Conveners
Fixing the World: Fixing the World
- Charlie van Genuchten (SURF)
Description
We know how to fix a network, or a service, but do we have a way to fix the world? In this session, we will wade into thebigger questions and issues that need to be addressed to change things. During the presentations, we set paths to a more sustainable future, address historical inequalities, and find new power where it once was lost. We might not fix the whole world with this one session, but it might inspire you to start thinking of ways to try.
Internet2 is working in collaboration with several Minority Serving Institutions through the Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC), striving to reduce the gap between their campus networks and the global R&E ecosystem. Internet2 and the MS-CC were recently awarded a federal grant aimed at providing historically Black colleges and universities, and tribal colleges and...
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Digital technologies are not neutral, they have the power to significantly change the way research and education institutes work. The only way in which we can meaningfully gain control over digital sovereignty is by standing strong together. NRENs can have an important role doing things differently. In this session we will sketch the urgency of the matter and present SURF’s ‘public values’...
