Today Wednesday May 25 2016 the New York Network Operators Group (NYNOG) will hold its inaugural meetup at LMHQ in NYC. The meetup features a panel discussion ‘The Big City, The Big Networks: NYC’s Current State of Network Infrastructure‘ which will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
The Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2016, or EMWCon Spring 2016, will be held Wednesday to Friday, May 25-27, 2016, in NYC. It will be a three-day conference featuring discussions of topics related to “Enterprise MediaWiki”, i.e. the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies, non-profits, governments and other organizations. The first two days’ presentations will be streamed live on theInternet Society Livestream Channel. The third day “creative camp’ workshops will not be streamed.
Today Tuesday May 24 2016 at 10am EDT (14:00 UTC) the the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee hearing titled “Examining the Multistakeholder Plan for Transitioning the Internet Assigned Number Authority”. The hearing will examine the proposed transition of oversight of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), a department of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that allocates Internet IP addresses and domain names, to the global multistakeholder community. Two years ago, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intention to transition IANA functions. On March 10, 2016, ICANN forwarded to the NTIA a transition proposal developed by the international community of Internet stakeholders. The NTIA set a target of 90 days to complete its review. Witnesses will testify on advantages and disadvantages of the proposed transition of IANA functions to the global multistakeholder community.
Witnesses:
*Mr. Michael Beckerman, President and CEO, The Internet Association
*Mr. Steve DelBianco, Executive Director, NetChoice
*The Honorable David A. Gross, former U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. State Department
*Mr. Rick Manning, President, Americans for Limited Government
*Mr. Brett Schaefer, Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs, Heritage Foundation
*Mr. Andrew Sullivan, Chair, Internet Architecture Board
On May 18 2016Vint Cerf was one of many distinguished speakers at the Washington Post’s Transformers live journalism event in Washington DC. Vint, sounding familiar themes, emphasized the need for robust authentication, and the capacity to minimize bugs, as vital for continuing Internet development. See video below:
From Friday May 20 through Sunday May 22 2016alt-AI will happen at the school for poetic computation in NYC. alt-AI explores artificial intelligence through the lens of artistic practice. What role can artists, writers, coders, and curators play in mediating scientific research to the public? How do we critically examine the implications, artifacts, and applications that follow. Various works will exhibited. The talks and performance at the event will be streamed live via the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
Today Thursday, May 19 2016 is the fifth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). Events are happening all over the world including NYC. The purpose of GAAD is to get people talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with different disabilities. The target audience of GAAD is the design, development, usability, and related communities who build, shape, fund and influence technology and its use. While people may be interested in the topic of making technology accessible and usable by persons with disabilities, the reality is that they often do not know how or where to start. Awareness comes first.
we are discovering that people with so-called disabilities also have interesting strengths we call “coolabilities” and these are often well-suited to particular kinds of work. Accentuate the positive!
Indeed, and one good example of this is the Open Steno Project, which is recruiting blind people as stenographers. It turns out that lifelong listening to screen readers gives one a remarkable capacity to process language. The blind leading the deaf one might say. See below:
On Friday 13 May 2016 the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School (Fordham CLIP) will host the Tenth Law & Information Society Symposium at Fordham University in NYC. It was the first of these symposiums in 2005 that originally launched Fordham CLIP. This conference will revisit the themes from 2005 to see how far we’ve come and where we might be going in the next 10 years. Speakers include: Daniel J. Weitzner (MIT), Kevin Werbach (Wharton), Felix Wu (Cardozo), Jennifer L. Pariser (MPAA), Catherine Crump (Berkeley), Judge Jeremy Fogel, Julie Samuels (Tech:NYC), and Andrea Glorioso (EU). The event will be webcast live by Fordham’s AV Team.
Today Wednesday May 25 2016 the New York Network Operators Group (NYNOG) will hold its inaugural meetup at LMHQ in NYC. The meetup features a panel discussion ‘The Big City, The Big Networks: NYC’s Current State of Network Infrastructure‘ which will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
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From Friday May 20 through Sunday May 22 2016 
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