From sheetal at gp-digital.org Tue Nov 1 06:38:28 2016 From: sheetal at gp-digital.org (Sheetal Kumar) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 10:38:28 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] [CSCG update] Letter to IGF Secretariat calling for greater transparency re: MAG 2017 renewal as part of IGF retreat consultation Message-ID: Dear all, We are writing to inform you that the all representatives of the CSCG have sent a letter to the IGF Secretariat, copied in full below, as part of the public consultation on the IGF retreat but specifically regarding MAG nominations. This follows on from a conversation which brought to light the upcoming MAG elections and the need to ensure greater transparency in that process. It builds on the existing IGF retreat written documents . Currently, we are waiting for the text to be published on the following site (http://www.intgovforum.org/review/igf-retreat-proceedings-ideas-and- suggestions/), after which we will seek to follow-up based on the response from the Secretariat. In the meantime, we welcome any feedback on this text. We are also open to receive comments from everyone with suggestions on further engagement in all processes concerning CS representation. We will keep you updated on the response from the Secretariat and next steps from there. Many thanks, any questions do let us know. Best, Sheetal and Poncelet. ------------------ Oct 31, 2016 Dear IGF Secretariat, We are pleased to submit this contribution for your public consultation on the IGF retreat on behalf of the Internet Governance Civil Society Co­ordination Group (CSCG). CSCG exists solely to ensure a coordinated civil society response and conduit when it comes to making civil society appointments to outside bodies. It comprises representatives of the coalition members of the Association for Progressive Communications, Best Bits, Internet Governance Caucus, Just Net Coalition, and Non­-Commercial Stakeholders Group of ICANN. Together the reach of these groups extends to many hundreds of non-governmental organisations, as well as a much greater number of individuals. These comments are made to p. 37, 39 and 40 of the Review Platform, therefore, we do replicate the text in all paragraphs. In line with our mandate, this submission concentrates specifically on improving the nomination process and make­up of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG). In order to follow the key actions taken so far, we take this opportunity to bring attention to the prior steps related to MAG nominations: 1. In New York, from 14 to 16 July 2016, the IGF Retreat took place. The result of this meeting, is a public document[1] <#_ftn1> *open to public consultation until 31October 2016.* With regard to MAG, the paragraphs 37 to 49 address different points related to its work, and its selection process. Relevant information is copied below: *¶37 Improving the nomination process and make-up of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), and the MAG Chair* *¶ 39* *There was general agreement that there is a need for a more transparent selection process across the different stakeholders groups and clearer criteria and priorities to enable more consistent candidate selection processes across the different stakeholder communities. At the same time, many expressed that it should ultimately be the prerogative of the UN Secretary-General to exercise his or her final judgement in selecting MAG representatives having flexibility to ensure appropriate diversity.* *¶ 40* *A need was also expressed to have greater awareness and transparency in the selection processes used by the different stakeholder groups. Some felt there should be a set of specific criteria and priorities for nominations. Others felt that it is difficult for the communities to identify, target and come up with adequate candidates with insufficient information on what the UN Secretary-General is looking for.* 2. On 18th October 2016, The eighth IGF Virtual MAG Meeting of the 2016 IGF preparatory cycle took place. Ms. Lynn St. Amour moderated the meeting as Chair of the MAG and Mr.Chengetai Masango represented the IGF Secretariat. The Summary Report: IGF Virtual Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG9 Meeting VIII - 18 October 2016, states on p. 8): *“Finally, the IGF Secretariat noted that the MAG renewal process would get started in the coming weeks, to try and ensure that the 2017 MAG was in place as early as possible. There was also a short discussion about whether or not names of MAG nominations should be made public or not. * *The Secretariat was asked to bring this question to the MAG list for discussion among the stakeholder groups as this is an important and quite nuanced point**.* *Another suggestion that was made in regards to the MAG renewal process was that the Secretariat could update public information on the MAG, specifically the amount of years that each MAG member have served, their stakeholder group and geographical region, etc.* *Further information on updates to the MAG renewal process will be circulated to the MAG and wider community in the coming weeks, and the Secretariat, together with UNDESA, will make every effort to be as transparent as possible in regards to the nomination and selection process. **The next MAG virtual meeting is scheduled for 8 November at 14:00 UTC.[2] <#_ftn2>** “* 3. The recording of this session was made public[3] <#_ftn3>. Even though sometimes is it is very difficult to listen with clarity and it was not always clear who was the speaker since the webex screen was not recorded, from minute 49.30 the discussion about the MAG selection process was raised by Chengetai, as an A.O.B. item. Specifically he pointed out that in the past, the names of the nominees for consideration of the MAG have not been public and he addressed the question to the MAG if it should be like this (non public) for the next MAG renewal. *Until minute 1.06.23 no decision was made and a request for written updates on this discussion sent to the list was made so as to gather feedback, highlighting the importance of transparency (minute 52.06)* After reading both the IGF Retreat document and the MAG summary along with the recording of the virtual session it is still unclear how transparent the selection of MAG members and mostly, civil society stakeholders, will be. In this sense, the CSCG contributes to *the public consultation on the IGF retreat addressing its attentions on the specific points related to MAG renewal. We stress the importance of transparency in civil society selection as MAG stakeholders and , in this sense, we take this opportunity to reiterate our availability to and willingness contribute and collaborate in the process of selection of MAG members.* *The selection process of MAG members should be inclusive, predictable, transparent and fully documented. More transparency is needed*. We believe that, in the interests of transparency, names and application details of all candidates for MAG selection should be publicly known. Whether this should be at the close of applications, or at the close of assessments, needs to be discussed further in the light of detailed procedures. *Stakeholder procedures for making selections should also be publicly available*(CSCG’s current procedures can be found at http://www.internetgov-­cs.org/procedures ) We recommend that* in the interests of transparency,* *names and application details of all* *candidates for MAG selection should be publicly known.* This requirement should also be included when stakeholder groups provide their own processes, and also if a more centralised process is run via IGF Secretariat. These comments are based on the best practice we have observed with other organisations in selecting multistakeholder representatives. We offer the above suggestions in the spirit of co­operation , as we also want to see the best possible representation of stakeholders. And again, we offer our services to work with you and other stakeholder groups to refine procedures to ensure more acceptable, transparent and representative results. *Analía Aspis - Richard Hill* *Chairs, Internet Governance Civil Society Coordination Group* ------------------------------ [1] <#_ftnref1> http://www.intgovforum.org/review/igf-retreat-proceedings-ideas-and-suggestions/ [2] <#_ftnref2> http://intgovforum.org/pipermail/igfmaglist_intgovforum.org/attachments/20161025/0491282a/attachment-0001.pdf [3] <#_ftnref3> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-d-EIIQWsUiemNhVGwxbFRBeGc/view -- *Sheetal Kumar* Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shahzad at bytesforall.pk Mon Nov 7 10:16:22 2016 From: shahzad at bytesforall.pk (Shahzad Ahmad) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 20:16:22 +0500 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6B60E9B2-BB83-4657-A186-93EC58398DB4@bytesforall.pk> Dear Friends and colleagues, We are very pleased to nominate Mr. Asad Baig, Executive Director, Media Matters for Democracy from Pakistan to be one of the speaker. We have talked to him and he is willing to take up this important responsibility. His brief profile is appended below: ——— Asad Baig asad at mediamatters.pk Asad Baig is the founder and Executive Director of Media Matters for Democracy, a Pakistan based non profit working to promote and protect freedom of expression in the country as a key component of democratic development. A technologist by education, he switched to journalism early in his career and has since been interested in bringing the two together. His organisation is working extensively on bringing together journalism and technology and is thus involved in policy discussions on internet governance and regulation from a rights based perspective. He is also working with his team to improve and facilitate access of technology to women and marginalised groups in Pakistan and is currently involved in the process of developing a technological solution for countering gender based abuse online. Previously associated with Open Society Foundations Pakistan, he lobbied to add open data and equal access to the foundation’s media program strategy and was instrumental in the creation of various local coalition working on issues ranging from digital rights to impunity in journalists’ murders. In addition to various researches on media content and economy in Pakistan, he has also published researches on the status of freedom of expression online and state of religious expression in cyberspace. He is currently a part of the Mutistakeholder Advisory Group for Pakistan National IGF. ——— Over to you for your kind considerations. Best wishes and regards Shahzad --- Shahzad Ahmad Country Director, Bytes for All, Pakistan Office Direct Landline: +92 51 8437982 Cell. +92 333 5236060 > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sheetal Kumar > > Date: 4 November 2016 at 14:24 > Subject: Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November > To: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net > Cc: Poncelet Ileleji pileleji at ymca.gm > Dear all, > > If you would like to nominate anyone (including yourself) as an opening or closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in Guadalajara, Mexico (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) and I or the list your nomination with a short statement of the reason for the nomination, and whether the person (if not yourself) has agreed to be nominated. > > The IGF the Secretariat has asked for names by COB Thursday 10 November, - therefore we ask that you send your nominations by COB 07 November. > > Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil society coordination group (which contains reps of all the main civil society networks in Internet governance, including us). > > Thanks! Any questions let us know, > > Best, > -- > Sheetal Kumar > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | > > > > -- > > > Sheetal Kumar > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From claudio at derechosdigitales.org Mon Nov 7 13:12:52 2016 From: claudio at derechosdigitales.org (Claudio Ruiz) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:12:52 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> Message-ID: <1478542372.3371572.780173809.140F3362@webmail.messagingengine.com> Dear colleagues, I would like to nominate Paulina Gutiérrez, from Article 19 office in Mexico. Paulina is the Head of Digital Rights Programme at the Mexico office, she's a lawyer and she's an active actor within the mexican civil society on human rights and internet. Paulina is a great name for us here at Derechos Digitales, and we would like to point out the importance of having a local activists speaking as well as having a proper gender balance on the table. All the best, Claudio On Mon, Nov 7, 2016, at 05:48 AM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: > Dear all, > > A reminder that the deadline for nominations for CS speakers for the > opening and closing ceremonies should be sent to myself/Poncelet by > _*COB today 07 November*_. We would encourage you to do this openly, > (e.g replying to the entire list thread with your nomination), but > either way the deadline is today. Thanks! > Best, > Sheetal. > > On 5 November 2016 at 14:39, parminder > wrote: >> In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes open, >> it will be a good start to make this process fully open - which >> begins with making all application info open (best to tell applicants >> at this stage itself) and also the process of final selection, >> including justifications etc... thanks, parminder >> >> On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> If you would like tonominate anyone (including yourself) as an >>> opening or closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in >>> Guadalajara, Mexico (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) >>> and I or the list your nomination with a short statement of the >>> reason for the nomination, and whether the person (if not yourself) >>> has agreed to be nominated. >>> >>> TheIGF the Secretariat has asked for names by *COB Thursday 10 >>> November*, - therefore we ask that you send your nominations by >>> _*COB 07 November*_. >>> >>> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil >>> society coordination group (which contains reps of all the main >>> civil society networks in Internet governance, including us). >>> Thanks! Any questions let us know, >>> >>> Best, >>> -- >>> >>> *Sheetal Kumar* >>> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >>> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >>> T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514[1] | >>> >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________ You >>> received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. To unsubscribe or change your settings, >>> visit: http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > > > -- > ** > ** > *Sheetal Kumar* > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | > ______________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits ~~~~~ Claudio Ruiz derechosdigitales.org | @claudio PGP fingerprint C40E 0C6E E7B2 FA91 D8A9 1FC4 74D2 5C4D B603 D089 Links: 1. tel:%2B44%20%280%297739569514 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mishi at softwarefreedom.org Mon Nov 7 13:27:51 2016 From: mishi at softwarefreedom.org (Mishi Choudhary) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 13:27:51 -0500 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: <1478542372.3371572.780173809.140F3362@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> <1478542372.3371572.780173809.140F3362@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: +1 for Paulina. On 11/07/2016 01:12 PM, Claudio Ruiz wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I would like to nominate Paulina Gutiérrez, from Article 19 office in > Mexico. Paulina is the Head of Digital Rights Programme at the Mexico > office, she's a lawyer and she's an active actor within the mexican > civil society on human rights and internet. > > Paulina is a great name for us here at Derechos Digitales, and we would > like to point out the importance of having a local activists speaking as > well as having a proper gender balance on the table. > > All the best, > Claudio > > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2016, at 05:48 AM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> A reminder that the deadline for nominations for CS speakers for the >> opening and closing ceremonies should be sent to myself/Poncelet by >> _*COB today 07 November*_. We would encourage you to do this openly, >> (e.g replying to the entire list thread with your nomination), but >> either way the deadline is today. Thanks! >> Best, >> Sheetal. >> >> On 5 November 2016 at 14:39, parminder > > wrote: >> >> In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes >> open, it will be a good start to make this process fully open - >> which begins with making all application info open (best to tell >> applicants at this stage itself) and also the process of final >> selection, including justifications etc... thanks, parminder >> >> >> On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> If you would like tonominate anyone (including yourself) as an >>> opening or closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in >>> Guadalajara, Mexico (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) >>> and I or the list your nomination with a short statement of the >>> reason for thenomination, and whether the person (if not >>> yourself) has agreed to benominated. >>> >>> TheIGF the Secretariat has asked for names by *COB Thursday 10 >>> November*, - therefore we ask that you send yournominations >>> by_*COB 07 November*_. >>> >>> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil >>> society coordination group (which contains reps of all the main >>> civil society networks in Internet governance, including us). >>> Thanks! Any questions let us know, >>> >>> Best, >>> -- >>> >>> *Sheetal Kumar* >>> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >>> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >>> T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 >>> | >>> >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________ >>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . >>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> ** >> ** >> *Sheetal Kumar* >> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >> T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >> ______________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > > ~~~~~ > Claudio Ruiz > derechosdigitales.org | @claudio > PGP fingerprint > C40E 0C6E E7B2 FA91 D8A9 1FC4 74D2 5C4D B603 D089 > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > -- Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary, Esq. Legal Director Software Freedom Law Center 1995 Broadway Floor 17| New York, NY-10023 Direct: +1-212-461-1912| Main: +1-212-461-1901| Fax: +1-212-580-0898 www.softwarefreedom.org President and Executive Director SFLC.IN K-9, Second Floor, Jangpura Extn.| New Delhi-110014 Main: +91-11-43587126 | Fax: +91-11-24323530 www.sflc.in The information contained in this email message is intended only for use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by email, help at softwarefreedom.org, and destroy the original message. From genekimmelman at gmail.com Mon Nov 7 13:30:08 2016 From: genekimmelman at gmail.com (genekimmelman at gmail.com) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 13:30:08 -0500 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> <1478542372.3371572.780173809.140F3362@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: +1 > On Nov 7, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Mishi Choudhary wrote: > > +1 for Paulina. > > > >> On 11/07/2016 01:12 PM, Claudio Ruiz wrote: >> Dear colleagues, >> >> I would like to nominate Paulina Gutiérrez, from Article 19 office in >> Mexico. Paulina is the Head of Digital Rights Programme at the Mexico >> office, she's a lawyer and she's an active actor within the mexican >> civil society on human rights and internet. >> >> Paulina is a great name for us here at Derechos Digitales, and we would >> like to point out the importance of having a local activists speaking as >> well as having a proper gender balance on the table. >> >> All the best, >> Claudio >> >> >>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016, at 05:48 AM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> A reminder that the deadline for nominations for CS speakers for the >>> opening and closing ceremonies should be sent to myself/Poncelet by >>> _*COB today 07 November*_. We would encourage you to do this openly, >>> (e.g replying to the entire list thread with your nomination), but >>> either way the deadline is today. Thanks! >>> Best, >>> Sheetal. >>> >>> On 5 November 2016 at 14:39, parminder >> > wrote: >>> >>> In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes >>> open, it will be a good start to make this process fully open - >>> which begins with making all application info open (best to tell >>> applicants at this stage itself) and also the process of final >>> selection, including justifications etc... thanks, parminder >>> >>> >>>> On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> If you would like tonominate anyone (including yourself) as an >>>> opening or closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in >>>> Guadalajara, Mexico (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) >>>> and I or the list your nomination with a short statement of the >>>> reason for thenomination, and whether the person (if not >>>> yourself) has agreed to benominated. >>>> >>>> TheIGF the Secretariat has asked for names by *COB Thursday 10 >>>> November*, - therefore we ask that you send yournominations >>>> by_*COB 07 November*_. >>>> >>>> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil >>>> society coordination group (which contains reps of all the main >>>> civil society networks in Internet governance, including us). >>>> Thanks! Any questions let us know, >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> -- >>>> >>>> *Sheetal Kumar* >>>> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >>>> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >>>> T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 >>>> | >>>> >>>> >>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . >>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>> >>> >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________ >>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . >>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ** >>> ** >>> *Sheetal Kumar* >>> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >>> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >>> T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . >>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> >> >> ~~~~~ >> Claudio Ruiz >> derechosdigitales.org | @claudio >> PGP fingerprint >> C40E 0C6E E7B2 FA91 D8A9 1FC4 74D2 5C4D B603 D089 >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> > > -- > Warm Regards > Mishi Choudhary, Esq. > Legal Director > Software Freedom Law Center > 1995 Broadway Floor 17| New York, NY-10023 > Direct: +1-212-461-1912| Main: +1-212-461-1901| Fax: +1-212-580-0898 > www.softwarefreedom.org > > > > President and Executive Director > SFLC.IN > K-9, Second Floor, Jangpura Extn.| New Delhi-110014 > Main: +91-11-43587126 | Fax: +91-11-24323530 > www.sflc.in > > > > The information contained in this email message is intended only for use > of the individual or entity named above. 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If you have received this communication in error, please > immediately notify us by email, help at softwarefreedom.org, and destroy > the original message. > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits From ggithaiga at hotmail.com Mon Nov 7 13:35:37 2016 From: ggithaiga at hotmail.com (Grace Githaiga) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 18:35:37 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: <1478542372.3371572.780173809.140F3362@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> ,<1478542372.3371572.780173809.140F3362@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: @Claudio, I totally agree on the need to have a local person. That has actually been the trend since 2011. So +1 to Pauline. Rgds Grace ________________________________ From: bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net on behalf of Claudio Ruiz Sent: Monday, November 7, 2016 6:12 PM To: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net Subject: Re: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November Dear colleagues, I would like to nominate Paulina Gutiérrez, from Article 19 office in Mexico. Paulina is the Head of Digital Rights Programme at the Mexico office, she's a lawyer and she's an active actor within the mexican civil society on human rights and internet. Paulina is a great name for us here at Derechos Digitales, and we would like to point out the importance of having a local activists speaking as well as having a proper gender balance on the table. All the best, Claudio On Mon, Nov 7, 2016, at 05:48 AM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: Dear all, A reminder that the deadline for nominations for CS speakers for the opening and closing ceremonies should be sent to myself/Poncelet by COB today 07 November. We would encourage you to do this openly, (e.g replying to the entire list thread with your nomination), but either way the deadline is today. Thanks! Best, Sheetal. On 5 November 2016 at 14:39, parminder > wrote: In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes open, it will be a good start to make this process fully open - which begins with making all application info open (best to tell applicants at this stage itself) and also the process of final selection, including justifications etc... thanks, parminder On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: Dear all, If you would like tonominate anyone (including yourself) as an opening or closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in Guadalajara, Mexico (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) and I or the list your nomination with a short statement of the reason for the nomination, and whether the person (if not yourself) has agreed to be nominated. TheIGF the Secretariat has asked for names by COB Thursday 10 November, - therefore we ask that you send your nominations by COB 07 November. Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil society coordination group (which contains reps of all the main civil society networks in Internet governance, including us). Thanks! Any questions let us know, Best, -- Sheetal Kumar Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits -- Sheetal Kumar Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits ~~~~~ Claudio Ruiz derechosdigitales.org | @claudio PGP fingerprint C40E 0C6E E7B2 FA91 D8A9 1FC4 74D2 5C4D B603 D089 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anriette at apc.org Mon Nov 7 13:39:54 2016 From: anriette at apc.org (Anriette Esterhuysen) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 20:39:54 +0200 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: <1478542372.3371572.780173809.140F3362@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> <1478542372.3371572.780173809.140F3362@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: Dear all I strongly support the nomination of Paulina Gutiérrez. I had the pleasure of meeting with her earlier this year and hearing her speak and I think she will be excellent in this role, and Article 19 does really good work in Mexico. Anriette On 07/11/2016 20:12, Claudio Ruiz wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I would like to nominate Paulina Gutiérrez, from Article 19 office in > Mexico. Paulina is the Head of Digital Rights Programme at the Mexico > office, she's a lawyer and she's an active actor within the mexican > civil society on human rights and internet. > > Paulina is a great name for us here at Derechos Digitales, and we would > like to point out the importance of having a local activists speaking as > well as having a proper gender balance on the table. > > All the best, > Claudio > > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2016, at 05:48 AM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> A reminder that the deadline for nominations for CS speakers for the >> opening and closing ceremonies should be sent to myself/Poncelet by >> _*COB today 07 November*_. We would encourage you to do this openly, >> (e.g replying to the entire list thread with your nomination), but >> either way the deadline is today. Thanks! >> Best, >> Sheetal. >> >> On 5 November 2016 at 14:39, parminder > > wrote: >> >> In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes >> open, it will be a good start to make this process fully open - >> which begins with making all application info open (best to tell >> applicants at this stage itself) and also the process of final >> selection, including justifications etc... thanks, parminder >> >> >> On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> If you would like tonominate anyone (including yourself) as an >>> opening or closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in >>> Guadalajara, Mexico (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) >>> and I or the list your nomination with a short statement of the >>> reason for thenomination, and whether the person (if not >>> yourself) has agreed to benominated. >>> >>> TheIGF the Secretariat has asked for names by *COB Thursday 10 >>> November*, - therefore we ask that you send yournominations >>> by_*COB 07 November*_. >>> >>> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil >>> society coordination group (which contains reps of all the main >>> civil society networks in Internet governance, including us). >>> Thanks! Any questions let us know, >>> >>> Best, >>> -- >>> >>> *Sheetal Kumar* >>> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >>> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >>> T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 >>> | >>> >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________ >>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . >>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> ** >> ** >> *Sheetal Kumar* >> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >> T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >> ______________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > > ~~~~~ > Claudio Ruiz > derechosdigitales.org | @claudio > PGP fingerprint > C40E 0C6E E7B2 FA91 D8A9 1FC4 74D2 5C4D B603 D089 > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > -- ----------------------------------------- Anriette Esterhuysen Executive Director Association for Progressive Communications anriette at apc.org www.apc.org IM: ae_apc From raquino at gmail.com Mon Nov 7 13:40:41 2016 From: raquino at gmail.com (Renata Aquino Ribeiro) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 00:10:41 +0530 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> Message-ID: Hello I'd like to nominate Ines Hfaiedh from Tunisia And Angelica Contreras from Mexico They can be closing or opening cerimony speakers Angelica Contreras is an activist, a writer and participant and organizer of Youth LAC IGF as well as part of the Youth Observatory. She writes for Mujeres Construyendo, collaborates also with GenderIT.org Along with other women from the Youth Observatory she is the author of Youth Observatory Statement on building a feminist Internet Governance Ines Hfaiedh is a teacher, ICT Implementation in Education Specialist and Internet Policy Analyst with IGMENA under the HIVOS Foundation and ISOC Tunisia. She is an active member of the ICANN community with NCUC and MEAC Strategy working group. She was a Guest Speaker at the Fourth Edition of the Arab Internet Governance Forum, the International Symposium on ICTs, the Tunisia TESOL National Conference and a delegate representing Tunisia at the MATE International Conference in Morocco. The European Educational Tool Portal has shared her tool of 'Interactive ICT Implementation in Formal and Informal Learning' and selected it for the International Tool Fair in Budapest, Hungary. She also compiled ICT-enhanced lesson plans into a pedagogical paper. Besides, she is an Assistant Curator with Diplo Foundation. On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: > Dear all, > > A reminder that the deadline for nominations for CS speakers for the opening > and closing ceremonies should be sent to myself/Poncelet by COB today 07 > November. We would encourage you to do this openly, (e.g replying to the > entire list thread with your nomination), but either way the deadline is > today. Thanks! > > Best, > Sheetal. > > On 5 November 2016 at 14:39, parminder wrote: >> >> In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes open, it >> will be a good start to make this process fully open - which begins with >> making all application info open (best to tell applicants at this stage >> itself) and also the process of final selection, including justifications >> etc... thanks, parminder >> >> >> On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> If you would like to nominate anyone (including yourself) as an opening or >> closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in Guadalajara, Mexico >> (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) and I or the list your >> nomination with a short statement of the reason for the nomination, and >> whether the person (if not yourself) has agreed to be nominated. >> >> The IGF the Secretariat has asked for names by COB Thursday 10 November, - >> therefore we ask that you send your nominations by COB 07 November. >> >> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil society >> coordination group (which contains reps of all the main civil society >> networks in Internet governance, including us). >> >> Thanks! Any questions let us know, >> >> Best, >> -- >> Sheetal Kumar >> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >> T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > > > > -- > > > Sheetal Kumar > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits From claudio at derechosdigitales.org Mon Nov 7 13:43:38 2016 From: claudio at derechosdigitales.org (Claudio Ruiz) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:43:38 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Letter from Mexican organisations Message-ID: <1478544218.3377349.780209969.67D6AA85@webmail.messagingengine.com> Dear colleagues, Some colleagues from Mexico ask me to send to Best Bits this letter I'm attaching where they suggest the nomination of Paola Ricaute (ITAM) and Paulina Gutiérrez (a19). Best, -- ~~~~~ Claudio Ruiz derechosdigitales.org | @claudio PGP fingerprint C40E 0C6E E7B2 FA91 D8A9 1FC4 74D2 5C4D B603 D089 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Mexican Civil Society Letter.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 226941 bytes Desc: not available URL: From anriette at apc.org Mon Nov 7 14:01:28 2016 From: anriette at apc.org (Anriette Esterhuysen) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 21:01:28 +0200 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: <6B60E9B2-BB83-4657-A186-93EC58398DB4@bytesforall.pk> References: <6B60E9B2-BB83-4657-A186-93EC58398DB4@bytesforall.pk> Message-ID: <3c722359-0ae3-04ed-c257-f3ba74344da9@apc.org> +1 for Asad Baig Anriette PS - these are my own views - APC will submit nominations via Chat Garcia Ramilo and the CSCG. On 07/11/2016 17:16, Shahzad Ahmad wrote: > Dear Friends and colleagues, > > We are very pleased to nominate Mr. Asad Baig, Executive Director, Media > Matters for Democracy from Pakistan to be one of the speaker. We have > talked to him and he is willing to take up this important > responsibility. His brief profile is appended below: > > ——— > Asad Baig > asad at mediamatters.pk > > Asad Baig is the founder and Executive Director of Media Matters for > Democracy, a Pakistan based non profit working to promote and protect > freedom of expression in the country as a key component of democratic > development. A technologist by education, he switched to journalism > early in his career and has since been interested in bringing the two > together. His organisation is working extensively on bringing together > journalism and technology and is thus involved in policy discussions on > internet governance and regulation from a rights based perspective. He > is also working with his team to improve and facilitate access of > technology to women and marginalised groups in Pakistan and is currently > involved in the process of developing a technological solution for > countering gender based abuse online. Previously associated with Open > Society Foundations Pakistan, he lobbied to add open data and equal > access to the foundation’s media program strategy and was instrumental > in the creation of various local coalition working on issues ranging > from digital rights to impunity in journalists’ murders. In addition to > various researches on media content and economy in Pakistan, he has also > published researches on the status of freedom of expression online and > state of religious expression in cyberspace. He is currently a part of > the Mutistakeholder Advisory Group for Pakistan National IGF. > ——— > > Over to you for your kind considerations. > > Best wishes and regards > > Shahzad > > > --- > > Shahzad Ahmad > Country Director, Bytes for All, Pakistan > Office Direct Landline: +92 51 8437982 Cell. +92 333 5236060 > > > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: *Sheetal Kumar* > > >> Date: 4 November 2016 at 14:24 >> Subject: Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening >> speakers by COB 07 November >> To: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net >> Cc: Poncelet Ileleji pileleji at ymca.gm >> >> Dear all, >> >> If you would like to nominate anyone (including yourself) as an >> opening or closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in >> Guadalajara, Mexico (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) and >> I or the list your nomination with a short statement of the reason for >> thenomination, and whether the person (if not yourself) has agreed to >> benominated. >> >> The IGF the Secretariat has asked for names by *COB Thursday 10 >> November*, - therefore we ask that you send yournominations by_*COB 07 >> November*_. >> >> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil >> society coordination group (which contains reps of all the main civil >> society networks in Internet governance, including us). >> >> Thanks! Any questions let us know, >> >> Best, >> -- >> *Sheetal Kumar* >> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >> T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 >> | >> >> >> >> -- >> * >> * >> * >> * >> *Sheetal Kumar* >> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >> T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > -- ----------------------------------------- Anriette Esterhuysen Executive Director Association for Progressive Communications anriette at apc.org www.apc.org IM: ae_apc From opomulero at akinbo.ng Mon Nov 7 14:53:11 2016 From: opomulero at akinbo.ng (Opomulero) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 20:53:11 +0100 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: <1478542372.3371572.780173809.140F3362@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> <1478542372.3371572.780173809.140F3362@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <20161107195311.5374035.58734.3210@akinbo.ng> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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All the best wishes, Marilia -- *Marília Maciel* Digital Policy Senior Researcher, DiploFoundation WMO Building *|* 7bis, Avenue de la Paix *| *1211 Geneva - Switzerland *Tel *+41 (0) 22 9073632 *| * *Email*: *MariliaM at diplomacy.edu * *|** Twitter: * *@MariliaM* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lists at digitaldissidents.org Mon Nov 7 17:41:37 2016 From: lists at digitaldissidents.org (Niels ten Oever) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 04:11:37 +0530 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: <20161107195311.5374035.58734.3210@akinbo.ng> References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> <1478542372.3371572.780173809.140F3362@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20161107195311.5374035.58734.3210@akinbo.ng> Message-ID: I would like to strongly support Paulina. She is a very kind, knowledgeable and empathetic speaker whose work is strongly rooted in grass roots activism which had it's impact in policy circles. She seems the perfect candidate to represent civil society because she is representing the host country, knows the international discussions and is very capable t0 voice the concerns and opinions of a wide array of actors. Cheers, Niels On 11/08/2016 01:23 AM, Opomulero wrote: > ‎+1 Paulina > -akinbo. > > > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. > *From: *Claudio Ruiz > *Sent: *Monday, 7 November 2016 7:13 PM > *To: *bestbits at lists.bestbits.net > *Reply To: *Claudio Ruiz > *Subject: *Re: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing > and opening speakers by COB 07 November > > > Dear colleagues, > > I would like to nominate Paulina Gutiérrez, from Article 19 office in > Mexico. Paulina is the Head of Digital Rights Programme at the Mexico > office, she's a lawyer and she's an active actor within the mexican > civil society on human rights and internet. > > Paulina is a great name for us here at Derechos Digitales, and we would > like to point out the importance of having a local activists speaking as > well as having a proper gender balance on the table. > > All the best, > Claudio > > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2016, at 05:48 AM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> A reminder that the deadline for nominations for CS speakers for the >> opening and closing ceremonies should be sent to myself/Poncelet by >> _*COB today 07 November*_. We would encourage you to do this openly, >> (e.g replying to the entire list thread with your nomination), but >> either way the deadline is today. Thanks! >> Best, >> Sheetal. >> >> On 5 November 2016 at 14:39, parminder > > wrote: >> >> In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes >> open, it will be a good start to make this process fully open - >> which begins with making all application info open (best to tell >> applicants at this stage itself) and also the process of final >> selection, including justifications etc... thanks, parminder >> >> >> On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> If you would like tonominate anyone (including yourself) as an >>> opening or closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in >>> Guadalajara, Mexico (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) >>> and I or the list your nomination with a short statement of the >>> reason for thenomination, and whether the person (if not >>> yourself) has agreed to benominated. >>> >>> TheIGF the Secretariat has asked for names by *COB Thursday 10 >>> November*, - therefore we ask that you send yournominations >>> by_*COB 07 November*_. >>> >>> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil >>> society coordination group (which contains reps of all the main >>> civil society networks in Internet governance, including us). >>> Thanks! Any questions let us know, >>> >>> Best, >>> -- >>> >>> *Sheetal Kumar* >>> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >>> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >>> T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 >>> | >>> >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________ >>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . >>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> ** >> ** >> *Sheetal Kumar* >> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >> T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >> ______________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > > ~~~~~ > Claudio Ruiz > derechosdigitales.org | @claudio > PGP fingerprint > C40E 0C6E E7B2 FA91 D8A9 1FC4 74D2 5C4D B603 D089 > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > -- Niels ten Oever Head of Digital Article 19 www.article19.org PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9 From myers at freedomhouse.org Mon Nov 7 17:24:13 2016 From: myers at freedomhouse.org (myers at freedomhouse.org) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 17:24:13 -0500 Subject: [bestbits] Digital Security for FH's Emergency Assistance Program Message-ID: Dear all, Freedom House's Emergency Assistance Program is seeking to engage a digital security consultant/firm for a short to medium term opportunity. Please feel free to share widely among your networks: https://freedomhouse.org/content/digital-security-support-freedom-houses-emergency-assistance-program-1 Thanks, Aaron Myers Digital Security Support for Freedom House’s Emergency Assistance Program Request for Proposals Consultancy Overview Freedom House’s Emergency Assistance Program (EAP) provides rapid financial assistance to front line human rights defenders (HRDs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) targeted because of their human rights work. Since 2007, EAP has given over 4,000 grants in over 100 countries. Freedom House seeks a firm, team, or individual capable of boosting the digital security capacity of Freedom House’s Emergency Assistance Program (EAP) through a short-term consultancy. The consultancy first seeks to audit the current practices and infrastructure of EAP as it pertains to the lifecycle of emergency assistance, including intake of cases, communication with beneficiaries and stakeholders (including donors), storage and collection of data, and current digital security tools and procedures. After completion of the audit, the selected firm/consultant will be expected to develop a strategy for addressing EAP’s digital security needs, including developing strategies for both internal and external components of the program. Strategies will seek to address immediate low-hanging fruit, while setting out plans of action for more resource intensive interventions in consultation with EAP staff around labor/financial/programmatic restrictions. The strategy will also propose and document digital security protocols for EAP staff to follow through their case work, including developing strategies based on working with a diverse set of beneficiaries in terms of culture, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as technical capability and level of risk. After the strategy development, the firm/consultant will conduct a series of staff trainings on the developed protocols. Training should include strategies for determining the digital security risks/threat models of beneficiaries, selecting tools/approaches based on these circumstances, and limited training of trainers (ToTs) to enable regional specialists to remotely build the capacity of potential beneficiaries to communicate securely during the course of emergency assistance. The consultancy will culminate with the development of final recommendations on hiring a permanent staff member on EAP to address digital security, longer- term recommendations to improve digital security that could not be completed during the consultancy due to restrictions on time/labor hours/funding, and any other additional thoughts on potential program development, including the collection of digital security data. ACTIVITY ONE: AUDIT OF CURRENT PRACTICES AND INFRASTRUCTURE Output: Audit/ Security Assessment report detailing findings delivered to the EAP team ACTIVITY TWO: ADDRESSING AUDIT FINDINGS- INTERNAL Output: Internal strategy and plan of action for addressing digital threats related to infrastructure, internal communications, and intersection of EAP with other Freedom House units. ACTIVITY THREE: ADDRESSING AUDIT FINDINGS- EXTERNAL Output: Develop/Revise Digital Security Protocols for EAP ACTIVITY FOUR: DIGITAL SECURITY TRAININGS / BASIC TOTS FOR STAFF Output: Digital security trainings conducted for EAP Staff Members ACTIVITY FIVE: FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS Output: Final Recommendations Report Evaluation Criteria 1.Proposal Narrative (35%) 2.Capacity and Past Performance (35%) 3.Timeline (5%) 4.Cost Proposal (25%) Submission Instructions Tuesday, November 30th, 2016 (11:59 PM EST) is the deadline for submitting full proposals. Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis. Interested parties should request a full RFP at consultancy at freedomhouse.org. Requests to receive the full RFP should include a short statement of qualifications, bio, or CV. Freedom House reserves the right to forgo sharing the full RFP based on qualifications. Submission of a response to the RFP does not bind Freedom House to engage the firm/consultant to provide the requested services. The bidding party is solely responsible for the costs it incurs in responding to this request for proposal. From sheetal at gp-digital.org Tue Nov 8 04:42:08 2016 From: sheetal at gp-digital.org (Sheetal Kumar) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 09:42:08 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> Message-ID: Dear all, Thank you for these nominations and expressions of support for the candidates at such short notice. To confirm, these are the names that have been forwarded to the CSCG for deliberation and we will keep you updated. *Paulina Gutiérrez Asad BaigAnita GurmurthyInes Hfaiedh Angelica Contreras* Best, Sheetal. On 8 November 2016 at 05:11, hfaiedh ines wrote: > Thank you Renata I accept the nomination for the opening ceremony. I hope > I will get the support of the community and I promise to live up to your > expectations. > > > Le mardi 8 novembre 2016, Renata Aquino Ribeiro a > écrit : > >> Hello >> >> I'd like to nominate Ines Hfaiedh from Tunisia >> And Angelica Contreras from Mexico >> >> They can be closing or opening cerimony speakers >> >> Angelica Contreras is an activist, a writer and participant and >> organizer of Youth LAC IGF as well as part of the Youth Observatory. >> She writes for Mujeres Construyendo, collaborates also with >> GenderIT.org >> Along with other women from the Youth Observatory she is the author of >> Youth Observatory Statement on building a feminist Internet Governance >> >> Ines Hfaiedh is a teacher, ICT Implementation in Education Specialist >> and Internet Policy Analyst with IGMENA under the HIVOS Foundation and >> ISOC Tunisia. She is an active member of the ICANN community with NCUC >> and MEAC Strategy working group. She was a Guest Speaker at the >> Fourth Edition of the Arab Internet Governance Forum, the >> International Symposium on ICTs, the Tunisia TESOL National Conference >> and a delegate representing Tunisia at the MATE International >> Conference in Morocco. The European Educational Tool Portal has shared >> her tool of 'Interactive ICT Implementation in Formal and Informal >> Learning' and selected it for the International Tool Fair in Budapest, >> Hungary. She also compiled ICT-enhanced lesson plans into a >> pedagogical paper. Besides, she is an Assistant Curator with Diplo >> Foundation. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Sheetal Kumar >> wrote: >> > Dear all, >> > >> > A reminder that the deadline for nominations for CS speakers for the >> opening >> > and closing ceremonies should be sent to myself/Poncelet by COB today 07 >> > November. We would encourage you to do this openly, (e.g replying to the >> > entire list thread with your nomination), but either way the deadline is >> > today. Thanks! >> > >> > Best, >> > Sheetal. >> > >> > On 5 November 2016 at 14:39, parminder >> wrote: >> >> >> >> In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes open, it >> >> will be a good start to make this process fully open - which begins >> with >> >> making all application info open (best to tell applicants at this stage >> >> itself) and also the process of final selection, including >> justifications >> >> etc... thanks, parminder >> >> >> >> >> >> On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >> >> >> >> Dear all, >> >> >> >> If you would like to nominate anyone (including yourself) as an >> opening or >> >> closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in Guadalajara, Mexico >> >> (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) and I or the list your >> >> nomination with a short statement of the reason for the nomination, and >> >> whether the person (if not yourself) has agreed to be nominated. >> >> >> >> The IGF the Secretariat has asked for names by COB Thursday 10 >> November, - >> >> therefore we ask that you send your nominations by COB 07 November. >> >> >> >> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil society >> >> coordination group (which contains reps of all the main civil society >> >> networks in Internet governance, including us). >> >> >> >> Thanks! Any questions let us know, >> >> >> >> Best, >> >> -- >> >> Sheetal Kumar >> >> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >> >> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >> >> T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >> >> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > >> > Sheetal Kumar >> > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >> > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >> > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >> > >> > ____________________________________________________________ >> > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> > -- *Sheetal Kumar* Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sheetal at gp-digital.org Tue Nov 8 04:50:08 2016 From: sheetal at gp-digital.org (Sheetal Kumar) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 09:50:08 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> Message-ID: Dear all, Further to my email below, apologies but I missed out one nomination in the list. To confirm there were six nominations in total, and the full list forwarded to the CSCG is below: *Paulina Gutiérrez Asad BaigAnita GurmurthyInes Hfaiedh Angelica Contreras* *Deji Bryce Olukotun* Best, Sheetal. On 8 November 2016 at 09:42, Sheetal Kumar wrote: > Dear all, > > Thank you for these nominations and expressions of support for the > candidates at such short notice. > > To confirm, these are the names that have been forwarded to the CSCG for > deliberation and we will keep you updated. > > > > > > *Paulina Gutiérrez Asad BaigAnita GurmurthyInes Hfaiedh Angelica Contreras* > > Best, > Sheetal. > > On 8 November 2016 at 05:11, hfaiedh ines wrote: > >> Thank you Renata I accept the nomination for the opening ceremony. I hope >> I will get the support of the community and I promise to live up to your >> expectations. >> >> >> Le mardi 8 novembre 2016, Renata Aquino Ribeiro a >> écrit : >> >>> Hello >>> >>> I'd like to nominate Ines Hfaiedh from Tunisia >>> And Angelica Contreras from Mexico >>> >>> They can be closing or opening cerimony speakers >>> >>> Angelica Contreras is an activist, a writer and participant and >>> organizer of Youth LAC IGF as well as part of the Youth Observatory. >>> She writes for Mujeres Construyendo, collaborates also with >>> GenderIT.org >>> Along with other women from the Youth Observatory she is the author of >>> Youth Observatory Statement on building a feminist Internet Governance >>> >>> Ines Hfaiedh is a teacher, ICT Implementation in Education Specialist >>> and Internet Policy Analyst with IGMENA under the HIVOS Foundation and >>> ISOC Tunisia. She is an active member of the ICANN community with NCUC >>> and MEAC Strategy working group. She was a Guest Speaker at the >>> Fourth Edition of the Arab Internet Governance Forum, the >>> International Symposium on ICTs, the Tunisia TESOL National Conference >>> and a delegate representing Tunisia at the MATE International >>> Conference in Morocco. The European Educational Tool Portal has shared >>> her tool of 'Interactive ICT Implementation in Formal and Informal >>> Learning' and selected it for the International Tool Fair in Budapest, >>> Hungary. She also compiled ICT-enhanced lesson plans into a >>> pedagogical paper. Besides, she is an Assistant Curator with Diplo >>> Foundation. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Sheetal Kumar >>> wrote: >>> > Dear all, >>> > >>> > A reminder that the deadline for nominations for CS speakers for the >>> opening >>> > and closing ceremonies should be sent to myself/Poncelet by COB today >>> 07 >>> > November. We would encourage you to do this openly, (e.g replying to >>> the >>> > entire list thread with your nomination), but either way the deadline >>> is >>> > today. Thanks! >>> > >>> > Best, >>> > Sheetal. >>> > >>> > On 5 November 2016 at 14:39, parminder >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes open, >>> it >>> >> will be a good start to make this process fully open - which begins >>> with >>> >> making all application info open (best to tell applicants at this >>> stage >>> >> itself) and also the process of final selection, including >>> justifications >>> >> etc... thanks, parminder >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Dear all, >>> >> >>> >> If you would like to nominate anyone (including yourself) as an >>> opening or >>> >> closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in Guadalajara, >>> Mexico >>> >> (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) and I or the list your >>> >> nomination with a short statement of the reason for the nomination, >>> and >>> >> whether the person (if not yourself) has agreed to be nominated. >>> >> >>> >> The IGF the Secretariat has asked for names by COB Thursday 10 >>> November, - >>> >> therefore we ask that you send your nominations by COB 07 November. >>> >> >>> >> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil >>> society >>> >> coordination group (which contains reps of all the main civil society >>> >> networks in Internet governance, including us). >>> >> >>> >> Thanks! Any questions let us know, >>> >> >>> >> Best, >>> >> -- >>> >> Sheetal Kumar >>> >> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >>> >> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >>> >> T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> ____________________________________________________________ >>> >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> ____________________________________________________________ >>> >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > >>> > >>> > Sheetal Kumar >>> > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >>> > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >>> > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >>> > >>> > ____________________________________________________________ >>> > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >> > > > -- > > > *Sheetal Kumar* > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | > -- *Sheetal Kumar* Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wisdom.dk at gmail.com Tue Nov 8 04:52:44 2016 From: wisdom.dk at gmail.com (Wisdom Donkor) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 09:52:44 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> Message-ID: Good Luck to all nominee's *WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)* E-government and Open Government Data Platforms Specialist National Information Technology Agency (NITA)/ Ghana Open Data Initiative Project. ICANN Fellow / Member, UN IGF MAG Member, ISOC Member, Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Member, Diplo Foundation Member, OGP Open Data WG Member, GODAN Memember, ITAG Member Email: wisdom_dk at hotmail.com wisdom.donkor at data.gov.gh wisdom.dk at gmail.com Skype: wisdom_dk facebook: facebook at wisdom_dk Website: www.nita.gov.gh / www.data.gov.gh www.isoc.gh / www.itag.org.gh On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: > Dear all, > > Thank you for these nominations and expressions of support for the > candidates at such short notice. > > To confirm, these are the names that have been forwarded to the CSCG for > deliberation and we will keep you updated. > > > > > > *Paulina Gutiérrez Asad BaigAnita GurmurthyInes Hfaiedh Angelica Contreras* > > Best, > Sheetal. > > On 8 November 2016 at 05:11, hfaiedh ines wrote: > >> Thank you Renata I accept the nomination for the opening ceremony. I hope >> I will get the support of the community and I promise to live up to your >> expectations. >> >> >> Le mardi 8 novembre 2016, Renata Aquino Ribeiro a >> écrit : >> >>> Hello >>> >>> I'd like to nominate Ines Hfaiedh from Tunisia >>> And Angelica Contreras from Mexico >>> >>> They can be closing or opening cerimony speakers >>> >>> Angelica Contreras is an activist, a writer and participant and >>> organizer of Youth LAC IGF as well as part of the Youth Observatory. >>> She writes for Mujeres Construyendo, collaborates also with >>> GenderIT.org >>> Along with other women from the Youth Observatory she is the author of >>> Youth Observatory Statement on building a feminist Internet Governance >>> >>> Ines Hfaiedh is a teacher, ICT Implementation in Education Specialist >>> and Internet Policy Analyst with IGMENA under the HIVOS Foundation and >>> ISOC Tunisia. She is an active member of the ICANN community with NCUC >>> and MEAC Strategy working group. She was a Guest Speaker at the >>> Fourth Edition of the Arab Internet Governance Forum, the >>> International Symposium on ICTs, the Tunisia TESOL National Conference >>> and a delegate representing Tunisia at the MATE International >>> Conference in Morocco. The European Educational Tool Portal has shared >>> her tool of 'Interactive ICT Implementation in Formal and Informal >>> Learning' and selected it for the International Tool Fair in Budapest, >>> Hungary. She also compiled ICT-enhanced lesson plans into a >>> pedagogical paper. Besides, she is an Assistant Curator with Diplo >>> Foundation. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Sheetal Kumar >>> wrote: >>> > Dear all, >>> > >>> > A reminder that the deadline for nominations for CS speakers for the >>> opening >>> > and closing ceremonies should be sent to myself/Poncelet by COB today >>> 07 >>> > November. We would encourage you to do this openly, (e.g replying to >>> the >>> > entire list thread with your nomination), but either way the deadline >>> is >>> > today. Thanks! >>> > >>> > Best, >>> > Sheetal. >>> > >>> > On 5 November 2016 at 14:39, parminder >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes open, >>> it >>> >> will be a good start to make this process fully open - which begins >>> with >>> >> making all application info open (best to tell applicants at this >>> stage >>> >> itself) and also the process of final selection, including >>> justifications >>> >> etc... thanks, parminder >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Dear all, >>> >> >>> >> If you would like to nominate anyone (including yourself) as an >>> opening or >>> >> closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in Guadalajara, >>> Mexico >>> >> (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) and I or the list your >>> >> nomination with a short statement of the reason for the nomination, >>> and >>> >> whether the person (if not yourself) has agreed to be nominated. >>> >> >>> >> The IGF the Secretariat has asked for names by COB Thursday 10 >>> November, - >>> >> therefore we ask that you send your nominations by COB 07 November. >>> >> >>> >> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil >>> society >>> >> coordination group (which contains reps of all the main civil society >>> >> networks in Internet governance, including us). >>> >> >>> >> Thanks! Any questions let us know, >>> >> >>> >> Best, >>> >> -- >>> >> Sheetal Kumar >>> >> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >>> >> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >>> >> T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> ____________________________________________________________ >>> >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> ____________________________________________________________ >>> >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > >>> > >>> > Sheetal Kumar >>> > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >>> > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >>> > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >>> > >>> > ____________________________________________________________ >>> > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >> > > > -- > > > *Sheetal Kumar* > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ggithaiga at hotmail.com Tue Nov 8 05:42:40 2016 From: ggithaiga at hotmail.com (Grace Githaiga) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 10:42:40 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> , Message-ID: I think you forgot Marilla. ________________________________ From: bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net on behalf of Sheetal Kumar Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 9:42 AM To: hfaiedh ines Cc: Renata Aquino Ribeiro; Angie Contreras; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> < Subject: Re: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November Dear all, Thank you for these nominations and expressions of support for the candidates at such short notice. To confirm, these are the names that have been forwarded to the CSCG for deliberation and we will keep you updated. Paulina Gutiérrez Asad Baig Anita Gurmurthy Ines Hfaiedh Angelica Contreras Best, Sheetal. On 8 November 2016 at 05:11, hfaiedh ines > wrote: Thank you Renata I accept the nomination for the opening ceremony. I hope I will get the support of the community and I promise to live up to your expectations. Le mardi 8 novembre 2016, Renata Aquino Ribeiro > a écrit : Hello I'd like to nominate Ines Hfaiedh from Tunisia And Angelica Contreras from Mexico They can be closing or opening cerimony speakers Angelica Contreras is an activist, a writer and participant and organizer of Youth LAC IGF as well as part of the Youth Observatory. She writes for Mujeres Construyendo, collaborates also with GenderIT.org Along with other women from the Youth Observatory she is the author of Youth Observatory Statement on building a feminist Internet Governance Ines Hfaiedh is a teacher, ICT Implementation in Education Specialist and Internet Policy Analyst with IGMENA under the HIVOS Foundation and ISOC Tunisia. She is an active member of the ICANN community with NCUC and MEAC Strategy working group. She was a Guest Speaker at the Fourth Edition of the Arab Internet Governance Forum, the International Symposium on ICTs, the Tunisia TESOL National Conference and a delegate representing Tunisia at the MATE International Conference in Morocco. The European Educational Tool Portal has shared her tool of 'Interactive ICT Implementation in Formal and Informal Learning' and selected it for the International Tool Fair in Budapest, Hungary. She also compiled ICT-enhanced lesson plans into a pedagogical paper. Besides, she is an Assistant Curator with Diplo Foundation. On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: > Dear all, > > A reminder that the deadline for nominations for CS speakers for the opening > and closing ceremonies should be sent to myself/Poncelet by COB today 07 > November. We would encourage you to do this openly, (e.g replying to the > entire list thread with your nomination), but either way the deadline is > today. Thanks! > > Best, > Sheetal. > > On 5 November 2016 at 14:39, parminder wrote: >> >> In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes open, it >> will be a good start to make this process fully open - which begins with >> making all application info open (best to tell applicants at this stage >> itself) and also the process of final selection, including justifications >> etc... thanks, parminder >> >> >> On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> If you would like to nominate anyone (including yourself) as an opening or >> closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in Guadalajara, Mexico >> (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) and I or the list your >> nomination with a short statement of the reason for the nomination, and >> whether the person (if not yourself) has agreed to be nominated. >> >> The IGF the Secretariat has asked for names by COB Thursday 10 November, - >> therefore we ask that you send your nominations by COB 07 November. >> >> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil society >> coordination group (which contains reps of all the main civil society >> networks in Internet governance, including us). >> >> Thanks! Any questions let us know, >> >> Best, >> -- >> Sheetal Kumar >> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >> T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > > > > -- > > > Sheetal Kumar > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits -- Sheetal Kumar Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As a follow-up to the post above, and building on previous work on the African Media Law and Digital Native Roundup ​ ​ with the University of Pennsylvania, I am pleased to enclose a summary of a major forthcoming publication focused on the 2014-2016 period that highlights the regional trends concerning Internet governance and information and communications technology (ICT) policy making processes in Africa. The post can be found here: https://ephraimkenyanito.com/2016/10/17/what-steps-can-africans-take-and-lead-in-internet-governance-and-social-justice/ I have further republished the post today on Medium and can be found here: https://medium.com/@ekenyanito/what-steps-can-africans-take-and-lead-in-internet-governance-and-social-justice-546a0ca4e2c3#.11ckov701 This post is divided in two parts. The first relays my observations about trends over the past three years in African ICT policy, human rights, and development processes, and highlights key challenges and opportunities. The second provides recommendations for African citizens on what can be improved. I will be happy to set up some time to discuss further (via skype/ or in person) this upcoming publication, additionally, please feel free to let me know if you're interested to receive this major forthcoming publication focused on the 2014-2016 period as a PDF to your email. -- Best Regards, *Ephraim Percy Kenyanito* Website: https://ephraimkenyanito.com/ Twitter: @ekenyanito PGP Fingerprint: B0FA394AF73DEB7AA1FDC7360CFED26DE6BA8DC1 [image: --] Ephraim Percy Kenyanito [image: https://]about.me/ekenyanito -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sheetal at gp-digital.org Tue Nov 8 07:37:40 2016 From: sheetal at gp-digital.org (Sheetal Kumar) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 12:37:40 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> Message-ID: Hi Grace, Thanks for getting in touch with this! I have checked and we didn't receive Marilia's nomination to represent bestbits. Her nomination will have been channeled via a different constituency to the CSCG. We'll be in touch shortly with the outcome of the CSCG's deliberations and the names forwarded to the MAG. Thanks again, Best, Sheetal. On 8 November 2016 at 10:42, Grace Githaiga wrote: > I think you forgot Marilla. > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net bestbits.net> on behalf of Sheetal Kumar > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 8, 2016 9:42 AM > *To:* hfaiedh ines > *Cc:* Renata Aquino Ribeiro; Angie Contreras; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> > < > *Subject:* Re: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and > opening speakers by COB 07 November > > Dear all, > > Thank you for these nominations and expressions of support for the > candidates at such short notice. > > To confirm, these are the names that have been forwarded to the CSCG for > deliberation and we will keep you updated. > > > > > > *Paulina Gutiérrez Asad Baig Anita Gurmurthy Ines Hfaiedh Angelica > Contreras* > > Best, > Sheetal. > > On 8 November 2016 at 05:11, hfaiedh ines wrote: > >> Thank you Renata I accept the nomination for the opening ceremony. I hope >> I will get the support of the community and I promise to live up to your >> expectations. >> >> >> Le mardi 8 novembre 2016, Renata Aquino Ribeiro a >> écrit : >> >>> Hello >>> >>> I'd like to nominate Ines Hfaiedh from Tunisia >>> And Angelica Contreras from Mexico >>> >>> They can be closing or opening cerimony speakers >>> >>> Angelica Contreras is an activist, a writer and participant and >>> organizer of Youth LAC IGF as well as part of the Youth Observatory. >>> She writes for Mujeres Construyendo, collaborates also with >>> GenderIT.org >>> Along with other women from the Youth Observatory she is the author of >>> Youth Observatory Statement on building a feminist Internet Governance >>> >>> Ines Hfaiedh is a teacher, ICT Implementation in Education Specialist >>> and Internet Policy Analyst with IGMENA under the HIVOS Foundation and >>> ISOC Tunisia. She is an active member of the ICANN community with NCUC >>> and MEAC Strategy working group. She was a Guest Speaker at the >>> Fourth Edition of the Arab Internet Governance Forum, the >>> International Symposium on ICTs, the Tunisia TESOL National Conference >>> and a delegate representing Tunisia at the MATE International >>> Conference in Morocco. The European Educational Tool Portal has shared >>> her tool of 'Interactive ICT Implementation in Formal and Informal >>> Learning' and selected it for the International Tool Fair in Budapest, >>> Hungary. She also compiled ICT-enhanced lesson plans into a >>> pedagogical paper. Besides, she is an Assistant Curator with Diplo >>> Foundation. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Sheetal Kumar >>> wrote: >>> > Dear all, >>> > >>> > A reminder that the deadline for nominations for CS speakers for the >>> opening >>> > and closing ceremonies should be sent to myself/Poncelet by COB today >>> 07 >>> > November. We would encourage you to do this openly, (e.g replying to >>> the >>> > entire list thread with your nomination), but either way the deadline >>> is >>> > today. Thanks! >>> > >>> > Best, >>> > Sheetal. >>> > >>> > On 5 November 2016 at 14:39, parminder >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes open, >>> it >>> >> will be a good start to make this process fully open - which begins >>> with >>> >> making all application info open (best to tell applicants at this >>> stage >>> >> itself) and also the process of final selection, including >>> justifications >>> >> etc... thanks, parminder >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Dear all, >>> >> >>> >> If you would like to nominate anyone (including yourself) as an >>> opening or >>> >> closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in Guadalajara, >>> Mexico >>> >> (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) and I or the list your >>> >> nomination with a short statement of the reason for the nomination, >>> and >>> >> whether the person (if not yourself) has agreed to be nominated. >>> >> >>> >> The IGF the Secretariat has asked for names by COB Thursday 10 >>> November, - >>> >> therefore we ask that you send your nominations by COB 07 November. >>> >> >>> >> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil >>> society >>> >> coordination group (which contains reps of all the main civil society >>> >> networks in Internet governance, including us). >>> >> >>> >> Thanks! Any questions let us know, >>> >> >>> >> Best, >>> >> -- >>> >> Sheetal Kumar >>> >> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >>> >> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >>> >> T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> ____________________________________________________________ >>> >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> ____________________________________________________________ >>> >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > >>> > >>> > Sheetal Kumar >>> > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >>> > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >>> > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >>> > >>> > ____________________________________________________________ >>> > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >> > > > -- > > > *Sheetal Kumar* > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | > -- *Sheetal Kumar* Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From willi.uebelherr at riseup.net Tue Nov 8 12:10:35 2016 From: willi.uebelherr at riseup.net (willi uebelherr) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 14:10:35 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] What steps can Africans take and lead in Internet governance and social justice? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3768d370-b003-1444-c4b3-6ae576b823a0@riseup.net> Dear Ephraim, many thanks for your analyse and comments. In your last text under the point: "Moving forward: What should citizens and civil society do differently to achieve more equal and just societies in Africa?" This is not a realy proposal for the people in Africa. All 3 points start with: "Call on their governments ..." What is your perspective. The continuation of the slavery system, the colonialism? The core in general is, like in all regions on our planet, if the people itself don't organise her technical infrastructure, and the telecommunication is part of that, you will never be able to create it. The elites don't like this infrastructures. They like to use it only for her private enrichment. Clear, the same we have in Europe, America and Asia. But you in Africa can start to go another way. Based on that, what you/we need. Create the capability to organise it self. And this capability always rest in the people and never in any private or state institution or organisation. "Why Africa Should Take the Lead." Yes, why? And not "Internet Governance". This nonsense we don't need. We need the telecommunication in form of a InterNet, the Inter-connection of local Net-works, a transport system for digital data in packet form. But with this perspective, if you are willing to act for the people in Africa, you never have to look to "stackholders" or any other nonsense. You have to search the way for independence in the technology. And with most of this people in all this "Internet Governance" list and groups it will be impossible. many greetings, willi Asuncion, Paraguay On 08/11/2016 07:58, Ephraim Percy Kenyanito wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Almost three years ago, I published a blogpost on CircleID > > titled “Internet > > ​ ​ > > Governance: Why Africa Should Take the Lead. > ” > I argued that African Internet stakeholders use a ‘wait and see approach’ > in matters as critical as Internet governance,” and that African voices are > missing in key Internet governance discussion fora. Additionally, I > suggested that some reasons for this approach, including that Africa lacks > well-trained Internet governance experts and Africans see foreign affairs > and international relations as an East versus West dynamic. I further urged > for a change in this situation, as the “wait and see approach” is gravely > interfering with the basic human rights of Africans. > > As a follow-up to the post above, and building on previous work on the African > Media Law and Digital Native Roundup > > ​ ​ > with the University of Pennsylvania, I am pleased to enclose a summary of a > major forthcoming publication focused on the 2014-2016 period that > highlights the regional trends concerning Internet governance and > information and communications technology (ICT) policy making processes in > Africa. The post can be found here: > https://ephraimkenyanito.com/2016/10/17/what-steps-can-africans-take-and-lead-in-internet-governance-and-social-justice/ > > I have further republished the post today on Medium and can be found here: > https://medium.com/@ekenyanito/what-steps-can-africans-take-and-lead-in-internet-governance-and-social-justice-546a0ca4e2c3#.11ckov701 > > This post is divided in two parts. The first relays my observations about > trends over the past three years in African ICT policy, human rights, and > development processes, and highlights key challenges and opportunities. The > second provides recommendations for African citizens on what can be > improved. > > > I will be happy to set up some time to discuss further (via skype/ or in > person) this upcoming publication, additionally, please feel free to let me > know if you're interested to receive this major forthcoming publication > focused on the 2014-2016 period as a PDF to your email. > > > -- > > Best Regards, > *Ephraim Percy Kenyanito* > Website: https://ephraimkenyanito.com/ > > Twitter: @ekenyanito > PGP Fingerprint: B0FA394AF73DEB7AA1FDC7360CFED26DE6BA8DC1 > > [image: --] > > Ephraim Percy Kenyanito > [image: https://]about.me/ekenyanito > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > From parminder at itforchange.net Tue Nov 8 20:53:40 2016 From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 07:23:40 +0530 Subject: [bestbits] ICANN's US jurisdiction Message-ID: <346bfbde-716c-7623-c442-6826551eeb31@itforchange.net> All As you know, the issue of jurisdiction of ICANN is under consideration at ICANN's community process (in the accountability track where there is a sub group discussing this issue). ICANN is currently meeting in Hyderabad, India, from 3rd to 9th November. Today, on the last day of ICANN's Hyderabad meeting, the enclosed statement was issued by key Indian civil society organisations engaged with Internet governance issues, supported by two key global networks involved in this area. The statement expresses the urgent need for transiting ICANN from being under the jurisdiction of one country, presenting the rationale of why this is important to do. It also lists some possible options of doing so, towards beginning a serious action-oriented deliberation on this very important matter. Unlike what is often understood, the jurisdiction issue is not just a matter of sovereign prestige and self respect of the states but concerns vital matters impacting people's rights. This is especially so as the society gets more and more digitised in all areas. We welcome comments and feedback. The statement has been issued by the following Indian civil society organisations. _Centre for Internet and Society _, Bangalore _IT for Change _, Bangalore _Free Software Movement of India _, Hyderabad _Society for Knowledge Commons _, New Delhi _Digital Empowerment Foundation _, New Delhi _Delhi Science Forum _, New Delhi _Software Freedom Law Cent_er_ India_, New Delhi _Third World Network - India _, New Delhi It is supported by the following global networks: _Association For Progressive Communications _ _Just Net Coalition _ We will soon expand this effort to enlist more global support. Best, Parminder _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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But i am very interested for. many greetings, willi Asuncion, Paraguay From ekenyanito at gmail.com Wed Nov 9 12:16:37 2016 From: ekenyanito at gmail.com (Ephraim Percy Kenyanito) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 20:16:37 +0300 Subject: [bestbits] blog Ephraim Percy Kenyanito Message-ID: Hello Willi, Greetings from Nairobi, Kenya! Yes, I am interested in constructive engagement and suggestions on how to improve African engagement on Internet Governance and social justice. I have received really great feedback from very many people all over via email and other channels with suggestions on how to further improve this forthcoming publication since publishing my article yesterday . Regarding the section on my website : *"leave a reply";* the comments do not appear automatically as any comment that appears to be spam gets picked up by the spam filter. However, I just saw your comments and will be happy to have a discussion with you. P.S- This is not the full publication (it is just a 990 word summary of the over 30,000 word publication.) I will be happy to set up some time to discuss further (via skype/ or in person) this upcoming publication, additionally, please feel free to let me know if you're interested to receive this major forthcoming publication focused on the 2014-2016 period as a PDF to your email. ​ -- Best Regards, *Ephraim Percy Kenyanito* Website: https://ephraimkenyanito.com/ Twitter: @ekenyanito PGP Fingerprint: B0FA394AF73DEB7AA1FDC7360CFED26DE6BA8DC1 [image: --] Ephraim Percy Kenyanito [image: https://]about.me/ekenyanito On 9 November 2016 at 19:50, willi uebelherr wrote: > Dear friends, > > if we read the text from Ephraim Percy Kenyanito > "What steps can Africans take and lead in Internet governance and social > justice?" > then maybe we think, he is interested on an open discussion. > > But not on his blog. You can send a comment "leave a reply", but never the > other readers can read your comment and you never can read the replies from > others. > > Is that his specific african way of an open internet in Africa? I have no > experience about the situation in Africa, about openess, transparency, > responsibity. But i am very interested for. > > many greetings, willi > Asuncion, Paraguay > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From willi.uebelherr at riseup.net Wed Nov 9 16:45:11 2016 From: willi.uebelherr at riseup.net (willi uebelherr) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 18:45:11 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] blog Ephraim Percy Kenyanito In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Ephraim, many thanks for your answer. I will continue our communication directly, because you ask for that. And maybe, it is correct. Only my first answer i send to the lists to end this thread. Yes, i am very interested for a discussion with you. And, of course, with your friends, if they have this interest for an open internet in Africa. From the people, for the people. This is always my perspective. But first to your blog. The open space for the comments, that the readers can read the opinions of others, is the most important part. Of course, you can moderate it. Then it needs some hours or days. Many blogs do that. Some blogs remember the authors of comment and after the first comments they give it free. I work for local independence. And the political/social independence is always based on the economical independence. And every economy is based on our technical infrastructures and the independence in technology. But clear, the money system have nothing to do with economy. It is part of the distribution system, a virtual layer. The last two things is my work object. To help the people on this way. The telecommunication is the most important part in our technical infrastructure. It is the base for our cooperation and the free access to free knowledge. If we take the telecommunication in our hand, we have nearly all needs in our hand. This, because i speak here about the hardware. The software is easy. Based on this maybe now it is clear for you, why i referenced your actionpoints that start with: "Call on their governments ...". If you follow this, you will never be able to go on your way. And i am sure, the situation in Africa is not better then in Asia, Europe or North America. The form of our telecommunication is the InterNet, the Inter-connection of local Net-works, a transport system for digital data in packet form. Today, we don't have a InterNet, because we don't have the Net-Topology in the telecommunication. We have only bus and star topologies. And without a net you never can create a interconnections of nets. I know, as a answer many people speak about virtual nets. But we are not in the church. We are in the reality. This local networks are independent and autonomous networks with Client and Server functionality and the interconnection. The interconnection of the local networks we need only for data transport and not for Client-Server interactions. Clear, this we have to create and organise. For the transport navigation, the routing, we use the geografical position of the local networks for our IP addresses for source and destination. With that we don't need IANA, ICANN or any NICs. And, of course, never any "Internet Governance". And because we organise between every segment on the tranport ways the error checking, we don't need TCP. And logical followed no UDP. We act only with IP packets. But the core is the hardware. We have to organise, that the people everywhere on our planet can create that hardware, what they need. The instrument for that is our free technology. Free to participate, free to use the result, for all people on our planet. This is the theoretical base. The laws of the nature (physic), her materialisation (technology) and our ideas for design and konstruction. The material realisation of all this technical systems the people local/regional organise itself. You see, this is something different to that, what you wrote in your text. But we should start with a deeper discussion, if you want. And i hope, also with your friends and other people in Africa. For me: Since 5.5 years i live in Latin America. i traveled from Venezuela to Mexico and down to Chile and Argentina on the westside, return on the east side to Venezueala and now to Paraguay. The result: This perspective is impossible to realise in Latin America. All technical environment, inclusive the universities, are totally controlled from the external companies. And the people create the comsumerism. Only use and nothing create. They don't like to study and in this universities it is impossible, they don't like to work experimentally and practically, they look only for an easy job with a relative high income. Now, i am on the way to southern Africa. I will look there. Never i have been in the south of Africa. Then i will see. many greetings, willi Asuncion, Paraguay On 09/11/2016 14:16, Ephraim Percy Kenyanito wrote: > Hello Willi, > > Greetings from Nairobi, Kenya! > > Yes, I am interested in constructive engagement and suggestions on how to > improve African engagement on Internet Governance and social justice. > > I have received really great feedback from very many people all over via > email and other channels with suggestions on how to further improve this > forthcoming publication since publishing my article yesterday . > > Regarding the section on my website : *"leave > a reply";* the comments do not appear automatically as any comment that > appears to be spam gets picked up by the spam filter. > > However, I just saw your comments and will be happy to have a discussion > with you. > > P.S- This is not the full publication (it is just a 990 word summary of the > over 30,000 word publication.) I will be happy to set up some time to > discuss further (via skype/ or in person) this upcoming publication, > additionally, please feel free to let me know if you're interested to > receive this major forthcoming publication focused on the 2014-2016 period > as a PDF to your email. > > Best Regards, > *Ephraim Percy Kenyanito* > Website: https://ephraimkenyanito.com/ > Twitter: @ekenyanito > PGP Fingerprint: B0FA394AF73DEB7AA1FDC7360CFED26DE6BA8DC1 From wisdom.dk at gmail.com Sun Nov 13 08:13:15 2016 From: wisdom.dk at gmail.com (Wisdom Donkor) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 13:13:15 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] IGF Newcomers Track Message-ID: Dear Members, *The IGF 2016 Newcomers Track* aims to help participants attending the IGF annual meeting for the first time, to understanding the IGF processes and to foster the integration of all new-coming stakeholders into the IGF community. Its focus is to make the meeting participant's first IGF experience as productive and welcoming as possible. *Activities* *What is the IGF? Webinar* Prior to the annual meeting, one webinar will be organized. The webinar will reflect the core IGF work processes, with focusing on the 2016 intersessional activities and the overall programme. This will help in understanding what should be your expectations from the annual meeting in Mexico. *Newcomers Mentor Session* During Day 0, on 5 December from 12:00 to 13:30 pm, there will be a 90-minutes long session, where the key IGF stakeholders will be speaking about the history of the IGF, its processes and community engagement. Most of the time will be reserved for the participants attending for the first time, to ask anything they would like to ask about the IGF. *'Knowledge cafés' sessions* During each of the Meeting Days, from 6 to 9 December, there will be a 45-minutes long 'Knowledge cafés' sessions, where the participants will be given an opportunity to have a casual, informal talk with some of the most experienced stakeholders from the IGF community. The main goal of these sessions is to create a friendly environment for the first-time coming participants to meet some of the most experienced IGF stakeholders, to learn a lot and most importantly, to network and engage. 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Paulina Gutiérrez and Anita Gurumurthy were forwarded as the 'most supported' with Luca Belli and Marília Maciel also commended. The CS MAG are now conducting their deliberations and will send two names to the IGF Secretariat. We will be sure to keep you informed of the outcome. Best, On 8 November 2016 at 20:02, Angie Contreras wrote: > Thank you Renata, > Any information that I can provide, with pleasure. > > > > > > Un abrazo con sororidad > > *Lic. Angélica Contreras* > @AngieConter > /Angélica Contreras > #BlogAngie > Revista Quintaesencia > SIG Observatory > *"No vine a este mundo ordinario a ser una mujer ordinaria"* > > > > ------------------------------ > *De:* Sheetal Kumar > *Enviado:* martes, 8 de noviembre de 2016 03:42 a. m. > *Para:* hfaiedh ines > *Cc:* Renata Aquino Ribeiro; Angie Contreras; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> > < > *Asunto:* Re: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and > opening speakers by COB 07 November > > Dear all, > > Thank you for these nominations and expressions of support for the > candidates at such short notice. > > To confirm, these are the names that have been forwarded to the CSCG for > deliberation and we will keep you updated. > > > > > > *Paulina Gutiérrez Asad Baig Anita Gurmurthy Ines Hfaiedh Angelica > Contreras* > > Best, > Sheetal. > > On 8 November 2016 at 05:11, hfaiedh ines wrote: > >> Thank you Renata I accept the nomination for the opening ceremony. I hope >> I will get the support of the community and I promise to live up to your >> expectations. >> >> >> Le mardi 8 novembre 2016, Renata Aquino Ribeiro a >> écrit : >> >>> Hello >>> >>> I'd like to nominate Ines Hfaiedh from Tunisia >>> And Angelica Contreras from Mexico >>> >>> They can be closing or opening cerimony speakers >>> >>> Angelica Contreras is an activist, a writer and participant and >>> organizer of Youth LAC IGF as well as part of the Youth Observatory. >>> She writes for Mujeres Construyendo, collaborates also with >>> GenderIT.org >>> Along with other women from the Youth Observatory she is the author of >>> Youth Observatory Statement on building a feminist Internet Governance >>> >>> Ines Hfaiedh is a teacher, ICT Implementation in Education Specialist >>> and Internet Policy Analyst with IGMENA under the HIVOS Foundation and >>> ISOC Tunisia. She is an active member of the ICANN community with NCUC >>> and MEAC Strategy working group. She was a Guest Speaker at the >>> Fourth Edition of the Arab Internet Governance Forum, the >>> International Symposium on ICTs, the Tunisia TESOL National Conference >>> and a delegate representing Tunisia at the MATE International >>> Conference in Morocco. The European Educational Tool Portal has shared >>> her tool of 'Interactive ICT Implementation in Formal and Informal >>> Learning' and selected it for the International Tool Fair in Budapest, >>> Hungary. She also compiled ICT-enhanced lesson plans into a >>> pedagogical paper. Besides, she is an Assistant Curator with Diplo >>> Foundation. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Sheetal Kumar >>> wrote: >>> > Dear all, >>> > >>> > A reminder that the deadline for nominations for CS speakers for the >>> opening >>> > and closing ceremonies should be sent to myself/Poncelet by COB today >>> 07 >>> > November. We would encourage you to do this openly, (e.g replying to >>> the >>> > entire list thread with your nomination), but either way the deadline >>> is >>> > today. Thanks! >>> > >>> > Best, >>> > Sheetal. >>> > >>> > On 5 November 2016 at 14:39, parminder >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes open, >>> it >>> >> will be a good start to make this process fully open - which begins >>> with >>> >> making all application info open (best to tell applicants at this >>> stage >>> >> itself) and also the process of final selection, including >>> justifications >>> >> etc... thanks, parminder >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Dear all, >>> >> >>> >> If you would like to nominate anyone (including yourself) as an >>> opening or >>> >> closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in Guadalajara, >>> Mexico >>> >> (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) and I or the list your >>> >> nomination with a short statement of the reason for the nomination, >>> and >>> >> whether the person (if not yourself) has agreed to be nominated. >>> >> >>> >> The IGF the Secretariat has asked for names by COB Thursday 10 >>> November, - >>> >> therefore we ask that you send your nominations by COB 07 November. >>> >> >>> >> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil >>> society >>> >> coordination group (which contains reps of all the main civil society >>> >> networks in Internet governance, including us). >>> >> >>> >> Thanks! Any questions let us know, >>> >> >>> >> Best, >>> >> -- >>> >> Sheetal Kumar >>> >> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >>> >> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >>> >> T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> ____________________________________________________________ >>> >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> ____________________________________________________________ >>> >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > >>> > >>> > Sheetal Kumar >>> > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >>> > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >>> > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | >>> > >>> > ____________________________________________________________ >>> > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >> > > > -- > > > *Sheetal Kumar* > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | > -- *Sheetal Kumar* Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Best Bits website has the details, but you'll need to click the "Latest agenda" tab to see them: http://bestbits.net/events/joint-cs-2016/ Registrations have closed and we are unable to accept new registrations now. Three participants were able to be offered travel support, and we apologize if you weren't one of them. Remote participation will be available, but only to those who let us know ahead of time that they intend to use it, and only to those who identify as being from civil society. We are in need of volunteers to assist with some of the sessions. Here are some of the sessions that I know about that could use volunteers: * Priorities and tactics for civil society at IGF 2016 (someone to lead this session) * Shadow regulation and multi-stakeholder process criteria (a co-leader or discussant) * Trade and the Internet (for those wishing to be discussants) * Open time for questions, discussion, and policy slam (for those who have a project, idea, or proposal to present) -- Jeremy Malcolm Senior Global Policy Analyst Electronic Frontier Foundation https://eff.org jmalcolm at eff.org Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161 :: Defending Your Rights in the Digital World :: Public key: https://www.eff.org/files/2014/10/09/key_jmalcolm.txt PGP fingerprint: FF13 C2E9 F9C3 DF54 7C4F EAC1 F675 AAE2 D2AB 2220 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Best wishes, *Lea Kaspar* Executive Director | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)20 3818 3258 | M: +44 (0)7583 929216 gp-digital.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chengetai Masango Date: Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 1:11 PM Subject: [IGFmaglist] MAG renewal announcement To: IGF Maglist Dear All, The MAG renewal announcement from Mr. Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) has been posted on the IGF website. https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/ announcement-from-mr-wu-hongbo-under-secretary-general -for-economic-and-social-affairs The deadline to submit names is *16 December 2016.* Current MAG members do not need to reapply. From claudio at derechosdigitales.org Mon Nov 21 15:19:27 2016 From: claudio at derechosdigitales.org (Claudio Ruiz) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:19:27 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Invitation: Latin America in a Glimpse 3 Message-ID: Dear all, Derechos Digitales kindly invite you to Latin America in a Glimpse, a summary of the most important trends in the digital rights arena in the region this year. The event will be held on December 5th, at the AC Guadalajara México Hotel – Marriott (Avenida de Las Americas 1500, Country Club, Guadalajara Jalisco 44610, México) at 2:00 PM, a day prior to the Internet Governance Forum. Some of the most important digital rights organizations from Latin America would be participating in the event, so this is a perfect opportunity for the international community to connect and better understand the reality of human rights on the internet in Latin America. You can find more information about the event here: https://www.derechosdigitales.org/10598/derechos-digitales-invite-you-to-latin-america-in-a-glimpse/ You can find the 2015 report here: https://www.derechosdigitales.org/wp-content/uploads/glympse_ingl__s1.pdf And if you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. We would love to see you there! -- Claudio Ruiz derechosdigitales.org | @claudio PGP fingerprint C40E 0C6E E7B2 FA91 D8A9 1FC4 74D2 5C4D B603 D089 From dmitry.epstein at gmail.com Wed Nov 23 14:16:29 2016 From: dmitry.epstein at gmail.com (Dmitry Epstein) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:16:29 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] Survey Request on Multistakeholderism in Internet Governance Message-ID: Dear BestBits Community: We are researchers at UC Berkeley and University of Illinois at Chicago. We are conducting a research study about perceptions of multistakeholderism and the use of online tools for participation in internet governance processes. Our goal is to inform multistakeholder processes and help develop new online tools for inclusive participation in internet governance. We would appreciate you completing the following survey: http://tinyurl.com/IGF2016 The survey should take up to 20-30 minutes to complete. Participants who complete the survey will have the opportunity to be entered into a drawing for a $50 Amazon.com gift card. Please reach out to us with any questions or concerns. This research protocol has been approved by the UC Berkeley Committee for Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS Protocol: 2016-08-9071). If you have any questions or concerns about your rights and treatment as a research subject, you may contact the office of UC Berkeley's Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects, at 510-642-7461 or subjects at berkeley.edu. Thank you, Brandie Nonnecke and Dmitry Epstein Brandie M. Nonnecke, PhD Research and Development Manager, UC Berkeley Program Director, UC Davis CITRIS and the Banatao Institute nonnecke at citris-uc.org citris-uc.org | @BNonnecke | nonnecke.com Dmitry Epstein Assistant Professor of Digital Policy Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago www.thinkmacro.org comm.uic.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kristen.robinson at webfoundation.org Thu Nov 3 13:52:54 2016 From: kristen.robinson at webfoundation.org (Kristen Robinson) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 13:52:54 -0400 Subject: [bestbits] Two great opportunities at Web Foundation - please share Message-ID: Hi all, We have two excellent openings in communications and policy at Web Foundation! Please share with any relevant contacts who may be interested. Full details and job descriptions can be found on our jobs page . Thanks in advance, Kristen Policy Fellow We’re recruiting a Policy Fellow to provide support to Sir Tim Berners-Lee in his role as a spokesperson and advocate for the Web Foundation on selected emerging issues. You will work closely with our policy and communications teams to ensure that Sir Tim’s voice influences key debates and decisions globally. You will assist with strategy and forecasting on emerging issues, conduct desk research and lead in producing related policy materials aimed at key decision-makers. This is a unique role for a talented and motivated person who is able to apply academic acumen to real world policy challenges facing the internet. Please note that candidates should be in possession of a doctorate, or close to completing one (ABD stage), or alternatively possess a relevant Masters’ degree and further research and policy analysis experience equivalent to a doctorate. Interested candidates should read the full job description and apply by sending a cover letter and CV to jobs at webfoundation.org with “Policy Fellow” in the subject line. Deadline: 30 November 2016 Communications Officer – Digital Inclusion We’re looking for a communications whiz to join our team, working on issues including internet affordability and gender equality online. Do you have a track record of working on high-impact campaigns with complex issues at their heart? Is your writing excellent, your attention to detail unparalleled, and are you comfortable working across cultures and timezones? You could be the colleague we’re looking for. Please read the job description and apply ASAP by sending a cover letter and a copy of your CV to jobs at webfoundation.org with “Communications Officer” in the subject line. We’ll accept rolling applications until this position is filled, and will prioritise those based in either Cape Town or London. -- Kristen Robinson Communications & Advocacy Manager +44 20 3287 7228 @Kristen3025 Skype: Kristen_WebFdn *Please note I'm working on a US east coast time zone (GMT-4)* *1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA**| * *www.webfoundation.org* * | Twitter: @webfoundation* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From willi.uebelherr at riseup.net Thu Nov 24 12:31:54 2016 From: willi.uebelherr at riseup.net (willi uebelherr) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 14:31:54 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Fwd: Preparing for the End of Consumer Society In-Reply-To: <62076519.61690.0@wordpress.com> References: <62076519.61690.0@wordpress.com> Message-ID: <52916cb9-5dd0-e9d9-2c46-efb8e3712fac@riseup.net> Dear friends, this is our main task. Not to end the capitalism. It is easy. Much more important are this big parasitic elitists structures. Military and paramilitary with states, all the trade unions, political parties, the whole representative systems. All pure "consumerism". We need creative and productive societies with an open space of free knowledge and communication, based on Sumak Kawsay: The good life in harmony with the nature, anorganic and organic. This discussions can help us. many greetings, willi Asuncion, Paraguay -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [New post] Preparing for the End of Consumer Society Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:01:19 +0000 From: P2P Foundation To: willi.uebelherr at gmail.com Post : Preparing for the End of Consumer Society URL : https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/preparing-for-the-end-of-consumer-society/2016/11/24 Posted : November 24, 2016 at 12:00 pm Author : Stacco Troncoso > As the familiar features of consumer society recede, new institutionalized forms of cooperativism can help to ease some of the disruption and foreseeable hardship. This is the first of a series of posts on post-consumerism ( https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/tag/post-consumerism ) . It was authored by Maurie J. Cohen and originally published at TruthOut ( http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/35548-preparing-for-the-end-of-consumer-society ) : By famously implementing the $5 per day wage ( http://www.npr.org/2014/01/27/267145552/the-middle-class-took-off-100-years-ago-thanks-to-henry-ford ) in 1914, Henry Ford was the first industrialist to recognize that a consumer society can only function when workers have access to ample income to finance discretionary purchases. During the 1930s, under the tutelage of John Maynard Keynes, this understanding became a key tenet of macroeconomic policy in many parts of the world. However, by the 1970s, high inflation, obstinate unemployment and other sources of economic instability called this strategy into question and unleashed during the following decades a wave of neoliberal reforms. Ensuing years brought forth a protracted period of stagnating wages and increasing income inequality, and consumer society was perpetuated, as is today widely recognized, by deregulation of the banking sector and a deluge of easily available credit. The financial crisis of 2007-2008 and subsequent Great Recession exposed the fallacies of such policies, and uncertainty has resurfaced about the durability of consumerism as an economic engine. Consumer society as a system of social organization appears to be in jeopardy on a number of fronts. First, populations across North America, Europe and most of Asia are ageing, and demographic change is shifting preferences away from lifestyles premised on material accumulation. In addition, millennials continue to face extremely precarious job prospects. The resultant consequence of these dual trends is evident in faltering rates of home ownership ( http://www.governing.com/news/headlines/gov-housing-report-shows-declining-homeownership-increasing-cost-burden.html ) and declining levels of personal automobile ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_car ) use in a number of countries. Second, rising income inequality is fracturing the middle class that has for more than half a century been the flywheel of consumer society and solidifying a two-tier, hourglass-shaped social structure. Third, private consumption is dependent on complementary public procurement, and austerity policies over the past decade are emblematic of declining political wherewithal to make requisite investments to renew the social and physical infrastructure on which consumer society relies. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, consumerist lifestyles have long been predicated on waged employment and the willingness of workers to spend relatively reliable income streams on goods and services. Steady work that compensates employees on a salaried or hourly basis and provides modest benefits are disappearing, and less regularized, contingent work ( http://krueger.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/akrueger/files/katz_krueger_cws_-_march_29_20165.pdf ) is becoming commonplace. Some analysts have disingenuously characterized the proliferation of Uber-type jobs as "sharing," when this trend actually demonstrates how workers are finding it increasingly necessary to string together freelance assignments to make ends meet. At the same time that we are beginning to transition away from consumer society, a new wave of digital technologies ( https://www.technologyreview.com/s/515926/how-technology-is-destroying-jobs/ ) premised on artificial intelligence is set to unsettle a large number of economic sectors -- from health care to engineering. One upshot of this disruption will be that short-term tasks will become an entirely normal feature of the employment landscape. In response to these developments, several governments have begun to evince interest in providing workers with a non-labor source of income. These proposals come in several varieties and include a universal basic income ( http://www.usbig.net/ ) (UBI), a citizen's dividend ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%27s_dividend ) and broad-based stock ownership ( http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo8056093.html ) in corporations. Particularly notable is Finland's recently announced program ( http://www.fastcompany.com/3054340/the-future-of-work/could-finlands-universal-basic-income-ever-work-in-the-us ) to test the viability of a UBI scheme that will pay all eligible recipients approximately €800 per month. Other countries are actively debating similar initiatives. Unfortunately, extreme political fractiousness in the United States and Europe makes it improbable that these ideas will promptly receive wider legislative endorsement. In the meantime, what are struggling households to do as theorganizational pillars of consumer society collapse and the most readily apparent alternative resembles a 21st century version of feudalism? We seem to be at a juncture where we need to rediscover the lessons of mutual assistance ( http://www.amazon.com/Mutual-Aid-A-Factor-Evolution/dp/1497333733 ) . One option entails building on novel modes of cooperativism ( http://www.id-coop.eu/en/KeyConcepts/Pages/Cooperativism.aspx ) that meld production and consumption into a single organization. The largest worker-consumer cooperative ( http://cultivate.coop/wiki/Multi-stakeholder_cooperatives#Worker_Consumer_Hybrid ) in the world is the 800-store Eroski supermarket chain ( http://www.eroski.es/ ) , a subsidiary of the venerable Mondragón cooperative ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation ) headquartered in the Basque region of Spain. Smaller prototypes thrive in the United States in the form of the Weaver Street Market ( http://www.weaverstreetmarket.coop/ ) in North Carolina and the Black Star Co-op Pub and Brewery ( http://www.blackstar.coop/ ) in Texas. There are also indications that the reticence that has traditionally marked the relationship between cooperatives and trade unions is giving way to a new spirit of collaboration ( http://www.usw.org/union/allies/The-Union-Co-op-Model-March-26-2012.pdf ) supportive of this general idea. History suggests that economic transitions are extremely painful and chaotic. This was the case as agrarian society gave way to industrial society during the second half of the 18th century. Similar forms of dislocation were widespread as the service economy in turn displaced manufacturing two centuries later. Even as this latter transformation is still playing out, a new era of expansive socio-technical change ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociotechnical_system ) is starting to unfold. As the familiar features of consumer society recede, new institutionalized forms of cooperativism can help to ease some of the disruption and foreseeable hardship. Maurie J. Cohen ( http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/52086 ) Maurie J. Cohen is Professor and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and author of the forthcoming book The Future of Consumer Society: Prospects for Sustainability in the New Economy ( https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-future-of-consumer-society-9780198768555?cc=us&lang=en& ) (Oxford University Press). Photo ( http://wpinject.com/ ) by http://www.flickr.com/photos/11223807 at N04/15252717051 Add a comment to this post: https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/preparing-for-the-end-of-consumer-society/2016/11/24#respond -- Manage Subscriptions https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=155848be6d758ced70cc9fa4e94ccab0&email=willi.uebelherr%40gmail.com Unsubscribe: https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=155848be6d758ced70cc9fa4e94ccab0&email=willi.uebelherr%40gmail.com&b=LLekvnL%2BB1%25ekF%25G%7C6nDpL0ac53q%25RvT-ETZPsumMZRD%2Cqoc%2B2_ From willi.uebelherr at riseup.net Thu Nov 24 17:13:12 2016 From: willi.uebelherr at riseup.net (willi uebelherr) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 19:13:12 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] [Internet Policy] Fwd: Preparing for the End of Consumer Society In-Reply-To: <00a001d24690$4a2417c0$de6c4740$@thinkmetrics.com> References: <62076519.61690.0@wordpress.com> <52916cb9-5dd0-e9d9-2c46-efb8e3712fac@riseup.net> <00a001d24690$4a2417c0$de6c4740$@thinkmetrics.com> Message-ID: Dear Brandt, i thank you very much for your fantastic response. Independent, that you think, it will be a little "Off Topic". "... as I doubt you are suggesting the Internet Society should devote itself to global revolution". Never this is my goal. This have two causes: - Never we can move people to any social actions. This in principle have to come from the people itself, based on her experience, understanding and perspectives. I act in principle for autonomous subjects in all spheres of her/our life. - evolution and revolution For me, this is a dialectical sisterpair. Our basic activities are always evolutionary. This means, we act on step by step. We know, that every evolution is not a smooth function. It consist on steps. The ripening (die Reifung). But if we are blocked on our evolutionary way, we change to the revolutionary action. We destroy or dissolve the blockade. Then, if we have the free way or space, we switch back to the evolutionary activities. This understanding is for me central. And we see in our history the lack of understanding. We can say, the strong neo-liberalism reorganisation of so many societies is this revolutionary activity in his specific direction. And now the people are totally confused. But we should always be clear, that all our discussion, reflection, study, design and constructions are evolutionary activities. There is no jump to an higher level possible as to go step by step. with many thanks and greetings, willi Asuncion, Paraguay On 24/11/2016 17:21, Brandt Dainow wrote: > I think this is a little off topic, as I doubt you are suggesting the Internet Society should devote itself to global revolution. However, I think Q'ero philosophy is profound, so I'll take this moment to spread a little Inka thought. I wonder, Willi, if you have considered the possibilities of just a basic Ayni Kawsay instead of going for more? I think a basic respect for ayni would handle most issues you are concerned with. If all people practiced ayni, there would be no such thing as elitist actions, even in elitist systems. > > For anyone left reading "ayni" = "reciprocity" and "kawsay" = life or living, in Quechan, the original language of the Inka Empire, still spoken by tens of millions in the old Inka territories, and once the language which made you eligible for "P'aqo" (or noble) status in the Inka Empire. The philosophy of ayni is more subtle than the concept of karma, but reflects the idea that your actions will inevitably have consequences. It's closer to systems thinking with feedback and loops, etc. However, ayni then branches into the concepts of yasantin and masintin, which examine the same dialectics as one would find in Hegel, but sees not opposition but a creative dynamism (called "tinkuy"). It's a very profound philosophy which resolves a number of difficulties extant in Western Philosophy, but poorly documented as yet. > From willi.uebelherr at riseup.net Thu Nov 24 19:09:32 2016 From: willi.uebelherr at riseup.net (willi uebelherr) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 21:09:32 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Fwd: Preparing for the End of Consumer Society In-Reply-To: References: <62076519.61690.0@wordpress.com> <52916cb9-5dd0-e9d9-2c46-efb8e3712fac@riseup.net> Message-ID: <84bf3cfb-c60d-2a6e-e5ca-ad27d9ce9d6d@riseup.net> Dear friends, this is the answer from Pater Knight from Brasil. In another email he send the link to a book with his experience to telecommunication in Ceara in Brasil around Fortaleza: Private-public partnerships for expanding broadband access: lessons from the digital ring in Cear´a, Brazil https://independent.academia.edu/PeterKnight16 I will clear say: I am not a friend of PPP (Private Public Partnership), because we don't need it. We need the direct activities from the Communities for her telecommunication. But, this books give us some real lessons. many greetings, willi Asuncion, Paraguay -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [Internet Policy] Fwd: Preparing for the End of Consumer Society Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:56:28 -0200 From: Peter Knight To: willi uebelherr CC: ISOC , ... Very interesting indeed! I plan to follow most of these links as part of my studies on the two interrelated concepts I consider fundamental in the first half of the 21st century: Sustainability and Sufficiency. Over a year ago I put together a page page dealing with Sufficiency and recruited a Dartmouth Class of 1962 classmate at Ohio State University to do one on Sustainability -- each with an introductory bibliography. Having finished writing two books dealing with the Internet and Broadband in Brazil, I plan to devote my intellectual energies to reading, writing, and disseminating work on these two concepts. I have a large backlog of reading to undertake, but I'd be delighted to get suggestions along the lines sketched in the above pages and the excellent links in the piece by Stacco Troncoso that Willi posted. -------------- Peter T. Knight, PhD Co-organizador e co-autor do livro http://facebook.com/bandalarganobrasil/ http://facebook.com/broadbandinbrazil/ free Collective Commons 4.0 download inn English at https://independent.academia.edu/PeterKnight16 http://bandalarganobrasil.com.br From maryant.fernandez-perez at edri.org Fri Nov 25 04:41:17 2016 From: maryant.fernandez-perez at edri.org (=?UTF-8?Q?Maryant_Fern=c3=a1ndez?=) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:41:17 +0100 Subject: [bestbits] New leaks confirm TiSA proposals that would undermine civil liberties Message-ID: <1fa831d0-6b97-2753-0c23-422844da39f4@edri.org> *New leaks confirm TiSA proposals that would undermine civil liberties* https://edri.org/new-leaks-confirm-tisa-undermine-civil-liberties/ https://twitter.com/edri/status/802077350682914817 Today, on 25 November 2016, German blog Netzpolitik.org in association with Greenpeace published new leaked documents concerning the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), a “trade” agreement that is currently being negotiated between 23 members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), including the European Union. *The new leaks confirm the problems identified in previous leaks, including serious threats to freedom of expression and protection of personal data of European citizens.* "The proposals on privatised censorship are particularly worrying", said Joe McNamee, Executive Director of European Digital Rights (EDRi). "Creating a power to undermine our free speech with no accountability is reckless and contrary to literally all relevant provisions of international law." In September 2016, Wikileaks and Greenpeace Netherlands published other documents on TiSA. In the light of today’s leaks, what’s new from a civil liberties perspective? _*1. Liability protections:*_ while having provisions to promote freedom of expression will be a step forward, the latest US made a proposal in TiSA which does not respect the rule of law and would remove rights to freedom of expression. The proposal is that internet companies would not be liable for any damage caused by voluntary restrictions of individuals’ free speech if they undertake such restrictions “in good faith” because they feel that the communications are “harmful or objectionable”. The proposal even extends to when this damage is caused implementing regulation-by-algorithm – in other words when using technical means, such as automatic filtering, to do so. This would privatise the regulation of the human right to receive, impart and seek information. It would almost inevitably *lead into privatised censorship of completely legal information by governments *(through pressures to online companies), or online companies themselves (acting in their own commercial interest). _*2. Net neutrality:*_ The EU had taken a step towards the right direction and proposed some improvements to the text on net neutrality, the principle that all the internet traffic has to be treated equally, which is crucial for fair competition between online services, for innovation, and for freedom of expression. The leaks show that the US and Colombia proposal officially oppose these improvements.*The US has net neutrality rules and this position was taken before the elections. Why hasn’t it supported the EU here?* _*3. Data flows: *_The leaks show that the pressure to include “data flows” and “free flow of data” in the agreement is persistent. The European Commission announced previously that data protection will be left out of TiSA. However, the European Commission Directorate General for Trade (DG Trade) has stated that they will ensure free data flows and provisions against data localisation. Bringing these topics into the discussions will almost inevitably*bring data protection and privacy onto the negotiation table.* A big coalition of organisations around the world is worried about the proposals in the draft core text, the e-commerce, telecommunications, financial services and localisation annexes of TiSA. These leaks are not reassuring. TiSA is being negotiated formally since March 2013. A Ministerial Meeting to conclude the talks was scheduled on 5-6 December. The meeting has been cancelled due to outstanding issues and the recent developments in the US. *Read more:* TiSA-leaks: Fundamental rights shall be levered out for free trade – also in the internet (25.11.2016) https://netzpolitik.org/2016/tisa-leaks-fundamental-rights-shall-be-levered-out-for-free-trade-also-in-the-internet/ Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), Annex on Electronic Commerce (25.11.2016) https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2016/11/tisa_annex_on_electronic_commerce.pdf Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), Annex on Telecommunications Services (25.11.2016) https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2016/11/tisa_annex_on_telecommunications_services.pdf Global letter on TiSA, data protection and privacy (02.11.2016) https://edri.org/files/TiSA/globalletter_dataprotection_privacy_20161102.pdf Corporate-sponsored privacy confusion in the EU on trade and data protection (12.10.2016) https://edri.org/corporate-sponsored-privacy-confusion-eu-trade-data-protection/ TiSA leaks set alarm bells ringing (20.09.2016) https://edri.org/tisa-leaks-set-alarm-bells-ringing/ EDRi analysis of the TiSA leaks of September 2016 (20.09.2016) https://edri.org/files/tisaleaks_edrianalysis_20092016.pdf EDRi’s position paper on TiSA (January 2016) https://edri.org/files/TiSA_Position_Jan2016e.pdf Study launch: The EU can achieve data protection-proof trade agreements (13.07.2016) https://edri.org/study-launch-eu-can-achieve-data-protection-proof-trade-agreements/ -- Maryant Fernandez Perez Advocacy Manager European Digital Rights Rue Belliard 20 B- 1040 Brussels https://edri.org Tel: +32 2 274 25 70 PGP: D59A 1D3F 50CC 231B DCFE 3F2C 92FA 6F29 3D74 0B42 @edri | @maryantfp Donate to EDRi! https://edri.org/donate/ Subscribe to the EDRi-gram, our fortnightly roundup of digital rights news! http://edri.org/newsletters/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Happy to provide any clarifications or further information is required... parminder -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Message from Ambassador Benedicto Fonseca, Chair CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation: Invitation to submit contributions Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 17:37:56 +0200 From: stdev To: CSTD-WGEC%UNGVA at unog.un.org * * *Dear members of the Working Group,* * * Thank you very much for your active participation in the first meeting of the working group on enhanced cooperation. As a follow-up to our meeting, I am writing to invite you to submit your contributions to the two guiding questions by email to the CSTD Secretariat (stdev at unctad.org ) (1) What are the high level characteristics of enhanced cooperation? (2) Taking into consideration the work of the previous WGEC and the Tunis Agenda, particularly paragraphs 69-71, what kind of recommendations should we consider? Parallel to this, I will also issue an open call for contributions through the CSTD website. 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Since 2011, we have celebrated the award winners at the IGF and we will be honored to have you and your colleagues join us to celebrate the contributions that innovative Internet-based solutions have made to their communities across the global south. The Seed Alliance is a collaboration between FIRE, FRIDA and ISIF Asia regional grants and awards programs, who together support Internet development across the global south. This collaboration is possible thanks to the generous support from the program partners— the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada, the Internet Society and the contributions from three Regional Internet Registry partners (AFRINIC, APNIC and LACNIC) as well as many generous regional sponsors. We are having our awards ceremony at the Internet Governance Forum in Guadalajara, and guess what! You are invited! [id:image001.png at 01D24A47.44CD14B0] The joint ceremony will take place on 6 December, Workshop Room 1, 1:00 pm at PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico. Share the word! Innovation that changes lives is worth celebrating! You can add the awards ceremony to your Sched calendar http://sched.co/8hse. The Seed Alliance has a booth at the IGF village. Please come by and visit us to learn more and get to meet the award winners from all 3 regional programs! The Seed Alliance members are also organizing the following workshops. You can add them to your calendars on the links below: WS26: Cybersecurity - Initiatives in and by the Global South Tuesday, December 6 • 09:00 - 10:30 http://sched.co/8hsi WS212: Promoting Innovation & Entrepreneurship in the Global South Friday, December 9 • 09:00 - 10:30 http://sched.co/8hvE WS82: Networks & solutions to achieve SDGs agenda-Internet at play Friday, December 9 • 12:00 - 13:30 http://sched.co/8hvD If you are not attending the IGF, you can follow the workshops as well as the awards ceremony through the remote participation channels. Warm regards, Sylvia ————————————————————————— Sylvia Cadena | APNIC Community Partnerships Specialist | sylvia at apnic.net VoIP: sylvia at voip.apnic.net | skypeID: sylviacadena FB ISIF.asia | G+ ISIFAsia | @ISIF_Asia 6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD, 4101 Australia | PO Box 3646 Tel: +61 7 3858 3100 | Fax: +61 7 3858 3199 http://www.apnic.net | http://www.isif.asia | https://blog.apnic.net/ * Love trees. 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Participants who complete the survey will have the opportunity to be entered into a drawing for a $50 Amazon.com gift card. Please reach out to us with any questions or concerns. This research protocol has been approved by the UC Berkeley Committee for Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS Protocol: 2016-08-9071). If you have any questions or concerns about your rights and treatment as a research subject, you may contact the office of UC Berkeley's Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects, at 510-642-7461 <(510)%20642-7461> or subjects at berkeley.edu. Thank you, Brandie Nonnecke and Dmitry Epstein Brandie M. Nonnecke, PhD Research and Development Manager, UC Berkeley Program Director, UC Davis CITRIS and the Banatao Institute nonnecke at citris-uc.org citris-uc.org | @BNonnecke | nonnecke.com Dmitry Epstein Assistant Professor of Digital Policy Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago www.thinkmacro.org comm.uic.edu On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:16 PM Dmitry Epstein wrote: > Dear BestBits Community: > > We are researchers at UC Berkeley and University of Illinois at Chicago. > We are conducting a research study about perceptions of multistakeholderism > and the use of online tools for participation in internet governance > processes. Our goal is to inform multistakeholder processes and help > develop new online tools for inclusive participation in internet governance. > > We would appreciate you completing the following survey: > http://tinyurl.com/IGF2016 > > The survey should take up to 20-30 minutes to complete. Participants who > complete the survey will have the opportunity to be entered into a drawing > for a $50 Amazon.com gift card. > > Please reach out to us with any questions or concerns. > > This research protocol has been approved by the UC Berkeley Committee for > Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS Protocol: 2016-08-9071). > > If you have any questions or concerns about your rights and treatment as a > research subject, you may contact the office of UC Berkeley's Committee for > the Protection of Human Subjects, at 510-642-7461 or subjects at berkeley.edu > . > > > Thank you, > Brandie Nonnecke and Dmitry Epstein > > > Brandie M. Nonnecke, PhD > Research and Development Manager, UC Berkeley > Program Director, UC Davis > CITRIS and the Banatao Institute > nonnecke at citris-uc.org > citris-uc.org | @BNonnecke | nonnecke.com > > > > Dmitry Epstein > Assistant Professor of Digital Policy > Department of Communication > University of Illinois at Chicago > www.thinkmacro.org > comm.uic.edu > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jmalcolm at eff.org Tue Nov 29 20:56:46 2016 From: jmalcolm at eff.org (Jeremy Malcolm) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:56:46 -0800 Subject: [bestbits] Invitation, revised IGF day 0 workshop: How to bring democratic deliberation practice to Internet Governance Message-ID: Hello all, I'm an advisor to the Stanford University Deliberative Poll project which debuted as a pilot at last year's IGF, and is being further trialled at this year's IGF. The researchers are looking into the potential to bring democratic practices and values in general, and deliberation in particular, into the multistakeholder Internet Governance world. They believe that peer-reviewed balanced briefing materials and well conducted deliberation can significantly improve informed governance and decision making in our field. As some of you may know, this is also a subject that is dear to my own heart, and I have expressed disappointment (through my IGF blog and book ) that the IGF has not really begun to tap the potential to democratize global governance of the Internet through deliberative democratic innovations. So we have here a unique opportunity to investigate the possibilities for leveraging this unique global forum into a more effective tool to improve the inclusiveness and quality of Internet public policy development. The Deliberative Poll event is taking place this year from 2pm to 5pm on Day 1, December 5. Please see the invitation below for more details and rsvp here ! The organizers and I would love to discuss and collaborate with you on this important project. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Dear colleagues, We are writing to invite you to our day 0 workshop at IGF2016 in Mexico! Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy (CDD) and the Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL) are hosting a day 0 workshop to discuss bringing deliberation and deliberative democracy to multistakeholder Internet governance. *The workshop at the IGF venue from 2p to 5p on Dec 5. * To ground the workshop in one of the current Internet Governance debates, participants will engage in moderated small group deliberations on the topic of governing digital encryption. Participants will engage in knowledge sharing and weighing of tradeoffs based on balanced briefing materials laying out policy options and their tradeoffs. Following this hands on deliberative experience, the workshop will open up the discussion to strategies, obstacles, and paths for how deliberative democracy can be effectively used within multistakeholder governance in general and on the topic of governing digital encryption in particular. Participants in this workshop will depart with a deliberation toolkit which participants can use to implement in their own communities. If you are interested in joining our workshop, please rsvp here ! Sincerely, Jim Fishkin, Eileen Donahoe, Max Senges -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If adopted, these will implement real name policies for domain name registration in China, Verisign is contributing to an infrastructure of repression. Verisign’s efforts at ICANN and IETF would facilitate the new rules, and present a serious risk to internet users in China and across the world. Verisign is doing this before the draft rules are even law in China, and if it continues with this work, it can be expected that this infrastructure will also be demanded by other repressive governments. ARTICLE 19 is seriously concerned about these efforts, and we have drafted the attached statement and recommendations in an effort to pressure Verisign to uphold their human rights responsibilities in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. We hope that you will join us in this effort by adding your support to this statement. We plan to publish the joint statement on Thursday November 1st, so please contact Emma (cc) if your organisation would like to sign on as soon as possible, but by Wednesday 30th 23:59 at the latest. Thanks in advance, and looking forward to seeing many of you at IGF. Best wishes, Niels PS If you want to sign on, we will send you a final copy with all sign-ons for republishing on your website. PS2 We'll also keep the statement open for sign-on after publishing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign -- Niels ten Oever Head of Digital Article 19 www.article19.org PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Verisign Must Not Facilitate Human Rights Violations.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 75291 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We are thankful to the numerous volunteers and community members who have and continue to contribute to these valuable processes. *How to comment:* Each BPF has a separate section on the IGF’s review platform: • 2016 IGF BPF on Gender and Access - *Overcoming barriers to enable women’s meaningful Internet access* • 2016 IGF BPF on Cybersecurity - *Building Confidence and Security in the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) through Enhanced Cooperation and Collaboration*. • 2016 IGF BPF on IXPs - *Contributing to the success and continued development of Internet exchange points.* • 2016 IGF BPF IPv6 - *Understanding the commercial and economic incentives behind a successful IPv6 deployment.* For ease of use, all BPFs have also sub-divided their drafts into different parts on the review platform. Make use of the navigation bar on the left of the Review Platform to move between different sections and to read and comment on the entire document for each BPF. Each Part may furthermore be divided into sub-sections or ‘pages’. Please use the page buttons at the bottom of a Part to scroll to sub-sections or pages in each Part. *What to know when commenting:* All comments on the review platform are public. For contributors preferring to remain anonymous, pseudonyms may be used. All comments have to adhere to the IGF's Code of Conduct in respect of fairness and reasonableness. *Thank you in advance for your active engagement and participation in the IGF BPFs and we look forward to reviewing all of your comments!* *Best regards* *Source: IGF Secretariat* -- *WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)* E-government and Open Government Data Platforms Specialist National Information Technology Agency (NITA)/ Ghana Open Data Initiative Project. ICANN Fellow / Member, UN IGF MAG Member, ISOC Member, Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Member, Diplo Foundation Member, OGP Open Data WG Member, GODAN Memember, ITAG Member Email: wisdom_dk at hotmail.com wisdom.donkor at data.gov.gh wisdom.dk at gmail.com Skype: wisdom_dk facebook: facebook at wisdom_dk Website: www.nita.gov.gh / www.data.gov.gh www.isoc.gh / www.itag.org.gh -- *WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)* E-government and Open Government Data Platforms Specialist National Information Technology Agency (NITA)/ Ghana Open Data Initiative Project. ICANN Fellow / Member, UN IGF MAG Member, ISOC Member, Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Member, Diplo Foundation Member, OGP Open Data WG Member, GODAN Memember, ITAG Member Email: wisdom_dk at hotmail.com wisdom.donkor at data.gov.gh wisdom.dk at gmail.com Skype: wisdom_dk facebook: facebook at wisdom_dk Website: www.nita.gov.gh / www.data.gov.gh www.isoc.gh / www.itag.org.gh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From willi.uebelherr at riseup.net Wed Nov 30 09:46:13 2016 From: willi.uebelherr at riseup.net (willi uebelherr) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:46:13 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Sign-on Statement - Verisign In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <191f54ba-7bbf-49c6-7359-8a756ae1f840@riseup.net> Hallo Niels, this text is a veil of reality. The process of openess destruction is concentrated in North America and Europe. The link to China is a distraction and deception. The technical mechanism to block the freedom of expression is installed or should installed everywhere. And "real name policies for domain name registration" where is the problem? To give people like whistleblowers or real investigative writers anonym access is always possible. The biggest problems in this area comes from the state organisations in the NATO block, members and allies. many greetings, willi Asuncion, Paraguay On 30/11/2016 09:10, Niels ten Oever wrote: > Dear friends, > > The recent news that Facebook had built censorship software to enable it > to operate in China caused concern about the complicity of large tech > companies in human rights violations online, but Facebook is not the > only company engaged in this kind of work. > > Verisign, one of the Internet’s largest infrastructure providers [0], is > currently building infrastructure that will help the Chinese government > crack down on freedom of expression and the right to privacy. > > By making standards and building infrastructure to comply with China’s > plan to introduce the Internet Domain Name Management Rules. If adopted, > these will implement real name policies for domain name registration in > China, Verisign is contributing to an infrastructure of repression. > Verisign’s efforts at ICANN and IETF would facilitate the new rules, and > present a serious risk to internet users in China and across the world. > Verisign is doing this before the draft rules are even law in China, and > if it continues with this work, it can be expected that this > infrastructure will also be demanded by other repressive governments. > > ARTICLE 19 is seriously concerned about these efforts, and we have > drafted the attached statement and recommendations in an effort to > pressure Verisign to uphold their human rights responsibilities in > accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. > > We hope that you will join us in this effort by adding your support to > this statement. > > We plan to publish the joint statement on Thursday November 1st, so > please contact Emma (cc) if your organisation would like to sign on as > soon as possible, but by Wednesday 30th 23:59 at the latest. > > Thanks in advance, and looking forward to seeing many of you at IGF. > > Best wishes, > > Niels > > PS If you want to sign on, we will send you a final copy with all > sign-ons for republishing on your website. > > PS2 We'll also keep the statement open for sign-on after publishing. > > [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > From jmalcolm at eff.org Wed Nov 30 19:58:55 2016 From: jmalcolm at eff.org (Jeremy Malcolm) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:58:55 -0800 Subject: [bestbits] Fwd: DC Surveys Webinar I Thursday 1 December, 1600 UTC I Register Now! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4e824965-5d4f-28ec-c474-925b7b56a208@eff.org> I'm not sure how widely this invitation has gone out, but it is for the entire IGF community. Complementing the Deliberative Poll that I wrote about yesterday, this is another stream of work towards encouraging more deliberation on the IGF's outputs. In this case, it is around the outputs of dynamic coalitions. The idea is that each dynamic coalition should extract about 5 propositions from their work during the past year, and present those for feedback. Where the deliberation comes in is that there will be a webinar tomorrow morning, and an in-person session on Day 4 of the IGF, where the propositions can be challenged and discussed. Following this, people can complete a survey on their feelings about each proposition - whether they agree or disagree, and identifying any associated strengths/opportunities and weaknesses/threats. So this is another important way to make the IGF more deliberative and outcome oriented, so I would encourage you all to register for tomorrow's webinar. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: DC Surveys Webinar I Thursday 1 December, 1600 UTC I Register Now! Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:37:40 +0100 From: Eleonora Anna MAZZUCCHI To: Eleonora Anna MAZZUCCHI CC: avri doria , Markus Kummer , Jeremy Malcolm Dear All, As some of you may know, IGF Dynamic Coalitions (DCs) have published *surveys *on their work ahead of the annual meeting. These are on the IGF’s website and will also be available in paper form at the DCs shared booth at the IGF. Preliminary results from these surveys may also inform interactions at the DCs' main session. To answer questions anyone in the IGF community may have on the content of the surveys, and why particular issues or ideas were chosen by DCs for feedback, *all are invited to participate in a* *webinar tomorrow, 1 December, at 16.00 UTC.* Please join us by registering below! Looking forward, Best, Eleonora IGF Secretariat *DC Surveys Webinar* Thursday, December 1, 2016 4:00 pm | Greenwich Time (Reykjavik, GMT) | 1 hr *Register* After your request has been approved, you'll receive instructions for joining the meeting. Need help? Go to http://help.webex.com . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil society coordination group (which contains reps of all the main civil society networks in Internet governance, including us). Thanks! Any questions let us know, Best, -- *Sheetal Kumar* Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From parminder at itforchange.net Sat Nov 5 10:39:12 2016 From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 20:09:12 +0530 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes open, it will be a good start to make this process fully open - which begins with making all application info open (best to tell applicants at this stage itself) and also the process of final selection, including justifications etc... thanks, parminder On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: > Dear all, > > If you would like to nominate anyone (including yourself) as an > opening or closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in > Guadalajara, Mexico (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) and > I or the list your nomination with a short statement of the reason for > thenomination, and whether the person (if not yourself) has agreed to > benominated. > > The IGF the Secretariat has asked for names by *COB Thursday 10 > November*, - therefore we ask that you send yournominations by_*COB 07 > November*_. > > Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil > society coordination group (which contains reps of all the main civil > society networks in Internet governance, including us). > > Thanks! Any questions let us know, > > Best, > -- > *Sheetal Kumar* > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL > T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From parminder at itforchange.net Sat Nov 5 13:51:21 2016 From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 23:21:21 +0530 Subject: [bestbits] [governance] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> Message-ID: <1528aa10-71d1-e3c0-3d8e-2f87271a8375@itforchange.net> On Saturday 05 November 2016 10:55 PM, Arsène Tungali wrote: > Within the IGC, we will try and be as open as possible in this process. > I will try to be updating the list on the different names received so > far and will encourage CSCG members to follow the same process for > final selection. Thanks Arsene, it is such circumstances, important to let the potential applicants at this stage itself that all information submitted by them would be made public... parminder > We will let the community know of the selection process and final > names as submitted to the CS MAG reps > > ------------------------ > **Arsène Tungali** > Co-Founder & Executive Director, /Rudi international > /, > CEO,/Smart Services Sarl /, /Mabingwa > Forum / > Tel: +243 993810967/ > / > GPG: 523644A0/ > / > _Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo_/ > > / > 2015 Mandela Washington Felllow > > (YALI) - ISOC IGF Ambassador > - > > Blogger - ICANN Fellow > .//The > HuffingtonPost UK > > > 2016-11-05 16:39 GMT+02:00 parminder >: > > In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes > open, it will be a good start to make this process fully open - > which begins with making all application info open (best to tell > applicants at this stage itself) and also the process of final > selection, including justifications etc... thanks, parminder > > > On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> If you would like to nominate anyone (including yourself) as an >> opening or closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in >> Guadalajara, Mexico (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) >> and I or the list your nomination with a short statement of the >> reason for thenomination, and whether the person (if not >> yourself) has agreed to benominated. >> >> The IGF the Secretariat has asked for names by *COB Thursday 10 >> November*, - therefore we ask that you send yournominations >> by_*COB 07 November*_. >> >> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil >> society coordination group (which contains reps of all the main >> civil society networks in Internet governance, including us). >> >> Thanks! Any questions let us know, >> >> Best, >> -- >> *Sheetal Kumar* >> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL >> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL >> T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 >> | >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> > ____________________________________________________________ You > received this message as a subscriber on the list: > governance at lists.igcaucus.org > To be removed from the > list, visit: http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing > For all other list > information and functions, see: > http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance > To edit your profile > and to find the IGC's charter, see: http://www.igcaucus.org/ > Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > governance at lists.igcaucus.org > To be removed from the list, visit: > http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing > > For all other list information and functions, see: > http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance > To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see: > http://www.igcaucus.org/ > > Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sheetal at gp-digital.org Mon Nov 7 03:48:43 2016 From: sheetal at gp-digital.org (Sheetal Kumar) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 08:48:43 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November In-Reply-To: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> References: <6c0bd8c9-cd8c-1730-73d0-e58656f8461b@itforchange.net> Message-ID: Dear all, A reminder that the deadline for nominations for CS speakers for the opening and closing ceremonies should be sent to myself/Poncelet by *COB today 07 November*. We would encourage you to do this openly, (e.g replying to the entire list thread with your nomination), but either way the deadline is today. Thanks! Best, Sheetal. On 5 November 2016 at 14:39, parminder wrote: > In keeping with the sentiment to keep CS nominations processes open, it > will be a good start to make this process fully open - which begins with > making all application info open (best to tell applicants at this stage > itself) and also the process of final selection, including justifications > etc... thanks, parminder > > On Friday 04 November 2016 07:54 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: > > Dear all, > > If you would like to nominate anyone (including yourself) as an opening > or closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in Guadalajara, > Mexico (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) and I or the list > your nomination with a short statement of the reason for the nomination, > and whether the person (if not yourself) has agreed to be nominated. > > The IGF the Secretariat has asked for names by *COB Thursday 10 November*, > - therefore we ask that you send your nominations by *COB 07 November*. > > Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil society > coordination group (which contains reps of all the main civil society > networks in Internet governance, including us). > > Thanks! Any questions let us know, > > Best, > -- > *Sheetal Kumar* > Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL > Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL > T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > -- *Sheetal Kumar* Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)20 3 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: