BetaTalk: Carl Malamud on Edicts of Government and Yo! Your Honor!
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Co-hosted with BetaNYC BetaNYC is building a connected New York City by the people, for the people, for 21st Century. Since 2009, they have worked with New York City government, community boards, and community groups to engage NYC’s "civic-minded" technology and design community. They do this though advocacy and events that demystify open data, technology, and government
Carl is one of most forward thinking public domain activists. For this unique night, he will talk about edicts of government (https://public.resource.org/edicts/), the principle of public policy that citizens must have unrestrained access to the laws that govern them. In addition, he will speak about the Yo.YourHonor.Org (http://yo.yourhonor.org/) campaign currently underway to change the way the U.S. federal courts distribute their proceedings in the PACER system.
Malamud set up the nonprofit Public.Resource.Org (http://public.resource.org/), headquartered in Sebastopol, California, to work for the publication of public domain information from local, state, and federal government agencies. Among his achievements have been copying and posting over 6,000 government films for the Internet Archive and YouTube, persuading the state of Oregon to not assert copyright over its legislative statutes, posting over 14,000 hours of video from Congressional hearings, posting the historical opinions of the U.S. Court of Appeals, posting 8 million nonprofit Form 990 tax returns from the IRS, and conducting an audit of privacy violations in the U.S. District Courts. He has also been active in posting legally-mandated public safety codes, such as building codes.
Malamud is the author of eight books, including Exploring the Internet and A World's Fair, which featured a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and an afterword from Laurie Anderson. He was the Chief Technology Officer at the Center for American Progress and was the founding chairman of the Internet Systems Consortium. In the 1990s, Carl ran the Internet Multicasting Service, which operated the first radio station on the Internet and was responsible for posting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR and U.S. Patent databases. Carl is the winner of the EFF Pioneer Award and the Harvard Berkman Award.
Schedule for the night:
- 7:00 - Doors Open
- 7:30 - Story begins
- 8:30 - Open Q&A
- 9:00 - Event ends