At 7pm tonight Thursday Nov 30 2017, the Internet Society Livestream Channel will stream the 48th IoT NY Meetup recorded on Nov 9 2017. The topic this month was Blockchain in IoT. Decentralization, security, identity, transparency and privacy established by blockchain-enabled solutions have a range of potential applications in IoT. .Panelists: Kevin Chen – Evangelist, IOTA Foundation; Claire Curry – Head of Emerging Technology Analysis, Bloomberg New Energy Finance; Andre De Castro – CEO and Founder, Blockchain of Things; Steve Shapiro – Co-founder and CTO of Token; Bruce Weed – GM of IoT and Blockchain at IBM.
The GIP Digital Watch Internet governance briefings provide a ‘zoomed-out’ update of the major global IG and digital policy developments. View a re-stream of the November 2017 briefing at 13:00 EST (18:00 UTC) today November 30 2017 for a round-up of the major global IG and digital policy developments. Correspondents in Ghana, Caribbean, and Pakistan share regional perspectives.
What: Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group (A11ySIG) Hangout
When: Wednesday Nov 29 2017 – 1pm-2pm EST | 18:00-19:00 UTC
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/665487975
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: 665-487-975
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=GbFzjTFwFH1PFm1Ly8Nem33t7jnICnUn
The Internet Society is inviting applications for its Fellowship to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The Fellowship programme allows technologists, engineers and researchers from emerging and developing economies to attend an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting.
As you know, the IETF is the Internet’s premier standards-making body, responsible for the development of protocols used in IP-based networks. IETF participants represent an international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers involved in the technical operation of the Internet and the continuing evolution of Internet architecture.
Fellowships will be awarded through a competitive application process. The current selection round is for the following:
* IETF 101, March 17-23, 2018, London, United Kingdom
Information of the IETF fellowship programme (including expectations, selection criteria, etc.) can be found at: bit.ly/2xtyGSE
The application links for the Fellowship are as follows:
Before applying for the Internet Society Fellowship to the IETF 101 Meeting in London, please read the self-assessment guide and ensure that you are able to satisfy the requirements of the checklist.
Applications will close on 3 December, 2017 and successful candidates will be notified on 22 December, 2017.
We encourage you to apply for this opportunity or pass this information about the programme to individuals in your network that have a keen interest in the open standards development activities of the IETF.
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Niel Harper at harper@isoc.org.
On Monday November 27 2017 at 5pm, theInternet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) and the Columbia University Tech and Policy Series will present the ICANN 60 NYC Readout at the School of International and Public Affairs in NYC. Speakers, including Veni Markovski (VP of UN Engagement, ICANN), Judith Hellerstein (North America At-Large Organization), and Joe Catapano (Manager of Stakeholder Engagement North America, ICANN), will review the hot topics from Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) 60th public meeting, which took place in Abu Dhabi from Oct 28-Nov 3 2017. Topics will include the current multistakeholder system of Internet governance, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), updates from ICANN’s Cross Community Working Group on Accountability, the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), the debate over the .AMAZON top level domain, and also the role of At-Large Advisory Committee, which represents the broader Internet community. The session will webcast live on theInternet Society’s Livestream Channel. Please register on the SIPA website to attend in person.
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Interesting for every Venezuelan citizen. There are several issues around this theme: Bandwidth, freedom of speech, pursuit for twitting opinion, Dns block, Universities which have been bandwidth reduced, bigger ISP is owned by Government, low or null deploy of new technology (hardware, protocols (IPv6)) in that ISP and so on…
On Saturday Nov 25 2017, at 10am the Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY), with the support of the CSNYC+CSTA NYC Meetup will host a Workshop: Internet History for CS Teachers. In CS education there is currently a lot of emphasis on coding. Our aim is to, via Internet History, promote a wider understanding of open network infrastructure, its past, its values, and its future. This workshop will be conducted by Reuben Loewy, developer of the the ‘Living Online‘ Internet Studies curriculum in Princeton NJ. Special guest keynote speaker will be Internet Hall of Fame Pioneer inductee Prof. David J. Farber. Video from the workshop will be ISOC-NY’s contribution to the global Internet Society Digital Schools Chapterthon 2017. Lunch will be provided.
The Internet Society Board of Trustees congratulates our staff, our Chapters, and all of our members for coming together during theInternet Society’s 25th anniversary year to celebrate the past and to shape the future. This has been an important year with many accomplishments, including the global InterCommunity eventheld in September, which connected people from around the world and shone a spotlight on our work together. We believe this past year has set a foundation for the Internet Society to be an even more effective community and organisation going forward.
To prepare for the future, the Board — in consultation with the wider Internet Society community — refreshed our time-honoured and tested vision and mission statements. We believe the robust dialogue about our shared aspirations and goals reflected the passion and commitment of our community, and resulted in a reinvigorated statement of our vision and mission, consistent with our original commitment to an Internet that is for everyone. The updated Internet Society Mission Statement that we approved at our meeting is as follows:
The Internet Society supports and promotes the development of the Internet as a global technical infrastructure, a resource to enrich people’s lives, and a force for good in society.
Our work aligns with our goals for the Internet to be open, globally-connected, secure, and trustworthy. We seek collaboration with all who share these goals.
Together, we focus on:
Building and supporting the communities that make the Internet work;
Advancing the development and application of Internet infrastructure, technologies, and open standards; and
Advocating for policy that is consistent with our view of the Internet.
We also approved the organisation’s 2018 Action Plan, which focuses people and resources on innovative ways to make a difference in:
assuring Internet access for the hardest to reach places on the globe;
addressing security challenges emerging from the growing Internet of Things;
strengthening the global Internet’s routing system; and
promoting collaborative governance as tool to address a range important issues.
We also strongly agree with the 2018 Action Plan’s emphases on building a strengthened global Internet Society community and organisation, and on fostering key new initiatives that amplify the organisation’s ability to bring about change.
Finally, and importantly, as we work to #shapetomorrow and keep the Internet Society’s commitment to openness, transparency, and community-driven processes, we began exploring how to allocate the people, resources, and energies of the Internet Society for the future.
We agreed to work through a strategy for long term sustainability and impact. The Internet Society’s 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future, created through an extensive process of input from our community and beyond, will serve as a starting point for further dialogue to create a future-looking plan for addressing emerging issues of concern to our community.
It has been an eventful year, and we look forward to building on it in the coming years. We want to applaud our committed staff and its leadership for the good work they do every day to ensure that the Internet is for everyone.
Together, §230 and the Zeran ruling helped create a trillion-dollar industry centered around user-generated content. Because of its influence on such a key issue, the Zeran ruling is widely considered the most important Internet Law ruling ever.
Today, Saturday November 18 2017 the Cybernetics Conference will take place at Prime Produce in NYC. The Cybernetics Conference will take up the subject of information and agency; bringing scholars, technicians, activists, and artists in dialogue to consider the ways informatic systems shape social organization. This conference will ask how individuals and coalitions might develop strategies for situating themselves as effective agents of change within today’s complex information ecosystem. How might we move beyond a cybernetics of accelerated growth, and toward systems of interrelation predicated on cybernetic equilibria? The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
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