academia, publishing, libraries, and the practicing bar will detail the sea change sweeping over publishing and debate how law should adapt. There is a live webcast, but it requires you to install Silverlight to view (Info: mac | pc). The webcast will be archived.
The annual Internet Days Conference is underway in Stockholm (Oct 22-24 2012). There is a live webcast, most of which – but not all – is in Swedish. Stockholm is 6 hours ahead of NYC, or UTC+2.
Jan Flodin of ISOC-SE is conducting a session on Net Neutrality on Wednesday at 15:10 (0910EDT|1310UTC) in which he will skype in ETNO President Luigi Gambardella. This session has its own twitter tag #ind12nn for submitting comments and questions.
The 56th meeting of the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) is underway in Dallas (Oct 21-23 2012). It will be immediately followed by the ARIN XXX Public Policy Meeting and ARIN Members Meeting on Wednesday October 24-26. Webcasts and some remote participation are available. Dallas is on CDT – one hour ahead of NYC, or UTC-5
Wednesday morning will be a joint session of NANOG and ARIN. At 11am (1200EDT|1600UTC) there will be a panel on Internet Governance that includes speakers: Sally Wentworth, ISOC; Vint Cerf, ARIN; Dan Alexander, Comcast; Chip Sharp, Cisco ; Bill Graham, ISOC What: NANOG 56 Where: Dallas Downtown Sheraton When: October 21-23 2012 Program: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog56/agenda.php Webcast: http://www.kikaua.com/clients/nanog/ Twitter: #nanog56
An ION Conference is taking place today 19 October 2012 co-located with the Slovenian IPv6 Summit in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on. ION Ljubljana provides hands-on DNSSEC training and high-level discussions related to IPv6 and DNSSEC to IT professionals, business leaders, and technology providers. There is a live webcast. Ljubljana is 6 hours ahead of NYC
On Friday October 12 there was an Internet Society North America Bureau Member Hangout featuring Marci Harris, CEO, and Rachna Choudhry, co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer, of POPVOX. Marci and Rachna described how POPVOX can be leveraged to learn about, track and influence the development of legislation with a focus on bills that have an impact on the Internet.
After viewing this, I have created a profile for ISOC-NY at https://www.popvox.com/orgs/isocny + posted neutral statements on both Internet Radio bills + added the POPVOX badge to our site at http://isoc-ny.org
The 45th meeting of ICANN takes place 14-18 October 2012 in Toronto, Canada. There are plenty of opportunities for remote participation. If you follow only one event, the Opening Session is recommended as new CEO Fadi Chehadé has promised to reveal a bunch of new initiatives.
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