How can we make the Internet of Things (#IoT) more interoperable? How can we help ensure that devices you buy from one vendor will work with those of another vendor? +Dan York wrote about an upcoming workshop from the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) to explore these issues. There is a DEADLINE OF MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, if you are interested in potentially participating. The workshop itself will be March 17-18 in San Jose, California. Please read the post for more information about what is happening... 

Next week at #APRICOT2016 in New Zealand, Kevin Meynell from our Deploy360 team will be speaking about #IPv6, #BCOP, #MANRS and more. He'll also be contributing to a "Tech Girls Get Together" ( #WomenInTech ) session on Tuesday about what inspires and influence people to get involved with IT and networking. Read more... 

On this Sunday, February 21, the workshop on Understanding and Enhancing Online #Privacy (UEOP) will take place at the #NDSS16 conference in San Diego. Read more about how this workshop will be proposing solutions to improve online privacy and #trust ... - https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/tech-matters/2016/02/ndss-workshop-understanding-and-enhancing-online-privacy

In Canada, 73% of TELUS' fixed-line subscribers have #IPv6, while only 2% of wireless subscribers do. Matthew Wilder from TELUS explains those statistics and some of the other insights he's gained from the deployment of IPv6 within their network... 

Our Naveed Haq wrote about and shared some videos and photos from his experience with the first phase of our #W4C Project in Pakistan bringing #InternetAccess and connecting the unconnected... 

Next week we'll have a team at the Mobile World Congress ( ‪#‎MWC2016‬ ) in Barcelona talking about increasing Internet access, promoting trust in the Internet and recognizing how women are empowering themselves via the Internet. Our Chief Economist Michael Kende gives a preview of what we'll be doing there...

In #Ireland and want to fight for the opportunities the open Internet can bring? Join our new Internet Society Chapter in Ireland!

How can we make the Internet's routing infrastructure more resilient, secure and trusted? Andrei Robachevsky reports on a meeting at #NANOG66 of #MANRS participants to scope out what can be done in 2016. They came up with three main areas of work... 

Our Deploy360 team is holding their ION Bangladesh conference on April 11, 2016, alongside the bdNOG event in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A half-day program full of #IPv6, #DNSSEC, #BGP, #TLS and more. Learn more and, if you can, join in to the session...
#IONConf 

If Internet Exchange Points (#IXPs) are so good for increasing #InternetAccess, why aren't their more of them? Noelle Francesca De Guzman explores the growth of IXPs in the Asia-Pacific region... 

Our partner Freedom House wrote about the troubling blocking of social media in today's ‪#‎UgandaElections‬ . Read more...
‪#‎UgandaDecides‬ 

We do not believe #encryption backdoors – in any guise – will help bring about a more trusted Internet. We agree with #Apple and others that there needs to be an open, transparent, public discussion about these issues. Read more...
#security #privacy