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

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

I have no doubt that both of you will be splendid - I’ll watch remotely :)

As is said in my former career, ‘break a leg’ (not literally of course)

> On 30 Oct 2015, at 21:11, joana at varonferraz.com wrote:
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> 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 (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.
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> Kind regards,
> 
> Joana
> On 30 Oct 2015 17:36, Lea Kaspar <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
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> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com <mailto: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.
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> Joana Varon (Brazil) – opening ceremony – joana at varonferraz.com <>
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> Nadine Moawad (Lebanon) – closing ceremony – nadine at apcwomen.org <>
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> For those who don’t know them,
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> Joana Varon Ferraz is a researcher and project coordinator at the Centre for Technology and Society from Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro
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> Nadine Moawad is a Lebanese feminist activist and grasssroots worker who leads Association for Progressive Communication (APC)'s sexual
> rights work.
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> We commend them both as informed excellent communicators to represent civil society. They have both been informed of their nominations.
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> Ian Peter (Independent Chair, Civil Society Coordination Group)
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