[bestbits] Welcome to new Best Bits participants

[Youn Jung Park]

Dear Jeremy and all,

Thank you for your initiating this. I recently joined BB
list expecting more "actions" rather than discussion. I have been engaged
with "critical Internet resource" related Internet governance issues since
the beginning of ICANN under different settings including WSIS,IGF. I have
followed up "big data or cloud data governance" dialogues and learned they
do have global governance challenges including privacy/security issues like
PRISM.

Lastly, glad to see many familiar names pop up in this list. I used to put
my name YJ Park and still use the name in the global setting. Now I am back
in S.Korea where people prefer full name. I present my name as Youn Jung
Park in the header but I will still use YJ in my mails. I do not represent
any civil society group here but myself as individual. I work at Department
of Technology and Society, SUNY Korea. (www.sunykorea.ac.kr)

Look forward to working with you down this road.
YJ



On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

>  Thanks to the new participants who have joined the Best Bits list
> recently, some due to the joint statement at http://bestbits.net/prism-nsa(which now has 114 endorsements).  I'm also one-time cc'ing the other lists
> that were cross-posted during that work (and bcc'ing the personal
> addresses).
>
> I won't take up much of your time, but thought a few paragraphs of
> introduction to Best Bits would be in order for the new or curious.
>
> Best Bits is a network of civil society groups who work individually - and
> sometimes together - on issues that are variously described as "Internet
> governance", "Internet freedom" or "Internet rights/human rights",
> depending on your preferred framing.  Best Bits is a loose unifying
> framework for that work that brings together groups from global North and
> South.
>
> There are three main resources that Best Bits provides: the mailing list,
> face to face strategy meetings (including at least an annual meeting
> alongside the IGF), and the website which is used for joint statements and
> a shared event calendar (under construction, but largely functional
> already).
>
> There is currently no organisational structure for Best Bits, though we
> are intending to put together a loose and balanced steering group any time
> now.  There is not even a formal membership, though if you are a Best Bits
> participant and wish to list your civil society organisation as a
> supporter, your logo can be added to our website at http://bestbits.net.
>
> I hope this helps but for any other questions, please ask away.
>
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