Zero Rating & the App-Accessed Internet - Can It Be Squared with Principles of Net Neutrality?
Channel: State of the Net
Date: 2016-02-09

State of the Net 2016 at the Newseum, Washington, DC on January 25, 2016.
http://www.stateofthenet.org/sotn-16

Zero-rating plans and offerings continue to emerge across the world as a way to provide certain Internet content and applications to citizens at free or special costs. These services often are referred to as “toll-free data.” Sometimes this zero-rated Internet content is provided at reduced rates (sometimes even free) or at attractive terms (the content does not count against a mobile data cap, for instance). Many different zero-rating services have emerged in the U.S. and around the world. Some plans provide free services and content in developing communities around the globe. Others are domestic and entertainment-based. There are many others and more certainly on the way. Our panel will look at the myriad zero rating plans and will imagine what zero rating plans are on the horizon around the world and at home. They will discuss the benefits of zero rating plans and also address criticism that some of these plans run afoul of net neutrality principles.

PANEL
Kevin Martin, Vice President, Mobile and Global Access Policy, Facebook
Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law and (by Courtesy) Electrical Engineering, Stanford Law School
Roslyn Layton PhD Fellow, Center for Communication, Media, and Information Technologies, Aalborg University (Copenhagen, Denmark)
MODERATORS: 
Jorge Vargas, Regional Manager LATAM, Strategic Partnerships, Wikimedia Foundation 
Maggie Dennis. Director, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation.

BIOS
http://sched.co/5cAN

EVENT HOST:
Internet Education Foundation - http://www.neted.org/

SPONSORS
http://stateofthenet2016.sched.org/directory/sponsors

WEBCAST SPONSOR / PROVIDER
Internet Society - http://internetsociety.org 
ISOC-DC - http://isoc-dc.org

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