internet lab by information labs: Recent Episodes
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internet lab podcast, “unboxing" the internet to dismantle common misconceptions, by bringing together experts and stakeholders.
📌Episode Highlights⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:29] Q1 - How do you interpret the relationship between users accessing more content and services online and the impact this may have on telcos?
⏲️[05:12] Q2 - What are the inherent dangers (if any) of Big Tech being requested to pay for the network of telcos?
⏲️[10:31] Q3 - Do you think it is appropriate to compare the contribution of Big Tech and telcos in infrastructure, as suggested by some?
⏲️[13:17] You have 1 minute to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU on the 'fair contribution' discussion: make your case.
⏲️[14:49] Outro
📌About Our Guest🎙️ Milton Mueller | Professor and Program Director in Cybersecurity Policy, Georgia Tech
🐦 https://twitter.com/miltonmueller
🌐 Internet Governance Project
🌐 Milton Mueller (Georgia Tech)
Milton Mueller is Professor and Program Director in Cybersecurity Policy at Georgia Tech. More generally, he is an internationally prominent scholar specializing in the political economy of information and communication. He is the author of seven books and a multitude of journal articles, delving into public policy but also science and technology, law, economics, communications, and international studies.Milton is also the co-founder and director of the Internet Governance Project, a policy analysis center for global Internet governance. Milton notably participated in proceedings and policy development activities of ICANN, the International Telecommunications Union, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration as well as regulatory proceedings in the European Commission, China, Hong Kong and New Zealand.
📌Episode Highlights⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:12] Q1 - How do you interpret the relationship between users accessing more content and services online and the impact this may have on telcos?
⏲️[06:26] Q2 - What are the inherent dangers (if any) of Big Tech being requested to pay for the network of telcos?
⏲️[13:32] Q3 - Do you think it is appropriate to compare the contribution of Big Tech and telcos in infrastructure, as suggested by some?
⏲️[18:50] You have 1 minute to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU on the 'fair contribution' discussion: make your case.
⏲️[20:08] Outro
📌About Our Guest
🎙️ Jesper Lund | Chairman, IT-Pol
🐦 https://twitter.com/je5perl
🌐 Net Neutrality: Myths from the Telecom Industry and Responses from Civil Society - A Guide to the Debate about Network Access Fees aka. “Fair Share” (November, 2022)
🌐 IT-Pol
🌐 European Digital Rights (EDRi)
🌐 Danish Net Neutrality Forum
Jesper Lund is chairman of IT-Pol, a Danish digital rights organisation that works to promote privacy and freedom in the information society. IT-Pol is one of the 44 members of European Digital Rights (EDRi). Since 2014 he has been a key contributor to EDRi's ongoing work on net neutrality. He is a member of the Danish Net Neutrality Forum, hosted by the Telecommunications Industry Association. Besides net neutrality, his work on digital rights currently focuses on data protection in the EU law enforcement area.
📌Episode Highlights⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:10] Q1 - How do you interpret the relationship between users accessing more content and services online and the impact this may have on telcos?
⏲️[02:20] Q2 - What are the inherent dangers (if any) of Big Tech being requested to pay for the network of telcos?
⏲️[05:20] Q3 - Do you think it is appropriate to compare the contribution of Big Tech and telcos in infrastructure, as suggested by some?
⏲️[09:50] You have 1 minute to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU on the 'fair contribution' discussion: make your case.
⏲️[11:06] Outro
📌About Our Guest🎙️ Thomas Lohninger | Executive Director, epicenter.works
🐦 https://twitter.com/socialhack
🌐 Net Neutrality: Myths from the Telecom Industry and Responses from Civil Society - A Guide to the Debate about Network Access Fees aka. “Fair Share” (November, 2022)
🌐 epicenter.works
🌐 European Digital Rights (EDRi)
🌐 Savetheinternet.eu
🌐 Center for Internet & Society (Stanford Law School)
🌐 Thomas Lohninger
Thomas Lohninger was a programmer and anthropologist in his former life. Digital rights had been his hobby until it became a job when he intensively accompanied the EU Net Neutrality Regulation as Policy Advisor for European Digital Rights (EDRi). Thomas was one of the driving forces behind the www.savetheinternet.eu campaign and has a strong work focus on net neutrality, data protection, and mass surveillance. Since 2010 he has played an active part at epicenter.works and since 2014 he is the executive director of the association. He also writes on Netzpolitik.org, is a regular guest in the Podcast Logbuch:Netzpolitik and a non-residential Fellow of the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford Law School. Since 2019 he is in the board of EDRi and since 2020 Vice President of the EU umbrella of digital rights NGOs.
📌Episode Highlights⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:34] Q1 - How do you interpret the relationship between users accessing more content and services online and the impact this may have on telcos?
⏲️[05:28] Q2 - What are the inherent dangers (if any) of Big Tech being requested to pay for the network of telcos?
⏲️[10:50] Q3 - Do you think it is appropriate to compare the contribution of Big Tech and telcos in infrastructure, as suggested by some?
⏲️[15:06] You have 1 minute to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU on the 'fair contribution' discussion: make your case.
⏲️[16:04] Outro
📌About Our Guest🎙️ Žiga Turk | Professor, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
🐦 https://twitter.com/zigaTurkEU
🌐 EURACTIV Op-Ed ‘No, Big Tech should not ‘contribute’ to infrastructure’
🌐 Žiga Turk
Žiga Turk is a Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He holds degrees in engineering and computer science. As an academic he studies design communication, internet science and scenarios of future global developments, with a focus on the role of technology and innovation. He is an internationally recognized author, public speaker and lecturer on these subjects. Žiga was Minister for Growth as well as Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports in the Government of Slovenia. He was also Secretary General of the Felipe Gonzalez Reflection Group on the Future of Europe. His past activities outside of academia and policy making include a stint as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Telekom Slovenia and Mobitel.
📌Episode Highlights⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:18] Q1 - How do you interpret the relationship between users accessing more content and services online and the impact this may have on telcos?
⏲️[04:03] Q2 - What are the inherent dangers (if any) of Big Tech being requested to pay for the network of telcos?
⏲️[07:37] Q3 - Do you think it is appropriate to compare the contribution of Big Tech and telcos in infrastructure, as suggested by some?
⏲️[12:15] Soapbox moment
⏲️[12:59] Outro
📌About Our Guest🎙️ Frode Sørensen | Senior Adviser, Norwegian Communications Authority
🐦 https://twitter.com/ipfrode
🌐 BEREC preliminary assessment of the underlying assumptions of payments from large CAPs to ISPs
🌐 Draft BEREC Report on the Internet Ecosystem
🌐 Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC)
🌐 Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom)
Frode Sørensen is a Senior Adviser at the Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom) and he holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Oslo. Frode has been leading the development of the Norwegian net neutrality policy at Nkom since 2007. He has been Chair of BEREC Net Neutrality Expert Working Group 2010-2018. The Expert Working Group developed BEREC’s net neutrality guidelines which were published in 2016. Frode is still an active member in the BEREC Open Internet Working Group, representing Nkom. Since 2019 Frode has been representing Norway in the Governmental Advisory Committee in ICANN. Frode has more than thirty years of experience in telecommunications and has previously worked at Agder University, Telenor and Ericsson and he is the author of several books on Internet technology.
📌Episode Highlights
⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:23] Q1 - How do you interpret the relationship between users accessing more content and services online and the impact this may have on telcos?
⏲️[06:16] Q2 - What are the inherent dangers (if any) of Big Tech being requested to pay for the network of telcos?
⏲️[13:28] Q3 - Do you think it is appropriate to compare the contribution of Big Tech and telcos in infrastructure, as suggested by some?
⏲️[18:06] You have 1 minute to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU on the 'fair contribution' discussion: make your case.
⏲️[20:15] Outro
📌About Our Guest
🎙️ Josh Choi | Korea Startup Forum
🐦 https://twitter.com/joshchoi
🌐 Korea Startup Forum
Josh is the Director of Business Development at Korea Startup Forum, the biggest startup membership organisation in Korea. His current focus is to support and consult with startups for their recovery and growth through the pandemic. Prior to that, he was notably Chief Communications Officer at ICONLOOP which is Korea's No. 1 blockchain startup, and Programme Lead of Smart ABC which stands for AI, Banking and Cities at the International Telecommunication Union, where he worked for nine years.
📌Episode Highlights
⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:27] Q1 - How do you interpret the relationship between users accessing more content and services online and the impact this may have on telcos?
⏲️[04:17] Q2 - What are the inherent dangers (if any) of Big Tech being requested to pay for the network of telcos?
⏲️[08:28] Q3 - Do you think it is appropriate to compare the contribution of Big Tech and telcos in infrastructure, as suggested by some?
⏲️[12:10] You have 1 minute to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU on the 'fair contribution' discussion: make your case.
⏲️[15:25] Outro
📌About Our Guest
🎙️ MEP Karen Melchior | Renew Europe
🐦 https://twitter.com/karmel80
🌐 July 2022 MEP Letter to the European Commission
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-cont...
🌐 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/e...
Karen Melchior is a Danish Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Her parliamentary activities include coordinating the Renew Europe-members of the Committee on Legal Affairs. She is also part of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality as well as the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. As an MEP, she is thoroughly invested in the legislative work related to technology and Artificial Intelligence regulation. Ms Melchior is especially concerned with digital rights and consumer protection. As a result, she was one of the 40 MEPs who co-signed a letter In July this year expressing their concerns regarding the impact of current discussions on net neutrality and asking for a consultation of any measures implying new forms of access fees on the Internet.
📌Episode Highlights
⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:41] Q1 - How do you interpret the relationship between users accessing more content and services online and the impact this may have on telcos?
⏲️[07:41] Q2 - What are the inherent dangers (if any) of Big Tech being requested to pay for the network of telcos?
⏲️[13:02] Q3 - Do you think it is appropriate to compare the contribution of Big Tech and telcos in infrastructure, as suggested by some?
⏲️[18:41] You have 1 minute to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU on the 'fair contribution' discussion: make your case.
⏲️[20:01] Outro
📌About Our Guest
🎙️ Former MEP Michal Boni | SME Connect
🐦 https://twitter.com/michalboni
🌐 https://www.smeconnect.eu
As a Polish politician, Michal Boni was a pioneer in digital matters both as the first minister of Digital Affairs in Central Eastern Europe and as the author of several strategy plans on how to develop the digital economy and society in his home country. In 2014, he took his expertise to Brussels as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), where he led on key digital files covering privacy, 5G, interoperability, open science cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). Since 2019, he works with different organisations, including SME Connect, the Martens Centre, and the Digital Enlightenment Forum, while also sharing his knowledge of digital matters with the University for Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland and the European University in Cyprus.
The internet lab podcast will be launched in October 2022 with the aim of “unboxing" the internet to dismantle common misconceptions, by bringing together experts and stakeholders.