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Jun 21
ISOC@OECD, Day 2: Kathy Brown’s speech about trust, Hiroshi Esaki speaking about innovation

Today is the first day of the “Ministerial Conference” section of the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy. Yesterday was for the very successful “Stakeholder Forums” and my colleague Nicolas Seidler wrote about the ITAC Forum that discussed Internet policies, IPv6, IoT, open standards and Collaborative Security. I also encourage you to read our OECD Ministerial Background Paper to understand why this meeting is so important for Internet Governance.
11:40 am – OECD Stakeholders Armchair Discussion
Our big event today will be the “OECD Stakeholders’ Armchair Discussion” where our President and CEO Kathy Brown will speak as a member of the Internet Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC) about what was discussed in the ITAC Forum yesterday and also about the view from within the technical community about the need to increase trust in the Internet.
The overall session she is in starts at 11:40 am local time (UTC-5, similar to US Central time) although we are told the armchair discussion should start closer to 12:20 pm. Each of the four stakeholder advisory committees will provide a statement, and Kathy will be speaking on behalf of ITAC.
16:45 – Stimulating Digital Innovation across the Economy
After Kathy’s session there will be a 1.5 hour lunch break and then the parallel track sessions begin. The OECD Ministerial Agenda outlines the sessions, including:
- Economic and Social Benefits of Internet Openness
- Consumer Trust and Market Growth
- Stimulating Digital Innovation across the Economy
- Managing Digital Security and Privacy Risk for Economic and Social Prosperity
While all of the sessions are of interest, our attention will be on the session about “Stimulating Digital Innovation” at 16:45 as ISOC Board of Trustees member Hiroshi Esaki will be one of the speakers on the panel.
We understand that the sessions should be live streamed, but we are uncertain of the exact URL. We would advise you to visit the OECD live stream page to see what streams are available.
You can also follow our @InternetSociety Twitter account where we will be providing updates using the #OECDdigitalMX hashtag.
Watch this blog, too, as we will be posting several more articles throughout the day!
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Jun 08
Internet Society Activities at EuroDIG 2016: Trust, Collaborative Security, Zero Rating and More… (Featured Blog)
Jun 08
EuroDIG 2016 – Internet Society Talking About Trust, Collaborative Security, Content and Zero Rating
Over the next two days (9-10 June), the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) takes place in Brussels, Belgium. With a theme of "Embracing the digital (r)evolution", EuroDIG has a full agenda and Internet Society staff will be participating in many aspects of the programme.
Jun 06
4th Anniversary of World IPv6 Launch Provides More Reasons To Migrate Apps to IPv6…
Today is the fourth anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, where in 2012 thousands of websites and hundreds of networks permanently enabled IPv6. I wrote about this anniversary over on CircleID and prominently mentioned that Google’s global IPv6 statistics just went over the 12% mark this past weekend.
12%!
Up from 1% just 3.5 years ago (end of 2012). That’s a very remarkable growth rate and a clear sign that the transition to IPv6 IS happening, no matter what critics may say!
Coupled with the fact that as of June 1 Apple is now requiring all iOS apps to work on an IPv6-only network… the situation is definitely clear that application developers need to understand how to make their apps work over IPv6 – and sooner rather than later.
This book was obviously written to help, but there are other resources available now to help developers.
The key point is to get started now! Before that 12% becomes 25% or 50% … and your app that only works on legacy IPv4 networks starts to have more challenges. Do it today!
An audio commentary about this 4th Launchiversary is also available:
Jun 06
4th Anniversary of World IPv6 Launch Provides More Reasons To Migrate Apps to IPv6…
Today is the fourth anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, where in 2012 thousands of websites and hundreds of networks permanently enabled IPv6. I wrote about this anniversary over on CircleID and prominently mentioned that Google’s global IPv6 statistics just went over the 12% mark this past weekend.
12%!
Up from 1% just 3.5 years ago (end of 2012). That’s a very remarkable growth rate and a clear sign that the transition to IPv6 IS happening, no matter what critics may say!
Coupled with the fact that as of June 1 Apple is now requiring all iOS apps to work on an IPv6-only network… the situation is definitely clear that application developers need to understand how to make their apps work over IPv6 – and sooner rather than later.
This book was obviously written to help, but there are other resources available now to help developers.
The key point is to get started now! Before that 12% becomes 25% or 50% … and your app that only works on legacy IPv4 networks starts to have more challenges. Do it today!
An audio commentary about this 4th Launchiversary is also available:
Jun 06
TDYR 305 – Celebrating the 4th World IPv6 Launchiversary
Jun 06
Google’s IPv6 Stats Hit 12% on Fourth Anniversary of World IPv6 Launch (Featured Blog)
May 31