Recent & Upcoming Talks

The 1 World Connected team participated in full force at the virtual IGF 2020.

Professor Christopher Yoo participated in the EQUALS Partners meeting conducted virtually.

1 World Connected presented at 2 workshops at the Internet Governance Forum in 2019 and held a Dynamic Coalition meeting.

Dr Muge Haseki presented a paper at the conference.

Sharada Srinivasan attended the Assessment Committee meeting and participated in a workshop on Social Return on Investment

Sharada Srinivasan attended ICTD X to present a poster on chat applications in telemedicine, based on her fieldwork with the Vanuatu Inter-island Telemedicine and Learning Project.

1 World Connected organized 3 workshops and a Dynamic Coalition meeting at IGF 2018.

Sharada Srinivasan presented work from 1 World Connected pertaining to design of telemedicine systems, based on her fieldwork in Maewo, Vanuatu

1 World Connected participated in the IEEE Internet Inclusion Initiative’s Advancing Stakeholders Meeting in Washington D.C.

1 World Connected hosted a supporters’ meeting in Washington D.C.

Sharada Srinivasan presented co-authored work with Professor Christopher Yoo and Muge Haseki on the sustainability of last mile connectivity projects.

Dr. Muge Haseki participated at the EQUALS Partners’ meeting in New York in September 2018.

Sharada Srinivasan conducted fieldwork on the VITAL project’s pilot sites in Maewo, Vanuatu.

Sharada Srinivasan presented on 1 World Connected at the ISOC-NY chapter’s IGF-USA On the Road event in New York.

Dr. Muge Haseki visited Amakomaya, one of 1 World Connected’s case studies, and conducted fieldwork to undestand use of information and communication technologies by pregnant women in Pokhara district in Nepal.

Sharada Srinivasan discussed progress made by 1 World Connected with the other working group leads at the IEEE meeting.

Sharada Srinivasan and Dr. Muge Haseki participated in an Internet for All meeting in Washington D.C. co-hosted by the IADB, the World Bank and the World Economic Forum.

1 World Connected hosted a supporters’ meeting in Washington D.C.

1 World Connected organized two sessions at the Internet Governance Forum in Geneva in 2017.

Dr. Muge Haseki participated at ICTD 2017 in Lahore, Pakistan.

1 World Connected led the Working Group on Evidence-Based Research at the IEEE IIAS Meeting in October 2017

Sharada Srinivasan presented to the Engineering 4 Change community through an online webinar in August 2017.

Sharada Srinivasan was selected to participate as a Young Scholar at CPRSouth 2017.

Sharada Srinivasan and Dr. Muge Haseki conducted fieldwork in conjunction with a last mile Internet infrastructure service provider in Rwanda on unconnected sites.

Professor Yoo and Dr. Muge Haseki participated in three sessions at the WSIS forum in 2017.

Sharada Srinivasan visited Gram Marg sites and conducted interviews in rural Maharashtra as well as in Mumbai, in June 2017.

Sharada Srinivasan presented at the side event on Community Networks at the UN STI Forum in New York.

1 World Connected led the Working Group on Evidence-Based Research at the IEEE IIAS meeting.

Professor Christopher Yoo served as a discussion leader for the Breakout Group on Multistakeholder Governance Models for a National Digital Agenda

Professor Christopher Yoo served as a discussant on the panel on USAID’s new report launch at the USAID-hosted event in Washington D.C.

Professor Christopher Yoo presented on 1 World Connected at the event hosted by New America in Washington D. C.

Professor Christopher Yoo presented on the 1 World Connected project at the GAIA workshop in Cambridge. Sharada Srinivasan attended the workshop meeting as well.

1 World Connected hosted a supporters’ meeting at Washington D.C.

1 World Connected organized 2 workshops and held the annual DC meeting for Connecting the Unconnected.

Professor Christopher Yoo presented a few 1 World Connected case studies at the forum.

Sharada Srinivasan presented 1 World Connected to National and Regional IGF Initiatives at ICANN 57 and solicited their participation in the ongoing survey of initiatives.

Professor Yoo spoke on the session titled ‘NexGen Internet - IMT 2020, White Spaces, Solar Planes and Loon – Can India Become the Republic of Technologies?’

Professor Christopher Yoo and Sharada Srinivasan attended the Geeks without Frontiers Thought Leadership Conference and engaged in outreach efforts for 1 World Connected with various stakeholders.

Professor Christopher Yoo was the lunchtime keynote speaker at the IEEE IIAS Stakeholders meeting in Washington D.C. on the 6th of October, 2016. He presented on Empirical Research into Innovative Approaches to Connecting the Unconnected.

1 World Connected launch event occured on October 5 2016. It was held prior to the IEEE Internet Inclusion Initiative Advancing Stakeholders event.

Professor Christopher Yoo participated in the High Level Roundtable on WEF’s Internet for All initiative.

Professor Christopher Yoo led a breakout group session at the event on Shaping the Future of the Digital Economy in South Asia

Sharada Srinivasan participated at the IGF-USA in 2016, which featured panels on access and inclusion.

Sharada Srinivasan reported on the newly formed Dynamic Coalition on Innovative Approaches to Connecting the Unconnected

Professor Christopher Yoo participated on a panel at the 4th Latin American Congress on Telecommunications

Professor Christopher Yoo was named to the Steering Committee of the World Economic Forum’s Internet for All Initiative

Professor Christopher Yoo presented data on the scale of the connectivity challenges around the world, emphasized the need for systematic data gathering, and introduced the project to pull together actual data on these varied projects.