On September 10 2015CoinDesk – the leading publisher of independent news and analysis on digital currencies and blockchain technologies – presented its inaugural summit – Consensus 2015 – at the Times Center in New York City. A packed house sat in as experts and leaders across sectors as diverse as law enforcement, bankers, Wall St, and civic activists debated real-world problems and the solutions that cutting-edge digital currencies and blockchain tech might offer. Now, 20 days later, on Wednesday 30 September 2015, you too have the chance to hear and see what went down as the Internet Society brings you a live playback of the entire proceeding.
Today Monday September 28 2015 the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), through the BroadbandUSA program, in conjunction with Next Century Cities will hold a one-day regional broadband summit, ‘‘Digital New England,’’ to share information to help communities build their broadband capacity and utilization. The summit will present best practices and lessons learned from broadband network infrastructure buildouts and digital inclusion programs from Maine and surrounding states, including projects funded by NTIA’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) and State Broadband Initiative (SBI) grant programs funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The summit will also explore effective business and partnership models. A webcast is available.
On Monday 28 September the Geneva Internet Platform (GIP), in partnership with DiploFoundation, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, the Federal Office for Communications of Switzerland, and the Internet Societylaunched the GIP Digital Watch, an online observatory of digital policies. The GIP Digital Watch maintains a comprehensive summary of Internet developments and provides access to the latest research and data on Internet policy developments and processes. Speakers at the launch event will include Dr Jovan Kurbalija, Director of DiploFoundation and Head of GIP, who will introduce the new GIP Digital Watch, as well as Kathryn Brown, President and CEO of ISOC, and Amb. Alexandre Fasel, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN. Video is below.
On September 16 2015 the IoT NY Meetup, in the run up to the World Maker Faire in Queens this weekend, presented talks by Arduino CEO Massimo Banzi and Maker Faire co-creator Sherry Huss. Clips of the talks are below. View the whole thing here. Tweets are at #iotny.
On Saturday September 26 2015 a11ynyc will present Accessibility Camp – NYCat NYU MAGNET2 Metrotech Center in Brooklyn. Speakers from different fields in accessibility will come together to share ideas, experiences, and knowledge. All things accessibility (not just websites) will be discussed. The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
On Thursday September 24 2015 at 6:30pm ED IoT Central held its monthly NYC Internet of Things Meetup at Work Better NYC. Industry leaders Kinoma and Mediatek presented their IoT development platforms. The event was streamed live by ISOC-NY via the NYC-IoT YouTube Channel. See below:
Today Thursday 24 September and tomorrow Friday 25 September the 2015 East Africa Internet Governance Forum (EAIGF) is taking place in Kampala, Uganda, with the theme “Thinking Globally, Acting Locally“. The one and half day meeting is a multi-stakeholder event that brings together representatives from government, civil society, academia, private and individuals interested in shaping discussion on how Internet is run in East Africa. The forum aims at creating a Community of Practice that will build a sustaining foundation for meaningful participation of East African stakeholders in Internet public policy debates at the national, regional and international level. The forum is being webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel. Kampala is UTC+3, 7 hours ahead of NYC.
Today, Wednesday Sep 23 2015, the ISOC-NY TV show presents the Apps Youth Leadership Academy (AYLA) Graduation Ceremony at the Grove School Of Engineering on the campus of City College on August 20 2015. Coached by Silicon Harlem in partnership with the Caribbean Cultural Center the students had completed the AYLA Summer 2015 course in which they developed augmented reality applications on the theme “Sheroes and Heroes of Harlem History”. Their augments recognized people from various walks of life such as Maya Angelou, W.E.B Du Bois, Bessie Smith, Althea Gibson, and Celia Cruz. These were all presented at the graduation ceremony.
From Ted Mooney, Senior Director, Membership Services, Internet Society:
Dear Internet Society Members,
We are pleased to invite you to the Internet Society Q4 Community Forum on Thursday 8 October, 2015.
As we are moving ahead into the year with major conferences that will shape the future of Internet governance, we want to prepare for the ten-year Review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+10, in New York, USA, on 15 to 16 December 2015), and discuss preparations for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF 2015, in João Pessoa, Brazil, on 10 to 13 November).
What are the likely and best outcomes for these two important conferences? What are the key areas of contention and agreement and what are the implications for the next 10 years? What can you do to advance and extend this important work?
Last March you, our community, indicated through the IG survey that the priorities are to make Internet governance easier to understand, and to develop and share best practices amongst countries and communities. With this in mind, The Internet Society is conducting a series of dialogues with its members, and publishing Policy briefs on issues at the heart of IG debates. Also, the announcement of the ISOC-GIP partnership, Digital Watch, amplifies the voice and reach of both organizations in a combined resource for Internet Governance practitioners.
Join us on 8 October! The proposed agenda is structured with a view to maximizing interactions between all Members and staff.
Webinar format (90 min):
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– High-level overview for each topic by ISOC staff (5-10 minutes maximum): IGF, WSIS and ISOC’s engagement
– Contributions from Members on IGF and WSIS+10, interactive dialogue for each topic (about 30 min per topic)
On behalf of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) I would like to extend the official invitation from the United Nations Secretary-General which cordially invites and encourages all stakeholders to participate in the upcoming 10th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, being held this year in the beautiful coastal city of João Pessoa, Brazil.
IGF 2015 takes place at a turning point in the history of Internet governance. The ten-year review of the WSIS is an opportunity to set a forward-looking vision for the Information Society, but also to discuss the renewal of the IGF’s mandate. Furthermore, with the Sustainable Development Summit, this year offers a unique opportunity for the community to articulate the value of ICTs and the Internet in supporting a people-centric and development oriented Information Society. Many of these issues will be at the heart of the IGF’s discussions.
Towards IGF 2015 Outputs
This year some innovative processes are under way, leading to tangible outputs:
‘Policy Options for Connecting the Next Billion’ exercise, which aims to create better synergies and create linkages between the IGF and National and Regional IGF initiatives that are mushrooming around the world. The process that has been put in place by the MAG strives to produce a community driven, bottom-up developed IGF output. It is direct response to the recommendation of the UN CSTD Working Group on improvements of IGF that called for more tangible outcomes from IGF. Information on how to contribute to this initiative in a variety of ways can be found here.
IGF Best Practice Forums (BPFs) are working to produce diverse outputs intended to become robust resources, to serve as inputs into other pertinent forums, and to evolve and grow over time on the subjects of: I. Developing meaningful multistakeholder participation mechanisms, II. Regulation and mitigation of unsolicited communications (e.g. “spam”), III. Establishing and supporting Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) for Internet security, IV. Practice to counter abuse against women online, V. Creating an Enabling Environment for IPv6 Adoption, VI. Enabling Environments for Establishing successful IXPs. All interested individuals and organizations are invited to join this community driven work. Information on how to join and participate in the BPFs can be found here.
IGF Dynamic Coalitions, some of which have been working since the first IGF in 2006, and others who have just began their work on important and emerging issues related to Internet Governance, are open to all interested stakeholders. This year some of the IGF Dynamic Coalitions will be presenting their work to the broader IGF community in a dedicated main session. This work will be available for public comment leading up to the IGF.
Presence of the UN General Assembly President (or his representative), as well as review co-facilitators (ambassadors of Latvia and UAE to UN in NYC) at the IGF, will provide significant relevance to this multistakeholder engagement.
Registration is now open via the IGF website. More than 1,000 representatives from Governments, private sector, civil society and the technical community, have already registered. Thousands more are expected to join both in person and through online participation. Newcomers and first-time IGF participants are also encouraged to participate in the work of IGF.
We look forward to working with all of you online and seeing many of you at the IGF in November.
On September 10 2015 CoinDesk – the leading publisher of independent news and analysis on digital currencies and blockchain technologies – presented its inaugural summit – Consensus 2015 – at the Times Center in New York City. A packed house sat in as experts and leaders across sectors as diverse as law enforcement, bankers, Wall St, and civic activists debated real-world problems and the solutions that cutting-edge digital currencies and blockchain tech might offer. Now, 20 days later, on Wednesday 30 September 2015, you too have the chance to hear and see what went down as the Internet Society brings you a live playback of the entire proceeding.
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Misheck Mutuzana 11:40 am on October 1, 2015 Permalink |
Thanks for the information and links.
Regards