Contributed by Giandomenico Massari:

The ISOC Nigeria Chapter, in partnership with The Nigerian Society of Engineers and NEPAD Rivers State, organized an “ICTForALL” awareness seminar in Holy Rosary Secondary School, Port Harcourt on 5 May, 2010. The forum is also preparing to carry out another “ICTForAll” awareness seminar in Baptist High School, Port Harcourt on Tuesday […]

ISOC Ecuador participara en el World Summit Award 2010
Contributed by Carlos Vera
Nuevamente la organizacion responsable del World Summit Award, ha confirmado la participacion de nuestro capitulo como la organizacion local para el concurso de los mejores e-contenidos del 2010.
El email al respecto firmado por Peter Bruck el Presidente del Comite organizador indica que por unanimidad […]

Contributed by Chris Grundemann

The RMv6 Summit was a great event and a huge success for the Internet Society Colorado Chapter. There were more than 250 registered attendees and based on the seat availability in the hall, they all showed up for just about every session.
There were some excellent talks covering many high level aspects of […]

Contributed by Joly MacFie
The Internet Society New York Chater is acting as fiscal sponsor for HackNY, a project to steer NYC computer science students into software internships rather than financial services over the summer.
Funding for the project, originally titled “Keep Kids off the Street”, is provided by the Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City-based nonprofit that […]

Community Grants Programme’s 11th round helps extend Internet’s reach and promote key technologies
[Washington, D.C., USA and Geneva, Switzerland – 25 May 2010] The Internet Society (ISOC) today announced it is funding community-based projects around the world addressing issues such as Internet leadership, education, core infrastructure, local governance, and policy development, with a strong focus on […]

Contributed by Holly Raiche
April saw the Internet Society Australia Chapter participating, with Australian Telecommunications Users Group (ATUG), on Forums in Australian most capital cities (Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Brisbane) on the implications of the National Broadband network for end users. The Chapter has also been involved in the ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement Subgroup […]

Contributed by Hannah Miller
DC Policy and Technology Slam!
At INET-DC on 29 April at the Capital Hilton, the Washington DC Chapter of Internet Society held an unique event – a “Technology and Policy Slam” – modeled after the tradition of a spoken-word poetry slam. The Slam, mixed in with a day of panels hosting FCC and […]

Contributed by Joly MacFie
Diaspora Project
The dispora project, a free and open distributed social network, borne out of the Internet Society New York Chapter’s presentation of Eben Moglen’s ‘Freedom in the Cloud’ in February is making incresingly bigger waves. Four NYU students introduced dispora at the Chapter’s April monthly meeting http://www.isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=777 . They planned to raise […]

Contributed by Francisco Rubio
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New Board in ISOC Peru Chapter
On 13 March, a new board was elected. The new officers are:

Freddy Linares, President
Alexander Forsyth, Vice President
Ruddy Medina, Secretary
Claudia Cordova, Treasurer
Luis Malpartida, Officer
Gustavo Castro, Officer

17 May – World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
ISOC Peru participated in the official activities organized by the e-Government and Informatics National Office, […]

Contributed by Vera Doku
ISOC Ghana Leads Disucssions On Internet Security
[Accra, Ghana 23 April, 2010] “Cyber crime has become extremely pervasive since the invention of the Internet. In Ghana, many people associate the phenomena with Sakawa, which is Internet fraud or scamming. However, cyber crime goes beyond Internet fraud, it could also involve the hacking of […]