The NETmundial conference, a global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance began in São Paulo, Brazil on April 23 2014, with President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, signing of the Marco Civil da Internet or Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights.
The conference is being attended by over 1200 participants from 97 countries including representatives from Government, civil society, private sector, academia, and technical community with many other participating remotely.
NETmundial logo (source; NETmundial)
Day 2 continues on April 24 2014 and you can attend and participate remotely via
Microsoft Trinidad and Tobago is hosting a workshop titled “A deeper understanding of Data Sovereignty and demystifying Data Protection.” on April 29th, 2014 from 1 to 3pm at their Microsoft Office at #61 Mucurapo Road, St. James, Trinidad.
Workshop Outline:
Data Protection Issues and regulations (Financial Sector, Governments, EU model clauses)
Government access to data. Patriot Act, Law Enforcement requests; Data Sovereignty. Common myths
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), in collaboration with the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) will be hosting the LAC+i Roadshow event on Friday April 25 2014 from 8:30 to 4pm at the Hilton Hotel, Port of Spain.
At this event, various sessions about ICANN policy issues related to domain names and IP addressing, including
generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs),
country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs),
transition to IPv6
Security, Stability and Resiliency of the Domain Name System
Internet Governance in the Caribbean
and more.
This event is free to attend. If you have an interest in these topics and want to learn more and ask questions, please attend!
You can read the agenda at
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzqpE890O2UoRnh5TkRYOC05LWZZbHM2Z1ZuaUtUWnVjX1JR/edit
About the LAC+i Roadshow
The LAC-i-Roadshow is one of the projects of the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Strategy, a strategy that was developed by the different stakeholder groups represented at ICANN from the LAC region. It is designed to raise awareness across the region on key topics related to the DNS critical infrastructure such as the transition to IPv6, SSR (Security, Stability and Resiliency) and the impact of the new gTLD program.
The local section of IEEE (an Engineering organisation) together with ISOC-TT (an Internet organisation) and TTNIC (a DNS registry) will host a forum on Internet Governance on campus on Thursday May 1, 2014, from 6.30pm-8.30pm, at Room 101, Faculty of Engineering Building.The forum is titled “Internet Governance: What it is and why you should care”. All interested persons are welcome to attend.
The Working Group on Internet Governance (IG) has defined Internet governance as “the development and application by governments, the private sector and civil society, in their respective roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programs that shape the evolution and use of the Internet”.
In this forum, Internet governance will be explained and the views of various stakeholders will be presented.
Agenda:
6.30pm-6.40pm
Welcome and introductions
Dr. Patrick Hosein, Chair of the Computer and Communications Society of the TT IEEE Section
6.40pm-7pm
A Civil Society perspective of Internet Governance
Ms. Cintra Sooknanan, Chair of the TT Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC)
7pm-7.20pm
A Government perspective of Internet Governance
Mr. Tracy Hackshaw, Vice Chair, Governmental Advisory Committee, ICANN
7.20pm-7.40pm
The Multi-Stakeholder Model with examples
Ms. Jacqueline Morris, Member of the TTNIC Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group
7.40pm-8pm
ICANN activities in the Caribbean Region
Albert Daniels, ICANN Global Stakeholder Engagement Manager for the Caribbean
8pm-8.05pm
Vote of thanks and closing remarks
Mr. Kevon Andrews, Vice Chair of the Computer and Communications Society of the TT IEEE Section
For further information please contact the IEEETT CCS Secretary at laura.bigram@gmail.com.
Abbreviations
IEETT – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Trinidad and Tobago Section
CCS – Computer and Communications Society
ISOC-TT – Internet Society Trinidad and Tobago Section
TTNIC – Trinidad and Tobago Network Information Centre
New Executive Committee at Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society
Port of Spain, 15th April 2014.
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) for 2013 at Engineering Consultants at 112A Edward Street, Port of Spain on Saturday March 15 2014.
At the AGM, the following persons were elected to the Executive Committee of the TTCS.
The new members of the Executive Committee of the TTCS are:
Chair
Jacqueline Morris
Vice Chair
Richard Jobity
Treasurer
Dulcie Furlonge
Secretary
Amrika Ranjitsingh
Assistant Secretary
Dev Anand Teelucksingh
The TTCS wishes to thank the outgoing Executive Committee members: Morten Lindstrom (chair) and Mike Tikasingh (secretary).
Copies of the meeting minutes and reports presented at the AGM will be sent in a separate message.
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society is a computer user group formed in 1997. We:
are a forum where computers, related technologies and related social issues are discussed;
keep current with the events in the local Information Technology and telecommunications industries;
“Network local computer users” so that they can share knowledge and improve upon their experiences with modern technology.
hold membership in several international organisations and advise on technology issues in Trinidad and Tobago and the region.
Membership in the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society is open to anyone interested in computers regardless of the level of their computer experience or the type of hardware or software they use. To join, please fill out the online form available at http://www.ttcsweb.org/jointtcs
A group of researchers have discovered a 2 year old flaw in the OpenSSL library used by web servers to encrypt communications between users and the server. These are the websites that you would use “https” instead of “http” and include websites that offer cloud services (such as email) that require user to login to banking and e-commerce websites.
Dubbed the Heartbleed bug because the flaw is in a particular part of the OpenSSL code called heartbeat. As the Heartbleed website (http://heartbleed.com/) says:
“The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users.”
Website operators that use OpenSSL need to update their servers and reissue their security certificates (if case, they were already stolen due to the Heartland bug).
End users should limit their visits to websites that use of SSL (hard I know), change their passwords after being advised by websites to do so and in the near future, consider changing all of your online passwords.
Today’s Patch Tuesday will be the last Windows Update for Windows XP. Microsoft is dropping support for Windows XP, meaning no technical support and no more security updates . Also, Microsoft is also discontinuing its anti-virus tool Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows XP.
Microsoft’s End of Support Page for Windows XP:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help which offers suggestions on migrating to Windows 8.1
“Millions asked for it, and Microsoft is providing it: the old Start Menu is coming back. Kind of. At its Build conference today, Microsoft announced a new Start Menu that looks like a hybrid of the best of Windows 7 and Windows 8. It’s around the same size as the Windows 7 menu, but also features miniature Live Tiles along one side.”
