Month: November 2018

5:31 pm on November 8, 2018 · arthur c. clarke (6), Irwin Jacobs (1)

WEBCAST TODAY: @SirArthurClarke Unleash Imagination – #ShapeTheFuture Awards Dinner2018 #shapetomorrow

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livestreamToday, Thursday November 8 2018 at 7pm EST (00:00 UTC) the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation presents the “Unleash Imagination – Shape the Future” Awards Dinner in Washington DC. Unleash Imagination is an initiative to explore how imagination fuels the future. This year’s event includes an Intergenerational Forum, linking the challenges of humans on earth and in space as affected by and affecting climate change, an issue of great concern to Clarke Young Leaders. The forum will be followed by the presentation of Clarke Awards to: Life Achievement ─ Irwin Jacobs, co-developer of CDMA, co-founder and former chair of Qualcomm and philanthropist. Innovator ─ Jill Tarter, astronomer, Emeritus Chair for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, and seeker for an answer to “Are we alone?”; Imagination in Service to Society ─ science fiction writer, Cixin Liu, nine-time winner of the Galaxy Award and winner of the Hugo Award. The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel and Facebook.

What: “Unleash Imagination – Shape the Future” Awards Dinner
Where: Sidney Harman Hall, Washington DC
When:Thursday November 8 2018 7pm EST | 00:00 UTC
Agenda: http://isoc-ny.org/misc/Unleash-Imagination.pdf
Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/unleash2018
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clarkefoundation/
Twitter: #ShapetheFuture http://bit.ly/shapethefutureweets

1:25 am on November 8, 2018 · broadband (122), community (8), connecticut broadband (1), muni (10), next century cities (16)

WEBCAST TODAY @NextCentCit Connected New England – Local Solutions for #Broadband Development #ConnectedNE

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livestreamToday, Thursday November 8 2018, Next Century Cities hosts Connected New England – Local Solutions for #Broadband Development in Hartford CT. This one day event brings together broadband champions from federal, state, and local government, as well as community leaders and policy experts. Features include a mayors’ panel, successful models in broadband deployment, E-Rate and funding opportunities, 5G and small cells, as well as an update about the recent municipal gain ruling in Connecticut. The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.

What: Connected New England – Local Solutions for #Broadband Development
When: Thursday November 8 2018 9am-4:30pm EST (14:00-21:30 UTC)
Agenda: https://nextcenturycities.org/wp-content/uploads/Agenda_-Connected-New-England.pdf
Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ConnectedNE
Twitter: #ConnectedNE https://bit.ly/connectedne

3:37 pm on November 1, 2018

WEBCAST TODAY: Cryptocurrencies & ICOs – International developments & a look into the future @CITIColumbia @Columbia_Biz #ico #cryptofuture

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livestreamToday, Thursday November 1 2018 at 4pm EDT (20:00 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channel will webcast Cryptocurrencies & ICOs-International developments & a look into the future, hosted yesterday by the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information Digital Financial Services Observatory. Crypto-currencies and initial coin offerings have developed from a niche into a mainstream financial product. In this talk, after a brief introduction to blockchain principles, Prof Dr. Dirk Zetzsche, ADA Chair in Financial Law (inclusive finance) at the University of Luxembourg, presents cutting edge data from a database comprising over 4,000 ICOs from all over the world, provides regional breakdowns, discusses the need for future regulation, and examines the involvement of central banks in the governance of crypto-currencies.

View on Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/CITIDFS-ICO