Good that you sent an updated bio Jo, I was about to do that when I saw Ian's email. <div><br></div><div>I am very happy about the nominations, but I would invert the order of possible. Having a Brazilian at the end, as we had Grace and Burcu as CS for closing ceremony, is VERY important politically.</div><div><br></div><div>Not just for CS, but actually more as a opportunity to have the closing speech also refer to national issues and ask specific commitments from the Brazilian policy makers there. As Joana is incredible aware, since she is deeply involved in the discussions, folks are trying to puncture Marco Civil and cut back on other digital rights in Brazil... We - the digital rights community - lost a lot of attention due to all the political corruption that has take over all the media attention. </div><div><br></div><div>We need to have Joana - as a Brasilian - putting the "country" against the wall in front of everybody. And I feel the closing ceremony is better for that purpose.</div><div><br></div>I am saying all this without having spoken with Joana. So, I am not sure if she is available. <div><br></div><div>But I wanted to make sure to leave my opinion on this issue.</div><div><br></div><div>C<span></span><br><div><div><div><br>On Friday, October 30, 2015, <<a href="mailto:joana@varonferraz.com">joana@varonferraz.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Thanks, Ian and everyone!</p>
<p dir="ltr">I cannot express how honored I'm for this nomination. I hope I can respond to the task with the bright it entails. </p>
<p dir="ltr">As soon as nomination is confirmed I will share a pad for people to bring inputs. Will already be dreaming with some insights.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just a correction in my institutional presentation as I'm not CTS for more then 1 and half year now :):</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm founder director and creative chaos catalyst of Coding Rights, a women lead think-and-do tank with the mission to bring hackers, geeks, artists, researchers and activists together to protect, promote and mainstream digital rights and empower women on ICTs. More on @codingrights or <a href="http://codingrights.org" target="_blank">codingrights.org</a> (still temporary work in progress)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thank you once again and have safe travels to João Pessoa. We will be waiting for you all to cheer with caipirinhas or fresh coconut water. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Kind regards,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Joana<br>
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<div>On 30 Oct 2015 17:36, Lea Kaspar <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lea@gp-digital.org');" target="_blank">lea@gp-digital.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Congratulations to both, proud to be represented by these women.<div><br></div><div>Many thanks to the CSCG for their work - excellent choices. <div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Lea</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Ian Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ian.peter@ianpeter.com');" target="_blank">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Below are the two nominations from Civil Society Coordination Group for
speakers for this years IGF opening and closing ceremonies. They were chosen
from a field of 20 names submitted from various civil society coalitions, and
have been forwarded to the IGF Secretariat. I must say that any of the 20 names
submitted could have represented us admirably, and that it was a tough decision
for the CSCG members to come up with 2 names.</div>
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<div>Joana Varon (Brazil) – opening ceremony – <a>joana@varonferraz.com</a></div>
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<div>Nadine Moawad (Lebanon) – closing ceremony – <a>nadine@apcwomen.org</a></div>
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<div>For those who don’t know them,</div>
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<div><span><font style="COLOR:#000000">Joana Varon Ferraz is a researcher and project
coordinator at the Centre for Technology and Society from Fundação Getulio
Vargas in Rio de Janeiro</font></span></div>
<div><span><font style="COLOR:#3c3c3c"></font></span> </div>Nadine Moawad is a Lebanese
feminist activist and grasssroots worker who leads Association for Progressive
Communication (APC)'s sexual <br>rights work.
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<div>We commend them both as informed excellent communicators to represent civil
society. They have both been informed of their nominations.</div>
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<div>Ian Peter (Independent Chair, Civil Society Coordination
Group)</div></div></div></div>
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