In the name of the Internet Society Nominations Committee, I am pleased to announce the final slates of nominees for the 2018 Internet Society Board of Trustees elections.
The ISOC Nominations Committee received many responses to the call for applications, with the following regional and gender distribution of candidates:
Total applications received: 26
Regional distribution:
Gender distribution:
The Nominations Committee chose a slate of 3 candidates for each election slate. One nominee, Stefano Trumpy, was added to the Chapters slate after he launched a successful petition. Therefore, the final slates consist of 3 candidates for the Organization Members election, and 4 candidates for the Chapters election.
The final slates are as follows. The candidates for each election slate are listed in alphabetical order by last name.
Organizations (one seat available)
Chapters (one seat available)
Biographical information on all the candidates is available here:
https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/2018/nominees/
Voting representatives can expect to receive e-ballots from the ISOC Elections Committee by email on Thursday, 8 March and will have Continue reading
The company already works with Verizon on SD-WLAN.
Intel seems to be involved in just about every vRAN group and partnership out there.
There’s a joke that goes something like this: How do you make a little money in the online news business?
The punchline: Start with a huge pile of money, and work your way down from there.
It seems the same joke would work for the online comedy business, judging by the layoff news coming out of Funny or Die in January. Recently, Splitsider.com published an interesting Q&A with comedy veteran Matt Klinman, and he talked about the woes of online comedy outlets.
Klinman focused his ire on Facebook and its role as an information gatekeeper, in which the site determines what comedy clips to show each of its users. But much of his criticism could have just as easily been targeted at a handful of other online gatekeepers that point Internet users to a huge percentage of the original content that’s out there.
As Klinman says about Facebook, these services have created their own “centrally designed Internet” in which they serve as “our editor and our boss. They hide behind algorithms that they change constantly.”
As a thrice-laid-off online journalist, I can sympathize. I’m pretty sure I can’t blame any of the current gatekeepers for my 2002 layoff Continue reading
On this short take over at the Network Collective, I talk about the importance of breaking things.