Conferences

I have the honor of speaking at the “Emerging Technologies & Media Mythologies” conference at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. I’ll be the Tuesday lunchtime speaker, where I’ll be talking about the Iranian Internet, before and after the recent election — I’ll be drawing from my forthcoming book, “The Internet of Elsewhere,” (Rutgers University Press, 2011). I’m truly flattered to be invited to take the place of Iranian journalist and human rights activist, Akbar…

So I’ve been so busy with my New York gig that I’ve barely had time to blog, but I’ve been in Linz for the last couple days, working at the Ars Electronica 2009 conference. I’m moderating the cloud computing panels today, which you can watch live here. We start at 08h30 GMT/10h30 Linz/01h30 Pacific. Also, I walked around the show floor a little bit with Sonja Bettel and met up with the Drink Pee folks for the latest episode of…

CCDCOE conference, June 18 Nart Villeneuve, “Tracking GhostNet”: One of our staff has been working with Tibetian communnities for 10 years. Art of investigation: raise more questions than answers. This is good, as we have limitations. Data is hard to come by. Organizations are not generally willing to collect their data or provide you with samples of malicious files, you have to cultivate sources, and earn trust (within NGO community). We hear a lot of news coverage, they’re often incomplete,…

CCDCOE conference, June 17 Kenneth Geers, American representative to CCDCOE: – Even if you took a tank or a jet fighter, you could hardly count the number of processors on it. – Next year US military will have more unmanned than manned aircraft – It’s not just about vulnerability and exploit — but where does that meet national security? All presentations, have elements that speak to why nat’l security planners would find it interesting. – This is the best city…

My presentation from the Engineers Without Borders Conference in Milwaukee (March 27-28, 2009) is now online. You can view it online here, or download the PowerPoint file (.ppt) here. Everything is made available under a Creative Commons license, naturally.

I’ll be moderating this session on May 27 at the Global Health Conference in Washington, D.C. Transformations: Discovering New Strategies Using Proven Technologies 9-10:30 am The technology evolution is sparking a health-care revolution. The rapid adoption of mobile technology throughout the world, with more than 4 billion mobile phones alone, has resulted in a leapfrogging over the digital divide. Those in remote and resource-poor settings, without the infrastructure to support wired technology, now have the same access to information and…

Friends, I’ve just been invited to speak at the Conference on Cyber Warfare, sponsored by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia. The topic of my talk will be “‘Web War One’ ? Really? Media Coverage of Cyberattacks.” Wow, it’s such an honor to be asked to speak in front of the world’s cybersecurity community — many of whom I’ve interviewed in the past. And big ups to Kenneth Geers from the Center, whom I interviewed…