Today, Wednesday Jul 31 2013, the ISOC-NY TV show will present an edited version of the NYC Digital Roadmap listening session in Brooklyn, which includes a presentation from NYC Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot. The show, which airs from 2-3pm, may be viewed via Manhattan Cable or online via the MNN website.
What: ISOC-NY TV Show – NYC Digital Roadmap listening session in Brooklyn Where: Manhattan Neighborhood Network When: Wednesday Jul 31 2013 2pm-3pm EDT | 1800-1900 UTC Manhattan Cable: TWC 56 | RCN 83 | FiOS 34 Webcast: http://www.mnn.org/live/2-lifestyle-channel
Today, Tuesday July 30 2013 the Internet Society will present a briefing panel at IETF 87 in Berlin, topic: “Improving Internet Experience: All together, now.” As Internet use and user expectations grow, it is natural that network and service providers, as well as software developers, are all looking to provide the best experience possible for their users and customers. However, performance issues (especially those related to transient congestion) tend to have collateral effects. This is a case where local optimization strategies may, in fact, not lead to globally optimal network performance for a given activity. In fact, server or client software developers’ assumptions about network conditions may lead to disastrously wrong choices in managing network traffic if software elsewhere in the network is making different and countervailing assumptions and choices.This panel will explore some of the different approaches being developed, between website, network transport and server developers, their assumptions about network performance and potential collision of strategies. Panelists will also further elaborate existing work in measuring and developing (and deploying!) standards-based transport layer strategies for robustly improving overall performance. Speakers include Stuart Cheshire of Apple, Jason Livingood of Comcast, and Patrick McManus of Mozilla. Internet Society Chief Internet Technology Officer Leslie Daigle will moderate. The session will be webcast live via the Internet Society livestream channel and an audio feed will also be available.
This coming week the 87th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is taking place in Berlin, Germany. As in the past, the Internet Society has published our “Rough Guide to IETF 87“. This document reflects our interests and what we see as the important topics related to the technology priorities we have an an organization. Our Deploy360 team will be participating in the working groups related to IPv6, DNSSEC, and routing resiliency and security. There are plenty of opportunities for remote participation that you will allow you to listen to what is going on and to provide comments.
Today, July 26 2013 the 4th Kenya Internet Governance Forum ( will take place in Nairobi. The Kenya Internet Governance Forum (KIGF) provides stakeholders drawn from the Government, Private Sector, Civil Society, Academia and the Internet Community with an opportunity to increase their understanding of ICT and Internet Governance issues that are pertinent to the country. By correlating these issues with socio-economic, political, culture and development will strengthen the Internet Governance community of practice evolving in the East African region. Remote participation is available via webex, and the event will be webcast live the Internet Society Chapters webcast channel.
On Wednesday July 31 2013 Google will host the Geek Street Fair in the 14th Street Park at West St. NYC. The Fair is a public event to highlight the City’s technology community and inspire New Yorkers of all ages to take interest in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. Participants include New School students presenting their Gadgiteration projects.
Developers Harlo Holmes and Bryan Nunez of the Guardian Project presented the InformaCam software library at Techno-Activism 3rd Monday at the Calyx Institute NYC on July 15 2013. Hosted by the Calyx Institute & OpenITP. InformaCam is an Android framework for verifying mobile media such as images and video. Created for human rights organizations, journalists and legal clinics, the tool automatically insures authenticity and preserves chain-of-custody for any image or video. Notably, since InformaCam is a developer library, it can be plugged into an organization’s existing mobile software, and sync media to a variety of third party storage solutions such as Dropbox. Video is below.
This week’s Internet Society North America members hangout featured an ICANN 47 wrap up report direct from Durban, South Africa, by Evan Leibovitch of ISOC Canada, who is also the VP of ICANN’s At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC). Video is below:
The NBS is a major component in ‘Vision 2030‘, a plan that seeks to provide Kenyan citizens with a lifestyle that is equivalent to that of a newly industrialized country. In 2013 Vision 2030, launched in 2008, is undergoing a re-invigoration by the administration of newly-elected President Uhuru Kenyatta. The strategy recognizes the requirements of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 that provides for information access to all citizens as a basic right, with a stated goal “Broadband connectivity that is always on and that delivers a minimum of 5mbps to homes and businesses for high speed access to voice, data, video and applications for development.”
The following diagrams give greater detail:
The NBS includes a list of 10 principles that include universal and open access, competition over shared resources, transparency, and the right to interconnect. Building and transportation regulations will be adapted to cater to infrastructure needs. Technical education will be enhanced down to the primary school level. Recognizing the need for local content as an adoption driver, Government agencies will digitize and make available their information, two “neutral” national data centers will be established, and a system of incubators promoted. The cost of the NBS is estimated at a little over $3bn USD.
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