<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div id="gmail-:35t" class="gmail-Am gmail-aiL gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:500px" aria-controls=":3hi" aria-expanded="false"><div class="gmail_default"><img src="cid:ii_lxkml7490" alt="internet_shutdowns_and_how_to_stop_them_sm.jpg" width="745" height="372" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)">On <span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Tuesday June 25 2024</span></span> at <span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">09:00-10:30 EDT</span></span> (13:00-14:30 UTC) the <a href="https://isoc-dc.org/" title="https://isoc-dc.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box">Internet Society Washington DC Chapter</a> (ISOC-DC) and the <a href="https://isoc-ny.org/" title="https://isoc-ny.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box">Internet Society New York Chapter</a> (ISOC-NY) in collaboration with <a href="https://www.accessnow.org/" title="https://www.accessnow.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box">Access Now</a> will host a webinar '<b>Internet Shutdowns, and How to Stop Them</b>'.</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)">It is an unfortunate fact that, in some regions of the world, our best efforts to make an 'Internet for Everyone' are all too often undercut by deliberate withdrawals of service, mandated by the powers that be.</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)">Three organizations have taken it upon themselves to shine light on this issue: <a href="https://www.accessnow.org/" title="https://www.accessnow.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Access Now</a>, with its <a href="https://www.accessnow.org/campaign/keepiton/" title="https://www.accessnow.org/campaign/keepiton/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box">#KeepItOn</a> advocacy campaign to oppose shutdowns; The <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/" title="https://www.internetsociety.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box">Internet Society</a> on its Pulse platform, which has not only a <a href="https://pulse.internetsociety.org/shutdowns" title="https://pulse.internetsociety.org/shutdowns" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box">Shutdown Tracker</a>, but also a <a href="https://pulse.internetsociety.org/en/netloss/" title="https://pulse.internetsociety.org/en/netloss/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box">Netloss Calculator</a> to estimate the resulting economic damage; and <a href="https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/" title="https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box">Columbia Global Freedom of Expression</a>, which specifically tracks legal challenges to shutdowns.</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)">In this webinar we host experts from all three, presenting reports on their work.</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">PRESENTERS</span></span></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Natalia Krapiva</span></span>, Senior Tech-Legal Counsel, Access Now</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)">[<a href="https://www.accessnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2023-KIO-Report.pdf" title="https://www.accessnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2023-KIO-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">SHRINKING DEMOCRACY, GROWING VIOLENCE - Internet shutdowns in 2023</a>]</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Joan Barata</span></span>, Senior Legal Fellow, Future Free Speech Project</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)">[<a href="https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/GFoE_Internet-shutdowns-in-international-law.pdf" title="https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/GFoE_Internet-shutdowns-in-international-law.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Internet Shutdowns in international law</a>]</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Dan York</span></span>, Director, Internet Technology, Internet Society</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)">[<a href="https://pulse.internetsociety.org/shutdowns" title="https://pulse.internetsociety.org/shutdowns" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Global Internet Shutdowns</a>]</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">HOST / MODERATOR</span></span></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Chelsea Horne</span></span>, Senior Professorial Lecturer, American University Department of Literature / Co-convenor, ISOC-DC</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)">This webinar is free and open to the public. The event will also be livestreamed. A recording will be available after the event.</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">BIOs</span></span></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Natalia Krapiva</span></span> leads Access Now's efforts to strategically engage courts and legal processes to uphold digital rights. Natalia is licensed by the state bar of New York (USA). Prior to Access Now, Natalia worked as a prosecutor at Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><a href="https://www.accessnow.org/profile/natalia-krapiva/" title="https://www.accessnow.org/profile/natalia-krapiva/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">https://www.accessnow.org/profile/natalia-krapiva/</a></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Joan Barata</span></span> works on freedom of expression, media regulation, and intermediary liability issues. He is a Fellow of the Program on Platform Regulation at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center. His work has taken him in most regions of the world, and he is regularly involved in projects with international organizations such as UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States or the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, where he was the principal advisor to the Representative on Media Freedom.</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><a href="https://futurefreespeech.org/who-we-are/joan-barata" title="https://futurefreespeech.org/who-we-are/joan-barata" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">https://futurefreespeech.org/who-we-are/joan-barata</a>/</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Dan York </span></span>is currently focused on the Amicus Program, which provides the Internet Society with an opportunity to scan important, precedential legal cases and file amicus curiae. He also assists with with UN, Measurement, and Encryption projects.</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/author/york/" title="https://www.internetsociety.org/author/york/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">https://www.internetsociety.org/author/york/</a></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Dr. Chelsea L. Horne</span></span> is a Senior Professorial Lecturer at American University's Department of Literature. Her areas of research encompass communication, digital culture, information integrity, privacy, internet governance, AI policy, and cultural and performance studies. Horne is co-convenor of the Internet Society's US Washington DC Chapter.</p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><a href="https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/horne.cfm" title="https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/horne.cfm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/horne.cfm</a></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><font size="4">REGISTER NOW! <a href="https://shutdowns.eventbrite.com/" title="https://shutdowns.eventbrite.com/" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">https://shutdowns.eventbrite.com/</a></font></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><b>ADD TO CALENDAR <a href="https://calndr.link/event/06R2UFNdR">https://calndr.link/event/06R2UFNdR</a>j</b></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px;font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-s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