[bestbits] Save the Date: RightsCon Silicon Valley March 3rd-5th, 2014

[Nnenna Nwakanma]

There will be Web We Want presence in most, if not all of the above.
So count us in

BTW, Merry Xmas

N


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Carolina <carolina.rossini at gmail.com>wrote:

> Jeremy,
> Count me in for the preparatory event and to help organize it. With whom
> are you talking to at IDEC? Veridiana?
> I can also find free spaces to host our meeting in São Paulo.
> Carol
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 14, 2013, at 1:36 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
>
> To follow up on Brett's message, just to let everyone know that we
> a placeholder "Best Bits" session has been submitted for RightsCon, though
> the original idea of using it to finalise inputs for the Brazil meeting
> won't work out - because the deadline for those inputs is slightly too
> soon.  So, we need to find another theme for the meeting.  Since many of
> the US groups at RightsCon will be new to the international Internet
> governance debates (except for maybe ICANN and WCIT), a couple of us
> considered that it might be worthwhile to structure a session around more
> closely integrating US based civil society into our community (which was
> one of my original aims for Best Bits).
>
> Anyway, who is interested in sharing ideas (either these or other ideas)
> and developing the session further?  Deborah has offered to manage a
> workflow for the session, if we are all happy for her to do that.   What do
> you all think?
>
> Also, separately to RightsCon, I should flag early that I have the
> opportunity to arrange a Best Bits pre-meeting in Sāo Paulo immediately
> prior to the Brazil meeting, which would be hosted by IDEC, the largest
> Brazilian consumer group.  Of course at this stage, we don't know who will
> be attending the Brazil meeting, so plans are at an early stage.  But if
> anyone is interested in hearing or discussing more about that, you can also
> get in touch (perhaps off-list for now, until plans and funding are firmer).
>
> On 6 Dec 2013, at 11:40 pm, Brett Solomon <brett at accessnow.org> wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> As you may know, RightsCon Silicon Valley <http://rightscon.org/> is
> taking place March 3-5 in San Francisco at Mission Bay Conference Center.
> This is an opportunity for different communities to come together - global
> activists, companies, thinkers, investors, engineers and government
> officials - to discuss the tensions and opportunities at the intersection
> of human rights and the internet.
>
> RightsCon Silicon Valley has a particular focus on technology companies
> and aims to create a space for multistakeholder dialogue on human rights
> best practices and learnings in the context of the private sector. The
> event also takes place 7 weeks before the Brazil meeting and as I mentioned
> could be used as a venue to discuss strategy and plans for April.
>
> The program is open to submissions, and we're looking to a range of
> networks, including the Bestbits community to help shape the agenda. Here
> is the link to propose a session<https://www.rightscon.org/submit-a-session/why/>.
>
>
> The deadline for submission is December 20th. If you have questions, check
> out the website at rightscon.org, <http://rightscon.org/> or email Rian
> Wanstreet at rian at accessnow.org, or we can chat more on this list.
>
> For those of you who have participated in RightsCon in the past, we look
> forward to seeing you again.
>
> Enjoy your weekends!
>
> Brett
>
> *Speakers to date include: *Rebecca MacKinnon (Ranking Digital Rights);
> Alaa Abd El Fattah (one of Egypt's most respected activists and software
> engineers (currently detained)); Jim Cowie (CTO, Renesys); John Donahoe
> (President & CEO, eBay); Moez Chakchouk (Founder of Tunisia's IXP and
> 404Labs); Brad Burnham (Union Square Ventures); Colin Crowell (Head of
> Global Public Policy, Twitter); Michael Posner (NYU Professor of Business
> and Society); Eileen Donahoe (former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Human
> Rights Council); Jillian York (Director for International Freedom of
> Expression, EFF); ; Richard Stallman (Founder GNU Project and Free Software
> Foundation); David Gorodyansky (CEO & Founder, AnchorFree); Mitchell Baker
> (Chairperson, Mozilla Corporation) and many more.
>
>
> Brett Solomon
> Executive Director | Access
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