[bestbits] Welcome to new Best Bits participants

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Great to have you here, YJ!

[] fraterno

--c.a.

On 06/11/2013 09:06 AM, Youn Jung Park wrote:
> 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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