On Thursday/Friday September 27-28 2018 the 5th International Open Data Conference will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This event brings together a diverse range of participants from the northern and southern hemispheres to define strategies to advance open data both globally and locally. All plenary sessions will be livestreamed.
Today, Thursday September 27 2018 at Noon EDT (16;00 UTC) New America, DiploFoundation, and ISOC-DC together present a panel – The Battle for the Global Internet . The coming months are filled with important processes that could play a significant role in steering the future the Internet, including the Internet Governance Forum, theITU Plenipotentiary, ICANN63, the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, and more. Some of these processes will pose significant opportunity to codify principles of freedom, openness, interoperability, security, and resilience, while others pose serious challenges to proponents of the same. The outlook will be discussed by Dr Jovan Kurbalija, Executive Director, Secretariat of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation; Robert Morgus, Sr. Policy Analyst & Deputy Director, FIU-New America C2B Partnership; Becky Burr, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer, Neustar; and Shane Tews, Co-Chair, Internet Governance Forum USA. Moderator is Dr Tereza Horejsova, Project Development Director, DiploFoundation. The event will be webcast live on YouTube and the Internet Livestream Channel.
On September 27-28 2018, the 5th Colombian Forum on Internet Governancewill take place in Bogota. The first day comprises an introduction to Internet Governance, and the second day a conference which will address topics such as Challenges of the Multistakeholder Model for Internet Governance, Digital Gap – Rural Access, Digital Economy, and Internet Human Rights. The event will be webcast live. Bogota runs on COT (UTC-5).
Today, Saturday September 22 2018 – which is also One Web Day – from 7:30am-2pm EDT (11:30-16:00 UTC) the2018 Global People’s Summit takes place in NYC, hubs around the world, and online. The Global People’s Summit purpose is to involve everyone, everywhere in a place can collaborate, share best practices, foster innovation, build community, celebrate success, influence global agendas, and find new ways to translate their vision into action —together online, with the ultimate goal of supporting and informing the effort to achieve the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Speakers include Internet Society President & CEO Andrew Sullivan. The event will be webcast live via YouTube.
On September 21 2018 at 13:00 EDT/17:00 UTC the Internet Society Livestream Channel will restream The Future of Employment in the Digital Economy – a conference that took place at Columbia University on Sep 7 2018. A critical issue facing the US economy is the transformative effect of the internet on the nature of work and employment. There is growth, innovation, productivity rise, and price reductions. But there is also offshoring, disruption, automation, squeeze of retailing, and others. These shifts have been exacerbated by new technologies and have affected the 2016 US Presidential campaign. This conference – a joint event of the Columbia Business School and Columbia School of International Public Affairs – began with the unveiling of a new book, Digitized Labor: The Impact of the Internet on Employment which addresses these topics, e.g. Is the Internet a net creator of jobs? What are the impacts on income distribution? How are job profiles changed by the digital economy? What models can facilitate adjustment without slowing innovation? Speakers, who included several of the book’s contributors, were Linda Bell, Provost, Barnard College; Robert Cohen, Fellow, Economic Strategy Institute; Haig Nalbantian, Senior Partner, Mercer Workforce Sciences Institute; Eli Noam, Professor of Economics, Columbia Business School; Lorenzo Pupillo, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels; Raffaella Rumiati, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the School of Advanced Studies of Trieste, Italy; Vincenzo Spiezia, Head of the Information and Communication Technologies Unit of the DSTI at the OECD; David Viviano, Chief Economist, SAG-AFTRA (Labor Union); Leonard Waverman, Dean, DeGroote School of Business, Canada; and Robert Atkinson, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
On April 21 2018, Konstantinos Komaitis, Director of Policy Development at the Internet Society, gave a talk – How decentralisation shapes the Internet – at TEDxThessaloniki. The Internet was built on the values of equality, non-discrimination, openness, freedom and liberty. Decentralisation was its central pillar, but this is no longer the case. In today’s Internet we see single points of failure emerging all the time. So, how can we fight the centralisation of the Internet? Konstantinos Komaitis gives us the eight fundamental characteristics that make the Internet the unique technology that it is today and he urges us to fight for it. See video below,
On Sept 7 2018 the C-SPAN Communicators series presented Harold Feld of Public Knowledge, and Berin Szóka of TechFreedom discussing social media governance. Host was Peter Slen. Video is below.
On Thursday/Friday September 27-28 2018 the 5th International Open Data Conference will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This event brings together a diverse range of participants from the northern and southern hemispheres to define strategies to advance open data both globally and locally. All plenary sessions will be livestreamed.
Today, Friday September 21 2018, sees the official launch of the 
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