The Internet Society recognises that global deployment of the IPv6 protocol is paramount to accommodating the growth of the Internet. Given the scale at which IPv6 must be deployed, it is also important that the possible security implications of IPv6 are well understood and considered during the design and deployment of IPv6 networks, rather than as an afterthought.
Having data for budgets and spending can allow us to track public money flows in our communities. It can give us insights into how governments plan and focus on programmes, public works, and services. So the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), along with Open Knowledge International (OKI), have been working on new tools to make this data more useful and easier to understand.
I’ve always been amazed at the things and activities around which commons have been unexpectedly developed – noncommercial theater, humanitarian rescue maps, specialized scientific microscopes. Little did I suspect that I would encounter a commons based on….human excrement.
[…]The last three sections on ethics, aesthetics and complexity might seem theoretical, but, as we saw earlier, to break through to a new way of thinking about our problems, we need to ask deeper questions about the theories that currently inform our practice.
Let me make the theory more palpable by relating it to aspects of the long-term project to promote transformative innovation and the transition towards a regenerative culture on the Mediterranean island of Majorca, where I live.
by Andrew J. Zahuranec and Alexandra Shaw
From left to right: Niels Ploug (Danmarks Statistik), Nick Eng (LinkedIn)Adrienne Schmoeker (City of New York), Brennan Lake (Cuebiq), and Stefaan Verhulst (The GovLab).
As part of our objective to develop new standards to measure media pluralism online, the CMPF is now taking submissions of ideas/blog posts to be published as part of CMPF Discussion Series and for papers to be published on the EUI website or the RSCAS working paper Series. Authors of selected papers will be invited to present their papers and attend a workshop at the EUI in Florence in June on media pluralism in the digital age.
Uncomfortable AI: Inc.com has a story asking 16 “uncomfortable” questions that companies should ask about Artificial Intelligence. Among them: Are your reasons for deploying AI in the best long-term interests of humanity? And, how can we ensure that our behavior is inclusive?
If you follow the IPv6 Maintenance (6man) Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), you may have noticed the 300+ message email thread on an Internet Draft that was recently published on the “Reaction of Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) to Renumbering Events”.
More Indian women are fighting back against sexual harassment they face over phone calls and text messages, a survey shows.
The blog post by Aria Thaker was published in Quartz India on March 8, 2019. Ambika Tandon was quoted.
On March 7, The GovLab joined New Lab and partners at a sold-out event to celebrate The Circular City, a program that brings together entrepreneurs, city leaders, corporate partners, and university innovators to tackle urban challenges.
As part of the program, we’re excited to announce the launch of Circular Data for a Circular City: Value Propositions for Economic Development—our contribution to New Lab’s Circular City Research Journal.
O post em homenagem a esse 8 de março é coordenado e redigido por nós, mulheres que integramos o IRIS. Reunimos esforços para falar sobre algo essencial às conquistas femininas na governança da internet, meio em que estamos inseridas: os obstáculos que marcam a permanência da desigualdade de gênero e que ainda restam serem enfrentados.
O que há por trás dos obstáculos?
We’re celebrating International Women’s Day this year with great news: The Internet Society welcomes a new Chapter in Lesotho – and the Chapter’s president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, as well as a board member are all talented tech women.
Filipina American artist Dorothy Santos knows what it feels like to be a minority in your field.
Die Stiftung, benannt nach dem langjährigen Professor für Medizingeschichte an der Universität Kopenhagen und Mitbegründer der European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, verleiht einmal pro Jahr einen Preis für eine wertvolle medizinhistorische Arbeit. Die Jury besteht aus Professorinnen und Professoren der Medizinischen und Philosophischen Fakultäten der Universität Lund, Schweden. Der Preisvortrag wird im November 2019 an der Universität Lund stattfinden.
Von 15:00 bis 17:00 Uhr begutachten Expertinnen und Experten aus dem Bereich Historische Bestände und Restaurierung alte Bücher und informieren über Bedeutung, Schätzwert und Erhaltungszustand. Darüber hinaus geben sie Auskünfte zum Reparaturaufwand und Tipps zur Aufbewahrung. Die Sprechstunde findet im Sonderlesesaal der Bibliothek statt (Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 24.41, Ebene O1).
Raka Chakrawarti, an entrepreneur from Mumbai, is tensed these days, not about her business, which is booming, but over the rules of the Draft National e-Commerce Policy.
The article by Rahul Sachitanand was published in Economic Times on March 3, 2019. Elonnai Hickok was quoted.
The 2nd meetup of RFCs we love in 2019 was held at Go-Jek in Domlur on 2nd March 2019 in partnership with Bangalore Mobile performance group. Gurshabad Grover was a speaker at this event organized by India Internet Engineering Society.
Gurshabad Grover spoke about ongoing work in the Transport Layer Security (tls) working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on Server Name Indication (SNI) encryption in TLS. For more info click here
