<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:arial"><br class="">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Stefaan Verhulst (NYU)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sv39@nyu.edu">sv39@nyu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:12 AM<br>Subject: Need your input - NETmundial Solutions Map<br>To: <br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Dear colleague: </span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Hope all is well! We are reaching out to you for your feedback on the development of a new tool to enable collaboration on Internet Governance.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">The </span><a href="http://thegovlab.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">GovLab </span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">(New York University and MIT)</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"> and Second Rise are exploring the creation of a prototype called the “</span><a href="https://www.netmundial.org/solutions-map" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">NETmundial Solutions Map</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">.” The map will aim to enable coordination on Internet governance issues by providing an open data-set of </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">what responses</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"> exist to </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">what issues</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">, developed </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">by whom</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"> and in </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline">what region</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">We hope that you can take a few minutes to provide feedback using our survey, which aims to collect feedback on how users currently find information on Internet governance. You can find the survey </span><a href="https://netmundialsolutionsmap.typeform.com/to/bNz4Rc" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">by clicking here</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">. For more background on the overall NETmundial initiative, you can visit their recently relaunched website: </span><a href="https://www.netmundial.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.netmundial.org</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">. </span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Your input is important to us, and we hope that you can take a moment to help develop the prototype for the NETmundial Solutions Map in a manner that would add value to the current eco-system. Please feel free to forward this to anyone else in your network that may have an interest in how a internet governance map is designed.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Thank you in advance, and please let me know if you have any questions. As we progress we will share our findings on the GovLab blog (For instance: interim findings of our <a href="http://thegovlab.org/do-we-need-a-map-on-the-road-to-distributed-internet-governance-findings-from-interviews/" target="_blank">face-to-face interviews</a> can be found here). We look forward to hearing from you.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Sincerely,</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;marg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