Slides & Presentations

Empowering Women in Tech

• EMPOWERING WOMEN IN TECH – A TRANSATLANTIC VISION (PDF)
  An introductory presentation setting the scene for the NGI discussion on how to better empower women in tech.
• The role of women in the Next Generation Internet (PDF)
  Monique Calisti (NGI Outreach Office Coordinator)
  Discover the importance that NGI places on the roles of women in creating a truly diverse, representative and inclusive ‘Internet of People’.
• Women in European Technology and Science (PDF)
  Iwa Stefanik (NGI Explorers Coordinator)
  Boosting the economy and building a fairer society means the empowerment of women to play a more active role in the digital age.
• The United States: Women and Minorities in STEM (PDF)
  Florence Hudson (Executive Director Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub)
  A focus on women and minorities in STEM subjects in the United States and how diversity and inclusion will lead to more collaborative innovation.

NGI projects’ contribution to technological developments of DNS and naming systems

• Privacy Enhancements for PowerDNS and DNSdist (PDF)
  Alexander ter Haar (Open-Xchange)
  Encryption in DNS is gaining traction. One project is working to enhance the privacy for DNS, one of the last remaining ‘non-encrypted’ protocols.
• Cryptech.is/Cryptrev (PDF)
  Leif Johannsson (Sunet)
  The CrypTech project is making the internet safer by developing an open hardware security model that will cover multiple needs.
• Id-xover InternetWide Identity through Realm Crossover (PDF)
  Rick van Rein (internetwide)
  InternetWide’s goal is to get more internet technology to end-users (such as the ability to have your own domain in your name).
• GNU Name System (PDF)
  Christian Grothoff (Bern University of Applied Sciences)
  How GNUnet, a network protocol stack for building secure, distributed and privacy-preserving applications, aims to build a new internet.
• Namecoin: ZeroNet and Packaging and Core Infrastructure (PDF)
  Jeremy Rand (namecoin.org)
  NameCoin, an experimental open-source technology to improve the security, privacy and speed of certain internet infrastructure components.

• Webinar#4: An Introduction to IP Commercialisation for NGI Community (LINK)
  A comprehensive introduction on intellectual property, with a step-by-step guide on key concepts such as trademarks, patents, copyright and more.
• Webinar#3: Where to get money – investors, grants or crowdfunding? (LINK)
  There are many pathways to secure funding for your innovative idea – this presentation breaks them down and helps pinpoint the route that’s best for you.
• Webinar#2: The contribution of NGI in re-design the post COVID-19 society (LINK)
  COVID-19 has rocked the world and changed everything – find out how NGI will be positively contributing to the re-design of post-COVID society.
• Webinar#1: An introduction to the world of international tendering (LINK)
  There are huge opportunities for innovative SMEs in the realm of public procurement and tendering – find out more here on how you can benefit.

• Open calls on privacy and trust enhancing technology & improving search and discovery (PDF)
  NGI Zero @#StartUpsKillTheVirus, 28 April 2020

• Blockchains as a Component of the Next Generation Internet (PDF)
  Prof John Domingue, The Open University – HUB4NGI project
  Blockchain is becoming an increasingly important component of what will shape the Next Generation Internet – this presentation comprehensively explains how.