<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:13px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><img src="cid:ii_j7vobxmv0_15ea8e19a5f4ac3d" width="591" height="139" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br>​Today <strong>Sep 22 2017</strong>, is the 12th annual <strong><a href="http://onewebday.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(52,120,227)">One Web Day</a></strong>. Founded in 2006 by <strong><a href="http://scrawford.net/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(52,120,227)">Susan Crawford</a></strong> 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 “<strong><a href="http://bit.ly/openthepipes" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(52,120,227)">Open The Pipes</a></strong>“, in recognition of the need for cheap and accessible backhaul for <strong><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/community-networks/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(52,120,227)">Community Networks</a></strong>. The highlighted video is a section of <strong>Kathy Brown</strong>‘s speech at<strong><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/07/mwc-shanghai-keynote-bridging-the-connectivity-gap-video-and-text/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(52,120,227)"> </a></strong>the<strong><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/07/mwc-shanghai-keynote-bridging-the-connectivity-gap-video-and-text/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(52,120,227)"> Mobile World Congress in Shanghai</a></strong> earlier in the year.</p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:13px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b>(<a href="http://isoc-ny.org/owd/kathy_brown_mwcs.mp4" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(52,120,227)">download video</a>)</b></p></div><div><br></div>To participate it is requested that you 1)  fill out the brief <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/08/take-brief-survey-support-community-networks/"><b>netcommons survey</b></a> to give your own personal input on the potential of alternative Internet provision.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">​ and 2) retweet <a href="https://twitter.com/isocny/status/911112563051593730"><b>this</b></a></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">​<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Joly MacFie</div><div>President - Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY)</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://isoc-ny.org" target="_blank">http://isoc-ny.org</a>          </span><span><span id="gc-number-1" class="gc-cs-link" title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span></span></div></div></div>
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