Susan Waters: Executive Director InternetBar.org Comments http://executivedirector.internetbar.org News and updates about InternetBar.org Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:07:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Cyberweek is Happening Now! by: Anonymous http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=2#comment-721 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:00:39 +0000 http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=2#comment-721 <strong>Cool! I like your article! You are best!</strong> Cool! I like your article! You are best! Cool! I like your article! You are best!

Cool! I like your article! You are best!

]]> Comment on Clash of Civilizations? by: Christopher http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=8#comment-686 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:15:44 +0000 http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=8#comment-686 <strong>Yep</strong> I believe the technical term is "Oops!" Yep

I believe the technical term is “Oops!”

]]> Comment on When Technology Fails by: Jeff Aresty http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=13#comment-582 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:18:27 +0000 http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=13#comment-582 When technology fails, being disconnected makes it very difficult to communicate and creates issues that go beyond personal challenges. The assumption that we read about in the news and is reported worldwide that we are all connected all the time. Nothing is further from the truth. In IBO, we work with people in Africa who constantly remind us that when they don't respond to our e-mails, it isn't that they aren't reading them, or ignoring us; it's likely because they don't have electricity at that moment. When our computers crash in California or Massachusetts, and, it happens, and days go by before we can reconnect, people who are expecting return e-mails are left wondering what is wrong. "Why did the message I sent not get responded to right away? Should I send another e-mail? Should I call?" Technology is imperfect and as IT people in big law firms work to make their lawyers 100% connected all the time, with Blackberrys and Treos becoming ubiquitous on vacations (?), those of us without IT staff face the problem of having another job - staying connected, or, risking that those who want to contact us may wonder what has happened when we 'disappear' for a few days. None of this makes sense. We have gotten ourselves into a trap of being available 24/7 and we can blame it, if we want to, on the technology. The technology is both a curse and a blessing. We have to learn to better manage the technology and our relationship to it and to others who use the technology to communicate with us. Jeff Aresty When technology fails, being disconnected makes it very difficult to communicate and creates issues that go beyond personal challenges. The assumption that we read about in the news and is reported worldwide that we are all connected all the time. Nothing is further from the truth. In IBO, we work with people in Africa who constantly remind us that when they don’t respond to our e-mails, it isn’t that they aren’t reading them, or ignoring us; it’s likely because they don’t have electricity at that moment. When our computers crash in California or Massachusetts, and, it happens, and days go by before we can reconnect, people who are expecting return e-mails are left wondering what is wrong. “Why did the message I sent not get responded to right away? Should I send another e-mail? Should I call?”

Technology is imperfect and as IT people in big law firms work to make their lawyers 100% connected all the time, with Blackberrys and Treos becoming ubiquitous on vacations (?), those of us without IT staff face the problem of having another job - staying connected, or, risking that those who want to contact us may wonder what has happened when we ‘disappear’ for a few days.

None of this makes sense. We have gotten ourselves into a trap of being available 24/7 and we can blame it, if we want to, on the technology. The technology is both a curse and a blessing. We have to learn to better manage the technology and our relationship to it and to others who use the technology to communicate with us.

Jeff Aresty

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]]> Comment on The Economist on Privacy by: Jeff Aresty http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=12#comment-249 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:17:09 +0000 http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=12#comment-249 The problem is that we all create new and revealing personally identifiable digital information daily, and voluntarily give it to third parties who can then use it in specified ways. Then, take a look at the private legal agreements we assent to as we use reward cards, credit cards, buy airline tickets, and, just about every thing else that we consume, and see how broadly we permit our digital footprints to be legally sent around cyberspace - as a civil society we care less about our privacy and more about our convenience - the growth in e-commerce continues unabated. And today, when it comes to matters of US national security, the government exercises its power to gather information like passenger lists and phone calls on cell phones and uses of internet sites(legally??? only time and an expensively long and costly political process will tell), and most citizens are willing to live with the intrusions under the impression that there will be no more 9/11s. As a civil society, unless we want to and then learn how to manage our digital identities, we will leave ourselves open to third parties and governments taking our mostly willfully given digital footprints, and depending upon laws and enforcement to protect our right to privacy. Something tells me that this isn't going to work. Law enforcers say that most cybercrime originates out of the reach of their enforcement powers, and where the rule of law isn't present the way we expect it to be. Understanding our digital identity, how we create it and who gets to see it and use it, and then taking control over it, has greater power to protect our privacy than laws can. Once the data is online out of our control, laws can't stop it from dispersing just about anywhere. We don't have to fear that consequence if we judiciously manage the information we create about ourselves in cyberspace. The problem is that we all create new and revealing personally identifiable digital information daily, and voluntarily give it to third parties who can then use it in specified ways. Then, take a look at the private legal agreements we assent to as we use reward cards, credit cards, buy airline tickets, and, just about every thing else that we consume, and see how broadly we permit our digital footprints to be legally sent around cyberspace - as a civil society we care less about our privacy and more about our convenience - the growth in e-commerce continues unabated.

And today, when it comes to matters of US national security, the government exercises its power to gather information like passenger lists and phone calls on cell phones and uses of internet sites(legally??? only time and an expensively long and costly political process will tell), and most citizens are willing to live with the intrusions under the impression that there will be no more 9/11s.

As a civil society, unless we want to and then learn how to manage our digital identities, we will leave ourselves open to third parties and governments taking our mostly willfully given digital footprints, and depending upon laws and enforcement to protect our right to privacy. Something tells me that this isn’t going to work. Law enforcers say that most cybercrime originates out of the reach of their enforcement powers, and where the rule of law isn’t present the way we expect it to be.

Understanding our digital identity, how we create it and who gets to see it and use it, and then taking control over it, has greater power to protect our privacy than laws can. Once the data is online out of our control, laws can’t stop it from dispersing just about anywhere. We don’t have to fear that consequence if we judiciously manage the information we create about ourselves in cyberspace.

]]> Comment on Clash of Civilizations? by: Jeff Aresty http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=8#comment-60 Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:10:40 +0000 http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=8#comment-60 Though the world is not ready to have issues of identity challenged in insensitive ways, I think that every culture has moderate people who will use a challenge as an opportunity to educate, rather than as the call for a battle. Moderates need to claim the center of these discussions, and not let them spin out of control. Collaborative relationships are based on shared values, trust and respect, something which has been in short supply in recent times. The real world's fill of dysfunctional conflict, fanned by media reports, stands in stark contrast to the trusted communities we are building at IBO. It's much easier to condemn than it is to gain understanding. Though the world is not ready to have issues of identity challenged in insensitive ways, I think that every culture has moderate people who will use a challenge as an opportunity to educate, rather than as the call for a battle. Moderates need to claim the center of these discussions, and not let them spin out of control.

Collaborative relationships are based on shared values, trust and respect, something which has been in short supply in recent times. The real world’s fill of dysfunctional conflict, fanned by media reports, stands in stark contrast to the trusted communities we are building at IBO. It’s much easier to condemn than it is to gain understanding.

]]> Comment on Thanksgiving Update by: JRB Technology http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=3#comment-17 Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:26:12 +0000 http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=3#comment-17 <strong>Rolex</strong> I found your entry interesting do I've added a Trackback to it on my weblog :) Rolex

I found your entry interesting do I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog :)

]]> Comment on Welcome to Susan Waters’ Executive Director Blog by: Ringtones Blog http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=1#comment-16 Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:28:47 +0000 http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=1#comment-16 <strong>I with you agree :)</strong> I with you agree :)

]]> Comment on Welcome to Susan Waters’ Executive Director Blog by: Ringtones http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=1#comment-4 Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:40:06 +0000 http://executivedirector.internetbar.org/?p=1#comment-4 It's very interesting. Good work. Very nice! It’s very interesting. Good work. Very nice!

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