Iridium $IRDM + Amazon $AMZN AWS for IoT Internet SAT Network

Iridium IoT: Are You Connected?

Iridium video above published Mar 30, 2018.

Iridium (NASDAQ: IRDM) (domain: iridium.com) announced last week it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) and is collaborating with AWS (Amazon $AMZN) on the development of Iridium CloudConnect, the "first and only satellite cloud-based solution that offers truly global coverage" for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Launching in 2019, this new Iridium service will make Iridium IoT services available with AWS IoT, extending the reach of AWS's powerful suite of services to the more than 80 percent of the Earth that lacks cellular coverage. Iridium customers will be able to take advantage of AWS IoT, while existing AWS customers will have a cost-effective way to expand their geographic IoT footprint to anywhere on the globe.

"According to IHSMarkit Inc., the global IoT is expected to continue rapid growth to approximately 75 billion devices by 2025. To keep pace with this predicted rapid expansion, businesses, governments and other organizations will now be able to globally expand their IoT-based services cost-effectively and reliably through Iridium CloudConnect."--Iridium 

Iridium Communications Inc. is a publicly traded company headquartered in McLean, Virginia. Iridium operates the Iridium satellite constellation, a system of 66 active satellites used for worldwide voice and data communication from hand-held satellite phones and other transceiver units.

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ICANN & GDPR Thursday Session at WSIS Forum 2018, Geneva (video)

WSIS – 15 years of impact:

ITU video above published Mar 2, 2018: The WSIS Forum is constantly evolving and strengthening the alignment between the WSIS Action Lines and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 2018 Forum will serve as a key platform for discussing the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a means of implementation of the SDGs and targets, with due regard to the global mechanism for follow-up and review of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Highlights Video #1: WSIS FORUM 2018

ITU video above published Mar 19, 2018: First highlights video from the WSIS FORUM 2018, ITU, Geneva, Switzerland.

More than 2,500 information and communication technology (ICT) experts from around the globe are in Geneva for the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2018 (WSIS Forum 2018), which runs March 19-23, and is co-organized by ITU (itu.int), UNESCO (unesco.org), UNCTAD (unctad.org) and UNDP (undp.org), in close collaboration with all UN agencies.

WSIS Forum 2018 is focusing on sustainable development trends and inclusive ICT initiatives in key United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) priority areas such as health, hunger, education, youth inclusion, employment, gender empowerment, the environment, infrastructure and innovation. Participants include at least 500 high-level policy-makers from 150+ countries, including government ministers and experts, civil society leaders, academics, business leaders and international organizations.

Agenda | WSIS Forum 2018 (with links to LIVE & replay video)

Highlighted Thursday March 22, 2018, sessions (all times CET):

• Session 212 | WSIS Forum 2018: Multistakeholder Decision Making in Global Internet Governance 13:15–14:00 [starts 8:15 am EDT (US)]

• Session 197 | WSIS Forum 2018: ICANN, Data Protection and the GDPR: 16:30–18:15 [starts 11:30 am EDT (US)] Proposed Agenda: 1) Introductions and Objectives of Workshop – Moderator Tarek Kamel, ICANN 5m; 2) ICANN and GDPR  - A way forward for WHOIS  - Theresa Swinehart, ICANN 30m; 3) Global Data Protection Developments; 4) Roundtable discussion on Data Protection and GDPR  40m; 5) Wrap up 5m.

See also Friday's session Session 138 | WSIS Forum 2018: ICANN, the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) and Capacity Building: 09:00–10:45, Friday, 23 March 2018.

ICT now recognized across the world + @UN system as a key platform for development and as a powerful tool to help us achieve the #GlobalGoals for #SustainableDevelopment ~@ITUSecGen #WSIS #ICT4SDG pic.twitter.com/2NMoQ5UnzF

— ITU (@ITU) March 20, 2018

Recent correspondence from ITU Secretary-General to ICANN CEO:

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Startup Slack Valued at $9 Billion, Amazon.com a Buyer? (video)

Why Amazon May Want to Buy Slack

Video above published Jun 15, 2017: Slack Technologies Inc. has received recent inquiries about a potential takeover from technology companies including Amazon.com Inc., people with knowledge of the situation said. Bloomberg's Alex Sherman has more on "Bloomberg Markets."

Domain: Slack.com

Message Startup Slack Said to Draw Interest From Amazon.com | Bloomberg.com: "Chatroom company’s value said to be at least $9 billion, transaction would be biggest ever acquisition for Amazon [NASDAQ: AMZN]."

What is Slack?

Slack is a messaging app for teams. It brings all your team’s communication and files in one place, where they’re instantly searchable and available wherever you go. (Video above published by Slack.com on Oct 28, 2015).
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Bigger Role for India on World Stage (video)

Modi: Bigger Role for India on World Stage:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi discusses India's widening global role, the manufacturing of defense equipment and the country's relationship with Pakistan in an interview with Gerard Baker, Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal. Published May 25, 2016. See also: Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) | Twitter and PMO India (@PMOIndia) | Twitter

Narendra Modi's First Two Years: Five Ways India Has Changed:

Narendra Modi took office as prime minister of India, the world's largest democracy, two years ago, pledging to improve the nation's fortunes. Here are five ways India has changed since then. Published May 25, 2016.

The United Nations has reported that India’s population will probably surpass China’s by 2022;
India Population Growth Means It Will Soon Have the Largest Workforce | Fortune.com (chart source: google.com)

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English enjoys the status of subsidiary official language but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the most widely spoken language and primary tongue of 41% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language (2001 census)--The World Factbook

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Adam Grant: Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen, Start With The How

How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen by Adam Grant (a16z Podcast)

Steve Jobs to Meredith Perry to Elon Musk--original thinkers, entrepreneurs--"do a lot of different things to move the world to their visions. And many of those things (and traits) are counterintuitive, such as … Embracing procrastination. But there’s a catch: It’s about being the just-right amount of procrastinator, expert, or confident. There’s a curvilinear relationship between too much and too little. There’s also some surprising findings about why NOT to “start with the why” but with the how. Because sometimes the how is much more believable than the why. Especially when it comes to getting people to engineer things from ubeam to SpaceX. Or to really being able to tell the difference between communication vs. confidence vs. competence.

"Ultimately, it’s all about being flexible, argues top Wharton management professor and New York Times columnist Adam Grant in his new book Originals. So how do we strike the just-right balance — whether making an entrepreneur or just trying to raise more creative, productive kids? Is the answer perhaps to immerse them in sci-fi books and video games? Well, J.K. Rowling could be the most influential “original” alive, argues Grant in this podcast… but not for the reasons you think."

Adam Grant - @AdamMGrant - @Wharton professor. Author: ORIGINALS, GIVE AND TAKE. @NYTopinion writer: work & psychology

Andreessen Horowitz (domain: a16z.com) is a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm. Founders: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.

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Google Wireless Service, Project Fi, $20 Monthly for Talk, Text, Wi-Fi

Google launched its wireless service, Project Fi, today, innovating in connectivity and communication (see video here), and announced particulars on its blog--excerpts and summary below (source: Google):

Project Fi --fi.google.com--Google's new technology intelligently connects to the fastest available network at your location whether it's Wi-Fi or one of its two partner LTE networks. Project Fi automatically connects to more than a million free, open Wi-Fi hotspots Google has verified as fast and reliable. Once connected, data is secured through encryption. When not on Wi-Fi, Google connects to whichever of its partner networks is delivering the fastest 4G LTE speed. Learn more about the network of networks. 

With Project Fi, your phone number lives in the cloud, so you can talk and text with your number on just about any phone, tablet or laptop. If you misplace your phone, you can stay connected using another screen. Check out how it works.

One simple plan at one price with 24/7 support: for $20 a month you get all the basics (talk, text, Wi-Fi tethering, and international coverage in 120+ countries), and then it's a flat $10 per GB for cellular data while in the U.S. and abroad. 1GB is $10/month, 2GB is $20/month, 3GB is $30/month, and so on, with credit for the full value of your unused data. Get all the details about the plan.

Project Fi's Early Access Program now available on the Nexus 6, which Google developed with Motorola and is the first smartphone that supports the hardware and software to work with Google's service. If you live where Google has coverage in the U.S., request an invite at fi.google.com to get started. (source of the above: Google)

Find out more at fi.google.com

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