Are NFTs disrupting IP rights? What is the NFT & IP connection? Senators Tillis and Leahy have asked for a study on NFTs and IP rights and, in response, the USPTO and the Copyright Office are holding roundtables and have released a Notice of Inquiry. New decentralized technologies are challenging the definition and scope of IP protections while empowering and inspiring small and large creators alike. What does this mean for intellectual property policy?
PANEL Jonathan Victor, Ecosystem Lead- NFTs & Gaming, Protocol Labs Sy Damle, prior GC Copyright Office, George Washington Law School Kat Walsh, General Counsel, Creative Commons Madhavi Sunder, Professor, Georgetown University Law
MODERATOR Hillary Brill, Professor, Georgetown University Law
Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have the power to change the experience of living with a disability. For example, image analysis can generate descriptions of places and images a person can’t see, and speech recognition helps many people to communicate, learn, or control their environment.
However, bias embedded into AI systems, when unchecked, can cause harm, often to people already excluded from technology development processes. For example, when someone’s voice is not recognized, they cannot take advantage of the accessibility provided by speech recognition systems like smart speakers and dictation software.
In this talk, Drs. Cynthia Bennett and Shari Trewin will go over contemporary concerns at the intersection of AI bias, accessibility, and disability, and share recent research and industry efforts toward inclusive innovation with AI.
On Monday January 23 2023 at 7pm-9pm EST (00:00-02:00 UTC Jan 24) the WordPress NYC Meetup hosts a presentation ‘Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mastodon (But Were Afraid to Ask)‘. Jason Cosper of Dreamhost will walk you through how federated social media sites like Mastodon work — and how, if properly motivated, you can set up your own Mastodon instance to run a small social network site for you and your friends.
On Thursday & Friday January 27-28 2022 the 7th Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum (TTIGF) will be held online. TTIGF 2023 has the theme ‘Creating a Stronger, More Resilient Internet for Trinidad and Tobago’s Shared Sustainable Future‘. The theme was selected to reflect the current climate in Trinidad and Tobago after being forced into a digital age.
01 Opening Remarks Tracy Hackshaw, Chair, Trinidad and Tobago Multistakeholder Advisory Group (TTMAG) Paul Mitchell, Chair, United Nations Internet Governance Forum Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) Dev Gosine, Chair-Elect, TTMAG
02 Keynote Dr. the Honourable Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, Minister of Education, Ministry of Education
03 Internet Resilience: Implications for Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean Kevin Chege, Director of Internet Development, Internet Society (ISOC) Kurleigh Prescod, Executive Officer Technology & Engineering, Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) Brent McIntosh, Chief Technical Officer, McNet-Solutions Patrick Hosein, Director, TTMAG Rodney Taylor, Secretary General, Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) Bevil Wooding, Caribbean Outreach, American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
MOD: Kim I. Mallalieu (PhD), Senior Lecturer, UWI
04 Future-proofing ICT in Education Dr. Peter Smith, Chief Education Officer, Ministry of Education Keith Laban, ICT Educator, Ministry of Education Pt. Shiva Maharaj, Educational Technologist & Founder, Director Chief Operations Officer, I.C.T. Expertz Ltd. Dev Gosine, Chair-Elect, TTMAG & Founder, WeXL.Online Andrea Kanneh, Manager Performance and Engagement Digital Skills Unit, Ministry of Digital Transformation Keith Nurse, President, College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT)
MOD: Jacqueline Morris, Director, TTMAG
05 Day 2 Opening Remarks Tracy Hackshaw, Chair, Trinidad and Tobago Multistakeholder Advisory Group (TTMAG)Y 1 – JAN 27
06 D.A.T.A. – Digital Acceptance, Transformation and Acceleration for T&T Wendell Mitchell, National Chief Digital Officer, Ministry of Digital Transformation Lequanne Collins-Bacchus, Senior Advisor, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Ravi Sankar – Partner, Head of Cyber and Technology Consulting, KPMG Caricom
MOD: Ken Sooknanan, Director, TTMAG
07 The A.R.T of Cybersecurity: Attacks, Risks, and Threats Vince Stewart, Director, CyberEye Caribbean Ricardo Martinez, Chief Revenue Officer, DigitalEra Group Anthony Peyson, President, International Information System Security Certification Consortium’s Caribbean Chapter ((ICS)2 Caribbean Chapter) Emmanuel A. Oscar, Manager Systems Engineering – Caribbean and Bermuda, Fortinet
MOD: Ajmal Nazir, Director, TTMAG
08 LACNIC Panel Sum-up & Regional Cybersecurity Culture Insight Kevon Swift, Head of Public Safety Affairs, LACNIC
09 Open Forum Tracy Hackshaw, Chair, TTMAG Dev Anand Teelucksingh, Director, TTMAG
On Thursday January 19 2023 at 11:00-12:30 EST (16:00-17:30 UTC) the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information presents a webinar ‘Whither the Internet Governance Forum?‘. There’s been much debate both within the IGF ecosystem and among governments (including EU heads of state), and in UN SG Guterres’ Global Digital Compact process, about the future of the IGF and whether and how it could be institutionally reformed to enhance its outputs and make them more politically salient. In 2025 the UN GA will decide on whether to renew the IGF’s mandate as part of its WSIS+20 review process. An expert panel will explore the options and prognosis.
PANEL Raúl Echeberría, Executive Director of ALAI, the Latin American Internet Association (Uruguay) Anriette Esterhuysen, Senior Advisor for Internet Governance, the Association for Progressive Communications (South Africa) Adam Peake, Senior Manager for Civil Society Engagement, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (the Netherlands) Flávio Rech Wagner, Emeritus Professor in the Institute of Informatics, the University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre (Brazil) MODERATOR William J. Drake, Director of International Studies at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
On Sunday, January 15 2023 from 1pm-5pm EST (18:00-22:00 UTC) Wikimedia NYC will hold Wikipedia Day NYC at Jefferson Market Library in NYC. Part celebration and part conference, the ’22nd Birthday Bash’ is one of a number of Wikipedia Days worldwide, and will feature keynote presentations, breakout group discussions, lightning talks and yes, cake.
PROGRAM 01 Greeting – Richard Knipel 02 Met Afrofuturist Teen Council – Zenzele Johnson + Soliel Hayes 03 CUNY LaGuardia Projects – Ximena Gallardo + Ann Matuuchi + Michael 04 The Birds of NYC Photo Contest – Ryan McGrady 05 NYC Parks on Wikidata – Wil Fyfordy 06 Panel: New York City outreach and education projects – Ryan McGrady + Michael + Ximena Gallardo + Wil Fyfordy + Zenzele Johnson 07 Introducing the Fediverse, Mastodon, and Wikis World – Legoktm 08 Wiki-Atlas 09 toolforge:fast-ec, a new edit counter – Enterprisey 10 Using the Wayback Machine for refs – Complex/Rational 11 Is this just a game for you? – Annierau 12 Leveraging Wikidata for Ethical Digital Reassembly of Cultural Heritage:the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive – Anne Hunnell Chen
13 A Series of Unbroken Links – Jason Scott
On Friday 13 January 2023 at 5:30pm-7:30pm IST (12:00-14:00 UTC) CCAOI and Grade Ace host ‘Match On! A discussion on online gaming regulations in India‘. Stakeholders from the gaming ecosystem (business, users, law enforcement and government) will examine the proposed amendments in the IT Rules 2021 in context of online gaming and e-sports, and deliberate on the path forward to make the gaming industry reach its true potential, whilst addressing challenges, risks and user harm.
On Thursday January 12 2023 at 2pm-3pm CET (13:00-14:00 UTC) the DiploFoundation will host its annual prediction event ‘Trends and Predictions for 2023‘. What will 2023 bring for digital geopolitics, AI, data, and cryptocurrencies? Will the ‘1998 deal’ on digital government still hold? What issues will dominate the United Nations and multilateral agenda in Geneva, and beyond? All these, and numerous other questions that will shape the digital landscape in 2023, will be discussed.
SPEAKERS Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Professor Emeritus, University of Aarhus Asoke Mukerji, Former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Katherine Getao, ICT Secretary, Ministry of Information and Communications, Kenya Richard Werly, EU correspondent, Blik Marilia Maciel, Head, Digital Commerce and Internet Policy, DiploFoundation Rodney Taylor, Secretary-General, Caribbean Telecommunications Union
MODERATOR Jovan Kurbalija, Executive Director, DiploFoundation
Aaron Swartzdied on January 11 2013, committing suicide while being hounded by US prosecutors over his efforts to liberate academic journal articles. He was known both for his coding skills, helping create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown, as well as his activism, founding ‘Demand Progress‘ and opposing SOPA/PIPA amongst others.
The December 13 2022 episode of the Light Reading ‘ Divide’ podcast featured Dan York, director of online content at the Internet Society, who joined the show to discuss the details of a new report called Perspectives on LEO Satellites. The program dives into the state of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband today, where LEOs are best positioned to solve connectivity issues, emerging challenges around capacity and affordability, what to expect as Amazon’s Project Kuiper goes live – and more.
Here are just a few topics discussed:
Using LEOs vs. medium-Earth orbit (MEO) and geostationary orbit (GEO) satellites for Internet connectivity (1:55)
Best use cases for satellite broadband so far (4:55)
Whether government funding should be used on satellite broadband (11:24)
What to draw from Starlink’s capacity challenges this year (16:12)
Security and privacy issues facing the LEO satellite industry (18:35)
Addressing satellite-related environmental concerns and orbital debris (21:30)
What to watch for in satellite broadband in 2023 (26:48)
On Wednesday January 25 2023 the Decentralized Future Council, Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, and Internet Education Foundation presented a panel ‘Web3 & IP: Understanding the NFT and IP Connection‘ to discuss NFTs’ connection to IP and its impact on technological innovation and civil society.
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