[bestbits] [governance] CSCG nominations for civil society speakers at IGF
Mishi Choudhary
mishi at softwarefreedom.org
Sun Nov 1 13:03:57 EST 2015
Congratulations to the speakers! Looking forward to this.
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From: Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel at gmail.com>
Date: 11/1/2015 11:56 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu>
Cc: governance at lists.igcaucus.org, Best Bits <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>
Subject: Re: [bestbits] [governance] CSCG nominations for civil society speakers at IGF
Congratulations to the speakers and to CSCG!
I agree with Carolina's diagnosis of the national problems. However, I believe that the opening ceremony usually resonates more with politicians and the media than the closing session. As Mike remarked, it also sets the tone of the event, and I believe it is important that national issues are raised whenever appropriate throughout the whole meeting. For that, it is important that all stakeholders, from Brazil and abroad, are aware of the problems. Joana's remarks could make sure that they are.
Best wishes,Marília
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu> wrote:
Hi Carolina,
why would the closing ceremony be the better choice? Isn't better for Joana to speak at the opening ceremony when national politicians and the press are around?
Jeanette
Am 31.10.15 um 18:31 schrieb Carolina Rossini:
Good that you sent an updated bio Jo, I was about to do that when I saw
Ian's email.
I am very happy about the nominations, but I would invert the order of
possible. Having a Brazilian at the end, as we had Grace and Burcu as CS
for closing ceremony, is VERY important politically.
Not just for CS, but actually more as a opportunity to have the closing
speech also refer to national issues and ask specific commitments from
the Brazilian policy makers there. As Joana is incredible aware, since
she is deeply involved in the discussions, folks are trying to
puncture Marco Civil and cut back on other digital rights in Brazil...
We - the digital rights community - lost a lot of attention due to all
the political corruption that has take over all the media attention.
We need to have Joana - as a Brasilian - putting the "country" against
the wall in front of everybody. And I feel the closing ceremony is
better for that purpose.
I am saying all this without having spoken with Joana. So, I am not sure
if she is available.
But I wanted to make sure to leave my opinion on this issue.
C
On Friday, October 30, 2015, <joana at varonferraz.com
<mailto:joana at varonferraz.com>> wrote:
Thanks, Ian and everyone!
I cannot express how honored I'm for this nomination. I hope I can
respond to the task with the bright it entails.
As soon as nomination is confirmed I will share a pad for people to
bring inputs. Will already be dreaming with some insights.
Just a correction in my institutional presentation as I'm not CTS
for more then 1 and half year now :):
I'm founder director and creative chaos catalyst of Coding Rights, a
women lead think-and-do tank with the mission to bring hackers,
geeks, artists, researchers and activists together to protect,
promote and mainstream digital rights and empower women on ICTs.
More on @codingrights or codingrights.org <http://codingrights.org>
(still temporary work in progress)
Thank you once again and have safe travels to João Pessoa. We will
be waiting for you all to cheer with caipirinhas or fresh coconut
water.
Kind regards,
Joana
On 30 Oct 2015 17:36, Lea Kaspar <lea at gp-digital.org
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lea at gp-digital.org');>> wrote:
Congratulations to both, proud to be represented by these women.
Many thanks to the CSCG for their work - excellent choices.
Best wishes,
Lea
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Ian Peter
<ian.peter at ianpeter.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ian.peter at ianpeter.com');>> wrote:
Below are the two nominations from Civil Society
Coordination Group for speakers for this years IGF opening
and closing ceremonies. They were chosen from a field of 20
names submitted from various civil society coalitions, and
have been forwarded to the IGF Secretariat. I must say that
any of the 20 names submitted could have represented us
admirably, and that it was a tough decision for the CSCG
members to come up with 2 names.
Joana Varon (Brazil) – opening ceremony – joana at varonferraz.com
Nadine Moawad (Lebanon) – closing ceremony – nadine at apcwomen.org
For those who don’t know them,
Joana Varon Ferraz is a researcher and project coordinator
at the Centre for Technology and Society from Fundação
Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro
Nadine Moawad is a Lebanese feminist activist and
grasssroots worker who leads Association for Progressive
Communication (APC)'s sexual
rights work.
We commend them both as informed excellent communicators to
represent civil society. They have both been informed of
their nominations.
Ian Peter (Independent Chair, Civil Society Coordination Group)
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