Just before the new year, approximately 15 million Canadians — about 40 percent of the entire population of Canada — learned that their sensitive personal data, collected by one of Canada’s major lab diagnostic and testing services, had been breached. The data included name, address, email, login, passwords, date of birth, health card number, and […]
The Internet Society Blockchain Special Interest Group (ISOC-BSIG) has announced today the conclusion of the voting process for electing its four officers, who will be forming the Executive Committee of the SIG. The results of the election are as follows: Chair: Tawanda Kembo: 51%Everette Hubbard: 49% Vice Chair: Akashdeep Bhardwaj: 34%Akua Walters: 25%Aliyu Usman Shehu: 24%Laxmaiah […]
Several members of the Internet Society Blockchain Special Interest Group (ISOC-BSIG) participated in the 2018 Internet Governance Forum in Paris held from 12-14 November. For a comprehensive report on one of the blockchain sessions held at the event, visit Digital Watch at: https://dig.watch/sessions/blockchain-social-and-humanitarian-applications
The Internet Society’s Middle East Bureau is organizing three blockchain workshops in July for the first time in the region and is inviting applicants to register. The workshops entitled “Blockchain Technologies and Internet Governance: Secrets and How Tos” will be held during 8-12 July in Amman, Beirut and Dubai and will focus on the basics […]
The Internet Society has recently published a new blockchain Issue page on its official website and now appears on the website’s overall Issues page. It comes as the Blockchain SIG is about to mark its first anniversary next month. It is worth noting that ISOC had already featured blockchain technology in its Global Internet Report 2017 that focused on the digital futures. Furthermore, ISOC’s Internet Technology […]
One of the main challenges confronting new blockchain start-ups is to find resources and expertise in supporting them so that they convert their ideas to viable and sustainable projects.Initiated by Toronto-based York University’s BlockchainHub, C-Lab was launched late to provide free space, in-house experts, networking opportunity, human resources, product building, beta testing, as well as funding opportunities. […]
The Internet Society Blockchain SIG will participate in ICANN60’s session on Emerging Identifiers Technology session on 31 October. ISOC-BSIG’s Chair Pindar Wong will share the panel with other distinguished speakers from Ethereum, ICANN and UPC-Barcelona Tech. The session is open to attend and will address new technologies that affect or propose new approaches to the unique […]
The Internet Society Blockchain Special Interest Group (ISOC-BSIG) successfully submitted a paper as a contribution to ITU Open Consultations on Over-the-top (OTT). The submitted paper was co-authored by ISOC-BSIG members Judith Hellerstein (USA), Mohamed El Kandri (Canada), Renata Aquino Ribeiro (Brazil), Hosein Badran (Canada) and Michael J. Oghia (Serbia). Several of the authors have participated remotely in the open consultation […]
Upon the successful ISOC-BSIG election to choose officers as per bylaws , the SIG needed to constitute a full Executive Committee (EC) for the remaining official roles and work out the tasks to organise and prioritize its work. The Chair of ISOC-BSIG Pindar Wong has completed this task and announced the EC to the community as: Find brief […]
The ISOC Blockchain Special Interest Group (ISOC-BSIG) has successfully organized a session at the Africa Internet Summit held in the beginning of June 2017 in Nairobi Kenya. Below is a report of the event along with images and videos. SESSION REPORT:BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY: OPPORTUNITIES FOR AFRICA June 2nd, 2017, Africa Internet Summit, Nairobi, Kenya The Internet […]
