[isoc-ny] Today is One Web Day 2017 w/ theme Open The Pipes for Community Networks

[ISOC-NY announcements]

​Today *Sep 22 2017*, is the 12th annual *One Web Day
<http://onewebday.org/>*. Founded in 2006 by *Susan Crawford
<http://scrawford.net/>* One Web Day is a counterpart to Earth Day on April
22, with a focus on celebrating and sustaining a fully connected planet.
Every year there is a theme, and the 2017 theme is “*Open The Pipes
<http://bit.ly/openthepipes>*“, in recognition of the need for cheap and
accessible backhaul for *Community Networks
<https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/community-networks/>*. The
highlighted video is a section of *Kathy Brown*‘s speech at*
<https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/07/mwc-shanghai-keynote-bridging-the-connectivity-gap-video-and-text/>*
the* Mobile World Congress in Shanghai
<https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/07/mwc-shanghai-keynote-bridging-the-connectivity-gap-video-and-text/>*
earlier
in the year.

*(download video <http://isoc-ny.org/owd/kathy_brown_mwcs.mp4>)*

To participate it is requested that you 1)  fill out the brief *netcommons
survey*
<https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/08/take-brief-survey-support-community-networks/>
to give your own personal input on the potential of alternative Internet
provision.
​ and 2) retweet *this*
<https://twitter.com/isocny/status/911112563051593730>

​

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Joly MacFie
President - Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY)
http://isoc-ny.org          218 565 9365
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