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VT Advocates for Data Privacy & Kids Code - Demonstration in Downtown Burlington 06/03/2024

From the organizers:

Community advocates call for urgent action to protect Vermont’s children, teens, and their privacy online at a demonstration in downtown Burlington, hosted by organizations calling for Governor Scott to sign H.121 into law. Participating organizations include the Center for Humane Technology, Consumer Reports, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Vermont Public Interest Research Group.

Parents, young people, and small business leaders in attendance represent some of the many Vermont residents who have remained steadfast in their commitment to data privacy and the Kids Code, alongside lawmakers who passed the bill unanimously last month despite an influx of Big Tech lobbying.

Perspectives Through Generations 10/08/2023

Meryl Getty heads to Church Street to ask Vermonters of different generations about their experiences with technology.

An Economy of Our Own - Digital Possibilities: Capitalism, Tech, and the Fight for a Feminist Internet 06/28/2022

From the organizers:

The virtual world once felt like it could shape a different future—one more democratic and equitable. But capitalism—as well as its siblings, including racism and sexism—are turning digital spaces into the same corporatized, white- and male-dominated ones we’ve known for centuries.

What can we do now to build an intersectional, feminist future online? Find out through this conversation with Communication and Science and Technology Studies scholar Breigha Adeyemo, journalist and DIGITAL SUFFRAGISTS author Marie Tessier, social systems scientist Riane Eisler, and AEOO’s Digital Director Carmen Rios!

Congressman Peter Welch: Broadband Construction Grants Press Conference 05/23/2022

Provided by MMCTV:

Rep. Welch, Governor Phil Scott, the Vermont Community Broadband Board and community leaders highlight $16 million in broadband construction grants being awarded to Vermont companies.

Operation City on a Hill: The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium 11/12/2019

The title is taken from a book by Martin Gurri. This episode deals with the phenomenon behind why a certain segment of the public is sticking behind Donald despite the mounting evidence of corruption surrounding his administration. It then focuses on the question of Liberal Democracy's survival.

"All over the world, elite institutions from governments to media to academia are losing their authority and monopoly control of information to dynamic amateurs and the broader public. This book, until now only in samizdat (and Kindle) form, has been my #1 handout for the last several years to anyone seeking to understand this unfolding shift in power from hierarchies to networks in the age of the Internet." --Marc Andreessen, co-founder, Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz

"We are in an open war between publics with passionate and untutored interests and elites who believe they have the right to guide those publics. Gurri asks the essential question: can liberal representative democracy survive the rise of the publics?" --Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center, Professor of Politics and Human Rights at Bard College.

Education and Enrichment for Everyone: Authoritarian Evolution - How Commercialization and the Internet Are Fragmenting the Chinese Public Sphere 04/13/2018

Orion Lewis, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College, discusses the impacts of both commercialization and the internet in Chinese public life.

Part of the Education and Enrichment for Everyone series in South Burlington, Vermont. For more information visit EEEVermont.org.

Woodchuck Report: Marijuana Legislation in Vermont and Net Neutrality 01/12/2018

Special Guest-Host Varpilah Chase discusses the marijuana legalization bill that was just passed in the Vermont House and Senate as well as the future of net neutrality after the recent change of status for Internet Service Providers by the Federal Communications Commission.

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Congressman Peter Welch: BTV Ignite Roundtable 09/22/2015

Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT), convenes a roundtable discussion with FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger, and Vermont city stakeholders on the BTV Ignite program, a partnership with U.S. Ignite that encourages public, private and academic institutions to develop next generation internet applications.

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Public Meeting - Burlington Telecom Member Co-operative 12/13/2012

After compiling results of a survey, an independent citizens group holds a public meeting on the formation of a member co-operative to 'save Burlington Telecom'.

Media Maven: 7th Annual Media Maven Luncheon: A Picture is Worth 1000 Words: Data Visualization for Nonprofits 09/21/2012

At the 7th Annual NPO Luncheon, CCTV and Common Good Vermont presented a lively panel to outline what it takes for your organization to become a data driven culture and use data visualization (Maps and Infographics) to tell your organization's story. Panelists include: Lauren-Glenn Davitian (on the data driven nonprofit), cartographer Bill Morris (on Burlington Neighborhoods Mapping Project), Leslie Pelch (Vermont Center for Geographic Information) and Peter Kriff (of SILK on Best Practices in Infographics). Complete links and Resources may be found here.

Andrea Learned, co-author of Don’t Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy – and How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market (AMACOM, 2004), will give some marketing tips. Andrea is an internationally respected gender marketing expert, speaker and writer. While she focuses on women as the leading indicators of consumer behavior, she also emphasizes that 21st Century men are starting to travel similar buying paths. Andrea believes that storytelling and cause marketing are key ways to present a brand’s facts and attributes to today’s consumer – no gender about it. Andrea contributes to a wide range of publications/blogs, including HuffingtonPost.com, MPDailyfix.com, TomPeters.com, Women-omics.com, and LearnedOnWomen.com - where she presents her most current analysis of consumer/cultural shifts and marketing best practices. She presents regularly to global business audiences, and her opinions have been cited in publications from Adweek to the Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. Andrea has a B.A from the University of Michigan, and resides in Burlington, Vermont. Find her at: http://learnedonwomen.com , or on Twitter: @AndreaLearned. Join us for 90 minutes of stimulating talk and a good lunch (for only 5 bucks). Maybe you'll think-- "we should become members of CCTV!" (We'd love that!)

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Town Meeting TV Announces Live General Election Results Show on November 5th

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