Month: August 2017

8:07 am on August 5, 2017 · legal hackers (13)

WEBCAST SAT/SUN: 2017 Legal Hackers International Summit #legalhack #legalhack2017

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livestreamOn Sat/Sun Aug 5-6 2017 third annual Legal Hackers International Summit will be held at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP in Brooklyn, NY. Summit will convene Legal Hackers organizers and legal-innovation thought leaders from around the world to share experiences and knowledge and to chart the path ahead for the Legal Hackers movement. Legal Hackers groups participating include Dubai, Nigeria, Singapore, Kiev, Scotland, Columbia, Toronto, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York. Keynoter is Keynote: Cori Zarek, Senior Tech Policy Fellow, Mozilla, & former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer. The event will webcast live on the Legal Hackers YouTube Channel as below. All times EDT (UTC-4)

Sat Aug 5
09:45 Welcome & Morning Keynote – https://youtu.be/YshYKZAK3Xw
10:40 Morning Presentations – https://youtu.be/4XuZwqvIHME
12:30 Lunchtime Keynote & Sunday Previews – https://youtu.be/j_V4byNpYnA
13:00 Early-Afternoon Presentations – https://youtu.be/T6Ik6Efkmic
15:40 Late-Afternoon Presentations – https://youtu.be/QnZvGtrWO0Q

Sun Aug 6
10:00 Day 2 Morning Workshops – https://youtu.be/-EGIUqhFKAY
12:30 Legal Hackers Forward-Looking Presentations – https://youtu.be/2yTe21cWnfI
13:30 Closing Remarks – https://youtu.be/c9zOV6YL4Ao

Agenda: https://legalhackers.org/summit2017/
Twitter: #LegalHack2017 http://bit.ly/legalhack2017

6:48 pm on August 2, 2017 · agtech (1), internet of food (2), IoF (1), IoT (52), iotny (8)

WEBCAST TONIGHT: #IoTNY 45: AgTech’s bright future: Growing food (and data) with #IoT

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livestreamAt 7pm tonight Wednesday Aug 2 2017, the Internet Society Livestream Channel will stream the 45th IoT NY Meetup recorded on July 17 2017. The topic this month is AgTech’s bright future: Growing food (and data) with IoT. AgTech spans indoor and urban agriculture, precision agriculture, closed-loop systems, and a growing body of IoT-enabled solutions. This month, we’ll hear from a panel of AgTech leaders who will discuss investor trends, prototyping, grower adoption, challenges and opportunities for the industry.Panelists include: Louisa Burwood-Taylor – Head of Media, AgFunder; Michael Fernandez– Lead Systems Engineer, AeroFarms; Jason Green– CEO, Edenworks ; Ron Hiller– Founder, BLX.io; Adam Wolf– Founder/CEO, Arable; and Ajay Kulkarni– Co-Founder/CEO, Timescale (moderator).


View on Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/iotny45

10:52 am on August 2, 2017 · a11y (127), a11ysig (75), dsnc (10)

Join the @InternetSociety DSNC member hangout 1pm ET Weds Aug 2 #a11y

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zoomThe 12th weekly Internet Society Disabled and Special Needs Chapter hangout will this week be at 1pm ET on Wednesday Aug 2 2017. Please join and share your #a11y interests. We will be again be discussing the upcoming transition from Chapter to SIG. Also we will feature a newly captioned version of Vint Cerf‘s IGF-USA keynote. Sorry, there will be no live captioning this week.

What: Internet Society Disabled & Special Needs Chapter Weekly Hangout
When: Wednesday Aug 2 2017 – 1pm-2pm EDT | 17:00-18:00 UTC
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/623946888
iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,623946888# or +16465588656,623946888#
Telephone: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) – Meeting ID: 623 946 888
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=GbFzjTFwFH1PFm1Ly8Nem33t7jnICnUn

3:31 pm on August 1, 2017 · chris mitchell (1), mignon clyburn (7), rural (6)

VIDEO: Appalachian Ohio-West Virginia Connectivity Summit @communitynets @Broadband4App @RuralAssembly @

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APPALACHIAN OHIO-WEST VIRGINIA CONNECTIVITY SUMMITOn July 18 2017 the Appalachian Ohio-West Virginia Connectivity Summit was held at Washington State Community College in Marietta, OH. Keynote Speaker was Chris Mitchell, Director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative. After breakout sessions there was a plenary panel on Community Ownership Models. Video of both is below. FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn also spoke. There’s no video of that but a transcript of her prepared remarks is available.

Keynote Speaker – Chris Mitchell

View on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WSCCMariettaOH/videos/10154782856332919/

 

Community Ownership Models Panel: Letcher County, KY Broadband Board; Coschocton County, OH Broadband Project;
Garrett County; MD Broadband Project; Pikeville, KY Fiber-to-the Premises Project. Moderator – Marty Newell.

View on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WSCCMariettaOH/videos/10154783486877919/

* Itinerary: http://bit.ly/2vqfNAu (pdf)
* Background radio interview: https://soundcloud.com/woubdigital/episode-014-community-hooks-for-the-net (58 mins)