Today, Saturday March 30 2019 a number of partners including Brooklyn Law School Legal Hackers present the main sessions of the NYC node of the 2019 Computational Law & Blockchain Festival – a global event series bringing together coders, designers, lawyers, policymakers, researchers, and students to co-create the future of law, legal practice, and policy. In the spirit of decentralization, the Festival is hosted at independent, self-organized nodes in cities around the world during the month of March. Today’s event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
The 60th Internet of Things NY Meetup was held on March 28 2019 with the theme IoT and the Future of Connectivity, comprising presentations form two founders: 1) Ben Forgan of Magic – a decentralized ‘supernetwork’ of shared hotspots, and 2) Ryan John King of FOAM – a blockchain-based secure proof of location protocol. The presentations were followed by a 40 minute Q&A session moderated Lindsay Hooper of TimescaleDB.
Today, Thursday 28 March 2019, at 11am ET (15:00 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channel will webcast a recording of a session Promoting Gender Inclusion for Community Networks in Africa at the Third Summit on Community Networks in Africa, held at Wild Lubanzi Trail Lodge, Eastern Cape, South Africa, took place on 3rd September 2019. Particpants discussed strategies on how to bring more women into the CN space and explore the silent/non-visible role that currently women play.
MODERATOR Josephine Miliza (TunapandaNET)
SPEAKERS Lilian Achom (AfChix) Kgopotso Magoro (AfChix SA Chapter) Ritu Srivastava (DEF India) Tonny Okwonga (BOSCO Uganda) Sol Luca de Tena (Zenzeleni Networks)
Today, Thursday 28 March 2019, at 10am ET (14:00 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channel will webcast an edited version of the Internet Society Women Special Interest Group (Women SIG) interactive webinar “Increasing diversity on the Internet” on International Women’s Day – 8th of March 2019. Watch to learn more about the amazing work that different organizations and ISOC chapters are doing to close the digital gender gap and achieve a better balanced Internet.
SPEAKERS Amrita Choudhury, APAC Lead, ISOC Women SIG Joyce Dogniez, Vice President Community Engagement and Development Zahir Qasraw, ISOC Palestine Lillian Achom, Women Connect Challenge Project Eduardo Tomé, ISOC Honduras Tripti Jain, Women in Tech Project Sarah Kiden, ISOC Women SIG Sarah Fratti, ISOC Women SIG Layal Jebran, Regional Community Engagement Manager, Middle East Ilda Simao, Grants Programme Manager Agustina Callegari, Co-Founder, ISOC Women SIG
Today, Wednesday March 27 2019 the Data Privacy Summit, Organized by Access Now, with support from Internet Society, Apple, mapbox, & Dropbox, will bring together privacy experts in Washington DC. An interactive dialogue will map the current data privacy debate, identify where consensus exists, narrow existing questions where more clarity is needed, with the ultimate goal of achieving a comprehensive, rights-respecting data protection framework in the United States. The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
Today, Monday March 18 2019, at 10am ET (14:00 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channel will webcast an edited version of Scott Bradner‘s recent presentation ‘A History of the Internet‘ at the Berkman Klein Institute in Boston. A veteran of ARPANET and the IETF, among Scott Bradner’s many roles are Internet Society Trustee from 1993 to 1996 and secretary of the Board of Trustees from 2003 to 2016. This talk provides a history of the reasons for and the technology of the Internet. It also presents some of the reasons that the Internet has had such an impact and some of the challenges that may cause the Internet of tomorrow to be significantly less revolutionary than the Internet to date. The presentation is followed by a vigorous Q&A.
Today, Wednesday March 13 2019 at 5pm EDT (21:00 UTC) WHCR 90.3FM‘s Community & Technology program hosts Stuart Reid, Lena Marvin, and Dave Burstein welcome Andrew Sullivan, CEO & President of the Internet Society, to the ‘Voice of Harlem’. The program will be simulcast on theInternet Society Livestream Channel.
In 1989 the world’s largest physics laboratory, CERN, was a hive of ideas and information stored on multiple incompatible computers. Sir Tim Berners-Lee envisioned a unifying structure for linking information across different computers, and wrote a proposal in March 1989 called “Information Management: A Proposal“.
By 1991 this vision of universal connectivity had become the World Wide Web.
Sir Tim spoke at both events, and both will be restreamed in full today Wednesday 13 March on the Internet Society Livestream Channel, starting at 09:00 EDT (13:00 UTC).
Today, Saturday March 30 2019 a number of partners including Brooklyn Law School Legal Hackers present the main sessions of the NYC node of the 2019 Computational Law & Blockchain Festival – a global event series bringing together coders, designers, lawyers, policymakers, researchers, and students to co-create the future of law, legal practice, and policy. In the spirit of decentralization, the Festival is hosted at independent, self-organized nodes in cities around the world during the month of March. Today’s event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
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