This has just started. [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/globalinternet> Today, *Thursday September 27 2018* at *Noon EDT*(16;00 UTC) *New America <https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/events/battle-global-internet/>* , *DiploFoundation <https://www.diplomacy.edu/calendar/battle-global-internet>*, and *ISOC-DC <https://isoc-dc.org/battle-global-internet/>* together present a panel – *The Battle for the Global Internet <https://isoc-dc.org/battle-global-internet/>*. The coming months are filled with important processes that could play a significant role in steering the future the Internet, including the *Internet Governance Forum <https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2018-0>*, the* ITU Plenipotentiary <https://www.itu.int/web/pp-18/en/>*, *ICANN63 <https://meetings.icann.org/en/barcelona63>*, the *UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation <http://www.un.org/en/digital-cooperation-panel/>*, and more. Some of these processes will pose significant opportunity to codify principles of freedom, openness, interoperability, security, and resilience, while others pose serious challenges to proponents of the same. The outlook will be discussed by *Dr Jovan Kurbalija*, Executive Director, Secretariat of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation; *Robert Morgus*, Sr. Policy Analyst & Deputy Director, FIU-New America C2B Partnership; *Becky Burr*, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer, Neustar; and *Shane Tews*, Co-Chair, Internet Governance Forum USA. Moderator is *Dr Tereza Horejsova*, Project Development Director, DiploFoundation. The event will be webcast live on *YouTube <https://youtu.be/nnN8SViKZhA>* and the *Internet Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/globalinternet>*. *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/globalinternet <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/globalinternet> (auto-captions)YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/nnN8SViKZhA <https://youtu.be/nnN8SViKZhA>REPORT: The Idealized Internet vs. Internet Realities <https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/reports/idealized-internet-vs-internet-realities/abstract/>TWITTER: #GlobalInternet https://bit.ly/2R3NfEd <https://bit.ly/2R3NfEd>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10552/ - -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -