[bestbits] [governance] CSCG nominations for civil society speakers at IGF

Grace Githaiga ggithaiga at hotmail.com
Mon Nov 2 05:20:56 EST 2015


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From: mariliamaciel at gmail.com
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 15:56:19 -0200
To: jeanette at wzb.eu
CC: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; 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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