Please join the Internet Society – San Francisco Bay Area Chapter on 16 August 2021 for a tech policy webinar with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Technology and Civil Liberties Director Nicole A. Ozer. RSVP here.…
Update: Video Recording The US Supreme Court set an important legal precedent regarding copyright law and computer code in it’s April 2021 landmark legal ruling (Google, LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.) when it ruled that Google’s use of…
The ICANN 63 Readout webinar took place on 29 December, 2018. ICANN’s Chris Mondini, Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement, and Joe Catapano, Stakeholder Engagement Program Manager, North America, gave a high level overview of the key policy discussions and community activities…
Chapter Member Anna Loup was awarded a Fellowship to the Cyber South School on Internet Governance (SSIG), which took place in Washington D.C., April 30 – May 2. She give a brief overview of her experience in this blog…
At the beginning of 2017, the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter teamed up with the Geographical Information Center (GIC), California State University, Chico to carry out a research project, “Bridging California’s Rural/Urban Digital Divide with Mobile Broadband”. The project…
Anna Loup is a Fellow for the SF Bay ISOC’s Working Group on Internet Governance. She is a doctoral student at Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC, researching the social, political, and economic implications of the Internet’s policy and technical…
Mischa Spiegelmock, Chair of the SF-Bay ISOC Chapter’s Working Group on IoT, Internet Technologies and Access, attended the recent Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 99 Meeting in Prague, Czech Republic. Find out about his experience as a first-timer in his comprehensive…
Fatema Kothari is the Vice President for San Francisco Bay Area ISOC organization. Here she writes about a recent industry event she spoke at, emphasizing the need to build people-centric connectivity solutions. Last week, I had the…
California was recently reminded that rain can be very dangerous. In February, the nation’s tallest dam, the Oroville dam in northern California, became so overloaded with rain that over a 100,000 people had to evacuate their homes. Many…