NetGain

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2015

9:00 am

9:30 am

2:00 pm

Registration Breakfast

NetGain Program

Citizenfour Film Screening with Laura Poitras

Reception to follow

FORD FOUNDATION
320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY

The Internet has transformed how we work, learn, and express ourselves. It has connected us with each other and sparked bold thinking about how to create a more fair and just world. Building that better world—and living in it—depends on an open, secure, and equitable Internet.

What is philanthropy's role in addressing the challenges and potential of our digital society? Can we collaborate, as we have in the past on other crucial issues, to bend the arc of progress and ensure that everyone shares in the tremendous opportunity the Internet offers? Have we thought big—really big—about what the digital revolution can mean for the common good?

At this event, the presidents of the Knight, Open Society, Mozilla, and Ford Foundations—along with a special surprise guest—will come together with leading figures from government, philanthropy, business, and the tech world to launch a major new partnership, explore shared principles, and get ambitious about the next generation of innovation for social change and progress.

Speakers include Citizenfour filmmaker Laura Poitras, Washington Week managing editor Gwen Ifill, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, WNYC host Brian Lehrer, ACLU principal technologist Chris Soghoian, Comptel CEO Chip Pickering, Berkman Center co-director Susan Crawford, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project director Ben Wizner, Centre for Internet & Society executive director Sunil Abraham, MIT Center for Civic Media director Ethan Zuckerman, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, National Domestic Workers Alliance special projects director Alicia Garza, Philips Academy Head of School John Palfrey, and Columbia Journalism School Tow Center for Digital Journalism director Emily Bell, and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito.

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