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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Sunday 10 September 2017 08:08 AM,
Renata Aquino Ribeiro wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi
Just answered this and suggested a totally different theme, geared
more towards Global South participation.</pre>
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Thanks Renata for this important theme.<br>
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But let me undertake a sunday morning indulgence. Southern
participation is important, but equally if not more is a southern
narrative on Internet/ digital governance. Does it exist today? Just
saying, connect us as well, help us because we are way behind on the
digital path that "you" are taking,, does it constitute a southern
discourse? Or does the south have a view on "well, is the path
itself not the best one?". Does merely getting connected to an
arrangement which is exploitative at its core a worthwhile
agenda?Especially for civil society. Questions like this.... But the
unfortunate fact is; southern participation in global Internet/
digital governance spaces have contributed more to hailing and
legitimising a Northern model of Internet/ digital governance rather
than seeking one which serves its own interests, and arises from
what have in other sectors been considered as "southern
perspectives".<br>
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Partly, it also has to do with how the IG/ digital sector is framed
so solidly by North, including controlling its funding streams,
which unlike in other areas like trade, access to knowledge, climate
justice, etc does not promote a distinctively southern perspective/
alternative, but largely contributes to legitimising a
interests-based Northern discourse. What is the role, responsibility
and accountability of the incumbent civil society in this. That IMHO
is the key "southern question" for civil society to address. Why has
it failed to connect and make common cause with southern and social
justice based groups in other global civil society sectors? Why have
we still to interact on elists where simple questions on practices
of biggest digital corporates get shot down and contested by status
quo-ists, as we witnessed in the recent case of google's
questionable funding practices. <br>
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These cracks vis a vis relationship of IG civil society and the
global Southern and social justice oriented civil society (which is
rightly the bulk of the global civil society) are beginning to show
up as the digital enters into areas like global trade, where trade
justice activists look at IG civil society dumbly pushing
proclamations of unhindered "free flow of data" and such with
astonishment ...<br>
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Renata, i am not picking on the subject that you have proposed,
which is very important, but providing what in my view is a very
important context to it....<br>
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parminder <br>
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It is important to note that, in a long time, this is an IGF where the
Global South will not be represented as it was before and Civil
Society can have a role in discussing this and enabling
representation.
So I hope more people answer and have this in mind too
Best,
Renata
On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jmalcolm@eff.org"><jmalcolm@eff.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Dear all,
Previously I sent around a save-the-date notice (with the wrong date
initially!) for our annual pre-IGF civil society meeting. Just to
reconfirm, it will be on Saturday 16 December 2017.
The organizing committee is now soliciting suggestions for the meeting
agenda and volunteers, using this survey:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bestbits.net/limesurvey/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=628143&lang=en">http://bestbits.net/limesurvey/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=628143&lang=en</a>
You are invited to complete that survey between now and 18 September.
As you will see, there is a suggestion that the overall meeting theme be
"Private regulation of the Internet", because this is broad enough to
include many different topics including private speech regulation, trade,
the Internet of Things, and Internet standards and human rights. When
suggesting session topics, please try to relate them to this overall theme.
But the survey also allows you to suggest a different main theme if you
disagree with the one that we have suggested.
Thanks, and we look forward to receiving your responses.
--
Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Global Policy Analyst
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161
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