Today Friday October 30 2015 and tomorrow Saturday October 31 2015 the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees is meeting in Yokohama prior toIETF 94. Proceedings will include planning for InterCommunity 2016 and a 25th Anniversary event in 2017. Remote participation is available. Japan is UTC+7) 13 hours ahead of NYC.
Today Friday October 30 2015 the Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society(ISOC-DC) will present, as part of its Internet Policy Forum series, Are You Happy With Your Internet? A Discussion about Broadband Competition with Blair Levin. Levin, currently a Brookings Non-Resident Fellow, will talk about policies for intensifying competition in the broadband era. Based on lessons learned as a senior government official in the development and aftermath of the 1996 Telecom Act and the 2010 National Broadband Plan, as well as working with such efforts as Gig.U and Republic Wireless, Levin will outline a framework for what society should want competition to deliver, where competition comes from and the current policy levers most likely to intensify competition. Respondents will be James Baller, President, Baller Herbst Stokes & Lide PC, and Hal Singer, Principal at Economists Incorporated, and a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute. The event will be webcast live on both Livestream and Youtube.
Today Friday October 30 2015 the Software Freedom Law Center’s Annual Fall Conference takes place at Columbia Law School. This year’s full day event has the theme “FOSS and Global Entrepreneurialism“. Speakers include Eben Moglen and Mishi Choudhary. There will be a live webcast.
On October 19 2015 the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce and Google NYC presented Data-Driven Innovation in Manhattan, an afternoon conference to discuss how Manhattan organizations are using data to solve really big problems and improve people’s lives. Keynote speaker was Rachel Haot – Chief Digital Officer and Deputy Secretary for Technology, New York State. After which there were 3 panels 1) Data for Smarter Cities: the various ways that people and organizations are turning data into insights that help power the city; 2) Data for Small Businesses & Startups: homegrown data-driven business models that are revolutionizing various industries; and 3) Data for Social Good: how organizations are harnessing the power of data to make a difference. The entire event is posted as a video on the MCC YouTube Channel.
offers a stark, and concerning, view on the current status of online freedoms. Out of the 65 countries assessed, the report concludes that Internet freedom in the world has declined for the sixth consecutive year. Governments that had already expanded their arsenal of tools for controlling the online sphere are now strengthening their application of these methods
The report is being launched with a panel discussion with speakers Gady Epstein of The Economist, Eileen Donahoe of Human Rights Watch, Chinmayi Arun of the Centre for Communication Governance, and activists Grace Githaiga and Tetyana Lokot. The event is being webcast live via the Freedom House YouTube Channel.
On Friday October 30 2015 Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs will present a lunchtime panel The High Politics of Internet Governance: Global Policy Conflicts a Decade after the World Summit on the Information Society. On December 15-16 in New York, the United Nations is convening a General Assembly High-Level Meetingto review the goals of the World Summit on the Information Society after a decade (WSIS+10) and to craft a future vision for the information society. Input from various stakeholders has raised questions about the future of the Internet and who will run it. This Columbia SIPA panel will explain the implications of this dialog for Internet sustainability, security, and freedom, and how this high-level discussion connects to the planned transition of U.S. oversight in Internet governance. Moderator: Merit Janow, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University. Panel: Laura DeNardis, Professor, American University, and Senior Research Scholar, Columbia SIPA; Gordon Goldstein, Managing Director and Head of External Affairs, Silver Lake Group; Ambassador David Gross, Partner, Wiley Rein; Veni Markovski, Vice President, ICANN; Ambassador Janis Mazeiks, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Latvia to the United Nations; H. E. Lana Nusseibeh, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the United Nations. The event will be webcast live via the Columbia SIPA Livestream Channel.
On Tuesday, October 20, 2015, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University presented Property Law and the Blockchain, a talk by Patrick Murck, co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation.This isthe first of series that aims to explore unpacks the legal complications of this fascinating new technology. Video is below.
Today Saturday October 24 2015 and tomorrow Sunday October 25 2015 the inaugural Radical / Networks conference will take place at NYU Magnet in Brooklyn. GOALS: To understand how communications technology can be used as a method of control and how to subvert that. Teach people how to use networking technology for themselves. Encourage creative and social exploration with computer networks. IDEALS: Promoting free and open networks built with free and open hardware and software. Decentralizing the control of where networks exist and what and whom are served by them. Maintaining control of our own content, hardware, and means of deployment. Community and free expression first. The Lecture track of the event will be webcast live via theInternet Society Livestream Channel.
Today Friday October 30 2015 and tomorrow Saturday October 31 2015 the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees is meeting in Yokohama prior to IETF 94. Proceedings will include planning for InterCommunity 2016 and a 25th Anniversary event in 2017. Remote participation is available. Japan is UTC+7) 13 hours ahead of NYC.
Today Friday October 30 2015 the 
Today Saturday October 24 2015 and tomorrow Sunday October 25 2015 the inaugural
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