Science & Technology

LIVE WEBCAST Course description: Lectures by leading experts on the fundamentals of coronavirus and host cell biology, immunology, epidemiology, clinical disease, and vaccine and therapeutic development. This is an exploratory subject, open to undergraduate and graduate students. Faculty: Richard Young, Facundo Batista and guest faculty, including Drs. Anthony Fauci, David Baltimore, Britt Glaunsinger, Bruce Walker, Eric Lander, Michael Nussenzweig, Akiko Iwasaki, Arlene Sharp, Kizzmekia Corbett and others.

Our guest is Dr. Melissa Trainer, a Deputy Principal Investigator (PI) for the Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon Titan, and lead for the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer (DraMS), an instrument supporting the Dragonfly investigation of Titan's surface composition and characterization of potential prebiotic chemistry! She has spent more than a decade characterizing the chemical and physical properties of Titan and early Earth organic aerosol analogs. You can learn more about the show and watch past episodes here: https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/

On Wednesday 25 November 2020 at 12:00-13:30 UTC the Internet Society (ISOC) and the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) present the third session in the 5th (Virtual) Summit on Community Networks in Africa with the theme ‘Public Funding for Community Networks‘. Most countries have some public funding available in the form of universal service/access funds or others where commercial telecommunications are supposed to subsidize areas of market failure. In many cases, such funds have piled up unused, and in others, they have been misused. The technical capacity of fund operating staff is as important as is their degree of contact with the situation on the ground. Community Networks (CNs), for their part, are often unaware of such funds. This session aims to explore how CNs can tap into such public funds if available. SPEAKERS Dr. Charley Lewis, Independent Analyst, Researcher and Educator Nthabiseng Pule, Project and Outreach Manager for the Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa (C3SA) Victor Asante, Senior Manager, GIFEC MODERATOR Eleanor Sarpong, Deputy Director & Policy lead Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) FACILITATOR Verengai Mabika, Senior Policy Advisor - Africa, Internet Society LIVESTREAM ENGLISH http://livestream.com/internetsociety/VirtualCNAfricaSummit3 LIVESTREAM FRANÇAIS http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/VirtualCNAfricaSummit3 PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3o3TWGn (English closed captions, Interprète français) REAL TIME TEXT https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC (English) TWITTER #VirtualCNAfricaSummit2020 https://bit.ly/2DYj5kh #CommunityNetworks @internetsociety @APC_News @ISOC_Africa @ISOC_Community @ISOC_Foundation #switchiton #GrowInternet @Ellasarpong Dr Charley Lewis @ITWeb Nthabiseng Pule @C3SA_UCT Victor Asante @GIFECGhana SIMULCASTS https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/live ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/VirtualCNAfricaSummit3 LINKS https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/africa/ https://www.apc.org/ https://www.internetsociety.org/events/summit-community-networks-africa https://www.internetsociety.org/events/summit-community-networks-africa/2020/event-3/

Le mercredi 25 novembre 2020 à 12h00-13h30 UTC, l'Internet Society (ISOC) et l'Association for Progressive Communications (APC) présentent la troisième session du 5e Sommet (virtuel) sur les réseaux communautaires en Afrique sur le thème «Financement public pour les réseaux communautaires ». La plupart des pays disposent de certains financements publics sous forme de fonds de service / d'accès universels ou d'autres où les télécommunications commerciales sont censées subventionner les zones de défaillance du marché. Dans de nombreux cas, ces fonds se sont accumulés inutilisés, et dans d'autres, ils ont été mal utilisés. La capacité technique du personnel de gestion des fonds est aussi importante que leur degré de contact avec la situation sur le terrain. Les réseaux communautaires (RCs), pour leur part, ignorent souvent l'existence de ces fonds. Cette session vise à explorer comment les RCs peuvent puiser dans ces fonds publics si disponibles. CONFERENCIERS Dr. Charley Lewis, Analyste, chercheur et éducateur indépendant Nthabiseng Pule, Responsable de projet et de sensibilisation, C3SA Victor Asante, Cadre supérieur, GIFEC MODÉRATRICE Eleanor Sarpong, Directeur adjoint et responsable des politiques, A4AI FACILITATEUR Verengai Mabika, Senior Policy Advisor - Africa, Internet Society LIVESTREAM ENGLISH http://livestream.com/internetsociety/VirtualCNAfricaSummit3 LIVESTREAM FRANÇAIS http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/VirtualCNAfricaSummit3 PARTICIPER VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3o3TWGn (English closed captions, Interprète français) REAL TIME TEXT https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC (English) TWITTER #VirtualCNAfricaSummit2020 https://bit.ly/2DYj5kh #CommunityNetworks @internetsociety @APC_News @ISOC_Africa @ISOC_Community @ISOC_Foundation #switchiton #GrowInternet @Ellasarpong Dr Charley Lewis @ITWeb Nthabiseng Pule @C3SA_UCT Victor Asante @GIFECGhana SIMULCASTS https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/live ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/VirtualCNAfricaSummit3 LIENS https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/africa/ https://www.apc.org/ https://www.internetsociety.org/events/summit-community-networks-africa https://www.internetsociety.org/events/summit-community-networks-africa/2020/event-3/