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

Fri Dec 27 23:32:57 EST 2013

Hi Brett,

Thanks for this, I think the Community Informatics community might be
interested in contributing on and through (and of course to promote J) our
Declaration.

Let me/us know
 what might be useful.

Mike

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I'd be in favor of a session at RightsCon that can be used as a space to
cross pollinate ideas and understandings on governance from a diverse set of
civil society actors. Many of the US based orgs will be there, as well as CS
from across the world, and unpacking perspectives and mapping out plans
could be useful at this stage. I also think its an opportunity to grow our
sector by bringing in new actors who are not familiar with the Brazil event
or the reasons that have lead to it. Let's think more about how to make this
productive, and we very much welcome your input in developing the session
further Marilia. Brett

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On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hello all, this will certainly be a great session. I will definitely connect
remotely, if I am not in SF. I would just like to make a suggestion. I agree
with Jeremy that the session could be a moment to discuss and plan CS
participation in the meeting in Brazil. But I also feel that there is a
valuable opportunity to foster more understanding among US-based CS and
global CS, and to make the concerns of actors in the developing world
regarding the IG regime better understood. 

For example, the way that several US non-gov campaigns get framed as "hands
off the Internet" or against a supposed UN power grab always made me feel a
bit uncomfortable. Although this ideas are easy to communicate to broader
audience, I believe that, particularly during WCIT, they caused
misunderstanding  by mixing up the positions countries like Russia and
Brazil, which have been historically different, and by demonizing the UN and
non-multistakeholder spaces as a whole. Since WCIT is one of the major
references to US organizations, as Jeremy mentioned, maybe the scope of the
session could be a bit broader in order to discuss what were the problems
and disfunctionalities in the regime that pushed many actors (CS, iStars) to
support change, in other words, to mention the underlying  reasons that led
to Brazil. Problems have been pointed out before Snowden. When setting the
background of the RightsCon session, it would be important to show that the
meeting in Brazil may have been triggered by mass surveillance, but the
issue goes beyond it and precedes it. 

Marília

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Deborah Brown <deborah at accessnow.org>
wrote:

Yes, I think that's a great idea. Perhaps what makes the most sense is to
use the session for those in the network who are planning to develop ideas
and submissions for Brazil and have discussions on the concrete proposals
with the wider community. We can also make available some space for a side
meeting/strategy session if there is interest. For both options, we would
make sure that remote participation is available. Interested in hearing
others' ideas as well. Please feel free to contact me on or off list if
you're interested in discussing this further. 

Kind regards, 
Deborah 

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Andrew Puddephatt <Andrew at gp-digital.org>
wrote:

Could we host a session focused on IG given that by then we should have put
together some ideas of our own for Brazil?

From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
Date: Saturday, 14 December 2013 06:36
To: "<bestbits at lists. net <mailto:bestbits at lists.%20net> >"
<bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>
Subject: Re: [bestbits] Save the Date: RightsCon Silicon Valley March
3rd-5th, 2014

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 S?o 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. 

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