[bestbits] [discuss] Internet Governance in Latin America research project

Thu Apr 23 10:07:27 EDT 2015

Dear all

I want to strongly support Renata Avila's comments.

While I am not based in LAC my organisation, Association for Progressive
Communications has several members there and are part of a very active
community. They include Derechos Digitales, Colnodo, Nupef, Nodo Tau,
Radio Viva, Instituto Demos, EslaRed and Sula Batsu.

Also going back in history, LAC civil society provided leadership in
raising issues on media ownership and control, free and open source
software and social justice and communications and human rights - during
the WSIS and before and after.

But of course these movements are never as inclusive as they should be,
and people change (in governments and in civil society) so the process
of creating and debate and awareness can never stop.

Anriette

On 23/04/2015 13:26, Renata Avila wrote:
> Dear Renata,
> 
> I am happy to share with you that actually the Latin American community is
> one of the most robust and developed in different areas of digital rights,
> key to actually take part and meaningfully participate in the new "Internet
> Governance" field. Most of the organizations are young but some of them
> have been around for over a decade.
> 
> Derechos Digitales did a fantastic job in creating redlatam.org a directory
> where you will find mapped most  of  the organizations in the field and
> there you can find an interesting catalogue of the leadership. You could
> also see the good work of many in the Latin American newsletter
> http://www.digitalrightslac.net
> 
> There are some disconnects but there are lots of different and sometimes
> diverging people doing high quality job in the field.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 22 Apr 2015 19:02, "Adebunmi AKINBO" <akinbo at nira.org.ng> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Reneta,
>> Should you have an question with Africa in perspective, you can ask me.
>> You may also visit the NiGF <http://www.nigf.org.ng>Website for Nigeria.
>>
>> Regards.
>> -Akinbo
>> President, Young Internet Professionals.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:09 PM, <laura at article19.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Renata
>>> You also have a lot of info at https://redlatam.org/es.
>>> Best,
>>> Laura.
>>>
>>> ----- Mensagem original -----
>>> De: "willi uebelherr" <willi.uebelherr at gmail.com>
>>> Para: "Renata Aquino" <raquino at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: governance at lists.igcaucus.org, bestbits at lists.bestbits.net, "1net.org
>>> discuss" <discuss at 1net.org>
>>> Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 22 de abril de 2015 12:58:33
>>> Assunto: Re: [bestbits] Internet Governance in Latin America research
>>> project
>>>
>>> Dear Renata,
>>>
>>> it can be a good initiative. But my experience in Latin America show me,
>>> that there are no people to understand, what is "Internet Governance"
>>> and what we have to do to create a InterNet. Maybe, also the most people
>>> on this lists don't understand, what we have to do.
>>>
>>> Connect to the different Ministerios in the different countries. Then
>>> ypu can see and hear, that they don't understand the themes "tele
>>> communication". But they create decisions. And this always based on the
>>> external definitions.
>>>
>>> In my last 4 years in Latin America never i found people with
>>> connections to the international discussions about Internet. Never i
>>> found people with a critical thinking to that, what we give the name
>>> Internet.
>>>
>>> In Latin America we have the organized consumerism. They use only the
>>> technical systems from the external regions. But never they start to
>>> understand the technical bases. And this we find also in NetMundial in
>>> Brazil.
>>>
>>> many greetings, willi
>>> Cordoba, Argentina
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 4/22/2015 um 11:18 AM schrieb Renata Aquino:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> I’m working on a research Project on Internet Governance in Latin
>>> America
>>>> currently building a list of organizations in this area. The goal of
>>> this
>>>> Project is to identify paths for novices to participate in these
>>>> discussions as well as hearing out experts who could point out the way
>>> to
>>>> main issues in the region.
>>>>
>>>> I’d be grateful if this group could help me pointing out resources,
>>>> organizations or professionals I may have missed.
>>>>
>>>> The list I’ve gathered so far is below and please send comments to
>>>> raquino at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> The next phase of this Project will be to contact key professionals in
>>> the
>>>> area of Internet Governance to do a series of interviews. If you’d like
>>> to
>>>> participate or nominate someone for an interview please send me an
>>> email.
>>>>
>>>> This is an ongoing Project with plans to present in the future in
>>> intenet
>>>> governance events in Latin America.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help
>>>>
>>>> Renata Aquino Ribeiro
>>>>
>>>> Professor and researcher
>>>>
>>>> IT Campus – Quixadá City
>>>>
>>>> Federal University of Ceará – Brazil
>>>>
>>>> -----
>>>>
>>>> Main organizations involved in internet governance in Latin America
>>>>
>>>> (Please sendo info about speakers for these to raquino at gmail.com)
>>>>
>>>> * CITEL
>>>>
>>>> URL: http://www.citel.oas.org
>>>>
>>>> * eLAC
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cepal.org/elac2015/default.asp
>>>>
>>>> * LACIGF
>>>>
>>>> http://www.lacigf.org
>>>>
>>>> * LACNIC
>>>>
>>>> http://www.lacnic.net
>>>>
>>>> * LACTLD - Latin American and Caribbean ccTLDs Organization
>>>>
>>>> http://www.lactld.org
>>>>
>>>> * LatinoamerICANN
>>>>
>>>> http://latinoamericann.org <http://latinoamericann.org/?q=node/1725>
>>>>
>>>> * LACRALO
>>>>
>>>> http://www.atlarge.icann.org/lacralo
>>>>
>>>> * LAC IPv6 Task Force e FLIP
>>>>
>>>> http://portalipv6.lacnic.net/en/flip6-and-lac-ipv6-tf/
>>>>
>>>> * Internet Society - Mexico, El Salvador, Porto Rico, Costa Rica,
>>> Trinidad
>>>> e Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia, Equador, Peru, Brasil, Bolivia, Paraguai,
>>>> Uruguai, Argentina
>>>>
>>>> http://www.internetsociety.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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