<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Internet Rights Community, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">After almost five wonderful years with the Web Foundation and almost a decade living in Europe, I am moving back to Latin America for a period of time. </div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div style="overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">I will be the Director of the <a href="https://en.ciudadanointeligente.org/">Smart Citizen Foundation</a>, trying to renovate and innovate strategies to build more and better democracies in the region and beyond. I hope my new role will assist the "citizen participation", anti-corruption and civic tech space to have a more critical view on technology, inclusion and democracy. </div><p></p><p></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Many of our topics will go to the core of my new role. For instance, I do not like the new generation of strategies to connect the poor to an inferior network, or the rush of industrialised countries to connect the marginal, to capture their data before they even gain enough literacy to be able to use the Internet in a constructive way. It is brutal. Sometimes I feel the ethics in this space are akin to the ethics of pharmaceutical companies performing drug trials on uninformed people who have no recourse if things go wrong.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> As the next billion connects, part of my mission is that they connect to a Web where their voices count. </span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Of course we need invigorated networks and a robust but decentralised set of tools to communicate in our digital society. There is still a lot of innovation to come, but the policies in place are only benefiting, to a great extent, elites and emerging middle classes. I hope to shift it back to the many. And place digital inequalities at the core of the discussions. </span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">I want to thank you for all the lessons I learned from you, you opened my eyes to new regions during the Web We Want campaign, we fought for the most innovative rights frame four years ago with the fight for Marco Civil, we achieved a lot as a community and now there are strong, female, south leaderships everywhere. Not at the top, but getting there. </span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I will continue writing my Digital Colonialism book and I will share it with the community once it is out. </p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">My personal email address is</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="mailto:renata@digitalcolonialism.org">renata@digitalcolonialism.org</a></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">My new institutional address (for collaborations, partnerships, shake the world with EU - LatAm, or Africa- Latam or Asia-Latam alliances) is <a href="mailto:ravila@ciudadanointeligente.org">ravila@ciudadanointeligente.org</a> </p>
</div><p></p><p></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">I will be based in Santiago, with frequent visits to Rio, our second office. And operating in Latin America and beyond. </div><p></p><p></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">All my love and gratitude. </div><p></p><p></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Renata </div><p></p><p></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div><p></p><p></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>Renata Avila<p></p><p><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Senior Digital Rights Advisor</b></span><br></p><a href="mailto:renata.avila@webfoundation.org" target="_blank">renata.avila@webfoundation.org</a><p><b style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:rgb(81,144,50)">1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA</span></b><font size="2"> </font><b style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:rgb(81,144,50)">| </span></b><a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:rgb(81,144,50);text-decoration:none">www.webfoundation.org</span></b></a><b style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:rgb(81,144,50)"> | Twitter: @webfoundation</span></b></p></div></div><div style="font-size:13px"></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size:13px"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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