<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div>Following up on the two declarations Carlos Afonso circulated, I'm sharing a post I wrote that deals with how the Brazilian governments efforts to alter the composition of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) via a hastily-organized public consultation actually undermine digital democracy principles - <a href="http://www.cima.ned.org/blog/multistakeholder-internet-governance-attack-brazil/">Multistakeholder Governance Under Attack in Brazil</a>. While I'm sure that we can all agree that multistakeholder governance is far from perfect, and needs much improvement, the government's consultation is more likely about finding a way to diminish civil society participation at the CGI.br in hopes of weakening net neutrality protections.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Daniel</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Carlos Afonso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ca@cafonso.ca" target="_blank">ca@cafonso.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This is the manifestation of the Internet Society on the recent<br>
unilateral consultation by the federal government about the Internet<br>
Steering Committee of Brazil (CGI.br):<br>
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<a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2017/08/brazil-needs-involve-all-stakeholders-internet-governance" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.internetsociety.<wbr>org/blog/public-policy/2017/<wbr>08/brazil-needs-involve-all-<wbr>stakeholders-internet-<wbr>governance</a><br>
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This is the declaration of the Brazilian chapter of Internet Society on<br>
the same subject:<br>
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<a href="https://isoc.org.br/post/isoc-brazil-is-deeply-concerned-with-the-current-public-consultation-to-change-cgi-br-s-decree/87" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://isoc.org.br/post/isoc-<wbr>brazil-is-deeply-concerned-<wbr>with-the-current-public-<wbr>consultation-to-change-cgi-br-<wbr>s-decree/87</a><br>
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[]s fraternos<br>
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