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Internet Day SF
April 19, 2025
Internet Day San Francisco is the third event in partnership with the SF Bay ACM. This time around, we join the world community in celebrating the potential of the Internet. We continue to find inspiration from around the world. This event is our attempt to extend the work done back in Tunis in 2006, when [...]
AI Day SF
January 12, 2025
What can Artificial Intelligence (AI) tell us about ourselves? AI's impact on society is both inflated and understated. How can this be? Economics tells us there is more than one way to view something. In micro-economics we look towards the individual where in macro-economics we look to a group of individuals (and groups of groups). [...]
New Board, New Year, New Action!
December 21, 2024
New Board, New Year, New Action Welcome to (almost) 2025! We may have a few days to go in 2024 but that isn't slowing our chapter down! We begin with welcoming our new board members, David Issa and Daveed Benjamin. Both David and Daveed are first time board members in our chapter. David has additionally [...]
2024 Annual Meeting
December 7, 2024
2024 Annual Meeting We welcome all members to attend the 2024 Annual Meeting. Meeting logistics: Date: 16-December-2024 Time: 7-8 PM PST Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83002986442?pwd=wA5X0VtSzpG6c8SIJaaWCTjbH8eRl9.1 Passcode: t0g3th3r This years agenda: Welcome 2024 Retrospective 2025 - 2027 Board election and winners announcement Review of Internet Society 2025 Action Plan 2025 Preview and Discussion Conclusion After the end of [...]
2025 Elections
November 7, 2024
Board Candidates Elections 2025-2027 Term We’re hosting our annual board elections next month and are opening the call for applications! There are up to 4 seats open, with several current board members running and room for several new faces. Applications can be submitted here SF Bay Area ISOC Board Application - Google Forms by Nov [...]
Global Encryption Day 2024 Summary
October 29, 2024
"When you hear the word encryption, what comes to mind? Take a moment..." That was the ask in our prior post (https://www.sfbayisoc.org/2024/09/21/encryption-matters/). The Global Encryption Day event in San Francisco was a tremendous success, with an excellent turnout both in-person and virtually. Participants in Track 1 gained hands-on experience in encryption technologies at Google Community [...]
Encryption Matters
September 21, 2024
When you hear the word encryption, what comes to mind? Take a moment... Upon asking this question to others, answers range from nice and clear, such as “safety” to challenging and obtuse, such as “hard to use”. It's not unexpected to see why such a range of responses come to mind. Encryption is an idea, [...]
Welcome the new and returning board members!
November 30, 2023
The 2023 Nominating Committee (NomCom) is pleased to announce that the membership has accepted our slate of new and returning board members for the 2024-2026 board. Congratulations to our board (members elected and reelected this cycle bolded): Caitlin Doyle (she/her) Jesus Guerrero (they/them) Fatema Kothari (she/her) April Lat (they/them) Gustavo Ortega (he/him) Ron Petty (he/him) [...]
2024-2026 Board Election – Voting is now live!
November 14, 2023
The Nominating Committee is pleased to share the 2024-2026 slate for the membership's consideration. Votes are due by November 29th, 2023.
Encryption for Babies Community Beta Read: Read Out
October 25, 2023