Today, Wednesday May 2 2018 at 6pm PDT the IGF USA Community Road Trip reaches San Francisco, and will meet up with theInternet Society SF Bay Area Chapterat Cloudflare HQ. Speakers are Mitch Stolz, Senior Staff Attorney (Electronic Frontier Foundation): Content Moderation and Internet Infrastructure; Evan Engstrom, Executive Director (Engine): Intermediary liability From the Startup Perspective; Jacob Rogers, Legal Counsel (Wikimedia Foundation): Global Intermediary Liability Issues. Moderator: Daphne Keller, Director, Intermediary Liability (Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School). The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
The 2017 Internet Governance Forum USA (IGF-USA 2017) will be held at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington DC on July 24 2017. The IGF-USA is a multistakeholder effort to illuminate issues and cultivate constructive discussions about the future of the Internet. Keynote speakers include Vint Cerf, Craig Newmark, Maureen Ohlhausen and Sally Wentworth. Panels will address: Promoting a More Inclusive Internet; Healing Internet Fragmentation; Smarter Network Opportunities & Digital Game Changers; Nationalism, Disinformation and Free Expression in the Age of the Internet; Taking A Holistic Approach to the Internet of Things; National Network Regulation vs. the Global Cloud; Privacy and Regulation: Bottom-up vs. Top-Down; Where are all of those Digital Dividends We Expected. The event will be livestreamed and captioned.
On Thursday July 14 2016 the USA Internet Governance Forum (IGF-USA)will be held in Washington DC. Thought leaders from civil society, industry, academia, and government will meet in a multistakeholder effort to illuminate issues and cultivate constructive discussions about the future of the Internet. Speakers include: Catherine A. Novelli – Under Secretary of State & Senior Coordinator for International Information Technology Diplomacy; Lawrence E. Strickling – Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce; Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda – U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. Department of State; Lee Rainie – Director of Internet, Science and Technology Research, Pew Research Center; and David Farber, Adjunct Professor of Internet Studies and Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. The entire event, including three breakout tracks, will be webcast on the Internet Society Livestream Channels and Facebook Live. There will be live captions available.
On Thursday July 16 2015 the Internet Governance Forum – USA (IGF-USA) 2015 – a full day conference at George Washington University in Washington, DC will bring together thought leaders from across the Internet multistakeholder community to highlight and engage in discussions about key issues that will drive the future of the Internet, and formulate consensus to bring to the global IGF in Brazil in November. The format is OPENING PLENARY – MORNING BREAKOUTS – LUNCH KEYNOTES – AFTERNOON BREAKOUTS – CLOSING PLENARY. As an extension of the DC event ISOC-NY members will gather at CIVIC HALL NYC for all day simulcast from DC, interrupted by their own remote breakout session at 2pm, which will be on the topic – Bitcoin, Blockchain and Beyond: The Future of Open Technologies for Digital Currencies and Smart Contracts. The public are welcome to attend given limited space. Please register atour meetup page if you wish to attend, or contact David Solomonoff at president@isoc-ny.org directly. All DC sessions will be webcast live via the Internet Society’s Livestream service, and remote participation will be available via the twitter hashtags below.
On Wednesday July 16 2014 the Internet Governance Forum – USA (IGF-USA) 2014 is a full day conference at George Washington University in Washington, DC. The IGF-USA 2014 will bring together thought leaders from across the Internet multistakeholder community to highlight and engage in discussions about key issues that will drive the future of the Internet, and formulate consensus to bring to the global IGF in Istanbul in September. The format is OPENING PLENARY – MORNING BREAKOUTS – LUNCH – PLENARY PANEL – AFTERNOON BREAKOUTS – CLOSING PLENARY. As an extension of the DC event, in the afternoon, ISOC-NY members will gather at Thoughtworks NYC for their own remote breakout session, which will be summarized and a video submitted to the final DC plenary. This breakout session is open to the public, and speakers are currently being recruited. Please register at our meetup pageif you wish to attend. Contact David Solomonoff at president@isoc-ny.org if interested in speaking, All sessions, DC and NYC, will be webcast live via the Internet Society’s Livestream service, where comments/questions may be posted in chat. More info: http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6810 Details of both DC and NYC events below.
Today Friday June 6 at 2pm EDT the first steering committee planning meeting for the forthcoming Internet Governance Forum USA (IGF-USA) meeting, scheduled for July 16 2014 in Washington DC. Remote participation in the meeting is available via webex. The meeting will also be webcast live via the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
Today Monday May 19 2014 at 2pm EDT a planning meeting for the forthcoming Internet Governance Forum USA (IGF-USA) meeting, scheduled for July 2014, will be held in Washington DC. IGF-USA is a multistakeholder effort to illuminate issues and cultivate constructive discussions about the future of the Internet. It provides a domestic forum in the US to engage civil society, government, technologists, research scientists, industry and academia, helping to create partnerships, coalitions and dialogues that demonstrate best practices and help move policy forward. IGF-USA 2014 seeks to develop new momentum and dialogue on the key issues under consideration in the field. Remote participation in the meeting is available via webex. The meeting will also be webcast live via the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
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IGF-USA Post-WCIT Roundtable Discussion at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC on December 21 2012.
The Roundtable participants were from the IGF-USA Steering Group who attended the ITU World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai including Ambassador Phil Verveer, US State Department, and representatives of the civil society; business, and technical communities, and was open to the public – either in person or via phone bridge. This event focused on implications for Internet Governance (IG) and how to advance the effectiveness of the IGF and the IGF-USA in addressing key issues highlighted during the WCIT, but which are clearly in the IG space.
Topics:
What are the key implications from WCIT for Internet Governance, and the IGF?
Roadmap of upcoming events of relevance that will revisit IG issues
Will the Improvements to the IGF just agreed by the UN GA suffice?
What is needed to strengthen the IGF to address key issues?
Moderator: Marilyn Cade
Speakers:
Diana Galperin – Researcher, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Philip L. Verveer – U.S. Coordinator for International Communications & Information Policy:
Michael Nelson – Bloomberg Government
Harold Feld – Public Knowledge
Francis Urbany – President Urbany Associates
Chip Sharp – Director, Technology Policy and Internet Governance, Cisco Systems
Iren Borissova – Director, International Public Policy, Verisign
Chris Hemmerlein – International Telecommunications Policy, NTIA
Paul Brigner – Director, North American Bureau, Internet Society
Andrew Reynolds – Foreign Service Specialist, U.S. Department of State
Seth Bouvier – Internet Policy, U.S. State Department
Dan O’Neill – Executive Director, Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC)
Clovis Baptista Neto – Executive Secretary, Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL)
The fourth IGF-USA will take place on Thursday, July 26, 2012 at the Georgetown Law Center in Washington, DC. The one-day event will include expert panels and workshops on important Internet governance issues and serve as a prelude to the global United Nations-facilitated Internet Governance Forum in Baku in November. Internet Society North America Bureau Manager Paul Brigner will be participating.
Today, Wednesday May 2 2018 at 6pm PDT the IGF USA Community Road Trip reaches San Francisco, and will meet up with the Internet Society SF Bay Area Chapter at Cloudflare HQ. Speakers are Mitch Stolz, Senior Staff Attorney (Electronic Frontier Foundation): Content Moderation and Internet Infrastructure; Evan Engstrom, Executive Director (Engine): Intermediary liability From the Startup Perspective; Jacob Rogers, Legal Counsel (Wikimedia Foundation): Global Intermediary Liability Issues. Moderator: Daphne Keller, Director, Intermediary Liability (Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School). The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
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