RESTREAM TODAY – IGF-USA 2020 Lead-In Event: The Evolving Role of the Internet in our Lives
A slighlly touched up version of last week's IGF-USA intro webinar. Lee Rainie breaks down Pew's current research on Internet usage in the USA. ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday July 16 2020, at 10am EDT (17:00-18:30 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channel will restream the IGF-USA 2020 Lead-In Event 'The evolving role of the Internet in our lives'. The entire session is dedicated to a presentation and discussion" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfusapew>On *Thursday July 16 2020*, at *10am EDT* (14:00 UTC) the* Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://isoc.live>* will restream the IGF-USA 2020 Lead-In Event *'The evolving role of the Internet in our lives*'. The entire session is dedicated to a presentation and discussion of the latest reports from the *Pew Research Center <https://www.pewresearch.org/> *focusing on on the digital divide, privacy, education, telework, and the numerous ways in which Americans have used and relied on technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. PRESENTER *Lee Rainie*, Director of Internet and Technology Research, Pew Research Center. *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfusapew <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfusapew>* *TWITTER @IGFUSA @pewinternet <https://bit.ly/2Zklk8c> #igfusa* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/pg/InternetGovernanceForumUSA/videos/ <https://www.facebook.com/pg/InternetGovernanceForumUSA/videos/>* *ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/igfusapew <https://archive.org/details/igfusapew>* *Permalink*: https://isoc.live/12441/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -
Dear AoIRers, long time lurker, first time poster*. A recent inquiry to the list asking for non-Zoom platforms gave me the idea to ask advice here regarding a project for an opinion piece I have about the recent taking over of online conferencing by Zoom (and Microsoft Teams) in Academia. My point is that the Covid crisis has led (in France at least, and I'm willing to have the opinion about academics in other countries) to the complete outsourcing to those two corporate platforms for online teaching (and scholarly conferencing), which means 1) the renouncement to a once functional dedicated national infrastructure (namely, in France, the use of free software Jitsi within the state-sponsored "Renater" academic infrastructure) 2) the surrendering of Academia to corporations well known to abuse the extraction and commodification of data (Zoom) and well known to "embrace, extend and extinguish" anything within their reach (Microsoft) My point is that it is completely contradictory to a supposed general institutional trend towards "open science", and that open software is often forgotten besides open litterature and open data, and that the pandemic has accelerated the disintegration of an academic national and open infrastructure. So my questions are : 1) Is anybody aware of an already existing piece expressing that concerns ? 2) Is anybody willing to share what is the situation in their country regarding this issue ? Best, * for a little background and as a newcomer presentation, I am a historian of science and my area is the issue of openness within scientific modelling software . -- *********************************************** Alexandre Hocquet Archives Henri Poincaré & Science History Institute Alexandre.Hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr https://www.sciencehistory.org/profile/alexandre-hocquet https://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet ***********************************************
Hi Alexandre and everyone, This is maybe a bit adjacent to your question, but I have also been concerned watching Zoom rapidly gobble up a near-monopoly on remote education in the United States. Here is an informal resource that I created at the start of the pandemic, and recently updated, warning about the dangers of Zoom becoming a monopoly, and advising educators about alternatives, and how to minimize the harms of using Zoom in the classroom: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o7Eq17jdWCtu2CaC15JBbdVU1p7fx2_jReH6qoFa... I hope it's helpful to you in writing your article, and also generally to folks on this list going into teaching remotely the next semester. I think the situation in the US is very similar to the one you describe in France (with the exception, perhaps, that there was less of an existing open source infrastructure which Zoom replaced - though that's just my impression) Cheers, Mehitabel On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 7:41 PM Alexandre Hocquet < alexandre.hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr> wrote:
Dear AoIRers,
long time lurker, first time poster*. A recent inquiry to the list asking for non-Zoom platforms gave me the idea to ask advice here regarding a project for an opinion piece I have about the recent taking over of online conferencing by Zoom (and Microsoft Teams) in Academia.
My point is that the Covid crisis has led (in France at least, and I'm willing to have the opinion about academics in other countries) to the complete outsourcing to those two corporate platforms for online teaching (and scholarly conferencing), which means
1) the renouncement to a once functional dedicated national infrastructure (namely, in France, the use of free software Jitsi within the state-sponsored "Renater" academic infrastructure)
2) the surrendering of Academia to corporations well known to abuse the extraction and commodification of data (Zoom) and well known to "embrace, extend and extinguish" anything within their reach (Microsoft)
My point is that it is completely contradictory to a supposed general institutional trend towards "open science", and that open software is often forgotten besides open litterature and open data, and that the pandemic has accelerated the disintegration of an academic national and open infrastructure.
So my questions are :
1) Is anybody aware of an already existing piece expressing that concerns ?
2) Is anybody willing to share what is the situation in their country regarding this issue ?
Best,
* for a little background and as a newcomer presentation, I am a historian of science and my area is the issue of openness within scientific modelling software .
-- *********************************************** Alexandre Hocquet Archives Henri Poincaré & Science History Institute Alexandre.Hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr
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There are alternatives to Zoom and Microsoft Teams. We have used Cisco WebEx for some years. If you are organizing your own classes or events, it is a viable option. The pricing for small scale use is quite reasonable. Given the increased demand for such products, I expect there will be solutions which allow self-hosting. I also expect open source software solutions too at some point. Fred -- Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer FireSabre Consulting LLC Content Services for Virtual Worlds Creation, Events, Training, & Simulations On 7/29/2020 6:41 PM, Alexandre Hocquet wrote:
Dear AoIRers,
long time lurker, first time poster*. A recent inquiry to the list asking for non-Zoom platforms gave me the idea to ask advice here regarding a project for an opinion piece I have about the recent taking over of online conferencing by Zoom (and Microsoft Teams) in Academia.
My point is that the Covid crisis has led (in France at least, and I'm willing to have the opinion about academics in other countries) to the complete outsourcing to those two corporate platforms for online teaching (and scholarly conferencing), which means
1) the renouncement to a once functional dedicated national infrastructure (namely, in France, the use of free software Jitsi within the state-sponsored "Renater" academic infrastructure)
2) the surrendering of Academia to corporations well known to abuse the extraction and commodification of data (Zoom) and well known to "embrace, extend and extinguish" anything within their reach (Microsoft)
My point is that it is completely contradictory to a supposed general institutional trend towards "open science", and that open software is often forgotten besides open litterature and open data, and that the pandemic has accelerated the disintegration of an academic national and open infrastructure.
So my questions are :
1) Is anybody aware of an already existing piece expressing that concerns ?
2) Is anybody willing to share what is the situation in their country regarding this issue ?
Best,
* for a little background and as a newcomer presentation, I am a historian of science and my area is the issue of openness within scientific modelling software .
participants (4)
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Alexandre Hocquet -
Fred Fuchs -
Joly MacFie -
Mehitabel Glenhaber