<div dir="ltr">In the confusion of the various different lists I am not sure that this announcement made it to the IGC.<div>Deirdre</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Erick Iriarte Ahon</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eiriarte@alfa-redi.org">eiriarte@alfa-redi.org</a>></span><br>Date: 22 January 2015 at 14:17<br>Subject: [latinoamericann] Fwd: [discuss] Internet Social Forum<br>To: LatinoamerICANN <<a href="mailto:latinoamericann@dgroups.org">latinoamericann@dgroups.org</a>><br>Cc: "\"Foro de Derecho Informático.\"" <<a href="mailto:derecho-informatico@dgroups.org">derecho-informatico@dgroups.org</a>><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word">FYI<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Inicio del mensaje reenviado:</div><br><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Fecha: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">22 de enero de 2015, 8:47:14 GMT-5<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>De: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Norbert Bollow <<a href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch" target="_blank">nb@bollow.ch</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Para: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:discuss@1net.org" target="_blank">discuss@1net.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Asunto: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>[discuss] Internet Social Forum</b><br></span></div><br><div>Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum<br>– With a call to occupy the Internet<br><br>PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.<br><br>A group of civil society organisations from around the world has<br>announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate<br>bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration<br>from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is<br>possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing<br>centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and for<br>socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'!<br><br>The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the<br>recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on<br>global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and<br>the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social<br>Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those who<br>believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public interest; a<br>direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in 2001 as a<br>counter initiative to the WEF.<br><br>The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and<br>social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that<br>challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how<br>the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory<br>process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in<br>Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is<br>planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.<br><br>“While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the<br>future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives should<br>not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to the<br>privileged terrain WEF occupies – in the end it is this wider public<br>interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We are<br>organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices can't be<br>ignored in the corridors of power,” said Norbert Bollow, Co-Convenor of<br>the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups involved in the<br>initiative.<br><br>The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as<br>a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be<br>underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice. It<br>will stand for participatory policy making and promote community media.<br>It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its<br>architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information,<br>knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world<br>community to generate and share.<br><br>Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee’s call for a ‘Magna<br>Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop<br>a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving<br>all concerned social groups and movements, in different areas, from<br>techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform groups,<br>democracy movements and social justice activists.<br><br>This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World<br>Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in<br>December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a<br>critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and 2005,<br>the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a paradigm<br>shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil society and<br>technical groups as well as of business. However, currently, there<br>seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this UN-led initiative on<br>governance issues of the information society and Internet in favour of<br>private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net Mundial<br>Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining primarily a<br>people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil society's<br>engagement towards the WSIS +10 review.<br><br>The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing<br>the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the<br>immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all<br>over the world to join this initiative, and participate in developing a<br>People's Internet Manifesto.<br><br>Just Net Coalition, Global<br>P2P Foundation, Global<br>Transnational Institute, Global<br>Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin<br>America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional<br>Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Regional<br>Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey<br>Knowledge Commons, India<br>Open-Root/EUROLINC, France<br>SLFC.in, India<br>CODE-IP Trust, Kenya<br><a href="http://GodlyGlobal.org" target="_blank">GodlyGlobal.org</a>, Switzerland<br>Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training,<br>Canada IT for Change, India<br>Association for Proper Internet Governance, Switzerland<br>Computer Professionals Union, Philippines<br>Free Press, USA<br>Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines<br>Other News, Italy<br>Free Software Movement of India<br>Global_Geneva, Switzerland<br>Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), Italy<br>All India Peoples Science Network, India<br>Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA<br><br>Please contact us at <a href="mailto:secretariat@InternetSocialForum.net" target="_blank">secretariat@InternetSocialForum.net</a> for further<br>information or clarification.<br><br>Or the following regional contacts:<br><br>Africa: Alex Gakaru <<a href="mailto:AlexG@InternetSocialForum.net" target="_blank">AlexG@InternetSocialForum.net</a>><br>Asia: Rishab Bailey <<a href="mailto:RishabB@InternetSocialForum.net" target="_blank">RishabB@InternetSocialForum.net</a>><br>Europe: Norbert Bollow <<a href="mailto:NorbertB@InternetSocialForum.net" target="_blank">NorbertB@InternetSocialForum.net</a>><br>North America: Micheal Gurstein <<a href="mailto:MichealG@InternetSocialForum.net" target="_blank">MichealG@InternetSocialForum.net</a>><br>South America: Sally Burch <<a href="mailto:SallyB@InternetSocialForum.net" target="_blank">SallyB@InternetSocialForum.net</a>><br><br><br>This press release is also available online, e.g. at<br><a href="http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF" target="_blank">http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:discuss@1net.org" target="_blank">discuss@1net.org</a><br><a href="http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a></div></blockquote></div><br>
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