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People born in the late 1970s are the last to have grown up without the internet. Social scientists call them the Last of the Innocents. Leah McLaren ponders a time when our attention was allowed to wander Leah McLaren In moments of digital anxiety I find myself thinking of my father’s desk. Dad was a […]
Laws governing high-speed internet access The Pew Charitable Trusts’ state broadband policy explorer lets you learn how states are expanding access to broadband through laws. Categories in the tool include: broadband programs, competition and regulation, definitions, funding and financing, and infrastructure access. As you choose categories, a 50-state map illustrates which states have adopted such laws. The state broadband policy […]
(note: this is a call for contributions directed to National,Regional and Youth IGFs. A general call for contributions is published here) Call for Contributions on the 2019 BPF on Cybersecurity – NRIs Dear National, Regional and Youth IGF representatives, The IGF Best Practices Forum on Cybersecurity is calling for input for its 2019 effort. We are […]
ICANN67 Fellowship Application Round Now Open 18 July 2019 LOS ANGELES – 18 July 2019 – Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is opening the application round for the ICANN Fellowship Program taking place at the ICANN67 Public Meeting from 7-12 March 2020 in Cancún, Mexico. The deadline to apply is […]
Senior Director, Fellowship Programs Global Policy Development – Open, London, City of About the Internet Society The Internet Society is the world’s trusted independent source of leadership for Internet policy, technology standards, and future development. Based on its principled vision and substantial technological foundation, the Internet Society works with its members and chapters around the […]
July 31, 20198:46 AM ET EMILY FENG A Chinese national flag flutters in front of the People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, in Beijing. The bank plans to launch a cryptocurrency.Andy Wong/AP When Facebook announced plans in June to launch a new digital currency called Libra, the news sent monetary officials scrambling in […]
00:00:0000:28:31 https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2019/jul/29/amazon-25-powerful-jeff-bezos-podcast In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon, the company that has since made him the richest man in the world. Julia Carrie Wong charts the company’s success and controversies. Plus: Jim Waterson on why young people aren’t watching the news anymore How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Presented by India Rakusen with Julia […]
By Geoff Huston At IETF 105, held in Montreal at the end of July, the Technical Plenary part of the meeting had two speakers on the topic of privacy in today’s Internet, Associate Professor Arvind Narayanan of Princeton University [1] and Professor Stephen Bellovin of Colombia University [2]. They were both quite disturbing talks in their distinct ways, and […]
July 28, 20198:00 AM ETHeard on Weekend Edition Sunday Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11, 2018.Andrew Harnik/AP Updated at 1:23 p.m. ET Facebook has a long track record in deception: telling people one thing, while doing another. That’s according to federal regulators, at least one of whom […]
What is blockchain and why does it matter? Essentially a mysterious entity known only as Satoshi Nakamoto developed the foundational technology to create a decentralized, open source, verifiable and immutable ledger for internet transactions. However the concept of a distributed peer-to-peer internet where power and control is determined by a decentralized consensus directly contradicts the […]