Beyond carbon; AI hype
Last week it was my pleasure to join such an impressive lineup of talks at the RIPE NCC Open House: Green Tech and Sustainability in Internet Technologies. You can watch the proceedings and download the slides.
Green Tech and Sustainability in Internet Technologies, 2 Oct 2024
Open House discussion about Green Tech and Sustainability in Internet Technologies.
I gave a short talk about my internet-draft 'Beyond Carbon' in the IETF's e-impact programme and why it's important to push companies to make durable and real commitments to reducing e-impacts beyond energy consumption because they're already economically aligned with efficiency.
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This week in links
- As Britain turns over sovereignty of “the last colony in Africa” to Mauritius, the world must say goodbye to ccTLD .io https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain
- Laura Cunningham from the Open Technology Fund told members of the US Senate, "Once considered politically extreme and technically implausible, digital authoritarianism has now been adopted worldwide as more and more governments are substituting repressive technical shortcuts for the hard work of good governance in a bid to control their populations in ways that were previously unimaginable." https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/cyberspace-under-threat-in-the-era-of-rising-authoritarianism-and-global-competition
- OTF is funding eQualitie to research how communities in shutdown-prone contexts could leverage these federated networks to communicate and organize resiliently and safely https://www.opentech.fund/projects-we-support/supported-projects/dcomms
- For years there has persisted a tension between privacy and new ways of tracking users for advertising, in order to eliminate cookies. Mozilla's latest feature in Firefox reopens this debate https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-feature
- ICANN reflects on the Global Digital Compact as a multilateral process, not a multistakeholder one https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/key-takeaways-from-the-un-global-digital-compact-process-04-10-2024-en
- The W3C just re-chartered the Verifiable Credentials Working Group https://www.w3.org/2024/10/vc-wg-charter.html
- Open Knowledge Foundation is hosting their online summit this month: The Tech We Want https://okfn.org/en/events/the-tech-we-want-online-summit/
- The application for the 2025 funding cycle for Internet Freedom projects at the US Department of Rights and Labor is now open until January https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor-request-for-statements-of-interest-drl-internet-freedom-annual-program-statement-2/
- ICANN is looking for a technology and policy research writer for the Security and Stability Advisory Committee https://lists.icann.org/hyperkitty/list/rssac-caucus@icann.org/thread/GOM2KB7YIBBISUBH5A25Y5CP66DDM7P4/
- ICYMI: A report and accompanying data set on the actors who most actively contribute to the standardisation processes of the ITU (2023) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1758-5899.13223
I joined the All Things Policy podcast to talk about AI hype and why it's undermining digital public infrastructure. Check out the episode here:
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