Wednesday, November 1, 2023
(This is a post in a series about attending the Internet Governance Forum 2023 in Kyoto.)
The Kyoto International Conference Center is a sprawling complex on the north side of the city, at the very last stop of the Kyoto Municipal Subway line. The subway exit features a circular chamber with a 10m wide IGF logo on the floor welcoming visitors. Hallways are lined with posters for the event, and two escalators later you exit to the ground floor and a red carpeted entrance.
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Monday, October 30, 2023
The Internet Governance Forum is a multistakeholder forum established by the United Nations and held annually around the world since 2006. The 18th edition was held in Kyoto, the city in which I reside, so I decided to attend.
I have been to a few technical conferences, barricaded in rooms with passionate technologists arguing over the most minute details of a newly forming standard, but the IGF promised something different. This is a policy forum to discuss the societal impacts of digital technology worldwide.
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Monday, October 16, 2023
🔗 Should I stop Flying — Outside Online
Appreciate the discussion in this piece. It is something I have thought about for years, and actually one of the reasons I don’t look forward to when I return to Canada where everything is so remote. Imagining a no-fly future — whether due to carbon laws, massively increased expense, or the threat of RPGs (see Ministry for the Future my fav book of 2022 for more on that extreme form of flygskam) — I would rather live some place like Europe or Japan: dense with a good rail system.
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Monday, October 2, 2023
Hello there! 👋 Thought I would give a quick self introduction.
I am a 🇨🇦 in 🇯🇵 interested in tech and society, Buddhism, travel, and more. You can get to know me more here:
micro.chadkohalyk.com/about-me/
I have a large collection of posts at my main site (https://chadkohalyk.com), most recently:
Why Kyoto is the way it is The Santiago Boys LoFi software and inverting our relationship to The Cloud Driving Fukushima: The 3/11 nuclear disaster 12 years later That might give you an idea of my interests.
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