Archive for: January 2010
January 29, 2010
 On Jan 20 2010 the DC area members of the Internet Society held a discussion: “Choices for the Smart Grid“. The electric power grid–and the appliances in your home–are being networked, enabling electric utilities to better control electric power generation, consumption, and distribution–and give consumers ways to save energy and money. But it is not clear how the Smart Grid will develop. Will the Smart Grid be fully integrated with the Internet or will proprietary technologies and security concerns make that difficult? What steps will be needed to ensure the security of the Smart Grid? How will the Smart Grid interoperate with home networks and other systems? Will each utility and each country adopt different approaches or will there be global standards–and who will set those standards?
Details, slides and video below:
January 28, 2010
 The First Annual .ORG Forum was held in Washington DC on Jan 28 2010. After a keynote by Rod Beckstrom of ICANN, there was a panel discussion on Online Security.
Video is below.
January 25, 2010
 Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University, and founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, spoke about “Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing” on Friday, February 5, 2010.
Audio:
Presentation: mp3 | ogg
Q&A: mp3 | ogg
Video is below:
January 24, 2010
 On Jan 14 2010 the newly formed New York Technology Council held its second public meeting in the form of a panel discussion on the topic “Technology Trends for 2010“. Representatives of Google and Microsoft were joined by City Council member Gale Brewer to pontificate on what the new year might bring.
Audio is here. Video is below.
January 22, 2010
 On Jan 20 2010 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a major policy speech at the Newseum in Washington D.C. on the subject of Internet Freedom:
Video and links to comments are below:
January 21, 2010
 On Jan 20, the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) , the National Writers Union (NWU), and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and the Internet Society’s New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) jointly sponsored a workshop to discuss the implications for writers of the proposed Google Books Settlement (GBS), which is the result of a class action brought by the Authors Guild. There is some urgency, as writers only have until Jan 28 2010 to opt out or object. The three sponsoring writers organizations above all oppose the settlement. A fairness hearing has been set for 18 February.
With NWU President Larry Goldbetter moderating, the panel was
Paul Aiken – Authors Guild
James Grimmelmann – NY Law School
Lyn Chu – Writers’ Reps LLC
with additional input from:
Ed Hasbrouck – National Writers Union
Sally Shannon – American Society of Journalists and Authors
Michael Capobianco – Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Audio is here. Video is below.
 2010 marks the second year of Social Media Week. The week-long conference, started last year in NYC, has now gone global with events also happening in Toronto, São Paulo, London, and Berlin. Over the course of the week and in each city, programs will span a variety of formats, ranging from talks, presentations and panel discussions, to interactive workshops, seminars, networking events and drinks receptions.
Each event, including the live stream and backchannel conversations will be hosted on the Social Media Week website, allowing for participants from around the world and across multiple cities to take part in the conference. In NYC thanks to sponsorship from meebo and PepsiCo many events are free.
SMW Global blog is at http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/
The SMWNYC schedule is at http://smw-newyork.sched.org/
Follow SMYNYC at http://twitter.com/smwnyc
NYC Twitter hashtag is #smwnyc
January 15, 2010
 The comment period on the FCC’s proposed rules on Open Internet Standards (NPRM) closed yesterday Jan 14 2010. The Internet Society (ISOC) took the opportunity to file comments . They are transcribed below:
January 12, 2010
Lynn St. Amour, President of the Internet Society, has been invited to provide framing remarks at the upcoming FCC Open Internet Workshop on Innovation, Investment, and the Open Internet tomorrow, Wednesday, January 13 at 16:30 EST (23:30 UTC) at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ISOC-NY Members are encouraged to contribute to the discussion.
Lynn’s remarks are filed here and are transcribed below:
January 7, 2010
 As you may be aware from our recent newsletter, the Internet Society has granted funds to The Harlem Computer/Internet Access Programme.
We are going to have an informal visit with the project leads next Wednesday, and would like to take this opportunity to invite anyone interested to come along.
What: Introduction to The Harlem Computer/Internet Access Programme
When: Weds 13 Jan 2010 – 6pm
Where: 10 W 138 St (off 5th Ave) (map)
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