The 2024 Annual IP3 Awards

Public Data hosts the Annual IP3 Awards to have fun the work of those that have made important contributions within the three areas of IP: Mental Property, Data Coverage, and Web Protocol. The awards assist champion the advocates working diligently on behalf of the general public curiosity to assist everybody join and talk. Be taught extra about previous recipients of the Annual IP3 Awards.

In 2024, we offered the Data Coverage Award to Caitriona Fitzgerald, Deputy Director on the Digital Privateness Data Middle, the place she supplies experience to advance sturdy privateness and synthetic intelligence governance legal guidelines at each the state and federal degree. She has testified earlier than Congress and state legislatures. In 2023, she was named a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Legislation Faculty. A member of the Massachusetts Bar, Ms. Fitzgerald graduated from Northeastern College Faculty of Legislation (J.D.) and the State College of New York at Geneseo (B.A., Pc Science).

We offered the Mental Coverage Award to Jonathan Band, Principal at Coverage Bandwidth. He has helped form the legal guidelines governing mental property and the web via a mix of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented purchasers with respect to the drafting of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Cease On-line Piracy Act (SOPA), and different federal and state statutes referring to mental property and the web. He has testified earlier than Congress 10 instances. He has complemented this legislative advocacy by submitting amicus briefs in important circumstances associated to those provisions. Mr. Band has additionally represented purchasers in connection to the Marrakesh Treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting Commerce Settlement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Settlement, and different worldwide agreements.

We offered the Web Protocol Award to Angela Siefer, Govt Director of the Nationwide Digital Inclusion Alliance, the place she leads the digital fairness motion by supporting group applications and equipping policymakers to behave. Since incomes her grasp’s in sociology from the College of Toledo in 1997, she has labored within the subject we now name “digital inclusion.” Beginning with organising laptop labs in underserved areas and managing native digital inclusion applications, Ms. Siefer’s first-hand data led her to seek the advice of for the U.S. Division of Commerce and testify earlier than Congress. In 2015, she noticed that the rising subject wanted its personal place to construct finest practices and group, so she turned the founding Govt Director of the NDIA.

Lastly, we offered a President’s Award to FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, who believes that communications know-how has the potential to be probably the most highly effective forces on Earth for selling equality and alternative. To unlock that potential, nevertheless, all People will need to have entry. From combating web inequality to advocating for variety in employment, entrepreneurship, and media possession, Commissioner Starks fights for insurance policies designed to make sure that trendy communications know-how empowers everybody by championing the hundreds of thousands of People who lack entry to or can’t afford residence web. He has constantly advocated for broadband deployment that helps rural communities faucet into financial and academic alternatives that is probably not near residence, which each encourages younger folks to remain in these rural areas and attracts new residents and employers.

In 2024, we heard from Dallas Harris, Nevada State Senator, as she spoke passionately about her time within the PKTrains fellowship program and the way it outfitted her for her profession. Now celebrating its tenth 12 months, this program has educated dozens of profitable know-how coverage advocates devoted to selling the general public curiosity. View this system to find how and why Public Data fellows make an impression in an period when we have to steadiness company energy by forcefully representing the general public. You could donate to assist this system and assist be sure that extra various voices from quite a lot of backgrounds have a seat on the policymaking desk.

We additionally commemorated the work of Sherwin Lee Siy, a pillar of Public Data for practically 10 years and a passionate advocate for the openness of data within the digital period. His openness and enthusiasm as a mentor to younger advocates left an enduring mark throughout all the subject. Please assist us honor Sherwin Lee Siy’s legacy of activism and mentorship by supporting the subsequent technology of coverage advocates via an endowed fellowship in his title. With this fellowship, we intend to construct upon Sherwin’s life work and to essentially remodel how advocates in our subject characterize the rising variety inside this nation. You may watch our video celebrating the Sherwin Lee Siy Memorial Fund beneath.

Be taught extra about previous recipients of the Annual IP3 Awards or attain out to Stephen Bennett, our Director of Growth and Exterior Affairs, to turn out to be an official sponsor. View our picture album to expertise extra of this momentous occasion.