From maryant.fernandez-perez at edri.org Thu Sep 1 06:39:05 2016 From: maryant.fernandez-perez at edri.org (=?UTF-8?Q?Maryant_Fern=c3=a1ndez?=) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 12:39:05 +0200 Subject: [bestbits] EDRi is looking for a fundraiser to strengthen our network! In-Reply-To: <9ed4ee71-1a49-8589-7854-046cfa710d23@edri.org> References: <9ed4ee71-1a49-8589-7854-046cfa710d23@edri.org> Message-ID: Hi all, We're currently looking for a professional fundraiser who will be able to support the team and help us strengthen EDRi. It would be great if you could distribute this job ad in your networks and apply if you're interested!: https://edri.org/edri-looking-fundraising-manager/ ====== European Digital Rights (EDRi) is a not-for-profit association of 31 digital rights organisations from across Europe. EDRi is the only European NGO specialising in the protection of digital rights. Our objectives are to promote, protect and uphold civil rights in the field of information and communication technology, such the rights to privacy, freedom of expression, communication, and access to information. You will be responsible for a wide range of fundraising activities, to create and maintain a reliable, efficient and ethical funding base to meet the needs of European Digital Rights’ work as a fast-growing and dynamic network! You will raise funds from foundations, companies, individuals and NGOs in close liaison with the Management and staff responsible for communications. You will lead on the development of funding streams for both restricted and unrestricted funds carrying out prospect research and harnessing opportunities for new income. As a strong communicator, you will demonstrate excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills, proven leadership skills. You will be enthusiastic and creative in your approach as you use your expertise to engage, motivate and inspire our supporters and develop lasting relationships with a range of partners. *Responsibilities* * Develop the targeting and solicitation of new foundation and corporate donation prospects, researching and identifying opportunities, developing the approach plan, briefings to move solicitation forward * Develop and implement the current fundraising strategy, together with the Managing Director. * Develop and implement individual giving, project funding e.g. via crowd-funding. * Development of individual contacts to identify potential major donors and a roster of potential ambassadors for the organisation. * Compile and maintain the database of existing and potential donors. * Contribute to the conceptualisation and messaging of grant proposals, together with the Communications Manager. * Development of a project portfolio for EDRi’s work. * Coordinate, facilitate and sometimes lead periodic meetings with donors. * Review draft activity reports. * Represent the organisation at events and meetings to establish contacts with potential donors. The successful candidate should possess the following: * At least 3 years’ experience in fundraising. * A relevant degree or certificate in fundraising. * Demonstrable personal experience of generating income from a range of sources. * Experience working for an international organisation. * Penchant for exploring new ways and avenues to increase supporter base and fundraising income. * Ability to reach fundraising targets and motivate others to achieve targets. * Excellent communication skills to inspire, enthuse and motivate current and potential donors. * Experience in fundraising techniques, especially analysis of fundraising and marketing data. * Strong management skills. * Ability to be innovative and creative. * Outstanding networking skills and highly developed interpersonal skills. * Fluent English, other languages are a plus. Location: Flexible, preferably Brussels-based or within an easy distance from Brussels What we offer: The role offers a challenging and diverse full-time role in a fast-growing NGO, with a competitive salary and flexible work hours. We offer the exciting opportunity to help defend the civil rights of people across Europe and beyond. The team in Brussels is a blend of languages, cultures and professional backgrounds that makes it an attractive place to work. A remuneration package will be offered and discussed at interview stage. Applications should be by email in the format of CV with a covering letter to: Michela Petruzzo, Senior Office Manager, via email: michela.petruzzo(at)edri.org Closing date for applications is Friday 23 September 2016. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peter at accessnow.org Fri Sep 16 06:19:26 2016 From: peter at accessnow.org (Peter Micek) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 06:19:26 -0400 Subject: [bestbits] Call for comment - Connectivity Investment & Human Rights Principles Message-ID: Hello everyone, Over the past year, you may have seen news regarding Global Connect , a U.S. sponsored initiative that aims to bring 1.5 billion people online by 2020. In September of last year , a diverse group of civil society organizations published a letter in support of the initiative, and in April of this year , a second letter was presented to Finance Ministers around the world to to urge increased access to rights-respecting ICTs and broadband connectivity. The initiative is progressing and included a meeting that took place following the April letter between the U.S. Secretary of State and the President of the World Bank. Many Finance Ministers also participated in that event at the World Bank designed at financing Global Connect. However, despite the letters, the IEEE Report-out document that came out from the meeting, barely registered human rights, freedom of expression, and the right to privacy. A few of us have started to work on a set of human rights-based principles to inform connectivity initiatives including Global Connect. Given the renewed attention on connectivity, we see this as a good opportunity to develop a set of principles that addresses the human rights dimension of access, and that guide human rights as a foundation for rolling out connectivity - from participation of marginalized voices, to the nature of contractual arrangements, to protection of opinion online. Some of the strategy and goals moving forward may include: *- short-term - *develop the CS draft set of general principles to be officially endorsed by the Global Connect initiative.* For that, we need you to provide feedback by September 23rd. * *- mid-term -* Make those principles more concrete and implementable within IFIs standards for investment and to which Bank staff is bound to *- long-term -* going even further, develop and implement Human Rights Due Diligence for IFIs ICT investments, building upon documents HR organizations are already working on for other HR areas impacted by the Banks work Right now much of the discussion is centering around outstanding connectivity issues being essentially an engineering problem. The risk of course, if human rights do not inform connectivity initiatives, is the roll out of a censored, throttled, monitored, militarized internet and could deepen inequalities within societies. We are using existing documents (i.e. WSIS+10 Outcome Document , Human Rights Council A/HRC/RES/26/13 , Net Mundial, internet rights and principles charte r, and APC Internet Rights Charter ) to inform these principles (draft attached). We would like to welcome you to join our efforts to create rights-respecting principles to help inform the Global Connect Initiative. Our goal is to present these principles for adoption during the October meeting of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), where the *Working Group on Human Rights* *will also be launched*. This work is part of our advocacy effort to ensure that human rights is a part of the MDBs grants and loans and efforts under Global Connect. If you are interested, please find the draft principles attached. You can also comment on them and make suggestions here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zZkPImVvrcEYcd9G5jQrOfxW m91761tm-tQtHRMqrSs/edit# Thank you and please let us know if you are interested in working with us or if you have any questions. Best, Peter Micek, Access Now Carolina Rossini, Public Knowledge -- Peter Micek Global Policy & Legal Counsel Access Now | accessnow.org rightscon.org tel: +1-888-414-0100 x709 PGP: 0xA5BD70B0 Fingerprint: 6CFE 8E9F ED8E 66B8 BE38 EA59 002C EEF5 A5BD 70B0 *Subscribe *to the Access Now Express , our weekly newsletter on digital rights -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Connectivityandhumanrights-16Sept-Open.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 20929 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It is a good message of course, and for those of you who are dealing with the trade community, you may wish to reinforce points like this. I know that we all believe free expression should be supported on its merits, but for trade people it is helpful to have a commercial argument that they can also have to sell at home, especially in capitals where free expression online is not widely admired. Finally, any thoughts that you have on how trade policy can foster narrowing the digital divide would be very timely. I’m happy to socialise any that people can come up with. Regards, Nick > On 16 Sep 2016, at 12:19, Peter Micek wrote: > > Hello everyone, > Over the past year, you may have seen news regarding Global Connect , a U.S. sponsored initiative that aims to bring 1.5 billion people online by 2020. In September of last year , a diverse group of civil society organizations published a letter in support of the initiative, and in April of this year , a second letter was presented to Finance Ministers around the world to to urge increased access to rights-respecting ICTs and broadband connectivity. > > The initiative is progressing and included a meeting that took place following the April letter between the U.S. Secretary of State and the President of the World Bank. Many Finance Ministers also participated in that event at the World Bank designed at financing Global Connect. However, despite the letters, the IEEE Report-out document that came out from the meeting, barely registered human rights, freedom of expression, and the right to privacy. > > A few of us have started to work on a set of human rights-based principles to inform connectivity initiatives including Global Connect. Given the renewed attention on connectivity, we see this as a good opportunity to develop a set of principles that addresses the human rights dimension of access, and that guide human rights as a foundation for rolling out connectivity - from participation of marginalized voices, to the nature of contractual arrangements, to protection of opinion online. > > Some of the strategy and goals moving forward may include: > > - short-term - develop the CS draft set of general principles to be officially endorsed by the Global Connect initiative. For that, we need you to provide feedback by September 23rd. > - mid-term - Make those principles more concrete and implementable within IFIs standards for investment and to which Bank staff is bound to > - long-term - going even further, develop and implement Human Rights Due Diligence for IFIs ICT investments, building upon documents HR organizations are already working on for other HR areas impacted by the Banks work > > Right now much of the discussion is centering around outstanding connectivity issues being essentially an engineering problem. The risk of course, if human rights do not inform connectivity initiatives, is the roll out of a censored, throttled, monitored, militarized internet and could deepen inequalities within societies. > We are using existing documents (i.e. WSIS+10 Outcome Document , Human Rights Council A/HRC/RES/26/13 , Net Mundial, internet rights and principles charte r, and APC Internet Rights Charter ) to inform these principles (draft attached). We would like to welcome you to join our efforts to create rights-respecting principles to help inform the Global Connect Initiative. Our goal is to present these principles for adoption during the October meeting of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), where the Working Group on Human Rights will also be launched. This work is part of our advocacy effort to ensure that human rights is a part of the MDBs grants and loans and efforts under Global Connect. > > If you are interested, please find the draft principles attached. You can also comment on them and make suggestions here: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zZkPImVvrcEYcd9G5jQrOfxWm91761tm-tQtHRMqrSs/edit# > Thank you and please let us know if you are interested in working with us or if you have any questions. > > Best, > > Peter Micek, Access Now > Carolina Rossini, Public Knowledge > > > -- > Peter Micek > Global Policy & Legal Counsel > Access Now | accessnow.org > rightscon.org > > tel: +1-888-414-0100 x709 > PGP: 0xA5BD70B0 > Fingerprint: 6CFE 8E9F ED8E 66B8 BE38 EA59 002C EEF5 A5BD 70B0 > > Subscribe to the Access Now Express , our weekly newsletter on digital rights > ____________________________________________________________ > 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... 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It was not dependent on foreign direct investment, because the economies were quite chaotic at that time. They also had no particular functioning regulatory authorities and in general lacked legislation. The networks constructed were small, vertically integrated ISPs that covered a few blocks and interconnected with each other. I recall someone telling me that the a major international charity focused on Eastern Europe at the time provided connectivity between cities through satellite. This has since been replaced by a proper backbone. There isn't so much information about this around - some professionals who remember The Good Old Days are around, even in international institutions. Also the regulatory authority, ANCOM, of Romania I know has a relatively good idea. Those countries were also in a peculiar situation: they had a lot of people who were good with mathematics, normally, and many of those then became self-taught UNIX administrators. I'm not sure how they got the raw materials for the infrastructure or where the cables were from, but the networks are still pretty awesome over there (even if they've been maintained and upgraded since). In the country that I know most of, which is Romania, they've also had economic success stories because of this. Locally owned larger enterprises are often IT enterprises, and they have some companies making derivative products as well (like IT security). The markets there are always changing, of course, and it's a bit typical that perhaps the best lesson that can be drawn is to have very little (enforceable) regulation and over-sight. Also, they inherited the EU regulatory framework afterwards, which aspires to uphold effective competition. If I understand the situation of the regulatory authorities well, it also depends on whether they were already present at the time of the transition in the 1990s (and therefore burdened by pre-transitional administrative culture) or mostly erected post-transition (and so less burdened by pre-transitional culture). Otherwise, the Swedish city council owner fiber rings have been quite successful. It's more dependent on a regulatory framework and local government making investments in local infrastructure. I've reflected for a number of years if enabling local mobile network operators would somehow be helpful to get better coverage in rural areas (it would typically require interconnected obligations between networks, something which we don't have or do in the EU). best regards, Amelia On 2016-09-16 12:26, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote: > Dear Peter, > > This is timely and I have a related point to make. > > In Geneva in the trade community there is discussion on what the elements of a digital agenda could be. One of the highest-profile is: how can trade contribute to narrowing the digital divide, especially in LDCs. There are a number of ideas floating about - including looking at barriers to services and hardware essential to the objective - but nothing is settled. > > A number of missions have heard the message that connectivity with the ability to communicate freely is a key to being able to innovate locally. It is a good message of course, and for those of you who are dealing with the trade community, you may wish to reinforce points like this. I know that we all believe free expression should be supported on its merits, but for trade people it is helpful to have a commercial argument that they can also have to sell at home, especially in capitals where free expression online is not widely admired. > > Finally, any thoughts that you have on how trade policy can foster narrowing the digital divide would be very timely. I’m happy to socialise any that people can come up with. > > Regards, Nick > >> On 16 Sep 2016, at 12:19, Peter Micek wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> Over the past year, you may have seen news regarding Global Connect , a U.S. sponsored initiative that aims to bring 1.5 billion people online by 2020. In September of last year , a diverse group of civil society organizations published a letter in support of the initiative, and in April of this year , a second letter was presented to Finance Ministers around the world to to urge increased access to rights-respecting ICTs and broadband connectivity. >> >> The initiative is progressing and included a meeting that took place following the April letter between the U.S. Secretary of State and the President of the World Bank. Many Finance Ministers also participated in that event at the World Bank designed at financing Global Connect. However, despite the letters, the IEEE Report-out document that came out from the meeting, barely registered human rights, freedom of expression, and the right to privacy. >> >> A few of us have started to work on a set of human rights-based principles to inform connectivity initiatives including Global Connect. Given the renewed attention on connectivity, we see this as a good opportunity to develop a set of principles that addresses the human rights dimension of access, and that guide human rights as a foundation for rolling out connectivity - from participation of marginalized voices, to the nature of contractual arrangements, to protection of opinion online. >> >> Some of the strategy and goals moving forward may include: >> >> - short-term - develop the CS draft set of general principles to be officially endorsed by the Global Connect initiative. For that, we need you to provide feedback by September 23rd. >> - mid-term - Make those principles more concrete and implementable within IFIs standards for investment and to which Bank staff is bound to >> - long-term - going even further, develop and implement Human Rights Due Diligence for IFIs ICT investments, building upon documents HR organizations are already working on for other HR areas impacted by the Banks work >> >> Right now much of the discussion is centering around outstanding connectivity issues being essentially an engineering problem. The risk of course, if human rights do not inform connectivity initiatives, is the roll out of a censored, throttled, monitored, militarized internet and could deepen inequalities within societies. >> We are using existing documents (i.e. WSIS+10 Outcome Document , Human Rights Council A/HRC/RES/26/13 , Net Mundial, internet rights and principles charte r, and APC Internet Rights Charter ) to inform these principles (draft attached). We would like to welcome you to join our efforts to create rights-respecting principles to help inform the Global Connect Initiative. Our goal is to present these principles for adoption during the October meeting of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), where the Working Group on Human Rights will also be launched. This work is part of our advocacy effort to ensure that human rights is a part of the MDBs grants and loans and efforts under Global Connect. >> >> If you are interested, please find the draft principles attached. You can also comment on them and make suggestions here: >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zZkPImVvrcEYcd9G5jQrOfxWm91761tm-tQtHRMqrSs/edit# >> Thank you and please let us know if you are interested in working with us or if you have any questions. >> >> Best, >> >> Peter Micek, Access Now >> Carolina Rossini, Public Knowledge >> >> >> -- >> Peter Micek >> Global Policy & Legal Counsel >> Access Now | accessnow.org >> rightscon.org >> >> tel: +1-888-414-0100 x709 >> PGP: 0xA5BD70B0 >> Fingerprint: 6CFE 8E9F ED8E 66B8 BE38 EA59 002C EEF5 A5BD 70B0 >> >> Subscribe to the Access Now Express , our weekly newsletter on digital rights >> ____________________________________________________________ >> 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 mariliamaciel at gmail.com Tue Sep 20 05:22:37 2016 From: mariliamaciel at gmail.com (Marilia Maciel) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:22:37 +0200 Subject: [bestbits] IANA transition explained - useful resource Message-ID: Dear all, I would like to call your attention to a series of two blog posts on the IANA transition authored by my colleague Sorina Teleanu, from DiploFoundation. They are a comprehensive but concise summary of what is going on and the main arguments for and against the transition. A very useful reading to those who want to understand the process and raise awareness about it. http://www.diplomacy.edu/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-what-happening-part-i http://www.diplomacy.edu/blog/iana-stewardship-transition-what-happening-part-ii All the best wishes, -- - *Marília Maciel* Digital Policy Senior Researcher, DiploFoundation WMO Building *|* 7bis, Avenue de la Paix *| *1211 Geneva - Switzerland *Tel *+41 (0) 22 9073632 *| **Mobile* +33684611099 *Email*: *MariliaM at diplomacy.edu * *|** Twitter: * *@MariliaM* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lea at gp-digital.org Fri Sep 23 07:52:29 2016 From: lea at gp-digital.org (Lea Kaspar) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:52:29 +0100 Subject: [bestbits] Fwd: [Outreach_com_2015] Registration for IGF 2016 Now Open! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, Please note that *the registration process for IGF 2016 is now open*. The official info from the IGF Secretariat is below. 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: IGF Date: Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:41 PM Subject: [Outreach_com_2015] Registration for IGF 2016 Now Open! To: dc at intgovforum.org, intersessional_2015 at intgovforum.org, outreach_com_2015 at intgovforum.org Kind Colleagues, The Secretariat is pleased to inform you that *registration for IGF 2016* has now opened. The registration form is available *here* , as well as the* invitation from UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Mr. Wu Hongbo* . More details are posted on our homepage at intgovforum.org. 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I've been increasingly drawn to share the advanced online engagement tools and strategies I've helped develop at OpenMedia since our founding. We desperately need to move our societies towards a new mode of operation based on open participation and I want to help make that shift happen. I'm happy to share* this blog post * laying out the structure of a new civic engagement social enterprise I've started called New/Mode . As some of you know I've been quietly working on this for some time. Starting something like this is challenging (it's honestly a bit scary) and your support right now means a lot to me. *Apart from giving the blog a quick read I have two requests of you:* 1. If you're on Facebook 'Like' this FB post: https://www.facebook.com/Steve.Media/posts/10100736882444633?pnref=story 2. Please share the post on Facebook and Twitter or email/other networks. *Thanks! 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What will be on tomorrow is this: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/privacy/ ​and earlier, in the day, this http://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/events/cybersecurity-asia-pacific/ not to mention, this ​ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/igf-usa-administrative-committee-meeting-5-tickets-27688270362 On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro wrote: > Snowden Effect Series discussion, "What Nationality Is Your Data?" > speakers: > > - Abigail Slater, General Counsel at the Internet Association (Bio) > - Neema Singh Guliani, Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union > (Bio) > - Jennifer Daskal, Assistant Professor of Law, American University > Washington College of Law (Bio) > - Kevin Adams - First Secretary, Home Affairs, U.K. Embassy (Bio) > > More panelists will announced on a rolling basis. > > Date: Tuesday, September 27th, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm > Location: Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center, 901 K Street, 11th Floor, > Washington, DC 20001 > Website: www.neted.org/snowden.html > > ____________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is also a recommended affordable venue for booking a room to stay for the IGF. We are still putting together a program for the meeting, but you can see a draft here, which is based on the responses to the survey about the agenda that we circulated last month: http://bestbits.net/events/joint-cs-2016* *To see the agenda you need to click the "Latest agenda" tab. If you have suggestions for changes, you can let me know, and I'll pass these suggestions on to the other co-organisers for discussion. To RSVP for the meeting (required!) you can click the "RSVP" button in the toolbar underneath the map. We expect to have a very small amount of funding to assist those who need full or partial assistance for travel expenses; this will only cover accommodation though, not flights. You can indicate your need for this when clicking RSVP. Please don't request funding support unless you really need it, and please don't assume that you will receive any support until you hear back about this. 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You can find more information at http://sflc.in/internet-shutdown-tracker-india-2013-2016/ India has seen numerous Internet shutdowns for various reasons in this year, all under the same provision of law – Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC). This section resides as the sole occupant under the chapter of ‘temporary measures to maintain public tranquility’ and gives State Governments the power to issue orders for immediate remedy in urgent cases of nuisance or apprehended danger. However, the increasing use of this provision to completely shut down the Internet is becoming a cause of concern, for the reason that it amounts to a direct violation of the fundamental right to freedom of speech guaranteed under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India. You are most likely aware of the July 1 resolution passed by the Human Rights Council condemning these network disruptions for stifling of freedom of expression. Are there issues, questions that people think should be highlighted in our discussion? We will have some great people to discuss the issue, some of you are on this list. Is there anyone who would like to be included? Any other suggestions are deeply appreciated. -- 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 jmalcolm at eff.org Fri Sep 30 18:05:56 2016 From: jmalcolm at eff.org (Jeremy Malcolm) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:05:56 -0700 Subject: [bestbits] New EFF project on Shadow Regulation with "dummies guide" infographic on multi-stakeholder model Message-ID: <8da34c14-653d-8ea3-240a-c6480631a5c8@eff.org> Some of you may find this interesting. Most people don't understand what multi-stakeholder processes are meant to achieve, because the phrase "multi-stakeholder" is misused so much and because there is so much variation between purportedly multi-stakeholder processes. At the Best Bits meeting last year, I presented a paper that I'd written which attempted to define a normative ideal of multi-stakeholderism based on a set of simple criteria.[0] But even that paper wasn't simple enough that ordinary people would read it, so I've distilled it still further and filtered it through EFF and here is the result: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/fair-processes-better-outcomes We'll now be using this to critique processes that don't come up to snuff, and we hope that others may adopt and use the infographic too. Comments welcome. [0] https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/criteria-meaningful-stakeholder-inclusion-internet-governance -- 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 OTR fingerprint: 26EE FD85 3740 8228 9460 49A8 536F BCD2 536F A5BD -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The common pattern is government actors pressuring private platforms to "voluntarily" go beyond legal obligations in order to remove content. The government-initiated agreements are intriguing as a litigation matter, since it is easier to formulate a claim where state actors are in the mix. There are some pretty strong statements against these agreements in the Council of Europe Blocking report from last spring. Pasting a few below. And in the US there is Dart v Backpage. Annemarie Bridy has some good scholarship digging into the terms of some purely private agreements in the US copyright context. However bad the US Copyright Alert System is, the others she's looked at would seem to be worse in terms of due process for alleged infringers. Daphne - - - Pasting - there is more interesting material in the report but the PDF doesn't copy/paste well for some reason. In respect of this problem, the Committee of Ministers formulated recommendations in 2011: The companies concerned are not immune to undue interference; their decisions sometimes stem from direct political pressure or from politically motivated economic compulsion, invoking justification on the basis of compliance with their terms of service. ... Therefore, a blocking system based exclusively on self-regulation or 􀍚voluntary agreements􀍛 risks to amount to a non-legitimate interference with fundamental rights. ... In addition, there is the question whether governments that encourage (or even just allow) such systems can claim not to be responsible for them, or for the restrictions on information that are the practical results of the systems, simply because those systems are not underpinned by law. In terms of international human rights law, states are responsible if, within their jurisdiction, there are systems in place that effectively restrict the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas regardless of borders for most of its inhabitants. On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: > Some of you may find this interesting. Most people don't understand > what multi-stakeholder processes are meant to achieve, because the > phrase "multi-stakeholder" is misused so much and because there is so > much variation between purportedly multi-stakeholder processes. > > At the Best Bits meeting last year, I presented a paper that I'd written > which attempted to define a normative ideal of multi-stakeholderism > based on a set of simple criteria.[0] But even that paper wasn't simple > enough that ordinary people would read it, so I've distilled it still > further and filtered it through EFF and here is the result: > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/fair-processes-better-outcomes > > We'll now be using this to critique processes that don't come up to > snuff, and we hope that others may adopt and use the infographic too. > Comments welcome. > > > [0] > https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/criteria- > meaningful-stakeholder-inclusion-internet-governance > > -- > 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 > OTR fingerprint: 26EE FD85 3740 8228 9460 49A8 536F BCD2 536F A5BD > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Daphne Keller Director, Intermediary Liability Center for Internet and Society Stanford Law School -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In the report, we investigate how the Copyright Office: - Regularly contorts basic questions of copyright law in ways that further the monopoly interests of major rightsholders; - Advocates for expanded copyright with fewer limitations, exceptions, and consumer protections; - Strives to insert itself into more and farther-flung policy debates, claiming “expertise” and issuing decisions on topics far beyond its mandate; - Makes decisions based on predetermined outcomes, prioritizing its own views over input from non-self-interested stakeholders; and - Is frequently overturned or ignored by courts, Congress, and other agencies. The following can be attributed to Meredith Rose, Policy Advocate at Public Knowledge: “The Copyright Office is one of the starkest examples of a captured agency operating within the government today. With limited accountability a pattern of favoritism toward industry and rightsholder groups, it is unsurprising that they have staked out tenuous positions and advocate for expansive copyright monopolies. It is clear from its positions--both implicit and stated--that the Copyright Office often acts more as an advocate for profit-maximizing entertainment industries, rather than as an impartial organ of government. “It is clear that the Office has grand visions of its own position within policy debates, no matter how passingly they touch on copyright issues. The Copyright Office not only embraces, but actively furthers its mission creep. In the last year alone, we have seen it opine on everything from farm equipment, to emissions standards, to antitrust market analysis, to aerospace safety specifications, to broadcast rules. Its desire for relevance, left unchecked, represents a worldview in which all policy debates are treated as secondary to the interests of monopoly rightsholders to maximize control over, and extract maximum profit from, their creations. “To even begin to address the Copyright Office’s systemic problems, we must, as a nation, have a serious discussion about the Office’s relationship to industry, its accountability, and its intended role within the government.” You may view the report here . You may also view this full release . ### *Public Knowledge* is a Washington D.C.- based public interest group working to defend consumer rights in the emerging digital culture. More information is available at http://www.publicknowledge.org follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend This is the comms team list at PK. 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But the study, published today in *Science* , suggests that besides censorship, another way national governments prevent opposing groups from organizing online is by denying them Internet access in the first place, says Nils Weidmann , a professor of political science at the University of Konstanz in Germany. Internet access is clearly linked to individuals’ socioeconomic status and the level of development where they live. These factors contribute to “digital divides” seen throughout the world. In the new analysis, Weidmann and his coauthors aimed to shed light on a factor that isn’t as well understood: political divisions between ethnic groups. To achieve this, the group first had to create a new global map reflecting how Internet access varies across geographic regions within individual nations. For many countries, especially autocracies, such “subnational data” is difficult to find or is simply not available, says Weidmann. So he and his colleagues used data from a Swiss Internet service provider that handles huge amounts of global traffic, and information from adatabase that tracks the global Internet routing system , to create a global database of “subnetworks,” or small units of the Internet that correspond to just a few hundred IP addresses. They used a geolocation database to map those subnetworks. The map above highlights all the active subnetworks in the world in 2012. The researchers then turned to the so-called Ethnic Power Relations list, a database that categorizes the world’s ethnic groups according to their political relevance in their home countries, distinguishing between politically “included” vs. “excluded” groups. Using this distinction, and geographic information pinpointing the settlement regions of individual groups, Weidmann and colleagues determined how Internet penetration rates relate to political power. (About a third of the groups in the list were too widely dispersed to be included in the analysis.) They concluded that excluded groups had significantly lower access compared to the groups in power, and that this can’t be explained by other economic or geographic factors (like living in rural vs. urban areas). Weidmann says the results add a new layer to our understanding of how national governments control Internet use. “You don’t have to censor if the opposition doesn’t get access at all.” He says organizations aiming to increase Internet access for humanitarian reasons must bear that in mind, and be careful not to reinforce such political bias. - - - - Tagged broadband access , digital divide , Internet penetration Credit Map by Nils B. Weidmann, background from Natural Earth [image: Mike Orcutt] Mike Orcutt Associate Editor I’m an associate editor at MIT Technology Review. 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You can watch them on the online training YouTube channel . There will be three Q&A sessions complementing each of the videos, with the first one later today. These sessions will go over the regional context, key issues, and next steps for advocacy. The schedule is as follows: *Q&A session on Africa - TODAY Friday 9 September at 13:00 UTC time.* You can watch the video here . To join the Q&A session, please follow this link on the day, and follow the on-screen prompts. The discussants for the session will be: - Grace Githaiga, KICTANet. - 'Gbenga Sesan, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria. - Emilar Vushe, Association for Progressive Communications. - Moses Karanja, Research fellow at Strathmore University. *Q&A session on Asia - Tuesday 13 September, at tentatively 09:00 UTC time* . You can watch the Asia video here . To join the Q&A session, please follow this link on the day, and follow the on-screen prompts. More information coming soon! *Q&A session on Latin America - Tuesday 13 September at 17:00 UTC time. * You can watch the video here . To join the Q&A session, please follow this link on the day, and follow the on-screen prompts. The discussants for the session will be: - Francisco Vera Hott, cyber policy expert. - Carolina Rossini, Public Knowledge. - Paz Peña, consultant on digital rights and strategic communications. - Valeria Betancourt, Association for Progressive Communications. Check here for regular updates on subsequent modules and the dates of upcoming Q&A sessions, and please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested. Best wishes, Daniela -- *Daniela Schnidrig* Project Coordinator | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 | Skype: daniela.globalpartners gp-digital.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please feel free to spread the word that this funding is available once a registration confirmation has been received. If you have any questions, please let me know. Many thanks, On behalf of the FOC Support Unit Aditi -- *Aditi Gupta* Project Manager | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 | M: +44 (0)787 668 8351 | gp-digital.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mariliamaciel at gmail.com Mon Sep 12 10:52:36 2016 From: mariliamaciel at gmail.com (Marilia Maciel) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:52:36 +0200 Subject: [bestbits] =?UTF-8?Q?Pok=C3=A9mon_Go=3A_Digital_policy_in_the_age?= =?UTF-8?Q?_of_augmented_reality?= Message-ID: Hello everyone! Diplo's upcoming webinar on the policy dimensions of augmented reality could be of interest to some of you (regardless if you are or not a Pokémon Go addict ;) All the best wishes, Marilia Is this email not displaying correctly? View this email in your browser Dear alumni, In the aftermath of the Pokémon Go summer hype, we'd like to invite you to a webinar on Digital Policy in the Age of Augmented Reality on *15 September at 11.00-12.00 UTC (13.00-14.00 CEST).* What are the consequences of the increased interplay between virtual and physical dimensions? Can we still speak of a separate, legal cyberspace? How does augmented reality impact privacy and security concerns, and how could it be used as a tool to accelerate the level of health and education? The topic will be discussed by *Dr Jovan Kurbalija*, Director of DiploFoundation and Head of the Geneva Internet Platform, and *Daniel Rosen Jacobson*, Industry Manager of Apps & Gaming Partnerships at Google. For more information about the topic, including our background research on Pokémon Politics and augmented reality, please visit the dedicated webpage on the GIP Digital Watch. 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I am extremely interested in what this group has thought about the recent issue about Facebook censorship and Norwegian response to it. If you have written something, please point me to it. Thanks! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/08/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-napalm-girl-photo-vietnam-war?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=189559&subid=18745295&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 -- 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 kawsu.sillah at gmail.com Mon Sep 12 18:41:54 2016 From: kawsu.sillah at gmail.com (Kawsu Sillah) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:41:54 -0700 Subject: [bestbits] Fwd: Announcing CyFy 2016 | September 28 to 30, Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi In-Reply-To: <22d3c59871bc809e0a698b694aa0bf57a48.20160912065209@mail61.atl31.mcdlv.net> References: <22d3c59871bc809e0a698b694aa0bf57a48.20160912065209@mail61.atl31.mcdlv.net> Message-ID: Dear fellow young professional, I thought this might be of interest to you. Herewith sharing for your information/action. Limited financial support towards travel and accommodation is available for young cyber scholars from emerging and developing economies. See details below. Best of luck, Kawsu. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Observer Research Foundation* Date: Monday, September 12, 2016 Subject: Announcing CyFy 2016 | September 28 to 30, Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi To: kawsu.sillah at gmail.com Hello and greetings from New Delhi! I'm writing to announce *CyFy: The India Conference on Cyber Security and Internet Governance *— a platform we created four years ago. This edition of CyFy will take place from September 28 to 30, 2016. We would be delighted to host you and believe that the conversation will be enriched by your presence. This year, we are hosting national cyber coordinators from over 10 countries (US, Germany, Russia, China, France, India, EU et al) and over 100 speakers and policymakers from nearly 35 countries. Besides engaging with crucial global questions around managing the digital realm, we will also have focused sessions on digital access and opportunity in Asia and Africa. The conference flyer that describes in greater detail the five pillars that will be the focus of the conversation at CyFy 2016: *digital economy, international cooperation, security, access and inclusion, and capacity building* can be accessed here: http://goo.gl/3gsAEk We request that you kindly circulate this among your youth networks and promising cyber scholars in emerging and developing economies. We have a few travel grants available to support their participation. If you have any questions about the conference please write to me at cyfy at orfonline.org . Details regarding event registration can be found at http://cyfy.org/event- registration-form/ Warmly, Samir Saran, PhD Founding Chair, *CyFy: The India Conference on Cyber Security and Internet Governance* Sr. Fellow and Vice President Observer Research Foundation 20 Rouse Avenue, New Delhi - 110002 M: +91 99102 00360 | E: ssaran at orfonline.org | www.orfonline.org Research | Forums | Events | People | Expert Speak | About *Copyright © 2016 Observer Research Foundation, All rights reserved.* *Our mailing address is:* 20, Rouse Avenue Institutional Area, New Delhi-110002, India Phone: +91 11 4352 0020 Website: http://orfonline.org You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list -- Best Regards, [image: --] Kawsu Sillah [image: https://]about.me/ksillah AMBASSADOR ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition. Mobile : +220 9865300 | 6865300 | 3965300 Skype: profkawsu | Facebook: Kawsu.f.Sillah Twitter: @ksillah1 | LinkedIn: KAWSU SILLAH *‘Every single person must have access to a computer, must understand it, must have access to good software and good teachers and to the Internet, so that every person will have the opportunity to make the most of his or her own life’ – Bill Clinton, the former US President.* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: