On Monday January 31 2022 at 09:00-12:30 AST (13:00-16:30 UTC) the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) in partnership with the Government of Barbados hosts a webinar ‘Traversing the Metaverse – A Caribbean Perspective‘. In 2021 Barbados announced it would be among the first countries to open an embassy in the metaverse. It is estimated that by 2025 the global metaverse market will be worth 280 billion US dollars. This webinar will enable discussion that will assist in the formulation of policy, legal and regulatory issues in an effort to educate and raise awareness of the opportunities and challenges for, in particular, small island developing states (SIDS). This will allow the relevant stakeholders to advance regional initiatives and make the necessary policy interventions in the interest of ensuring the Caribbean is poised to provide global leadership in this emerging technological space.
On Tuesday February 8 2022 at 19:00 EST (00:00 UTC / 09:00 JST Jan 20) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Accessible Multimodal Input in Augmented Reality Training Applications‘ online. Ashley Coffey will share recent PEAT research on making immersive hybrid workplaces more inclusive and accessible. She’ll reflect on themes explored in an “Inclusive XR in the Workplace” white paper co-authored with the XR Association. Tim Stutts will share his design experience with multi-modal inputs (hardware controls, gesture, voice) and sensory feedback (graphical, LEDs, sound, haptics) for augmented reality head-mounted displays, touching briefly on his previous work on Magic Leap’s Lumin OS, symbolic input and surrounding accessibility efforts, before diving into current Vuforia Work Instructions applications for HoloLens, RealWear, and most recently Magic Leap, with the debut of Capture and Vantage applications to the platform.
The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society New York Chapter Accessibility SIG (A11ySIG).
On Friday January 28 2022 from 11:30-12:30 CET (10:30-11:30 UTC) Encryption Europe celebrates Data Privacy Day with a public debate to reconcile seemingly opposite views: privacy and encryption as enablers of security. The panel will aim to remind the community that privacy is not a given and must be defended, and that those who defend privacy do so responsibly.
SPEAKERS Patrick Breyer, Member of the European Parliament (Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, Pirate Party Germany) Didier Hoareau, CEO of OnePrivacy István Lám, CEO of Tresorit
MODERATOR Jean-Christophe Le Toquin, Coordinator, Encryption Europe
On Thursday & Friday January 27-28 2022 from 9am-1pm AST (13:00-17:00 UTC) the sixth Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum (TTIGF) will be held online. TTIGF 2022 has the theme ‘The Future of the Internet… What’s Next?‘. Day 1 has the subthemes ‘Building a Digitally Competent Society‘ and ‘Enhancing Internet Research, Data and Measurement for Development‘. Day 2 has ‘The Internet and the Law‘ and ‘Trinidad and Tobago’s Digital Transformation Journey – What’s Next?‘.
SPEAKERS Brian Longwe, Co-founder and CEO, Converged Technology Networks Emmanuel Kwarteng, Country Manager, MainOne Ben Roberts, Group Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Liquid Intelligent Technologies
MODERATORS Michelle Opiyo, Senior Network Engineer, Workonline Communications Jacob Dagunduro, Head, Technical Services, Internet eXchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN)
INTERVENANTS Brian Longwe, Cofondateur et PDG, Converged Technology Networks Emmanuel Kwarteng, Directeur national, MainOne Ghana Ben Roberts, Directeur de la technologie et de l’innovation au sein du groupe, Liquid Intelligent Technologies
MODÉRATEURS Michelle Opiyo, Ingénieure réseau principale, Workonline Communications Jacob Dagunduro, Responsable des services techniques, point d’échange Internet du Nigéria (IXPN)
INTERVENANTS Barrack Otieno, Networks/Directeur, AHERI Stephen Fosu, Responsable du département informatique de l’hôpital presbytérien de Donkorkrom Heiko Rehm, Fondateur de PYRAMITE Ltd
MODÉRATEUR James Gondwe, directeur fondateur, Centre pour la jeunesse et le développement (CVD)
On Tuesday February 1 2022 at 7pm-8pm EST (00:00-01:00 UTC Jan12) the Accessibility NYC Meetup (A11yNYC) hosts an online meetup ‘Google Project Relate: A Communication Tool‘. Pan-Pan Jiang of Google will introduce a new Android app called Project Relate, which aims to help people with speech impairments communicate more easily with others and interact with Google Assistant. Users record a set of phrases from which the app, via a library of more than one million samples, learns how to better understand the speaker’s unique speech patterns, and give them access to the app’s three main features: Listen, Repeat, and Assistant. Impaired English speakers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States are invitedto trial the app.
Today, Tuesday January 18 2022, at 6:15pm EST (23:15 UTC) in the 11th installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, on the 10th anniversary of the SOPA/PIPA Internet blackout, we feature a keynote by the late Aaron Swartz, ‘How We Stopped SOPA‘ from Freedom to Connect, Washington DC, May 21 2012.
On Wednesday February 2 2022 the ISOC-NY TV program is a two parter. First we have a press conference where NYC Mayor Eric Adams introduces new NYC CTO Matthew C. Fraser plus tech initiatives, then we have four civictech demos from BetaNYC’s Hack Night: intro.nyc, Testing Lines, WeGOV.nyc, and Block Party.
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