[bestbits] CSCG nominations for civil society speakers at IGF

[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> 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 (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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