[Chapter-delegates] FYI - Tuesday, May 10 - "Is The Internet Fragmenting?", an ISOC-DC / Microsoft event

[Carlos Afonso]

Hi Dan, I hope Bill Drake can participate (remotely, I assume?). He
facilitated an excellent session on the issue in WSIS Forum 2016 and did
a paper on it for the WEF.

frt rgds

--c.a.

On 09/05/2016 19:15, Dan York wrote:
> Chapter leaders,
> 
> Is the Internet in danger of fragmenting along technical, economic or
> policy lines?  Has it already?  What can be done to prevent
> fragmentation?
> 
> The Internet Society Greater Washington DC Chapter and Microsoft are
> co-sponsoring what looks to be an excellent event on the topic of "Is
> The Internet Fragmenting?" tomorrow (Tuesday, May 10) from 3:30 -
> 5:00 US EDT (UTC-4).  Our President and CEO, Kathy Brown, will be
> speaking as part of the panel.  Other speakers are from the World
> Economic Forum, the Global Commission on Internet Governance,
> Microsoft and the OECD.  A keynote will be given by US Ambassador
> Daniel Sepulveda.
> 
> Information about the event, the live video stream, resources and
> more can be found at:
> 
> https://www.internetsociety.org/events/panel-internet-fragmenting
> 
> If you are in the DC area you can attend in person and there is a
> registration link on the page.
> 
> In addition to the live video stream via Microsoft's Skype Meeting
> Broadcast, there will also be live-tweeting using the #Fragmentation
> hashtag:
> https://twitter.com/hashtag/fragmentation?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash
>
>  I'm looking forward to joining in (remotely) and encourage anyone
> else interested in this critical topic to do so as well.
> 
> Dan
> 
> -- Dan York Senior Content Strategist, Internet Society 
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