Description: A conversation with heavyhitters, web celebrities, and just plain interesting people about using the web for political participation. Snacks.
We’re getting ready for OneWebDay, and the theme this year is online participatory democracy - so we’re a natural fit with Internet Week NY.
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Students from the Space Systems Engineering program at the University of Michigan have worked on designing a low-cost system for internet connectivity in developing countries. This presentation focuses on their proposed solution to delivering such capabilities to the rural populations of Africa. In addition, upcoming technologies are discussed that will impact similar missions in the future.
The United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a full committee hearing this morning on that popular current topic ‘The Future of the Internet’. Amongst those testifying were Kevin Martin of the FCC and Larry Lessig of Stanford.
ISOC-NY is proud to be a co-sponsor of a colloquium at NYU this coming Wednesday April 16 - Futures of the Internet.
What will come of the next decade on the Internet? We often take for granted the state of the net today, but there’s no guarantee that it will remain this way. Will the digital future be dystopian, or is there a brighter outlook ahead than some may believe? Our panelists — thinkers and net visionaries — will provide their perspectives on the future of the net, with backgrounds ranging from art, law, technology, politics, media, culture, and entrepreneurship. We will tap in to each speaker’s knowledge to provide a unique vision of the digital future, and will engage with members of the audience to further the exploration of what lies ahead. [Read more →]
Damian Kulash of Chicago band OK Go appeared at the recent house hearing on network neutrality where he argued forcefully for protection of open access to content. Much of the band’s popularity derives from exposure on YouTube, where one homemade video has been accessed over 30 million times. Damian succinctly sums up his thoughts in an Op-Ed piece in today’s New York Times entitled ‘Beware the New New Thing‘. [Read more →]
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Mar 27: Comcast and BitTorrent today issued a joint press-release where they announced a collaborative effort to move beyond the current ‘reset spoofing‘ hooha. While Comcast will migrate by year-end 2008 to a capacity management technique that is “protocol agnostic”, BitTorrent agreed to develop fresh “optimizations” that will promoted as application standards.
Thanks to Graham Webster of CNET’s 
The United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held 
ISOC-NY is proud to be a co-sponsor of a colloquium at NYU this coming Wednesday April 16 - Futures of the Internet.
Damian Kulash of Chicago band OK Go appeared at the recent 
This Friday April 11 2008 Professor Jonathan Zittrain of the 
Mar 27: Comcast and BitTorrent today issued a 
