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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><span style="font-family: Arial;">I appreciate the idea of Internet Social Forum and will support by all means. <br><br>Regards<br><br>Farooq Ahmed Jam<br>Sent from my HTC<br><br><br><div id="htc_header" style="">----- Reply message -----<br>From: "Sonigitu Ekpe" <sonigituekpe@CROSSRIVERSTATE.GOV.NG><br>To: "Marianne Franklin" <m.i.franklin@gold.ac.uk>, "bestbits@lists.igcaucus.org" <bestbits@lists.igcaucus.org><br>Subject: [bestbits] Best Bits meeting plans for the 2013 IGF<br>Date: Sat, Mar 16, 2013 11:28 PM<br><br></div></span><br>+1 for ISF.<br><br><br><font size="2">Sonigitu Ekpe <br>Committee Secretary,<br>State Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development on Flood Food Recovery and Double-Up Food Production Programme.<br>3 Barracks Road <br>Calabar - Nigeria.<br><br>+234 8050232469</font> <br><br><br>Marianne Franklin <m.i.franklin@gold.ac.uk> wrote:<br><br><br> Dear all<br>
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I think the idea of and Internet Social Forum is a great idea. And a timely one so +1 from me!<br>
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MF<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/03/2013 05:08, parminder wrote:<br>
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<font face="Verdana">Thanks, Andrew, Michael, Tiffiniy and Bazlur for egging me on...<br>
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So, let me begin thinking aloud along with all of you.<br>
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What I am thinking is something on the lines of providing an open platform for some freelance (world social forum style), but also purposefully organised, civil society idealism around the Internet and the future of the world.<br>
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We can have this Internet Social Forum (hence ISF) with the slogan 'the Internet/ web we need - for the world we want'. The Web We Want initiative can be a prominent part of this effort. We should also have slogans stressing the social construction of the Internet,
a point missed by most, even those otherwise very socio-politically informed. We have to use slogans like 'Internet is what WE make it to be', or 'we together make the Internet', and so on....<br>
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The main purpose is to give an opportunity for different global and sub-global civil society groups in different areas - gender, climate, livelihoods, democracy, FoE, education, health, trade, access to knowledge etc - to explore and propose what is the Internet
they need for addressing their respective issues. (Of course this will need close engagement with IG types with these groups to help them in this exercise, but such engagement should be
<i>on the terms of these other groups</i> and not the other way around, which is what is missing in IGF kind of spaces)<br>
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I have interacted with many such groups, and I have a distinct expression that many of them would be interested in such an exercise, and perhaps fund themselves to come for such an event.
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