[bestbits] EVENT 3/26: A Digital Magna Carta : Internet Governance and a New Social Contract

[Joly MacFie]

I'm happy to confirm we will be livestreaming tonight's event
http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/digitalmagnacarta

Please note the Manila Principles <https://www.manilaprinciples.org/>,
launched earlier in the week. Sure to come up

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> It was the Geneva Declaration
> <http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/geneva/official/dop.html> in 2003 which
> launched the WSIS process
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Summit_on_the_Information_Society>
> that led to the formation of the IGF.  Tim Berners Lee, who we will not
> forget developed the World Wide Web in Switzerland, recently called for a "Digital
> Magna Carta
> <http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_a_magna_carta_for_the_web>".
> Geneva has been rumored
> <http://domainincite.com/14390-no-icann-isnt-moving-to-switzerland> as a
> possible future home for ICANN. ISOC already has one of its two global
> offices there. Lastly, of course the NETmundial Initiative
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetMundial_Initiative> was founded at the
> WEF in Davos. So it is no small wonder that the Swiss Consulate in NYC is
> taking an interest in Internet Governance! To talk about it they are flying
> in some great speakers, including ISOC-NY member George Sadowsky, ISOC
> Global's Constance Bommelaer, and Diplo's Jovan Kurbalija . Permission to
> livestream has been requested and I will confirm if it comes through. In
> person attendees should sign up right away as it's not a big room.
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>  joly posted: "On Thursday March 26 2015 the Consulate General of
> Switzerland and the New America Foundation present A Digital Magna Carta :
> Internet Governance and a New Social Contract. A distinguished panel will
> discuss the future of the Internet in an increasingly c"
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> <http://www.newamerica.org/nyc/a-digital-magna-carta/>On *Thursday March
> 26 2015* the *Consulate General of Switzerland*
> <http://facebook.com/SwissConsulateNewYork> and the *New America
> Foundation* <http://www.newamerica.org/nyc/> present *A Digital Magna
> Carta : Internet Governance and a New Social Contract
> <http://www.newamerica.org/nyc/a-digital-magna-carta/>*. A distinguished
> panel will discuss the future of the Internet in an increasingly connected,
> globalized world. Speakers: *Dr. Jovan Kurbalija*, Director,
> DiploFoundation, & Author, *Introduction to Internet Governance*
> <http://www.diplomacy.edu/resources/books/introduction-internet-governance>
> ; *Constance Bommelaer*, Senior Director for Global Policy Partnerships,
> Internet Society; *Olivier Sylvain*, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham
> University;*George Sadowsky*, Member, Internet Governance Forum series, &
> Member, Board of Directors,  Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
> Numbers (ICANN); *Stefaan Verhulst*, Co-founder and Chief Research and
> Development Officer, the Governance Lab. It will be recorded for a New
> America Foundation audio podcast <https://soundcloud.com/newamerica>.
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> *What: A Digital Magna Carta : Internet Governance and a New Social
> Contract <http://www.newamerica.org/nyc/a-digital-magna-carta/>Where: NAF
> NYC, 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B, New York, NY 10012When: Thursday March
> 26 2015
> 6:30pm-8:15pmRegister: http://www.newamerica.org/nyc/a-digital-magna-carta/
> <http://www.newamerica.org/nyc/a-digital-magna-carta/>Webcast: t.b.d.
> (audio podcast <https://soundcloud.com/newamerica>)Twitter: #nanyc
> <https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23NANYC>*
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