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8:36 am on March 23, 2017 · digtal rights (1), New America (14), rebecca mackinnon (13)

WEBCAST TODAY: Ranking Digital Rights 2017 Corporate Accountability Index launch @rmack #rankingrights

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Today Thursday March 23 2017 att 9:30am EDT (13:30 GMT/UTC) Ranking Digital Rights will launch the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index: a ranking of 22 of the world’s most powerful telecommunications, internet, and mobile companies on their commitments and disclosed policies affecting users’ freedom of expression and privacy. The 2017 Index follows the inaugural 2015 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index which found widespread failure by companies to disclose key information about their policies and practices affecting freedom of expression and privacy. Users were left largely in the dark about how and why their information is collected, used, and shared, as well as many of the circumstances under which content is blocked or removed. Speaking at the launch will be  Kevin Bankston, Director, Open Technology Institute; Rebecca MacKinnon, Director, Ranking Digital Rights; Melissa Brown, Partner, Daobridge Capital; Arvind Ganesan, Director, Business and Human Rights, Human Rights Watch; Niels ten Oever, Head of Digital, Article 19. The launch will be webcast live via New America’s YouTube Channel.

 

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/AMMvuvbAMkg
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/rankingrights

7:14 am on February 9, 2017 · New America (14), next billion (5), oti (20)

WEBCAST TODAY: The Next Three Billion – Initiatives to Bring the Whole World Online @OTI @NewAmerica

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Open Technology InstituteToday, Thursday February 9 2017 the Open Technology Institute will host a half-day forum The Next Three Billion – Initiatives to Bring the Whole World Online in Washington DC. More than four billion people are as yet unconnected around the world. To address the challenge of getting three out of four of them online, one panel will examine “moon shot” global innovations, and another, local community-based networking strategies. Speakers include Manu Bhardwaj, Megan Smith, Chris Yoo, Steve Song, and Robert Pepper. The event will be webcast live on the New America YouTube Channel.

What: The Next Three Billion – Initiatives to Bring the Whole World Online
Where: Washington DC
When: Thursday February 9 2017 10:00-14:00 EST | 15:00-19:00 UTC
Agenda: https://www.newamerica.org/oti/events/next-three-billion/
Webcast: https://youtu.be/Dz9YNJkh9R4
Twitter: t.b.a. maybe #next3billion

3:41 pm on January 17, 2017 · future tense (3), New America (14), rebecca mackinnon (13)

WEBCAST 1/24: Will The Internet Always Be American? #AmericanInternet @FutureTenseNow.

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Future TenseOn Tuesday January 24 2017 Future Tense will hold a lunchtime discussion – Will The Internet Always Be American? at the New America Foundation in Washington DC. Many leading Internet players are U.S. firms. What will resurging nationalism portend for the future of the American-centric internet and the values that initially defined it? Speakers: Rebecca MacKinnon, Director, Ranking Digital Rights, New America; Emily Parker, Future Tense Fellow, New America; Nu Wexler, Senior Manager of Communications, Twitter; Carolyn Nguyen, Director of Technology Policy, Microsoft; Ross Schulman, Senior Policy Counsel, Open Technology Institute; Jennifer Daskal, Associate Professor of Law, American University; Hao Wu, Fellow, New America; Ellery Roberts Biddle, Advocacy Director, Global Voices; Joshua Keating, Staff Writer, Slate. Moderator: Andrés Martinez, Editorial Director, Future Tense. The event will be webcast live on the New America YouTube Channel. Viewers are requested to RSVP.

What: Will The Internet Always Be American?
Where: New America Foundation, Washington DC
When: January 24, 2017 12:00pm-2:00pm (17:00-19:00 UTC)
Webcast: https://youtu.be/pGGMb1l2KGE
RSVP (including webcast): http://newamerica.cvent.com/d/2vqx8c/4W
Twitter: #AmericanInternet https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericanInternet

4:29 am on November 1, 2016 · cybersecurity (77), New America (14), policy (40)

VIDEO: Cyber Insecurity: Emerging Policy Tools in #Cybersecurity @NewAmerica @NewAmCyber

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naciOn Friday October 28 2016 the New America Foundation Cybersecurity Initiative presented Cyber Insecurity: Emerging Policy Tools in Cybersecurity in Washington DC. A panel explored a set of emerging policy tools with distinctly partnered public-private profiles: cyber safety standards in the automotive industry, cyber-insurance, consumer notification, and software vendor liability. Participants: Jane Chong – National Security and Law Associate, Hoover Institution; Sasha Romanosky – Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation & Faculty, Pardee School; Joshua Corman – Director, Cyber Statecraft Initiative for the Atlantic Council; Robert Morgus – Policy Analyst, Cybersecurity Initiative, New America. Moderator: Trey Herr – Fellow, Harvard Belfer Center & Non-Resident Cybersecurity Fellow, New America. Twitter: #CyberInsecurity + @NewAmCyber


View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RoomgZLu22I?t=956