HYBRID 9 SEP 15:00 UTC / 11:00 EDT - Internet Governance Forum USA 2026 isoc.live/21744 IGF-USA convenes for the first time in Philadelphia, at the @amrevmuseum.bsky.social. Live from 11:00 EDT: youtu.be/saM2eoCag3Q #IGF #IGFUSA #IGFUSA2026 #InternetGovernance

RECAP/RECORDING - From paramedic to aphasia advocate isoclive.substack.com/p/a11ynyc0826 Avi Golden went from critical care and flight paramedic to stroke survivor with Broca's aphasia — and now trains first responders to recognise it. #A11yNYC #a11y #Accessibility #aphasia #disability

RECAP - ISOC Mumbai WITL-VIII - Beyond the Hype: Building a Durable Career in a Changing Tech Industry isoclive.substack.com/p/isoc-mumba... Rakshita Kulshrestha of Meta on unlearning, tech fluency, and calculated career risks. #ISOCMumbai #WomenInTech #TechCareers @internetsociety.org

WEBINAR 26 AUG 05:00 UTC - AP-WGIGP - Reflections from Global Events for Asia Pacific Relevance isoc.live/21770 AP-WGIGP debriefs three June-July events: the IGF 2026 MAG meeting, the first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance and WSIS Forum 2026. #InternetGovernance #APAC #APrIGF

HYBRID 4 SEP 19:00 UTC - Hawaiʻi School on Internet Governance isoc.live/21756 Inaugural HiSIG: 'Navigating Global Digital Governance' — Vint Cerf keynote, plus multistakeholder model, indigenous knowledge and AI risk, with @internetsociety.org #HiSIG #InternetGovernance #Hawaii

WEBCAST 14-16 AUG 14:00 UTC / 10:00 EDT - HOPE 26: The 17th Hackers On Planet Earth Conference isoc.live/21741 @hope.net returns to NYC at the New Yorker Hotel for three days across three tracks, all of it webcast live by ISOC Live. #HOPE26 #HackersOnPlanetEarth #2600

SAVE THE DATE! 9 SEP - Internet Governance Forum USA 2026 isoc.live/21744 IGF-USA convenes for the first time in Philadelphia, at the @amrevmuseum.bsky.social, 101 South 3rd Street. Registration opens 11 August. #IGF #IGFUSA #IGFUSA2026 #InternetGovernance

SUMMARY - Internet Accountability in Latin America and the Caribbean: State of Play and Outlook isoclive.substack.com/p/lac-accoun... Olga Cavalli for @eui-eu.bsky.social: LAC's accountability gap is institutional, not technical. #InternetGovernance #LATAM #LAC

WEBINAR 26 AUG 15:00 EDT / 19:00 UTC - NTIA - Permitting That Delivers: Practical Tools & Strategies for Broadband Buildouts isoc.live/21725 @NTIAgov on approaches to permitting: route planning and mapping, multi-agency coordination, and analysis for compliance. #NTIA #BEAD #Broadband #Permitting

SUMMARY - White Paper on: AI and Environment isoclive.substack.com/p/ai-and-env... @intgovforum.bsky.social's Dynamic Coalition on Environment, with partners in Russia, China and India: AI's impact on the environment is a governance choice, not a fixed cost. #AI #Environment #AIGovernance

WEBINAR 25 AUG 8am PDT / 15:00 UTC - PQC and OpenSSL: Practical Integration and Deployment isoc.live/21719 Rich Salz (Akamai) on PQC in OpenSSL: providers, liboqs, hybrid TLS handshakes. Hosts: INTC & IIESoc #QuantumSafe #PostQuantumCryptography #Cryptography #OpenSSL

SUMMARY - The Day the Provider Stopped Reading Your Chats isoclive.substack.com/p/encrypted-... Christakis & Swire on Meta's Incognito Chat: confidentiality enforced by hardware, not policy. Moderation happens inside the enclave; no knowledge, no liability. #Encryption #AIGovernance

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RECAP/RECORDING - Establishing a Central Data Function at a Public Agency isoclivecivic.substack.com/p/central-da... How @mta.info built a centralized Data & Analytics team to break silos, modernize its data lake, and power decisions across the agency. #civictech #opendata #datagovernance

RECAP/RECORDING - To ban or not to ban – How to protect children online? isoclive.substack.com/p/dc-cride-b... #ChildRights #OnlineSafety #AgeAssurance #IGF2026 @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @ecpat.bsky.social @intgovforum.bsky.social

SUMMARY - Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI isoclive.substack.com/p/un-ai-report First UN-mandated global assessment of AI. Evidence dilemma, agentic step change, AI divide. @unodet.bsky.social @yoshuabengio.bsky.social #AIGovernance

SUMMARY - Frugal Voice: Offline Community–Governed Speech Models for the Soliga Tribe in Karnataka isoclive.substack.com/p/frugal-voice 5 hours of audio, sub-$50 hardware, recordings that never leave the community, a data council with veto power. #FrugalAI #DataSovereignty

WEBINAR 20 AUG 17:00 UTC - The Limits of Human Oversight in the Age of AI Agents isoc.live/21703 @datasociety.bsky.social on its primer 'The Oversight Fallacy', with Ranjit Singh, Samir Passi, @mmitchell.bsky.social & Madeleine Clare Elish. #AIAgents #HumanOversight #AIGovernance

HYBRID 31 JUL - 1 AUG 10:00 UTC - 3rd Small Island Developing States Internet Governance Forum isoc.live/21700 CTU and DC-SIDS convene the 3rd SIDS IGF in Mauritius with Halley Movement — cyber resilience, AI, climate. #SIDSIGF2026 #SIDS #IGF#InternetGovernance

WEBINAR 30 JUL 16:00 UTC - FBA Presents – From Funding to Foundation: Building Future-Ready Broadband Infrastructure for Tribal Nations isoc.live/21697 FBA hosts Lumen's Tzeitel Buchanan & Steve Kalomas on middle-mile & workforce. #FiberBroadband #TribalBroadband #DigitalEquity

RECAP/RECORDING - Can You Trust the Story? Thinking Critically with AI and NYC Open Data isoclivecivic.substack.com/p/thinking-c... Dr. Cecilia Dones uses NYC 311 data to show how AI can overstate what the numbers support. #civictech #opendata #nycsodata @beta.nyc

SUMMARY - Internet Resilience Frameworks for Coordinated Global Action isoclive.substack.com/p/marconi-re... Phase 1 from @marconisociety.bsky.social's Internet Resilience Institute: a "Life of a Packet" dependency map, plus a continuity guide for SMEs. #InternetResilience

RECAP/RECORDING - Transitioning to Quantum-Safe Cryptography isoclive.substack.com/p/intc-pqc-t... Encryption has to be quantum-safe now; authentication can wait — and why "migrate everything at once" is the wrong answer. #PQC #PostQuantum #QuantumSafe #Cryptography #IETF

SUMMARY - India - Draft RPwD (Amendment) Rules, 2026 - Digital Accessibility Framework isoclive.substack.com/p/india-pwd Mandatory public Accessibility Conformance Reports in human- and machine-readable formats for any ICT product available in India. 30-day comment window. #a11y

WEBCAST SEP 1 7:30pm EDT / 23:30 UTC - A11yNYC - Building Slack's simplified layout mode isoc.live/21691 A11yNYC hosts Slack engineers Chris Xu, Lena Wang and Kaili Liang on Simplified Layout Mode, a single-column Slack that is easier to navigate. #A11yNYC #A11y #disability #Slack

RECAP/RECORDING - FCC IP Transition Workshop isoclive.substack.com/p/fcc-ip-tra... Session-by-session video / summary / transcripts on the sunsetting of traditional telecom interconnection #IPTransition #FCC #Telecom @haroldfeld.bsky.social @publicknowledge.bsky.social

WEBINAR 29 JUL 17:00 UTC - AFRALO - Understanding the ICANN Policy Development Process (PDP) and Effective Participation in Public Comment Proceedings isoc.live/21679 How to engage with ICANN policy work, with AFRALO, EURALO and APRALO speakers. #AFRALO #AtLarge #ICANN #PublicComment

WEBINAR 28 JUL 15:00 UTC - INTC - Transitioning to Quantum-Safe cryptography isoc.live/21672 Third talk in INTC's Quantum Series: the post-quantum primitives NIST has standardized, plus migration challenges. With Dr. Vadim Lyubashevsky, IBM Research Zurich. #QuantumSafe #PostQuantum #PQC

WEBINAR 28 JUL 15:00 UTC – INTC – Transitioning to Quantum-Safe cryptography

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SUMMARY - Universal Broadband Summit Report isoclive.substack.com/p/georgetown... Stephanie Weiner reports for @georgetownlaw.bsky.social on four remaining barriers: permitting, affordability, workforce & default risk. 95.5% covered; only 71.3% subscribe. #broadband #BEAD #digitalinclusion

SUMMARY - CTU REPORT - Toward Harmonized AI Policies and Recommendations for the Caribbean isoclive.substack.com/p/caitf2026r... CARICOM is the only comparable bloc with no collective AI instrument. LAC captures just 1.12% of global AI investment. Launched at #CAIF2026 #AI #AIGovernance #Caribbean

WEBINAR 1 AUG 05:30 UTC - ISOC Mumbai - Women in tech Leadership VIII - Beyond the Hype isoc.live/21655 ISOC Mumbai hosts WITL-VIII featuring Rakshita Kulshrestha (Meta) on building a durable tech career through AI, layoffs, and constant change. #ISOCMumbai #WomenInTech #AI #TechCareers