Internet Society – San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Internet Society – San Francisco Bay Area ChapterTrish Kelly (Valley Vision), a member of the SF-Bay Area Chapter’s Rural Broadband project team, talked about the project during the NTIA’s webinar on How Broadband is Transforming Agriculture. You can find the audio recording here and the session transcripts…
01 October 2016: The Internet Society Board of Trustees joins the Internet community in celebrating today’s historic milestone whereby the stewardship of the IANA functions will be transitioned to the global Internet community. Today’s IANA stewardship transition fulfills a vision…
Alongside several other Civil Society organizations, the SF Bay Area Chapter has signed a letter of support for the IANA Oversight Transition. This letter was submitted to congress ahead of the congressional hearing entitled Protecting Internet Freedom: Implications of Ending…
SF Bay-Area Chapter Board‘s ISOC Global Representative Jean-Jaques Subrenat has published an article on CircleID detailing what is at stake in regards to the transition of the oversight of the IANA Functions. “A letter was sent to the President of the…
The CEO and President of the Internet Society (ISOC) Kathy Brown is urging support in the final stages of the IANA Stewardship Transition saying that “…as activities to prepare for the expiration of the contract on Sept. 30 are ramping…
On August 10, 2016, the NTIA has published a report on the state of the urban/rural digital divide: “While 75 percent of Americans reported using the Internet in July 2015, the longstanding disparity between urban and rural users persists…
18 August 2016 – On 16 August 2016, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intention to allow the IANA Functions Contract to expire, representing the final step in an almost 20 year process to transition the…