Engine Advocacy and NY Tech Meetup
invite you to join us for
The Open Internet and the 2012 Election:
A Conversation with Fred Wilson, Clay Shirky, and Susan Crawford
Thursday, October 25,[masked] p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
at NYU Stern School of Business
Tickets: $10
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About Engine Advocacy: Engine’s mission is to create an environment where technological innovation and entrepreneurship thrive by educating, collaborating with, and involving startups in shaping policy. More information at: http://engine.is
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November 3, 2012
A number of people came over to talk about the telecom issues. As Crawford mentioned, AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, working with ALEC have been going state to state to 'deregulate' telecom services, using 'internet freedom' as their banner --- it's just freedom from regulation. 20 states, including CA, have already passed this law and it sits in NY, NJ, and MA. Internet freedom should mean choice of internet, phone broadband or cable providers and upgraded networks.
Wireless is also tied to the wires; cell sites are wired.-- control equals bandwidth caps.
Worse, very soon there will be an attack in Congress and the FCC. Too long to explain here, check out the Huff. articles.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/internet-freedom-you-are-_b_1975012.html
and
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/internet-freedom-att_b_1869358.html
We're expanding our current gang to stop this, including raising funds and resources -- want to help:
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October 26, 2012
Wonderful discussion last night. If anyone is interested in working with a startup that is solving the overall issue addressed last night..contact me and reply to this post. We need rails developer and graphic designer to help us going forward. I can explain the site in detail once we chat...but suffice it say...we are changing the game...permanently.
October 26, 2012
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October 26, 2012
How can I learn more details? I'm a former cognitive psychologist turned serial software entrepreneur and I was an elected member of Ann Arbor City Council. My partner is a graphic designer (CSS, HTML, Javascript). We are both interested. FWIW, we did the initial build of the social networking website for Occupy Wall Street that got a million visits in the first 3 weeks. Send us your actual email here: http://services.loudf...
October 26, 2012
This was very interesting!
October 25, 2012
I really enjoyed the energetic discussion... looking forward to the next gathering.
October 25, 2012
Two recent articles on some of the issues
http://uspolitics.einnews.com/column/119971149/after-election-results-are-announced-can-we-believe-t
http://www.technewsdaily.com/8372-hackers-steal-election.html
(Disclaimer: having done my thesis at MIT on secure electronic voting I'm quoted in the second--although she used the most headline grabbing attack of all the ones I mentioned.)
October 25, 2012
I hope some serious discussion is given as to how techies can help stop the GOP from stealing the election again (for the 3rd time, not counting several house and senate races electronically stolen). If any of you don't realize this is what they will do in Ohio, read (from latest Harper's issue: http://markcrispinmiller.com/2012/10/how-to-rig-an-election-victoria-colliers-breakthrough-article-in-harpers-2/
I believe the CS dept at UC Berk has figured out a way to have lots of their programmers monitoring machines in some parts of Ohio. No idea. But all these machines are produced by far right wing companies with easily hackable software and proprietary code. One programmer told me that even the Israelis and Chinese can determine our next Prez. This is the elephant in the room. The DP refuses to discuss it bec they fear it will seriously depress voter turn out.
Media won't discuss it since it will anger GOP--huge source of campaign ad income). All Swingstate sec's of state are GOP!
October 25, 2012
I can't really tell what this is about from the title, and the description doesn't enlighten. Please help?
October 24, 2012
Hi Sheryl - The conversation will focus tech policy issues related to the 2012 election - from what the candidates wrote in their recent letters to NY Tech Meetup to broader conversations about privacy and data policies.
October 25, 2012
Thanks, Jessica.
October 25, 2012
If anyone would like to purchase 2 tickets for tonight (last minute), please let me know!
October 25, 2012
Actually, you forgot Susan Crawford -- and what I think is interesting is the discussion of 'open internet' vs open networks --- ie, you can't have internet freedom without competition to choose your internet and broadband provider --- something that both parties haven't mentioned and won't as they won't confront the cable and telco companies -- the suppliers of the networks we us. The internet goes over the wires --- it ain't the wires or the spectrum.
October 24, 2012
Yves - while I've been fortunate not to have run into this problem this is one of the key problems my startup is being designed to address. Thank you for validating my "leap of faith" assumption!
October 24, 2012
Yves- I have worked on 30 odd projects that involve outsourcing. The key is to clearly lay down milestones and make the spec document as detailed as possible.
October 24, 2012
It will most likely be taped and posted quickly afterwards, but unfortunately we don't have the budget for livestreaming for this event (since it is an extra event outside of our regular venue)
October 18, 2012
I am doing an informal poll of seeing who is using AWS for their development and or solution deployments. Let me know if you are a using AWS and in what capacity. Thanks!
October 12, 2012
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