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CANDIDATES FOR THE PICISOC BOARD ELECTIONS DECEMBER 2021 The Board of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC) wishes to inform members of the election period for the PICISOC Board to be opened on the 23 January 2022 23:59 UTC through to 6 February 2022. 23:59UTC. As announced to members, there are 3 […]

The new web protocol HTTP/3 now makes up around a third of all traffic on large European networks according to a recent post from Sandvine. They monitored traffic on several large Tier-1 networks in Europe and the US and found that HTTP/3 (running over the new transport protocol QUIC) constituted around 30% of traffic in […]

The Internet Society joins the UK England Chapter in calling for a redraft of the UK’s Online Safety Bill so that it protects strong encryption and recognises its vital role in protecting users online.  Despite claims it seeks to protect users online, the recent draft of the Bill threatens to drive strong encryption from the […]

Årsmøtet for 2022 er satt til 2. mars 2022. Dokumenter til årsmøtet blir lagt ut fortløpende. The post Dato for årsmøtet 2022 appeared first on ISOC Norge.

Today, Tuesday January 18 2022, at 6:15pm EST (23:15 UTC) in the 11th installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, on the 10th anniversary of the SOPA/PIPA Internet blackout, we feature a keynote by the late Aaron Swartz, ‘How We Stopped SOPA‘ from Freedom to Connect, Washington DC, May 21 […]

On Tuesday 18 January 2022 at 2pm-3pm EST (19:00-20:00 UTC) Public Knowledge hosts a discussion ‘How Public Interest Values Shape A Better Internet‘. This month marks the anniversary of a series of coordinated protests that led to the withdrawal of two proposed laws in the United States Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and […]

Esta sentença expõe diferenças de opinião profundas entre as autoridades europeias no que diz respeito aos equilíbrios entre segurança e privacidade.

Vi har glädjen att presentera vår nästa föreläsare vid namn Linus som jobbar som professionell hackare till vardags. Hösten 2021 släpptes TV-serien Hackad där Linus var en av de 4 hackarna. I serien hackades privatpersoner, kändisar samt företag. Linus kommer berätta lite mer ingående hur några av dess hack gick till. Utöver detta berättar Linus […]

On 18 January 2022 from 3:00pm–5:30pm IST (09:30-12:00 UTC) CCAOI, CUTS International and ISOC Delhi host an online discussion ‘Data Protection Bill 2021: Deciphering Data Privacy & Rights of Minors‘. The objective of this discussion is to provide participants a better understanding of the provisions related to processing of data related to minors, the areas […]

On the 4 January, 2022, The Gambia, the smallest country in mainland Africa, was completely cut off from the Internet for more than eight hours, leaving almost 2.5 million people without connectivity. Gamtel, the state-owned operator, released a communique on 5 January, explaining  the reasons of the outage.   What Happened? Most of the international traffic of The Gambia is routed […]

Internet Way of Networking 5 January 2022 Internet Impact Brief: End-to-end Encryption under the UK’s Draft Online Safety Bill Abstract In May 2021 the UK published the draft Online Safety Bill (the “draft bill”) which seeks to set out a new regulatory framework to protect Internet users from illegal and harmful content. If implemented in […]

On Friday 14 January 2022 at 2pm-3pm EST (19:00-20:00 UTC) the Congressional Internet Caucus Academy (CICA) hosts a Tech Policy Recess discussion on ‘Blockchain, Brokers & Web3: Can Congress Fix The Infrastructure Bill and Grow The Decentralized Web?’, which will examine the calls to revise the “broker” language in the Infrastructure Bill that was recently […]

    27a Nit de les Telecomunicacions i la Informàtica- 21 de març de 2022     #LaNit2022 se celebrarà el 21 de març L’organització aposta per ajornar un mes la gran trobada del sector TIC català per garantir una major participació presencial i un networking segur La 27a edició de la Nit de les Telecomunicacions i […]

On Tuesday 18 January 2022 at 11:00-12:30 EST (16:30-17:30 UTC) the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law hosts a webinar ‘Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout‘. Calls to regulate the internet more strictly are now commonplace, but a new report from Freedom House observes both the promise and peril of […]

On Monday 17 January 2022 at 12:30 UTC the Internet Governance Forum will host a ‘Roundtable on Teaching Internet Governance‘. Building on past and ongoing educational and training efforts, such as the summer schools on Internet governance, this round-table aims to engage with the multitude of approaches and formats of teaching Internet governance in academia, […]

De acordo com John Naughton, num artigo publicado no jornal The Guardian, 2022 será caracterizado pela introdução de regulação a fundo das grandes tecnológicas da Internet.

On Tuesday January 18 2022 at 19:00 EST (00:00 UTC / 09:00 JST Jan 20) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘A Voice For Virtual Reality: The Advocate’s Role‘ online. Two-time cancer survivor, Heather Bucalos, RN, knows firsthand of the benefits of VR for oncology patients. She used VR during her month-long hospital stay while being treated […]

On Tuesday January 11 2022 at 7pm-8pm EST (00:00-01:00 UTC Jan12) the Accessibility NYC Meetup (A11yNYC) hosts an online meetup ‘Broke with Accessible Taste: Understanding the Economics of Digital Access in US‘. Conversations about digital accessibility are predominantly centered on the technical and monetary expenses of implementation in products and applications. Missing from these conversations […]

We are thrilled to award a third round of grant funding through our Research grant program to six exciting projects that examine the future and sustainability of the Internet. Launched in 2020, this program supports a diverse group of researchers around the world who are generating solutions today to meet the Internet challenges of tomorrow. The selected projects […]

On Thursday January 20 2022 at 4pm-5pm EST (21:00-22:00 UTC) the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center Queens of Code project will host a virtual session ‘Stories of NSA’s Computing Women‘. Queens of Code is a women’s technology history project that collects stories, experiences, and insights from women who worked in information technology at National Security Agency […]

Un any més ISOC-CAT col·labora amb La Nit de les Telecomunicacions i la Informàtica (#lanit2022).   Els membres d’ISOC-CAT rebran per correu electrònic el codi de descompte per les inscripcions.     La entrada ISOC-CAT entitat col·laboradora de La NIT 2022 se publicó primero en Catalan Chapter of the Internet Society.

Today, Thursday January 6 2022, at 08:30 EST (13:30 UTC) in the tenth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, we feature a session the Internet Society’s Fundamentals Series in April 2021, focusing on advocacy for encryption. PRESENTERS Natalie Campbell, Director, Community Organizing and Public Advocacy, Internet Society Ryan Polk, […]

NOTICE OF INTERNET SOCIETY-KENYA ANNUAL GENERAL 2021 THAT WILL BE HELD ON THE 8TH JANUARY 2022 Happy New Year 2022, Greetings, Members Of Internet Society Kenya Chapter Allow me to share notice of the Annual General Meeting 2021 which will take place on Saturday, January 8, 2022, at 1.00 p.m. The hybrid meeting will take […]

O Plano de Ação da ISOC para 2022 descreve ações específicas que a Internet Society realizará de maneiras concretas e mensuráveis – como implementar e manter novas redes comunitárias, medir a saúde e a disponibilidade da Internet e criar precedentes legais.

On Monday January 3 2022, the ninth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights features the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Forum (AprIGF) Showcase #2 entitled ‘Internet’s Technical Success Factors‘ from September 29 2021. This was a presentation of a preliminary report on an Analysys Mason study, jointly commissioned by APNIC […]

The 2021 was a challenging year, especially for communities with no access to the Internet. When schools went to online … The post Internet for remote village of Enilchek? – Check appeared first on Кыргызское отделение Интернет Общества Айсок.

As a consequence of the Internet Society de-chartering its existing Special Interest Groups, on January 1 2022 the Accessibility Special Interest Group (A11ySIG) has reverted to its former status as a project of the Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY). A11ySIG was formed in September 2017 to rejuvenate the existing Internet Society Disability and Special […]

On Sunday January 2 2022, in the eighth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, features a ‘Talking Tech: Girls and Women in ICT‘ conversation between Sophie Patrick, of Marymount School of New York, and Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Senior Vice President, Strategy, Communications and Engagement, Internet Society. The Talking Tech […]

Happy new year. We are ten years old. Coming of Age, so to speak… We are determined to re-energize the Chapter and focus on engaging the community. Covid slowed some of our projects and we have now learned to live with it. More on this and the 2022 action plan, please check your inbox. We […]

מוקדי נטיקה ובלוק מבית איגוד האינטרנט הישראלי איגוד האינטרנט הישראלי פועלים להגנה על הפרט ברשת ומפעילים ערוצי תקשורת לתמיכה בייעוץ בנושאי שימוש מיטבי והתמודדות עם פגיעות ברשת (נטיקה) ובנושא הגנת סייבר לאזרח (Block). בכלי הנתונים הבא ניתן לקבל מידע על פניות הציבור למוקדי נטיקה ו-Block, תוך אפשרות להתמקד בתקופות שונות ובנושאי הפניות של כל אחד […]