He had some novel ideas on how to reclaim privacy whilst engaging in social networking, and challenges the tech community to make them a reality.

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.

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Everyone wants a piece of you these days: Google, Facebook, Flickr, Apple, AT&T, Bing. They’ll give you free e-mail, free photo storage, free web hosting, even a free date. They just want to listen in. And you can’t wait to let them. They’ll store your stuff, they’ll organize your photos, they’ll keep track of your appointments, as long as they can watch. It all goes into the “Cloud.”

How we got here is quite a scary story. But nowhere near as scary as getting out again. Eben Moglen, a Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University and the founding director of the Software Freedom Law Center, warned you about privacy and the cloud before. At a public meeting of the Internet Society of New York on February 5, Moglen asked you to consider how much worse things have become since then and explain what you can do to reclaim your freedom in the era of Web 2.0.

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• Webcast: http://www.livestream.com/isocny
• Sponsors: ISOC-NY, NYU ACM, Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic
• Software Freedom Law Center mirror
• Internet Archive mirror
• Facebook event.
• Meetup.com event
• Flyer: pdf | png ; Handbill: pdf | png ;

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The NGL was officially launched 6 October 2009 at a youth forum lunch during the ITU Telecom World week in Geneva. The programme is aimed at emerging talents across the globe, between the ages of 20 and 40, and is a unique blend of coursework and practical experience to help prepare young professionals from around the world to become the next generation of Internet technology, policy, and business leaders. More information on the programme, including an information brochure available in the six official UN languages, can be found at http://www.isoc.org/leaders .

This programme is a great opportunity to enhance and expand the ISOC community we request that you assist us in promoting the programme. ISOC would be grateful if you could share this information with any interested parties and encourage them 1) to join ISOC if not already a member, and 2) register to the NGL mailing list: https://www.isoc.org/leaders/application.php?s=2

Those signed up to the mailing list will receive programme information including application details as they are sent out.

If you have further questions email leaders@InternetSociety.org

(Thanks to Joly MacFie of ISOC New York, for the code to this blog post in the ISOC NY blog which was easy to paste)

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Vint Cerf Calls for Intercloud Computing Protocols 

As part of a Jan 7 2010 Churchill Club forum What’s Next with the Internet: Vint Cerf Looks Ahead, Vint noted the need for intercloud communication protocols, and remarked that individual devices – ‘cloudlets’ – might themselves make use of such protocols

from ISOC New York’s Notice Board, posted by Joly MacFie

INTERNATIONAL IPv6 APPLICATION CONTEST 2010
http://www.ipv6council.de/contest2010/

The objectives of this contest are the generation of ideas and applications, which help determine how to introduce IPv6, the internet of the next generation, on a large scale and use it effectively. The contest also provides an opportunity for the next generation of application developers to gain experience with IPv6. The German IPv6 Council has been founded in 2007 at Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Potsdam assisted by the German federal government and leading representatives of the German internet industry in order to give a political voice to the new internet generation IPv6. As the German representative in the international IPv6 Forum the German IPv6 Council prepares, together with the German federal government, a roadmap for the introduction and popularization of IPv6 in Germany. Its clear mission is to advocate IPv6 by improving technology, market, user, and industry awareness of IPv6 and to create a sophisticated and secure new internet.

The contest invites applications from three categories:

1. APPLICATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATIONS
Applications and Implementations should fulfill the following criteria:
a. Executable new or expanded IPv6 Software Applications
b. Compatibility with the following operating systems:
- Major Linux distributions: Kernel 2.4 or later
- Windows XP SP1 or later
- Mac OSX 10.5 or later

2. STUDENT PAPERS & IDEAS
The sketches of ideas should fulfill the following criteria:
- Be based on the merits and strengths of IPv6
- Have a clear reference to networks
- Guarantee secure and direct communication, independent of location and status
- Guarantee two-way communication, including the communication between devices, including but not limited to computers

3. BEST PRACTICE
The entries should fulfill the following criteria:
- outstanding and innovative industry & business IPv6 applications and implementations
- direct entries are welcome as well as nominations from users and solution providers

PRICES / AWARDS
- Applications and Implementations: three major awards; First price: 10.000 Euro
- Student & Ideas: First price 1.000 Euro
- Best Practice: prominent presentation at 3rd German IPv6 Summit including widely distributed press releases

SUBMISSIONS
- Eligibility: open to companies, groups and individuals of any nationality
- Applications and Implementations: Upload the complete application, incl. documentation and description
- Student papers & Ideas: 2 pages (A4) as PDF-Document
- Best Practice: up to 8 pages (A4) as PDF-Document and demonstrations (live demonstrator/video)
- more information (Application & Implementation / Student & Ideas / Best Practice)

SUBMISSION DEADLINES
- May 15th 2010

AWARD CEREMONY
- June 24th 2010 Award Ceremony during the 3rd German IPv6 Summit at Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam

PRIMARY SELECTION CRITERIA
- What contribution is made to create a new internet experience?
- How and to what extent will the contribution promote and popularize IPv6?

MAILING ADDRESS
IPv6 Application Contest 2010 Secretariat
German IPv6 Council
c/o Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering
Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3
D-14482 Potsdam
Germany

FURTHER INFORMATION
- E-Mail Address: contest2010(@)ipv6council.de
- Website: http://www.ipv6council.de/contest2010/

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This is the audio recording of the workshop was jointly organized (1)the European Commission, Safer Internet programme, eNACSO, (2)ECPAT International and (3)ISOC India Chennai as a workshop that merged three workshops individually earlier proposed by the three organizers.

“Young people no longer talk to each other. They walk side by side instant messaging each other” – C K Prahalad, Author of The Bottom of the Pyramid at a TiE Annual Meeting in Delhi.

The full description of the workshop is at this Internet Governance Forum webpage

The workshop was chaired by Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond with Anjan Bose, Ms Gitte Staldt, Jon Soinnen, Ruben Rodriguez and Rudi Vansnick.

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What is the Internet? What makes it what it is? What are its architectural principles? What are the core values? And what is happening to the core values in the process of its evolution? What is it that needs to be preserved and what changes are inevitable?

The panel was chaired by Lynn St Amour, President of the Internet Society and inlcluded Daniel Dardailler, Rt. Hon’ Alun Michael, MP., Nathaniel James, Alejandro Pisanty, Ian Peter, Markus Kummer with apologies from Patrick Falstrom, Ambassador Yrjo Lansipuro, Jonathan Zittrain, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy, Issac Mao and Milton Mueller

Janna Quitney Anderson of Elon School of Communications has written an article titled “Net’s 10 Commandments” proposed by Ian Peter during this workshop also summarizing the deliberations at this workshop by panelists on arstechnica http://bit.ly/64zpsS

Link to the Report

http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsreports2009View&curr=1&wr=64

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An audio recording of one of the Security Vs Civil Liberties roundtable organized by Isoc India Chennai at IGF 2009 Sharm el Sheikh

Security threats are real. Governments are concerned about Cyberwarfare and related threats, business entities suffer from cybercrime in various ways while the average user faces various forms of security threats online. These threats are real but the measures against these threats are considered disproportionate and happen to cause greater harm sometimes than the threats to be warded off. 

( Detailed description is at the Internet Governance Forum website )

This panel was chaired by Alejandro Pisanty with Bruce Schneier  Zahid Jamil, Wolfgang Benedek,  Jean-Marc Dinant, Simon Davies as panelists present:

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invitation to igf workshops

The workshop description, information about speakers invited and confirmed can be seen from the links given below:

1.Roundtable: Balancing the need for Security and the concerns for Civil Liberties (workshop No 323) 17th November at Room Sphinx, 09.00 am-10-30

2. Workshop on Fundamentals: Core Internet Values (workshop No 319) 17th November, room Sphinx, 11:00 am – 01:00 pm

3. The workshop on Children Online No 106 as a workshop merged with the workshops proposed by the Council of Europe and ECPAT :  Children in the Age of Mobile Access: The promises of Internet co-examined with the increasing challenges to Child Safety Room Sphinx, 18 th November, 2 – 5 pm.

Remote participation is possible for all IGF workshops.

Workshops No 323 and 319 will be on the Audio Channel 6 ( Sphinx ) on 17 Nov 9
am to 1 pm. ( audio only on this channel )

http://www.un.org/webcast/igf/

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