Policy (and maybe Politics) events: Week of 5/15/08
By Dave Witzel, 05/15/2008 - 4:20pm

A few events of note for this week:

Berkman@10. This has been a lot of fun so far. Check out the posts by Micah and Ari Melber. Jonathan Zittrain spoke this morning about the future of the Internet, John Palfrey about Politics. In the afternoon its been Yochai Benkler and Jimmy Wales talking about Cooperation, and currently Michael Fricklas (Viacom), Reed Hundt, and Esther Dyson on the Future of the Internet (take 2). Tomorrow has a series of sessions on Openness, plus Digital Natives, Network Neutrality, Netizenship.

It is a very lively virtual event so drop in if you can't make it in person. Here's some live online resources:
- live video
- discussion amongst the audience
- second life
- questions to the speaker
- IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/berkman

The Internet Advocacy Roundtable at the Center for American Progress is hosting "The Future of Emailing Congress - New Solutions Offered and Old Myths Busted" with Daniel Bennet speaking, (5/15/08 from 3 to 5pm in Washington DC). You can get the live video feed.

At the end of the Month the New America Foundation will host the
"International Summit for Community Wireless Networks, Global Integration, Local Control" in Washington DC (May 28-30, 2008). The claim to be "largest gathering of community wireless networking developers, implementers, policy advocates and allies working to build universal, low-cost wireless broadband networks around the globe."

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