In August 2014 the United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution 68/302 on the modalities for the overall review by the Assembly of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society – aka WSIS+10 – decided that that the overall review will be concluded by a two-day high-level meeting of the Assembly, to be preceded by an intergovernmental preparatory process that also takes into account inputs from all relevant stakeholders. Under the roadmap that preparatory process takes place this week in NYC and, while registration to attend in person is closed, remote participation is available via webcast & twitter.
On June 26 2015, the Brookings Institution presented Maximizing the benefits of broadband in Washington DC. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler spoke, and then sat down with Blair Levin, former Executive Director of the National Broadband Plan, for a discussion. Video is below.
On Tuesday June 23 2015 the Internet Society held a Chapters & Members Meeting at ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The meeting was a chance for members and Chapter representatives to interact with ISOC staff, leaders and ISOC Board Trustees as well as learn more about upcoming opportunities for engagement, and included an “Interactive substantive programme” with remote participation, which was also be webcast live via the Internet Society Livestream Channel. Video is below.
The 53rd meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN 53) is taking place June 21-25 2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Remote participation/webcast is available via Adobe Connect. Live english transcription plus 7 languages of audio streams are also available. Buenos Aires, Argentina is on ART, one hour ahead of NYC (UTC+5)
On Monday June 15 2015 the OpenITP Techno-Activism Third Monday presented Libraries, Digital Privacy, & Data Literacy – a conversation about the impact of surveillance and data collection on citizens, specifically on disadvantaged communities. Learn more about the privacy and data issues that librarians face in their work and new efforts to empower them to address these issues. Libraries are among the most trusted institutions in their communities, making librarians uniquely positioned to prepare patrons for the privacy challenges brought about by the pervasiveness of data sharing, profiling, DRM, third-party platforms, and surveillance technologies. Individuals with the greatest digital literacy needs are also the most vulnerable to abuses of personal data, creating an even more urgent need for libraries to address these issues. Librarians are prepared to meet this need. Join us for an informal conversation highlighting new efforts afoot to train librarians in digital privacy and data literacy. We are bringing together librarians, policy advocates, technologists, and the communities they all serve to further bridge not just the digital divide but the privacy digital divide. Panel: Melissa Morrone, public librarian, Brooklyn; Seeta Peña Gangadharan, senior research fellow,Open Technology Institute; Bonnie Tijerina, Data & Society Fellow; Alycia Sellie, Associate Librarian for Collections, Graduate Center Library. Moderator: Audrey Evans, Head of Research, Dollar a Day, Inc. Video is below.
Today Thursday June 11 2015 at 2:30pm EDT the Internet Societyand the National Museum of American History present The Internet Age – Founders to Future in Washington DC. This Global Innovation Summit will examine the people and events that led to the creation of the Internet. Prominent contributors to the rich history of the Internet will conduct a conversation about the diverse elements that contributed to the creation of innovations and inventions that led to the Internet Age. The Internet is among the most powerful and influential “inventions” ever created. But where did it come from? Who were the people who first imagined it, and what are the inventive technologies that enable the Internet to exist? The evolution of the Internet continues as new innovations propel this global network of networks into seemingly impossible realities. Please join the National Museum of American History, the Internet Society, Internet pioneers, and digital natives for a lively conversation about the continuum of the Internet, from how it was imagined to where the Internet is taking us in the future. PANEL:Vint Cerf, widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since October 2005. Mr. Cerf was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012. Mitchell Baker is Executive Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation and the leader of the Mozilla Project. She is responsible for organizing and motivating a massive, worldwide, collective of employees and volunteers who are breathing new life into the Internet with the Firefox Web browser and other products. Ms. Baker was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012. David Farber played a key role in many systems that converged into today’s Internet. He is an Internet Hall of Fame inductee and the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania and Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Sebastian Thrun is a scientist, educator, researcher, inventor, and entrepreneur. Today, he is the founder and CEO of Udacity, a company dedicated to democratizing learning for everyone. Udacity has almost 4 million students in over 190 countries. The event will be webcast on the Smithsonian Ustream channel, relayed on the Internet Society Livestream Channel. An edited version will be repackaged for educational use by the museum’s Education Outreach team and ISOC.
I worked with Dr. David Farber-“Grandfather of the Internet” when he was on the faculty of the University of Delaware and I was the IBM Corp. Account Manager from 1981 to 1987. It was
the highlight of my 35 year career with “Big Blue” when it was “top of the charts”. JOE MELLOY
Today Tuesday June 9 2015, marking 20 years of the Internet in Sri Lanka, INET Colombo 2015 will celebrate this milestone, looking back on how the Internet came into being in Sri Lanka, investigating how it has affected the society and envisioning the future promises. The event brings together bring together over 300 participants from the Government agencies, Internet service providers, mobile operators, academic institution, banks, ICT entrepreneurs, commercial companies and general public. The live webcast is being relayed through and archived at the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
Today Thursday June 4 2015 and tomorrow Friday June 5 2015 the 12th Annual Personal Democracy Forum will be held at NYU’s Kimmel Center. This year the theme is Imagine All The People: The Future of Civic Tech. As usual a stellar line up of speakers from around the globe will take turns to address the assembly on the latest concepts in civic tech, including Nanjira Sambuli of iHub Nairobi and Sunil Abraham of CIS Bangalore. The plenary sessions will be webcast live via Major League Baseball Advanced Media,
Today Tuesday June 3 2015 the the Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-DC) presents MONEY 2020: #Bitcoin and Beyond at WeWork Chinatown in Washington DC. Is Bitcoin the future of digital money or will there be a Bitcoin 2.0–or something totally different? What are the technological, legal, and regulatory challenges posed by Bitcoin and similar forms of digital money? Will digital money make friction-free e-commerce possible around the globe or will laws to limit money laundering and sales of illegal goods and services limit anonymous “digital cash.” PANEL: James J. Angel, Ph.D., CFA, Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; Catherine D. Pelker, Federal Bureau of Investigation; John Collins, Head of Government Affairs, Coinbase; Peter Van Valkenburgh, Research Director, Coincenter. Moderator: Timothy B. Lee, Senior correspondent at Vox.com. The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
In August 2014 the United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution 68/302 on the modalities for the overall review by the Assembly of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society – aka WSIS+10 – decided that that the overall review will be concluded by a two-day high-level meeting of the Assembly, to be preceded by an intergovernmental preparatory process that also takes into account inputs from all relevant stakeholders. Under the roadmap that preparatory process takes place this week in NYC and, while registration to attend in person is closed, remote participation is available via webcast & twitter.
Joly MacFie is discussing. 
JOE MELLOY is discussing. 
Joly MacFie 10:47 am on July 2, 2015 Permalink |
UPDATE: Today’s session has just started. The webcast link is at http://webtv.un.org/live-now/watch/general-assembly-informal-consultations-with-all-relevant-stakeholders-of-the-world-summit-on-the-information-society-in-advance-of-the-high-level-meeting-of-the-general-assembly-in-december-2015/1665870036001 and the hashtag to ask questions is #askwsis10 = https://twitter.com/hashtag/askWSIS10
Wednesday’s session is archived at http://webtv.un.org/watch/information-session-on-the-world-summit-on-the-information-society-wsis-beyond-2015-building-upon-multistakeholder-consensus-based-outcomes-documents-of-the-itu-and-unesco-hosted-wsis10-review-events/4333064101001