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

Thu Apr 23 10:30:35 EDT 2015

Perhaps its worth adding that, having established off list that C (the
Caribbean) was included, I have circulated the request here as well. And
that there are appropriate places to circulate it to. :-)
Deirdre

On 23 April 2015 at 10:07, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org> wrote:

> 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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