<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">This is under way. Very good high level overview of how far we've come in 25 years, and how we may progress.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><u></u>
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joly posted: "Today Thursday May 11 2017 the Internet Society and Royal Institute of International Affairs present A Brave New World: How does the Internet Affect Societies? at Chatham House in London UK. Part of the Internet Society's 25th Anniversary program, a round" </span>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/chatham" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="m_6240539647464938377size-full m_6240539647464938377wp-image-9182" src="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/chatham_may11_170x255.png" alt="livestream" style="max-width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:12px;clear:both;float:right;margin-left:1em;padding:4px;background-color:white;border:1px solid #ccc"></a>Today <strong>Thursday May 11 2017</strong> the <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.internetsociety.org/" target="_blank">Internet Society</a></strong> and <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.chathamhouse.org/" target="_blank">Royal Institute of International Affairs</a></strong> present <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.internetsociety.org/25th/roundtable-may11" target="_blank">A Brave New World: How does the Internet Affect Societies?</a></strong> at Chatham House in London UK. Part of the <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/institutional/2017/01/2017-internet-societys-25th-anniversary-year"><b>Internet Society's 25th Anniversary program</b></a>, a roundtable will examine the question: <strong>Is the Internet eliminating divisions in society, or is it accentuating them? </strong>. Keynote: <strong>Prof. Dr. Erik Huizer</strong>, CTO SURFnet. Speakers: <strong>Dr. Ismail Syed Shah</strong>, Chairman, Pakistan Telecommunications Authority;<strong> Mr. James Arroyo</strong>, OBE, Director for Data, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; <strong>Ms. Unoma Ndili Okarafor</strong>, Ph.D. Founder & CEO at <strong>Herbal Papaya</strong>, WAAW Foundation; <strong>Ms. Rebecca MacKinnon</strong>, Director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at New America. Moderator: <strong>Ms. Kathryn Brown</strong>, President and CEO, Internet Society. The event will be webcast live on the<strong> <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/chatham" target="_blank">Internet Society Livestream Channel</a></strong> and <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://youtu.be/nCpaptHX0II" target="_blank">YouTube</a></strong>. London is 5 hours ahead of NYC.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><strong>What: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.internetsociety.org/25th/roundtable-may11" target="_blank">A Brave New World: How does the Internet Affect Societies?</a><br>
Where: Chatham House, London<br>
When: Thursday May 11 2017 12:30-14:00 BST | 11:30-13:00 UTC | 07:30-9:00 EDT<br>
Webcast 1: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/chatham" target="_blank">https://livestream.com/<wbr>internetsociety/chatham</a><br>
Webcast 2: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://youtu.be/nCpaptHX0II" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/nCpaptHX0II</a><br>
Twitter: #thenext25 <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/thenext25" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/hashtag/<wbr>thenext25</a></strong></p></div>
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