<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Starting right now, this is a very interesting session featuring the winners of<a href="https://awards.isoc.nl/innovatie/" tabindex="-1"> ISOC-NL's 2016 Innovation Award</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u><div style="direction:ltr;background:#ddd;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#666;text-align:center;margin:0;padding:0"><table style="width:100%;background:#dddddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><tbody><tr><td><span style="display:none!important"> joly posted: "On Monday Feb 8 2016 BetaNYC hosted #BetaTalk - Open Referral and the future of "the safety net". Greg Bloom introduces the Open Referral Initiative and discusses its mission to make it easy to share, find, and use social service data. This conversation d" </span><table style="width:100%;padding:10px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0 auto;overflow:hidden"><table style="width:100%;background-color:#fff;text-align:left;max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0 auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%;background-color:#43a4d0;height:8px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><br><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:#555555;line-height:18.2px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/iotny28" tabindex="-1"><img class="alignright" style="border: 1px solid #eeeeee; float: right; padding: 2px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 7px; display: block; clear: none; vertical-align: top; max-width: 98%; height: auto;" src="http://i2.wp.com/img.new.livestream.com/events/0000000000496a26/937f2da3-45be-484f-95b8-283d1c90e514_170x255.png?resize=170%2C255" alt="Livestream" width="170" height="255"></a>On January 29 2016 the IoT NY meetup presented <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="http://www.meetup.com/IoT-NY/events/228262538/" tabindex="-1">IoT NY #28: A Decentralized, Open IoT – The Things Network</a>. Wienke Giezeman, Johan Stokking introduced <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="http://thethingsnetwork.org/" tabindex="-1">The Things Network</a>, a decentralized, community-owned and built IoT data network. The technology uses <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRaWAN" tabindex="-1">LoRaWAN</a> and allows for things to connect to the internet through low-cost gateways that can connect up to 10.000 devices in a radius of 5km. It features low battery usage, long range, and low bandwidth, so is a great fit for sensor data. Their manifesto states that the network is open. Any work created in the community will be open sourced. The Things Network is set up in a decentralized way to not have any single point of control or failure. Nothing is centralized or owned by the founders. The Things Network started only 6 months ago and is already active in more than 50 cities around the world. The webcast will start at 7:30pm EST tonight.</p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:#555555;line-height:18.2px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:#555555;line-height:18.2px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">View on Livestream: <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/iotny28" tabindex="-1">https://livestream.com/internetsociety/iotny28</a></p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:#555555;line-height:18.2px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Twitter: #IoTNY <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IoTNY" tabindex="-1">https://twitter.com/hashtag/IoTNY</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;background-color:#efefef;text-align:left;border-top:1px solid #ddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#efefef"><tbody><tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #f3f3f3;color:#888;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background:#efefef"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 10px 0px"> </p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"> </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><strong>​Permalink</str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