Today, Thursday September 27 2018 at Noon EDT (16;00 UTC) New America, DiploFoundation, and ISOC-DC together present a panel – The Battle for the Global Internet . The coming months are filled with important processes that could play a significant role in steering the future the Internet, including the Internet Governance Forum, theITU Plenipotentiary, ICANN63, the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, and more. Some of these processes will pose significant opportunity to codify principles of freedom, openness, interoperability, security, and resilience, while others pose serious challenges to proponents of the same. The outlook will be discussed by Dr Jovan Kurbalija, Executive Director, Secretariat of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation; Robert Morgus, Sr. Policy Analyst & Deputy Director, FIU-New America C2B Partnership; Becky Burr, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer, Neustar; and Shane Tews, Co-Chair, Internet Governance Forum USA. Moderator is Dr Tereza Horejsova, Project Development Director, DiploFoundation. The event will be webcast live on YouTube and the Internet Livestream Channel.
Panel 1: Public-Private Cooperation in Incident Response
How can governments and the private sector work together to enhance current incident response collaboration mechanisms and what are the necessary next steps?
Moderator: Robert Morgus, Policy Analyst, New America. Panelists: Chris Boyer, Assistant Vice President, AT&T; Kathryn Condello, Director of National Security, CenturyLink; Arturo Gomez Garcia, Inspector, Mexican Federal Police; Adam Hatfield, Director, CDN Cyber Incident Response Centre, Public Safety Canada; Brad Nix, Acting Director, United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT).
Panel 2: Engaging with Small and Medium Enterprise
What challenges do small businesses face in cybersecurity, particularly when doing business internationally? How can our governments and industry engage with SMEs to promote good cybersecurity practices?
Moderator: Ola Sage, Chair, IT Sector Coordinating Council, & CEO, e-Management. Panelists: Alfredo Reyes Krafft, Chairman, Lex Informatica, & Executive VP, Mexican Internet Association; Terri L. Williams, Director, Small Business Development Center’s Procurement Technical Assistance Center at University of Texas San Antonio; J. Paul Haynes, CEO, eSentire.
Panel 3: Cybersecurity Policies in a Global Economy
Can policies be developed and implemented that provide for better cybersecurity without inhibiting cross-border supply chains, for example, by allowing business to be confident that their international operations and intellectual property are secure, cybercrime is prosecuted, and that component parts produced abroad meet cybersecurity standards?
Moderator: Eric Miller, President, Rideau Potomac Strategy Group, & Non-Resident Fellow, Stimson Center. Panelists: Norma Krayem, Senior Policy Advisor Co-Chair, Cybersecurity and Privacy, Holland & Knight LLP; Eric Rojo, Director of Industry Projects, SL Global Energy; James C. Wilson, Senior Legal Counsel, Blackberry.
The following day there was a session focused on the Asia Pacific region. The panel included Dr. Tobias Feakin, Director of National Security Programs at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, an author of the newly released report “2016 Asia-Pacific Cyber Maturity Metrics.” Other speakers: Ryan Gillis – Vice President of Cybersecurity Strategy and Global Policy, Palo Alto Networks; Denise Zheng – Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies. Moderator: Peter W. Singer, Strategist and Senior Fellow, New America.
On Thursday March 26 2015 the Consulate General of Switzerland and the New America Foundation presented A Digital Magna Carta : Internet Governance and a New Social Contract. A distinguished panel discussed the future of the Internet in an increasingly connected, globalized world. Speakers: Dr. Jovan Kurbalija, Director, DiploFoundation, & Author, Introduction to Internet Governance; Constance Bommelaer, Senior Director for Global Policy Partnerships, Internet Society; Olivier Sylvain, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University; George Sadowsky, Member, Internet Governance Forum series, & Member, Board of Directors, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); Stefaan Verhulst, Co-founder and Chief Research and Development Officer, the Governance Lab. It will be recorded for a New America Foundation audio podcast and webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
This was the inaugural event in the regular OpenITP Techno-Activism Third Monday (TA3M) series. Featured speaker was data scientist Sara-Jayne Farmer of Change Assembly, who spoke passionately about the shortfalls of current crisis and development data practice. January 21 2013 at New America Foundation NYC. Video is below.
On November 15, 2013 the Open Technology Institute hosted a Briefing on the Technological Impact of NSA Surveillance on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. The briefing provided insight into how the technology and regulatory environment has led to the current situation and the ramifications of that surveillance on society and governance overall, while also considering the challenges confronting the Obama Administration’s external Review Group. Beyond the well-known issues over civil rights, this will be an important presentation on the technological implications of surveillance, and the dangers policy makers need to consider as they look to reform the government’s practices. Speakers: Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose, Calif.) – Member, House Judiciary Committee & Member, House Committee on Science, Space and Technology; Sascha Meinrath – Director, Open Technology Institute and Vice President, New America Foundation, and Bruce Schneier, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard & Author, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive. Video is below.
This last week was designated Lifeline Awareness Week. Since 1985, the FCC’s Lifeline program has provided a discount on phone service for qualifying low-income consumers. In 2005, Lifeline discounts were made available to qualifying low-income consumers on pre-paid wireless service plans. Lifeline is part of the Universal Service Fund. In December 2012 the FCC announced it had saved $210m through aggressive fraud elimination, $41m of which was redirected to broadband adoption programs. The future of the program is under consideration by policy makers. On Thursday September 12 2013 more than 80 civic groups wrote to congress urging further support for the program.
That same day, the New America Foundation, along with the National Urban League and others, hosted Communications Safety Net – How Lifeline Connects Families and Communities – an event to bring together advocates and policy makers to discuss the importance of the Lifeline program. FCC Acting Chair Mignon Clyburn delivered a keynote at the event. Video is below.
The Open Internet Tools project is throwing a party on Monday December 17 to kick-off their first Techno-Activism Third Mondays.
This is an informal meetup designed to connect techno-activists and hacktivists in the New York area who work on or with circumvention tools, and are interested in anti-censorship and anti-surveillance tech.The event will start at 6:30pm @ the OpenITP SOHO offices. Yummy goodies and drinks will be served. Internet will also be provided for those who want to hack projects. However, the main goal of the event is to create synergies between those New Yorkers who are most passionate about keeping the internet open and free.
Future Tense is a joint effort of Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Slate that looks at emerging technologies and their implications for policy and for society. Today morning Thursday, Nov. 29, Future Tense will host an event Who Should Govern the Internet? in Washington, D.C. on the future of Internet Governance, as the WCIT approaches in Dubai. Participants include Milton Mueller, Rebecca MacKinnon, and Sascha Meinrath. There will be a live webcast.
Earlier today – July 25 2012 – the New America Foundation hosted a German delegation in Washington DC to compare notes on digital rights and privacy. The archived webcast is below. Hashtag is #OnlinePrivacyUS2EU
Keynote
Daniel Weitzner@djeitzner
Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet Policy, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House
Panel Discussion
Konstantin von Notz @KonstantinNotz
Member of German Parliament
Markus Beckedahl @netzpolitik
Founder, netzpolitik.org
Chairman, Digitale Gesellschaft e.V. (Digital Society)
Host, re:publica, Germany’s largest social media conference
Jeanette Hofmann @jehof
Research Fellow, Social Sciences Research Center Berlin
Co-Founder and Director, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Gigi Sohn @gigibsohn
President and CEO, Public Knowledge
Moderator
Sascha Meinrath @saschameinrath
Director, Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation
Today, Thursday September 27 2018 at Noon EDT (16;00 UTC) New America, DiploFoundation, and ISOC-DC together present a panel – The Battle for the Global Internet . The coming months are filled with important processes that could play a significant role in steering the future the Internet, including the Internet Governance Forum, the ITU Plenipotentiary, ICANN63, the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, and more. Some of these processes will pose significant opportunity to codify principles of freedom, openness, interoperability, security, and resilience, while others pose serious challenges to proponents of the same. The outlook will be discussed by Dr Jovan Kurbalija, Executive Director, Secretariat of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation; Robert Morgus, Sr. Policy Analyst & Deputy Director, FIU-New America C2B Partnership; Becky Burr, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer, Neustar; and Shane Tews, Co-Chair, Internet Governance Forum USA. Moderator is Dr Tereza Horejsova, Project Development Director, DiploFoundation. The event will be webcast live on YouTube and the Internet Livestream Channel.
Future Tense
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