From sheetal at gp-digital.org Wed Mar 1 11:21:27 2017 From: sheetal at gp-digital.org (Sheetal Kumar) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 16:21:27 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] FYI: A letter to IGF Secretariat re: the outcome of the MAG Nominations 2017 Message-ID: Dear all, I'm writing regarding the outcome of the MAG nomination process this year. As you know, the CSCG ran a nomination process to select candidates to the MAG 2017 nominations and submitted the three names selected (Norbert Bollow, Jeremy Malcolm, Arsene Tungali) by the deadline, 16 December. The CSCG was informed of the outcome on 27 February. We received the communication that "there will be no new Civil Society MAG member being added". The IGF 2017 MAG has now been been approved by the Secretary-General's office. The list of members can be found on the following url: https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/mag-2017-members. In response, we have sent the following letter to the IGF Secretariat, copied in full under the dotted line below. The first Open Consultations and MAG meeting of the IGF 2017 preparatory cycle are taking place now (01-03 March) in Geneva, so we expect for this to be brought up during the course of the discussions there, and to receive a response soon. Should you have any questions at all, Best Sheetal and Poncelet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 March 2017 Dear Chengetai, We are writing, as members of the Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG), to respectfully express our concern at the notice received via the Internet Governance Forum’s (IGF) Secretariat, that there will be no new civil society member added to the Internet Governance Forum's Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) this year (2017). The reason provided to the CSCG was that there is no civil society MAG member being rotated out. The Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) exists solely to ensure a coordinated civil society response and conduit when it comes to making civil society appointments to outside bodies. Please see the website for more information on the mechanism: http://internetgov-cs.org/#about. According to the FAQ provided , there is not a fixed number of civil society representatives. We understood that one of the current members (Ms. Amelia Andersdotter ) has served three terms and would be be rotated out. On the IGF website , her affiliation is listed as Civil Society, we therefore do not fully understand the explanation provided about her past and current affiliation in your email (dated 27 February) 2017 to us. We understand that, apart from Amelia Andersdotter's retirement, another civil society vacancy has been created by John Dada stepping down over the last year. This vacancy we understand was never filled. Once again, it was our understanding from the beginning that at least one, perhaps two, vacant position(s) was available and to be filled by a Civil Society representative. The CSCG conducted an open, transparent and democratic selection process, following which three candidates were selected. These three names were submitted before the deadline to UNDESA for consideration. However, the decision to not elect a civil society representative to replace the outgoing member comes as both a surprise and disappointment to the CSCG. The selection process conducted via CSCG paid respect to the factors outlined by UNDESA, “notably: priorities for regional diversity, with an emphasis on representation from developing and least developed countries; gender balance; and diversity of institutions and organizations with which members are affiliated”. We strongly regret that, following an open, transparent and democratic selection process, we will not be able to provide a satisfactory explanation for this situation to the members of the various constituencies which we represent. Moreover we are concerned about the possibility that this situation may deter, or at least reduce willingness of, civil society members to engage in the process going forward considering the time lost and unaccounted for on this occasion. While we would like to thank the UNDESA for its leadership we hereby respectfully request that UNDEA reconsider its decision and agree to appoint at least one additional representative from civil society on the basis of our proposal, or, at a minimum, that UNDESA provide further explanation as to the decision not to nominate a replacement for the outgoing civil society MAG member. Thank you for your time and consideration of this matter. With best wishes, The CSCG. -- *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 opomulero at akinbo.ng Sat Mar 11 15:06:58 2017 From: opomulero at akinbo.ng (Adebunmi AKINBO) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 20:06:58 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] Moving on from IFLA - thanks! (and new contact details!) In-Reply-To: <313A07D8237045BC99E990842A544282@LAPTOP93L8QKEK> References: <313A07D8237045BC99E990842A544282@LAPTOP93L8QKEK> Message-ID: Congrats Stuart, -Akinbo. On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Ian Peter wrote: > All the best for your new appointment Stuart. > > Ian Peter > > *From:* Stuart Hamilton > *Sent:* Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:42 PM > *To:* bestbits at lists.bestbits.net ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org > *Subject:* [bestbits] Moving on from IFLA - thanks! (and new contact > details!) > > > Dear friends and colleagues > > > > Please accept my apologies for a bulk email (and apologies to those on > these lists who do not know me personally) – I wish I had time to write > more personal emails, but my time here is running out… > > > > After nine years working for IFLA in the Netherlands (and a further five > working for them in Denmark a few years before that doing my PhD) I’m > moving on to a new position as the Deputy Executive Director and head of > international relations at the new national library in Qatar. I’ll start > there next month and I’m ready for a change and a new challenge (and > perhaps less Dutch rain). The new library is due to open in September and > I’m looking forward to helping it get on its feet over the next few years. > > > > I’m going to be carrying on working with international information policy > issues – which I’m very happy about - and I hope to run into many of you > sooner rather than later. In particular I’ll stay working on Internet > governance with IFLA, particularly public access, so please do think of me > if you need to reach out for anything libraries and IG. > > > > So for now I’ll be moving to my personal email address: > stuartjameshamilton at gmail.com Please don’t hesitate to get in touch! > > > > See you all soon, > > > > Stuart > > > > > > PS: IFLA has a new Manager of Policy and Advocacy, Stephen Wyber, who is a > great guy and a great contact for all your international library needs. 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URL: From sheetal at gp-digital.org Wed Mar 15 10:23:12 2017 From: sheetal at gp-digital.org (Sheetal Kumar) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:23:12 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] New GPD blog series-Spotlight on the ITU #1: Why human rights defenders should care about the ITU Message-ID: Dear all, In case of interest I'm writing to share the first in a series of blog posts on the ITU to be published by GPD. The blog series will provide information on what the ITU is and how it works, why it's a relevant forum for engagement on human rights issues, and some of the thematic issues which require particular attention. We've published the first today - "Spotlight on the ITU #1: Why Human Rights Defenders should care about the ITU ". Please feel free to share with your networks and any feedback is of course as always welcome. If you are interested in our work on this issue, and would like to be involved, please get in touch! Best Sheetal. -- *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 Thu Mar 16 09:12:14 2017 From: sheetal at gp-digital.org (Sheetal Kumar) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 13:12:14 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] New podcast series on the big questions facing the digital environment In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, In case of interest, just a heads up that episode 2 of this series *In beta* is now live: https://soundcloud.com/in_beta/in-beta-episode-2-how- should-human-rights-defenders-approach-cybercrime In it, we ask, "how should human rights defenders approach cybercrime"? As ever please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested! Best Sheetal. On 22 February 2017 at 21:38, Mishi Choudhary wrote: > Thanks Sheetal. Great effort! Podcast is one of my favorite content > consumption tool. > > On 02/22/2017 12:36 PM, Sheetal Kumar wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > /[with apologies for cross-posting]/ > > > > I am writing to share a just launched a new podcast series > > podcast-series-in-beta/> > > – called *In beta* – which will examine some of the biggest questions > > facing the digital policy environment. > > > > Our aim in creating the series is to create an informal space for > > critical discussion and debate on a range of issues, cutting across > > traditional policy silos. More details on the series concept and design > > are available > > here: http://www.gp-digital.org/news/introducing-our-new- > podcast-series-in-beta/ > > podcast-series-in-beta/> > > > > The series will be hosted by GPD's executive director, Charles Bradley. > > In the first episode of the series – available now, here > > is-policymaking-stuck-in-the-19th-century/> > > – he interviews GovLab co-founder Stefaan Verhulst, asking the question: > > *'Is policymaking stuck in the 19th century?'* > > > > We'd love to know what you think about the episode and the series > > concept more generally. We're planning to record many more podcasts over > > the coming months, and are open to ideas – so if you'd like to suggest a > > guest, a topic or a question to discuss, drop an email to > > charles at gp-digital.org . > > > > Please don't hesitate to let us know if you have any questions. We'd > > also be hugely grateful if you could share this on your networks and > > channels – and if you have any other ideas for how we could get the word > > out, please let us know. > > > > For reference, the links for sharing are: > > > > * *Blog post introducing the series and > > episode*: http://www.gp-digital.org/news/introducing-our-new- > podcast-series-in-beta/ > > podcast-series-in-beta/> > > * *The episode > > itself*: http://www.gp-digital.org/multimedia/in-beta-episode-1- > is-policymaking-stuck-in-the-19th-century/ > > is-policymaking-stuck-in-the-19th-century/> > > * *GPD's Soundcloud > > page*: https://soundcloud.com/globalpartnersdigital > > > > > > *Suggested tweets: * > > > > A new podcast series, In beta, examines the big questions facing the > > digital environment. Find out > > more: http://www.gp-digital.org/news/introducing-our-new- > podcast-series-in-beta/ > > podcast-series-in-beta/> > > > > Is policymaking stuck in the 19th century? A new podcast with > > @CBradleyTweets and @sverhulst explores the > > question: http://www.gp-digital.org/multimedia/in-beta-episode-1- > is-policymaking-stuck-in-the-19th-century/ > > is-policymaking-stuck-in-the-19th-century/> > > > > Best! > > Sheetal. > > > > -- > > * > > * > > * > > * > > *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 > > > > -- > 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 Legal 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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Best wishes, Lea Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: "Chengetai Masango" > Date: 17 March 2017 at 08:26:01 GMT-7 > To: "'IGF Maglist'" > Subject: [IGFmaglist] 2017 Call for workshop proposals > Reply-To: cmasango at unog.ch > > Dear All, > > The Call for workshop proposals has been posted on the IGF website: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2017-call-for-workshop-proposals > > The online form will become live on 31 March. > > The deadline for submission is 3 May, 2017 > > I would be grateful if you could publicize the call amongst your various constituencies. > > Best regards, > > Chengetai > > > > _______________________________________________ > Igfmaglist mailing list > Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org > http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/igfmaglist_intgovforum.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wisdom.dk at gmail.com Fri Mar 17 12:27:03 2017 From: wisdom.dk at gmail.com (Wisdom Donkor) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:27:03 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] IGF 2017 Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: Dear Members, Apologies for cross posting. All stakeholders are invited to submit proposals to hold workshops at the forthcoming IGF, which will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 18-21 December 2017. The proposed overarching theme for this year's IGF is 'Shape Your Digital Future!', emphasizing both the IGF's participatory mechanisms and a forward-looking approach to the Internet governance discussion. The sub-themes for the meeting will be determined in part by the workshop proposals received, with proposers writing in their own tags.Tags on new and emerging issues, such as 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Work in the Digital Age', 'Law Enforcement & Encryption', etc., are particularly welcome. Pre-existing tags to choose from include but are not limited to, Internet of Things; Internet Economy; Policies Enabling Access; Cybersecurity; Human Rights Online; Gender Issues; and Digital Literacy; among many others. All relevant information including the workshop proposal template [this is for proposers' reference until the submission e-form is available], guidelines and tips for submitting proposals, can be found below. The deadline for submission is Wednesday, 3 May 2017 23:59 UTC-11. *First-time workshop proposers are encouraged to read through this brief manual for FAQs, tips and links to all IGF workshop resources. *All workshop proposers and future workshop speakers should consider joining the 'IGF 2017 Speaker-Session Collaboration Space', a forum for exchanging ideas and seeking out new collaborators. For more information and IGF 2017 Workshop Resources kindly visit: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2017-call-for-workshop-proposals *WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)* E-government and Open Government Data Platforms Specialist 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 gmail.com Skype: wisdom_dk facebook: facebook at wisdom_dk Website: www.data.gov.gh www.isoc.gh / www.itag.org.gh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nigidaad at gmail.com Sat Mar 25 06:48:53 2017 From: nigidaad at gmail.com (Nighat Dad) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 15:48:53 +0500 Subject: [bestbits] Who is attending RightsCon? Message-ID: Hello all, As you know that RightsCon is just four days away, we're doing some last minute plannings and arrangements for our sessions. And we need a little help from you. We're looking for 1 speaker from Global North for three of Digital Rights Foundation's sessions at RightsCon: 1. *Taking Matters into Our Hands: Addressing Online Harassment Through [Tools] scheduled on March 29, 2017 at 4 PM to 5 PM* 2. *Surveillance and Privacy from the Margins scheduled on March 30, 2017 at 5:15 PM to 6:15 PM * 3. *Net Neutrality and its scope in Developing World scheduled on March 30, 2017 at 10:30 am to 11:45 am (woman speaker)* I am wondering if you could suggest us relevant names who are attending RightsCon or anyone of you who are already there is willing to be on a panel, please write to me off list. Best, Nighat Dad Executive Director Digital Rights Foundation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sarvjeet.singh at nludelhi.ac.in Tue Mar 28 16:30:00 2017 From: sarvjeet.singh at nludelhi.ac.in (Sarvjeet Singh) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:30:00 +0200 Subject: [bestbits] =?UTF-8?Q?=28RightsCon=29_Confronting_Online_Hate_Spee?= =?UTF-8?Q?ch=3A_Identification_and_Strategies_=28Tomorrow_=E2=80=93_10=2E?= =?UTF-8?Q?30_am=29?= Message-ID: Dear All, We would like to invite you to a discussion on *Confronting Online Hate Speech: Identification and Strategies* organised by the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi on *March* 29, 2017 (tomorrow) from* 10:30 - 11.45 am *at *the Klimt (Ground Floor)*. The session is the launch point (the first scheduled session) for *Track 13 - Stop the Hate*. The Stop the Hate track, will focus on countering violent extremism and responding to hate speech. The hashtag for the session is *#UnPackingHateSpeech*. Additional details about the session and *the speakers* are provided below. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Best, Sarvjeet *A DISCUSSION ON* *Confronting Online Hate Speech: Identification & Strategies* *#UnPackingHateSpeech* 10:30 – 11.45 am, March 29, 2017 *at* *Klimt* *organised by* Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi *Speakers* *Professor** David Kaye*, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression and Clinical Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law *Dr. Rob Faris**, *Research Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (*moderator*) *Siddharth Narrain**,* Research Associate, Sarai - Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) *Professor Susan Benesch*, Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and Director, Dangerous Speech Project *Professor (Dr.) Wolfgang Schulz*, Director Hans Bredow Institute and Chair, Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Internet Intermediaries *Chinmayi Arun*, Executive Director, Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi and Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University -- Sarvjeet Singh | Programme Manager Centre for Communication Governance | National Law University, Delhi | Sector-14, Dwarka, New Delhi - 110078 | Cell: (+91) 999-023-2298 <+91%2099902%2032298> | Fax: (+91) 11-280-34256 | skype: sarvjeet.moond | www.ccgdelhi.org . www.ccgtlr.org . www.nludelhi.ac.in | Twitter: @ccgnlud . @sarvjeetmoond PGP: 0x44F8 0166 | Fingerprint: 213D AC8B 5634 B8A2 EDB6 A78D 543B 11EF 44F8 0166 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This workshop aims to provide a springboard for civil society actors to get a head-start by gaining strategic guidance from the hosts of GCCS2015, the government of the Netherlands, and an update on GCCS 2017 from the hosts, the Government of India. In addition, the workshop will focus on identifying shared priorities and opportunities for civil society engagement. Confirmed speakers are Carmen Gonsalves (Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs); Dr. Dhawal Gupta (Indian Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology); and Lea Kaspar (Global Partners Digital). We hope to see you there! And please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested. Best, -- *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... URL: From sarvjeet.singh at nludelhi.ac.in Wed Mar 29 04:10:17 2017 From: sarvjeet.singh at nludelhi.ac.in (Sarvjeet Singh) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:10:17 +0200 Subject: [bestbits] (RightsCon) Confronting Online Hate Speech: Identification and Strategies (10.30 am - Klimt - Today) #UnPackingHateSpeech Message-ID: Dear All, The session on *Confronting Online Hate Speech: Identification and Strategies* will be starting in 20 minutes (*10.30 am*) at *the Klimt (Ground Floor)*. The discussion will be moderated by *Dr. Rob Faris**, *Research Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and the speakers include *Professor David Kaye**, **Professor Susan Benesch, Professor (Dr.) Wolfgang Schulz, Chinmayi Arun and Siddharth Narrain*. The session is the launch point (the first scheduled session) for *Track 13 - Stop the Hate*. The Stop the Hate track, will focus on countering violent extremism and responding to hate speech. The hashtag for the session is *#UnPackingHateSpeech*. Additional details about the session and *the speakers* are provided below. Given the paucity of time, we have limited number of speakers on the panel. However, the session is mainly meant to be a discussion among participants of diverse expertise and we look forward to seeing many of you there. Best, Sarvjeet *A DISCUSSION ON* *Confronting Online Hate Speech: Identification & Strategies* *#UnPackingHateSpeech* 10:30 – 11.45 am, March 29, 2017 *at* *Klimt* *organised by* Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi *Speakers* *Professor** David Kaye*, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression and Clinical Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law *Dr. Rob Faris**, *Research Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University (*moderator*) *Siddharth Narrain**,* Research Associate, Sarai - Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) *Professor Susan Benesch*, Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and Director, Dangerous Speech Project *Professor (Dr.) Wolfgang Schulz*, Director Hans Bredow Institute and Chair, Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Internet Intermediaries *Chinmayi Arun*, Executive Director, Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi and Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University -- Sarvjeet Singh | Programme Manager Centre for Communication Governance | National Law University, Delhi | Sector-14, Dwarka, New Delhi - 110078 | Cell: (+91) 999-023-2298 | Fax: (+91) 11-280-34256 | skype: sarvjeet.moond | www.ccgdelhi.org . www.ccgtlr.org . www.nludelhi.ac.in | Twitter: @ccgnlud . @sarvjeetmoond PGP: 0x44F8 0166 | Fingerprint: 213D AC8B 5634 B8A2 EDB6 A78D 543B 11EF 44F8 0166 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sheetal at gp-digital.org Wed Mar 1 11:42:47 2017 From: sheetal at gp-digital.org (Sheetal Kumar) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 16:42:47 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] FYI: A letter to IGF Secretariat re: the outcome of the MAG Nominations 2017 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The letter referred to below is now also posted on the CSCG website in case any body wants to share it: http://internetgov-cs.org/ On 1 March 2017 at 16:21, Sheetal Kumar wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm writing regarding the outcome of the MAG nomination process this year. > As you know, the CSCG ran a nomination process to select candidates to the > MAG 2017 nominations and submitted the three names selected (Norbert > Bollow, Jeremy Malcolm, Arsene Tungali) by the deadline, 16 December. > > The CSCG was informed of the outcome on 27 February. We received the > communication that "there will be no new Civil Society MAG member being > added". > > The IGF 2017 MAG has now been been approved by the Secretary-General's > office. The list of members can be found on the following url: > https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/mag-2017-members. > > > In response, we have sent the following letter to the IGF Secretariat, > copied in full under the dotted line below. The first Open Consultations > and MAG meeting of the IGF 2017 preparatory cycle are taking place now > (01-03 March) in Geneva, so we expect for this to be brought up during the > course of the discussions there, and to receive a response soon. > > Should you have any questions at all, > > Best > Sheetal and Poncelet. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > 1 March 2017 > > > Dear Chengetai, > > > > We are writing, as members of the Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG), > to respectfully express our concern at the notice received via the Internet > Governance Forum’s (IGF) Secretariat, that there will be no new civil > society member added to the Internet Governance Forum's Multistakeholder > Advisory Group (MAG) this year (2017). The reason provided to the CSCG was > that there is no civil society MAG member being rotated out. > > > > The Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) exists solely to ensure a > coordinated civil society response and conduit when it comes to making > civil society appointments to outside bodies. Please see the website for > more information on the mechanism: > http://internetgov-cs.org/#about. > > > > According to the FAQ provided > , > there is not a fixed number of civil society representatives. We understood > that one of the current members (Ms. Amelia Andersdotter > ) > has served three terms and would be be rotated out. On the IGF website > , her > affiliation is listed as Civil Society, we therefore do not fully > understand the explanation provided about her past and current affiliation > in your email (dated 27 February) 2017 to us. We understand that, apart > from Amelia Andersdotter's retirement, another civil society vacancy has > been created by John Dada stepping down over the last year. This vacancy we > understand was never filled. > > > > Once again, it was our understanding from the beginning that at least one, > perhaps two, vacant position(s) was available and to be filled by a Civil > Society representative. The CSCG conducted an open, transparent and > democratic selection process, following which three candidates were > selected. These three names were submitted > before the deadline to UNDESA > for consideration. > > > > However, the decision to not elect a civil society representative to > replace the outgoing member comes as both a surprise and disappointment to > the CSCG. The selection process conducted via CSCG paid respect to the > factors outlined by UNDESA, “notably: priorities for regional diversity, > with an emphasis on representation from developing and least developed > countries; gender balance; and diversity of institutions and organizations > with which members are affiliated”. > > > > We strongly regret that, following an open, transparent and democratic > selection process, we will not be able to provide a satisfactory > explanation for this situation to the members of the various constituencies > which we represent. 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Discussants include: Bertrand de La Chapelle, director of the Internet and Jurisdiction project María Paz Canales, Directora Ejecutiva de Derechos Digitales Steve Crown, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Microsoft Maarit Palovirta, Senior Manager, Regional Affairs Europe at the Internet Society Andrei Soltatov, Russian Investigative Journalist, co-founder and editor of Agentura.ru , a watchdog of the activities of the Russian secret services. This session is part of RightsCon track 11, Borders and Boundaries: Jurisdiction, sovereignty, & legal landscapes. *Session 2: ‘Trade agreements and electronic commerce—the users' perspective’*, is co-organised by Electronic Frontier Foundation (*EFF*), D *iploFoundation*, European Digital Rights (*EDRi*) and *Public Citizen*. It will take place on Friday, from 12:00 to 13:15, at room Creativity & Exploration (1st floor). The session will discuss the inclusion of digital policy issues in trade agreements and multilateral negotiations. 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URL: From andersj at elon.edu Wed Mar 29 08:58:50 2017 From: andersj at elon.edu (Janna Anderson) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:58:50 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] (RightsCon) Confronting Online Hate Speech Message-ID: IMPORTANT for all interested in the future of Online Discourse (hate and manipulation/fake news) * Pew Research is releasing a new report at 10 a.m. today on this topic. For an early look, see the full report here: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2016_survey/social_future_of_the_internet.xhtml * The report will be posted on the Pew Internet home page http://www.pewinternet.org/ as well at 10 today. More than 80% of experts surveyed said that uncivil and/or manipulative online speech will stay at the same level as today or increase and only 19% expressed hope that some solution to this problem will cut down on such speech in the next decade… * I am attaching some direct quotes from some expert respondents below, and I have also attached for you here a chart with common themes from this report. * Pew and Elon also recently released “Code-Dependent," an important report on experts concerns over the IMPACT of ALGORITHMS: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2016_survey/algorithm_impacts.xhtml Janna Anderson Director of the Imagining the Internet Center, Elon University Senior Contract Researcher, Pew Internet, Science & Technology Project Pew Research | Elon University report - release 10 a.m. March 29, 2017 Top quotes from… The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online “The major internet platforms are driven by a profit motive. Very often, hate, anxiety, and anger drive participation with the platform. Whatever behavior increases ad revenue will not only be permitted, but encouraged, excepting of course some egregious cases.” Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland law professor, author of Black Box Society https://twitter.com/FrankPasquale “Distrust and trolling is happening at the highest levels of political debate, and the lowest. The Overton Window has been widened considerably by the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, and not in a good way… Trolling is a mainstream form of political discourse.” Kate Crawford, researcher of AI, machine learning, power and ethics https://twitter.com/katecrawford “It’s a brawl, a forum for rage and outrage… If the overall tone is lousy, if the culture tilts negative, if political leaders popularize hate, then there’s good reason to think all of that will dominate the digital debate as well.” Andrew Nachison, founder at We Media https://twitter.com/anachison “One of the biggest challenges will be finding an appropriate balance between protecting anonymity and enforcing consequences for the abusive behavior that has been allowed to characterize online discussions for far too long.” Bailey Poland, author of Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online https://twitter.com/the_author_ "Cyber attacks, doxing, and trolling will continue, while social platforms, security experts, ethicists… The worst outcome is that we end up with a kind of Potemkin internet in which everything looks reasonably bright and sunny, which hides a more troubling and less transparent reality.” Susan Etlinger, an industry analyst at Altimeter https://twitter.com/setlinger “I would very much love to believe that discourse will improve, but I fear the forces making it worse haven't played out at all yet. After all, it took us almost 70 years to mandate seatbelts. And we're not uniformly wise about how to conduct dependable online conversations, never mind debates on difficult subjects." Jerry Michalski, founder at REX https://twitter.com/jerrymichalski "The application space on the internet today is shaped by large commercial actors, and their goals are profit-seeking, not the creation of a better commons… We are coming to a fork in the road—either a new class of actor emerges with a different set of motivations… or I fear the overall character of discourse will decline.” David Clark, senior research scientist at MIT and Internet Hall of Famer of @MIT_CSAIL "There’s very little on the horizon in terms of improving discourse. It’s all too easy for bad actors to organize and flood message boards and social media with posts that drive people away. Or, to paraphrase Gresham’s law, bad posts drive out the good.” Jason Hong, associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University https://twitter.com/jas0nh0ng "Social media bring every bad event to our attention, making us feel as if they all happened in our backyards—leading to an overall sense of unease. The combination of bias-reinforcing enclaves and global access to bad actions seems like a toxic mix. It is not clear there is a way to counterbalance their socially harmful effects.” Vint Cerf, Internet Hall of Fame member, Google vice president https://twitter.com/vgcerf "The internet is the natural battleground for whatever breaking point we reach to play out, and it’s also a useful surveillance, control, and propaganda tool for monied people hoping to forestall a redistributive future. That will create even more inflammatory dialogue, flamewars, polarized debates, etc.” Cory Doctorow, activist-in-residence at MIT Media Lab and co-owner of Boing Boing https://twitter.com/doctorow “Unfortunately, I see the present prevalence of trolling as an expression of a broader societal trend across many developed nations, towards belligerent factionalism in public debate, with particular attacks directed at women as well as ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities.” Axel Bruns, professor, Queensland University of Technology Digital Media Research Centre https://twitter.com/snurb_dot_info “[By 2026] social media and other forms of discourse will include all kinds of actors who had no voice in the past; these include terrorists, critics of all kinds of products and art forms, amateur political pundits, and more.” Matt Hamblen, senior editor at Computerworld https://twitter.com/matthamblen “Social media's affordances, including increased visibility and persistence of content, amplify the volume of negative commentary. As more people get internet access—and especially smartphones, which allow people to connect 24/7—there will be increased opportunities for bad behavior.” Jessica Vitak, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland https://twitter.com/jvitak "The number of venues [for trolling, other bad conduct and misinformation online] will rise with the expansion of the Internet of Things and when consumer-production tools become available for virtual and mixed reality.” Bryan Alexander, president of Bryan Alexander Consulting https://twitter.com/BryanAlexander "Venture-backed tech companies have a huge bias toward algorithmic solutions that have tended to reward that which keeps us agitated. Very few media companies now have staff dedicated to guiding conversations online.” Steven Waldman, founder and CEO of LifePosts https://twitter.com/stevenwaldman “Free speech will be amplified through peer-to-peer multicast, mesh network technologies. Earlier-generation platforms that enabled free speech… will usher in even broader and more pervasive person-to-person (P2P) communication technologies, powered by the Internet of Things." Scott Amyx, CEO of Amyx+, an Internet of Things business consultancy https://twitter.com/AmyxIoT "New online structures something like affinity guilds will evolve that allow individuals to associate with and benefit from the protection of and curation of a trusted group. People need extremely well-designed interfaces to control the barrage of content coming to their awareness. Public discourse forums will increasingly use artificial intelligence, machine learning, and wisdom-of-crowds reputation-management techniques to help keep dialog civil." Susan Price, digital architect at Continuum Analytics https://twitter.com/ContinuumIO "Blockchain technologies hold much promise for giving individuals this appropriate control over their attention, awareness, and the data we all generate through our actions. They will require being uniquely identified in transactions and movements, and readable to holders of the keys. A thoughtful, robust architecture and systems can give individuals control over the parties who hold those keys.” Susan Price, digital architect at Continuum Analytics https://twitter.com/ContinuumIO "I imagine… digital ventriloquists that combine predictive analytics with algorithms that interpret the appropriateness of various remarks. The software could detect you’re communicating with a person that, historically, you’ve have hard time being civil with. It could data-mine past conversations and recommend a socially acceptable response to that person worded in your own personal style of writing.” Evan Selinger, professor of philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology https://twitter.com/EvanSelinger "The success of online communities will hinge on the extent to which they are able to prevent the emergence of a hostile environment in the spaces under their stewardship. Algorithms will play an increasing role, but probably never fully replace the need for human curators in keeping our online communities civil.” Demian Perry, mobile director at NPR (U.S. National Public Radio) https://twitter.com/perrydc @NPR “We are still figuring out the netiquette of online social interaction. Networks seem to rearrange themselves over time (newsgroups -> IRC -> MySpace -> Facebook) and interaction becomes more inclusive and more structured. I believe we are at the point of highest integration but lowest regulation. Over the next decade … the benevolent majority becomes relatively more vocal and crowds out the trolls.” Bart Knijnenburg, assistant professor, human-centered computing, Clemson University https://twitter.com/usabart “We are likely headed toward more-insular online communities where you speak to and hear more from like-minded people. Obvious trolls will become easier to mute or ignore (either manually or by algorithm) within these communities. This future is not necessarily desirable for meaningful social discourse that crosses ideologies but it is a trend that may emerge.” Michael Whitaker, vice president of emerging solutions at ICF International "The Internet has given voice to those who had been voiceless because they were oppressed minorities and to those who were voiceless because they are crackpots… It may not necessarily be ‘bad actors’—i.e., racists, misogynists, etc.—who win the day, but I do fear it will be the more strident." Steven Waldman, founder and CEO of LifePosts https://twitter.com/stevenwaldman “The continuing diminution of general-interest intermediaries such as newspapers, network television, etc., means we have reached a point in our society where wildly different versions of ‘reality’ can be chosen and customized by people to fit their existing ideological and other biases. In such an environment there is little hope for collaborative dialogue and consensus.” John Anderson, director of journalism and media studies at Brooklyn College https://twitter.com/diymediadotnet "The id unbound from the monitoring and control by the superego is both the originator of communication and the nemesis of understanding and civility… Like civility in all contexts, controlling the id is more social and personal in the end. Technologies will nonetheless attempt to augment civility—and to circumvent it." Paul Jones, clinical professor and director of ibiblio.org, UNC-Hill https://twitter.com/smalljones “It is in the interest of the paid-for media and most political groups to continue to encourage ‘echo-chamber’ thinking and to consider pragmatism and compromise as things to be discouraged. While this trend continues, the ability for serious civilized conversations about many topics will remain very hard to achieve.” David Durant, a business analyst at UK Government Digital Service https://twitter.com/hashtag/GDS “Misinformation and anti-social networking are degrading our ability to debate and engage in online discourse. When opinions based on misinformation are given the same weight as those of experts and propelled to create online activity, we tread a dangerous path. Online social behaviour, without community-imposed guidelines, is subject to many potentially negative forces." Karen Blackmore, a lecturer in IT at the University of Newcastle https://twitter.com/karen_blackmore "Social online communities such as Facebook also function as marketing tools, where sensationalism is widely employed, and community members who view this dialogue as their news source, gain a very distorted view of current events and community views on issues. This is exacerbated with social network and search engine algorithms effectively sorting what people see to reinforce worldviews.” Karen Blackmore, a lecturer in IT at the University of Newcastle https://twitter.com/karen_blackmore “The reason [online discourse] will probably get worse is that companies and governments are starting to realise that they can influence people's opinions. And these entities sure know how to circumvent any protection in place. Russian troll armies are a good example of something that will become more and more common in the future.” Laurent Schüpbach, neuropsychologist at University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland “Unfortunately, most people are easily manipulated by fear. Donald Trump's success is a testament to this fact. Negative activities on the internet will exploit those fears, and disproportionate responses will also attempt to exploit those fears. Soon, everyone will have to take off their shoes and endure a cavity search before boarding the internet.” David Wuertele, a software engineer at Tesla Motors “As language-processing technology develops, technology will help us identify and remove bad actors, harassment, and trolls from accredited public discourse.” Galen Hunt, a research manager at Microsoft Research NexT “I anticipate that AIs will be developed that will rapidly decrease the impact of trolls. Free speech will remain possible, although AI filtering will make a major dent on how views are expressed, and hate speech will be blocked.” Stowe Boyd, chief researcher at Gigaom https://twitter.com/stoweboyd "I expect we will create bots that would promote beneficial connections and potentially insert context-specific data/facts/stories that would benefit more positive discourse. Of course, any filters and algorithms will create issues around what is being filtered out and what values are embedded in algorithms.” Marina Gorbis, executive director at the Institute for the Future https://twitter.com/mgorbis "First, conversations can have better containers that filter for real people who consistently act with decency. Second, software is getting better and more nuanced in sentiment analysis, making it easier for software to augment our filtering out of trolls. Third, we are at peak identity crisis and a new wave of people want to cross the gap in dialogue to connect with others before the consequences of being tribal get worse (Brexit, Trump, etc.).” Jean Russell of Thrivable Futures https://twitter.com/NurtureGirl “My own research group is exploring several novel directions in digital commentary. In the not too distant future all this work will yield results. Trolling, doxxing, echo chambers, click-bait, and other problems can be solved. We will be able to ascribe sources and track provenance in order to increase the accuracy and trustworthiness of information online." David Karger, a professor of computer science at MIT https://twitter.com/karger "We will create tools that increase people’s awareness of opinions differing from their own, and support conversations with and learning from people who hold those opinions…. The future Web will give people much better ways to control the information they receive, which will ultimately make problems like trolling manageable (trolls will be able to say what they want, but few will be listening).” David Karger, a professor of computer science at MIT https://twitter.com/karger “We'll see some consolidation as it becomes easier to shape commercial interactive spaces to the desired audience. There will be free-for-all spaces and more-tightly-moderated walled gardens, depending on the sponsor's strategic goals. There will also be private spaces maintained by individuals and groups for specific purposes.” Valerie Bock, of VCB Consulting https://twitter.com/vcbock “We’re in a spy vs. spy internet world where the faster that hackers and trolls attack, the faster companies [and] for-profits come up with ways to protect against them and then the hackers develop new strategies against those protections, and so it goes. I don’t see that ending." Cathy Davidson, director, Futures Initiative at the City University of New York https://twitter.com/CathyNDavidson "I would not be surprised at more publicity in the future, as a form of cyber-terror. That’s different from trolls, more geo-politically orchestrated to force a national or multinational response. That is terrifying if we do not have sound, smart, calm leadership.” Cathy Davidson, director, Futures Initiative at the City University of New York https://twitter.com/CathyNDavidson “Surveillance and censorship will become more systematic, even in supposedly free countries such as the U.S. Terrorism and harassment by trolls will be presented as the excuses, but the effect will be dangerous for democracy.” Richard Stallman, Internet Hall of Fame member and president of the Free Software Foundation https://twitter.com/Internet_HOF “I’m very concerned about the future of free speech... Demands for governments and companies to censor and monitor internet users are coming from an increasingly diverse set of actors with concerns about safety and security, and concerns about whether civil discourse is becoming so poisoned as to make rational governance based on facts impossible.” Rebecca MacKinnon, director of Ranking Digital Rights at New America https://twitter.com/rmack "There will be a move toward firm identities—even legal identities issued by nations—for most users of the Web…There would still be anonymity available, just as there is in the real world today. But there would be online activities in which anonymity was not permitted. Clearly this could have negative free-speech impacts.” Michael Rogers, author and futurist at Practical Futurist https://twitter.com/rogersma “The regulation of online communications is a natural response to the identification of real problems, the maturing of the industry, and the increasing expertise of government regulators.” Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) https://twitter.com/MarcRotenberg of @EPICPrivacy “There is growing evidence that that the Net is a polarizing force in the world. I don’t believe to completely understand the dynamic, but my surmise is that it is actually building more walls than it is tearing down.” John Markoff, senior writer at the New York Times https://twitter.com/markoff @nytimes "With less anonymity and less diversity, the two biggest problems of the Web 1.0 era have been solved from a commercial perspective: fewer trolls who can hide behind anonymity. Yet, what are we losing in the process? Algorithmic culture creates filter bubbles, which risk an opinion polarisation inside echo chambers.” Marcus Foth, a professor at Queensland University of Technology https://twitter.com/sunday9pm “Monitoring is and will be a massive problem, with increased government control and abuse. The fairness and freedom of the internet's early days are gone. Now it's run by big data, Big Brother, and big profits. Anonymity is a myth, it only exists for end-users who lack lookup resources.” Thorlaug Agustsdottir of Iceland’s Pirate Party https://twitter.com/thorlaug "It is easy for governments to demand that social media companies do ‘more’ to regulate everything... We see this with the European Union's 'code of conduct' with social media companies. This privatisation of regulation of free speech (in a context of huge, disproportionate, asymmetrical power due to the data stored and the financial reserves of such companies) raises existential questions for the functioning of healthy democracies.” Joe McNamee, executive director at European Digital Rights https://twitter.com/edri “Between troll attacks, chilling effects of government surveillance and censorship, etc., the internet is becoming narrower every day.” Randy Bush, Internet Hall of Fame member and research fellow at Internet Initiative Japan https://twitter.com/Internet_HOF "It is far too easy right now for anyone to launch a large-scale public negative attack… This then can be picked up by others and spread. The 'mob mentality' can be easily fed, and there is little fact-checking... This will cause some governments to want to step in to protect citizens and thereby potentially endanger both free speech and privacy.” Dan York, senior content strategist at the Internet Society https://twitter.com/danyork @InternetSociety “To quote everyone ever, things will get worse before they get better. We’ve built a system in which access and connectivity are easy, the cost of publishing is near zero, and accountability and consequences for bad action are difficult to impose or toothless when they do." Baratunde Thurston, director’s Fellow at MIT Media Lab, Fast Company columnist https://twitter.com/baratunde @MediaLab "More people are getting online every day with no norm-setting for their behavior and the systems that prevail now reward attention-grabbing and extended time online. They reward emotional investment whether positive or negative. They reward conflict. So we’ll see more bad before more good because… the financial models backing these platforms remains largely ad-based and rapid/scaled user growth-centric.” Baratunde Thurston, director’s Fellow at MIT Media Lab, Fast Company columnist https://twitter.com/baratunde @MediaLab “Now that everybody knows about this problem I expect active technological efforts to reduce the efforts of the trolls, and we should reach ‘peak troll’ before long. There are concerns for free speech. My hope is that pseudonymous reputation systems might protect privacy while doing this.” Brad Templeton, chair for computing at Singularity University, EFF board member https://twitter.com/bradtem @EFF “Things will get somewhat better because people will find it tougher to avoid accountability. Reputations will follow you more than they do now…. There will also be clever services like CivilComments.com that foster crowdsourced moderation rather than censorship of comments. That approach will help." Esther Dyson, founder of EDventure Holdings and technology entrepreneur https://twitter.com/edyson "Anonymity is an important right—and freedom of speech with impunity (except for actual harm, yada yada)—is similarly important. Anonymity should be discouraged in general, but it is necessary in regimes or cultures or simply situations where the truth is avoided and truth-speakers are punished.” Esther Dyson, founder of EDventure Holdings and technology entrepreneur https://twitter.com/edyson "In the coming decade, you will have more and more conversations with operating systems, and especially with chatbots programmed to listen to, learn from and react to us. You will encounter bots first throughout social media, and during the next decade, they will become pervasive digital assistants ... Currently, there is no case law governing free speech of a chatbot." Amy Webb, futurist and CEO at the Future Today Institute https://twitter.com/amywebb @FTI "There were thousands of bots created to mimic Latino/Latina voters supporting Donald Trump. If someone tweeted a disparaging remark about Trump and Latinos, bots… would target that person with tweets supporting Trump. Now, many of the chatbots we interact with aren’t so smart. But with improvements in AI, machine learning, that will change." Amy Webb, futurist and CEO at the Future Today Institute https://twitter.com/amywebb @FTI "Without a dramatic change… we will realize a decade from now that we inadvertently encoded structural racism, homophobia, sexism, and xenophobia into the bots helping to power our everyday lives. When chatbots start running amok—targeting individuals with hate speech—how will we define 'speech'? At the moment, our legal system isn’t planning for a future in which we must consider the free speech infringements of bots.” Amy Webb, futurist and CEO at the Future Today Institute https://twitter.com/amywebb @FTI "Harassment, trolling... these things thrive with distance, which favors the reptile brains in us all… As individuals and distributed solutions to problems (e.g., blockchain) gain more power and usage, we will see many more distributed solutions to fundamental social and business issues, such as how we treat each other.” Doc Searls, journalist, speaker, and director of Project VRM at Harvard https://twitter.com/dsearls @BKCHarvard "We need systems that support pseudonymity: locally persistent identities. Persistence provides accountability: people are responsible for their words. Locality protects privacy: people can participate in discussions without concern that their government, employer, insurance company, marketers, etc., are listening in." Judith Donath of Harvard, author of The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online https://twitter.com/judithd @BKCHarvard "We should have digital portraits that succinctly depict a (possibly pseudonymous) person’s history of interactions and reputation within a community. We need to be able to quickly see who is new, who is well-regarded, what role a person has played in past discussions. A few places do so now but their basic charts are far from the goal: intuitive and expressive portrayals." Judith Donath of Harvard, author of The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online https://twitter.com/judithd @BKCHarvard "‘Bad actors’ and trolls (and spammers, harassers, etc.) have no place in most discussions—the tools we need for them are filters. We need to develop better algorithms for detecting destructive actions as defined by the local community. The more socially complex question is how to facilitate constructive discussions among people who disagree. Here, we need to rethink the structure of online discourse." Judith Donath of Harvard, author of The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online https://twitter.com/judithd @BKCHarvard "The role of discussion host/ moderator is poorly supported by current tech—and many discussions would proceed much better in a model other than the current linear free for all. Our face-to-face interactions have amazing subtlety—we can encourage or dissuade with slight changes in gaze, facial expression, etc. We need to create tools for conversation hosts (think of your role when you post something on your own Facebook page that sparks controversy) to help gracefully steer conversations.” Judith Donath of Harvard, author of The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online https://twitter.com/judithd @BKCHarvard "We are seeing the release of a pressure valve (or perhaps an explosion) of pent-up speech: the ‘masses’ who for so long could not be heard can now speak, revealing their own interests, needs, and frustrations—their own identities distinct from the false media concept of the mass. Yes, it’s starting out ugly. But I hope that we will develop norms around civilized discourse." Jeff Jarvis, a professor at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis "I hope we develop norms around civilized discourse. Oh, yes, there will always be… trolls. What we need is an expectation that it is destructive to civil discourse to encourage them. Yes, it might have seemed fun to watch the show of angry fights. It might seem fun to media to watch institutions like the Republican Party implode. But it soon becomes evident that this is no fun." Jeff Jarvis, a professor at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis "A desire and demand for civil, intelligent, useful discourse will return; no society or market can live on misinformation and emotion alone. Or that is my hope. How long will this take? It could be years. It could be a generation. It could be, God help us, never.” Jeff Jarvis, a professor at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis “Most attempts at reasoned discourse on topics interesting to me have been disrupted by trolls in last decade or so. Many individuals faced with this harassment simply withdraw... My wife’s reaction is ‘why are you surprised?’ in regard to seeing behavior online that already exists offline." Mike Roberts, Internet Hall of Fame member and first president and CEO of ICANN https://twitter.com/ICANN "There is a somewhat broader question of whether expectations of ‘reasoned’ discourse were ever realistic. History of this, going back to Plato, is one of self-selection into congenial groups. The internet, among other things, has energized a variety of anti-social behaviors by people who get satisfaction from the attendant publicity." Mike Roberts, Internet Hall of Fame member and first president and CEO of ICANN https://twitter.com/ICANN "Nowness is the ultimate arbiter: the value of our discourse will be weighted by how immediate or instantly seen and communicated the information is. Real-time search, geolocation, just-in-time updates, Twitter, etc., are making of now, the present moment, an all-subsuming reality that tends to bypass anything that isn’t hyper-current." Barry Chudakov, founder and principal at Sertain Research and StreamFuzion Corp. https://twitter.com/barrychudakov "Given the lack [online] of ‘facework’ or immediate facial response that defined human response for millennia, we will ramp up the emotional content of messaging to ensure some kind of response, frequently rewarding the brash and outrageous over the slow and thoughtful.” Barry Chudakov, founder and principal at Sertain Research and StreamFuzion Corp. https://twitter.com/barrychudakov "Our present ‘filter failure,’ to borrow Clay Shirky’s phrase, is almost complete lack of context, reality check, or perspective. In the next decade we will start building better contextual frameworks for information." Barry Chudakov, founder and principal at Sertain Research and StreamFuzion Corp. https://twitter.com/barrychudakov "The Volume Formula [in online discourse], the volume of content from all quarters—anyone with a keypad, a device—makes it difficult to manage responses, or even to filter for relevance but tends to favor emotional button-pushing in order to be noticed." Barry Chudakov, founder and principal at Sertain Research and StreamFuzion Corp. https://twitter.com/barrychudakov “After Snowden’s revelations, and in context accelerating cybercrimes and cyberwars it’s clear that every layer of the technology stack and every node in our networked world is potentially vulnerable. Meanwhile both magnitude and frequency of exploits are accelerating." Mike Liebhold, senior researcher and distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future https://twitter.com/mikeliebhold @IFTF "Users will continue to modify their behaviors and internet usage, and designers of internet services, systems, and technologies will have to expend growing time and expense on personal and collective security.” Mike Liebhold, senior researcher and distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future https://twitter.com/mikeliebhold @IFTF “The struggle we're facing is a societal issue we have to address at all levels, and that the structure of social media platforms can exacerbate. Social media companies will need to address this, beyond community policing and algorithmic shaping of our newsfeeds." Jillian York, director, international freedom of expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://twitter.com/jilliancyork @EFF "There are many ways to [moderate discourse] while avoiding censorship; for instance, better-individualized blocking tools and upvote/downvote measures can add nuance to discussions. I worry that if we don't address the root causes of our current public discourse, politicians and companies will engage in an increasing amount of censorship.” Jillian York, director, international freedom of expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation https://twitter.com/jilliancyork @EFF “Privacy as we tend to think of nowadays is going to be further eroded, if only because of the ease with which one can collect data and identify people. Free speech, if construed as the freedom to say whatever one thinks, will continue to exist and even flourish, but the flip side will be a number of derogatory and ugly comments that will become more pervasive.” Bernardo A. Huberman, senior fellow and director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise https://twitter.com/bhuberman @HPEnterprise 16 "Perception of public discourse is shaped by… our experience of online public discourse and media reports concerning the nature of public discourse… we have evidence that there is a lot of influence from bad actors, harassment, trolls…. But a great deal of public online discourse consists of what we and others don’t see.” Stephen Downes, researcher at National Research Council, Canada https://twitter.com/oldaily "We do not confront our neighbours/children/friends with antisocial behaviour. The problem is not [only] anonymous bullying: many bullies have faces and are shameless, and they have communities that encourage bullying. And government subsidies stimulate them—the most frightening aspect of all." Marcel Bullinga, trendwatcher and keynote speaker https://twitter.com/futurecheck "We will see the rise of the social robots, technological tools that can help us act as polite, decent social beings (like the REthink app). But more than that we need to go back to teaching and experiencing morals in business and education: back to behaving socially." Marcel Bullinga, trendwatcher and keynote speaker https://twitter.com/futurecheck “Today’s negative online user environment is supported and furthered by two trends that are unlikely to last into the next decade: anonymity in posting and validation from self-identified subgroups… The passing of anonymity will also shift the cost benefit analysis of writing or posting something to appeal to only a self-identified bully group." Patrick Tucker, author of The Naked Future and technology editor at Defense One https://twitter.com/DefTechPat "Trolling, harassment, etc., will remain commonplace, but not be the overwhelming majority of discourse. We’ll see repeated efforts to clamp down on bad online behavior through both tools and norms; some of these efforts will be (or seem) successful, even as new variations of digital malfeasance arise.” Jamais Cascio, distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future https://twitter.com/cascio “I expect the negative influences on social media to get worse, and the positive factors to get better. Networks will try to respond to prevent the worst abuses, but new sites and apps will pop up that repeat the same mistakes.” Anil Dash, technologist https://twitter.com/anildash "Free speech is made possible and more freely distributed by technology. Capture (read: production) and distribution are burgeoning. The individual has more than a soapbox; he or she or they have video and streaming or 'store now and play later' with repositories in the cloud becoming cheaper by the moment.” Dean Landsman, digital strategist and executive director of PDEC https://twitter.com/DeanLand "Social media allows people to take part in a public debate that they may have not previously had access to. But alongside this an increasing culture of attack language, trolls, and abuse online has the potential to do more damage to this potential.” Tim Norton, chair of Digital Rights Watch https://twitter.com/norton_tim "Anonymity fuels a lack of accountability… producing at times an online Lord of the Flies (LoF) situation. [These] have persisted in human social groups for eons and are not created by the availability of online fora. Despite the poor behavior of some, the world of social discourse online is growing in depth, diversity, and levels of participation." Andrew Walls, managing vice president at Gartner https://twitter.com/Gartner_inc "Groups that have previously had minimal access to mass communication are able to have a voice and those who previously had the microphone aren't quite sure how to react pleasantly. Technological evolution has surpassed the evolution of civil discourse. We'll catch up eventually. I hope. We are in a defining time.” Ryan Sweeney, director of analytics at Ignite Social Media https://twitter.com/ryantsweeney https://twitter.com/ignitesma “As we connect our identity more to what we say, there will be more accountability. Since it is easier to say harsh words anonymously, the continued direction of transparency will lead to more civil discourse.” Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder of The Webby Awards https://twitter.com/tiffanyshlain "The problem is the tendency of the cacophony of negative media voices to increase the social schisms contributing to the rising anger over a world undergoing massive shifts. We are watching what happens when the audience becomes accustomed to 'having a voice' and begins to assume that being heard entitles one's opinion to dominate." Pamela Rutledge, director of the Media Psychology Research Center https://twitter.com/mediapsychology "Unpleasant [and]… rising concentrations and complexity within society and within social and natural systems… makes us more vulnerable, while also making it harder to see cause and effect and assign accountability and responsibility to the injuries we suffer. Anger and frustration are a predictable consequence, and I expect public discourse online to reflect it.” Chris Kutarna, a fellow at the Oxford Martin School and author of Age of Discovery https://twitter.com/ChrisKutarna @oxmartinschool “The internet will continue to serve as an outlet for voices to vent in ways that are both productive and necessary. Societal and political 'griping' and 'disgust' often are necessary mechanisms for fostering change. We are going to find ways to preserve anonymity where necessary but also evolve online mechanisms of trust and identity verification." Scott McLeod, associate professor of educational leadership, University of Colorado-Denver https://twitter.com/mcleod "With more voices in the discussion, facilitated by the internet, negative elements have become more visible/audible in civil discourse. This could be seen as the body politic releasing toxins—and as they are released, we can deal with them and hopefully mitigate their effect.” Jon Lebkowsky, CEO of Polycot Associates https://twitter.com/jonl @polycotplus “It's clear that the level of abusive attacks on sites like Twitter or those that leverage multiple sites and technologies operates at a vastly different scale than the more-confined spaces of the past.” Wendy M. Grossman, a science writer and author of net.wars https://twitter.com/wendyg "It is of great concern that we have yet to find a funding model that will replace the Fourth Estate functions of the press... We desperately need to create interest in serious, fact-laden, truth-seeking discourse. The internet could be, but it largely isn’t, doing this.” Glenn Ricart, Internet Hall of Fame member and founder/CTO of US Ignite https://twitter.com/gricart @US_Ignite “Highly regarded media outlets set the tone of public discourse to a great degree—when the media we see is brash, brazen, and inflammatory, we adopt that language. I hope we will see a conscious shift in social networks to promote diversity of ideas and of thinking… I fear that will only come when we are able to come up with business models that don’t depend on hyper-targeting content for advertising.” Louisa Heinrich, founder at Superhuman Limited https://twitter.com/customdeluxe “There may be a segregation into different types of public discourse… Facebook is more likely to develop mechanisms where comments can be filtered, or people will learn to ignore comments on all but personal messages. (Recent announcements by Facebook about selecting fewer news stories are an indirect indicator. Heated debates about gun control don’t mix well with pictures of puppies.)” Henning Schulzrinne, a professor at Columbia University and Internet Hall of Fame https://twitter.com/sece5 “Particularly over the last five years, we have seen the growth of technologies of reputation, identity, and collaborative moderation. Newspapers that initially rejected comment streams because of their tendency of toxicity now embrace them. YouTube, once a backwater of horrible commentary, has been tamed. While there are still spaces for nasty commentary and activities, they are becoming destinations that are sought out by interested participants rather than the default.” Alexander Halavais, director, MA in social technologies at Arizona State University https://twitter.com/halavais “Already automation (creating social bots on social media platforms) is amplifying the voices of the bad people most of the time. Terrorist organizations are able to recruit many young people through these platforms... Privacy and anonymity are double-edged swords online.” Norah Abokhodair, information privacy researcher at the University of Washington https://twitter.com/Norahak “Humans universally respond to anger and fear. For balanced dialogue, this is a challenging combination.” Susan Mernit, CEO and co-founder at Hack the Hood https://twitter.com/susanmernit “Reputation systems will evolve to diminish the negative impact that bad actors have on online public discourse, and will become as broadly and silently available as effective spam systems have become over the last decade.” Robert Matney, COO at Polycot Associates https://twitter.com/rmatney "There is a great interest in helping to create 'safe' or self-regulating communities through the development of metrics of mutual ratification. However at the same time, there will be an enlargement in the opportunities and modes for engagement, through annotation or development of new forums, and these will be characterized by the same range of human discourse as we see now.” Peter Brantley, director of online strategy at the University of California-Davis https://twitter.com/naypinya “Currently the common Western ideology is very much focused on individuals and the right to do whatever technologies allow us to do—the problem is that it might not be a very good approach from the perspective of humankind as a whole. More-focused ideas of what we would like human society to be as a whole would be much needed. The technology comes first after that.” Isto Huvila, a professor at Uppsala University in Sweden https://twitter.com/ihuvila “We may have augmented-reality apps that help gauge whether assertions are factually correct, or flag logical fallacies, etc. Rather than just argue back and forth I imagine we’ll invite bots into the conversation to help sort out the arguments and tie things to underlying support data, etc.” Ryan Hayes, owner of Fit to Tweet https://twitter.com/fittotweet “Humanity’s reaction to negative forces will likely contribute more to the ever-narrowing filter bubble, which will continue to create an online environment that lacks inclusivity... An increased demand for systemic internet-based AI will create bots that will begin to interact—as proxies for the humans that train them—with humans online in real-time." Lisa Heinz, a doctoral student at Ohio University "We will see bots become part of the filter bubble phenomenon as a sort of mental bodyguard that prevents an intrusion of people and conversations to which individuals want no part. The unfortunate aspect of this iteration of the filter bubble means that while free speech itself will not be affected, people will project their voices into the chasm, but few will hear them.” Lisa Heinz, a doctoral student at Ohio University "My fear is that because of the virtually unlimited opportunities for negative use of social media globally we will experience a rising worldwide demand for restrictive regulation. This response may work against support of free speech in the U.S." Paula Hooper Mayhew, a professor of humanities at Fairleigh Dickinson University "Donald Trump is demonstrating to other politicians how to effectively exploit such an environment. He wasn’t the first to do it, by far. But he’s showing how very high-profile, powerful people can adapt and apply such strategies to social media. Basically, we’re moving out of the ‘early adopter’ phase of online polarization, into making it mainstream." Seth Finkelstein, writer and pioneering computer programmer "Many of the worst excesses come from people who believe in their own minds that they are not bad actors at all, but are fighting a good fight for all which is right and true (indeed, in many cases, both sides of a conflict can believe this, and where you stand depends on where you sit)." Seth Finkelstein, writer and pioneering computer programmer "When reward systems favor outrage-mongering and attention-seeking almost exclusively, nothing is going to be solved by inveighing against supposed moral degenerates.” Seth Finkelstein, writer and pioneering computer programmer "Conversations are shaped by norms and what the environment enables. For example, seating 100 dinner guests at one long table will shape the conversations differently than putting them at ten tables of ten, or 25 tables of four. The acoustics of the room will shape the conversations. Assigning seats or not will shape the conversations. Even serving wine instead of beer may shape the conversations." David Weinberger, senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society "[The Internet's] global nature means that we have fewer shared norms, and its digital nature means that we have far more room to play with ways of bringing people together. We’re getting much better at nudging conversations into useful interchanges. I believe we will continue to get better at it.” David Weinberger, senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society “Currently, online discourse is becoming more polarized and thus more extreme, mirroring the overall separation of people with differing viewpoints in the larger U.S. population. Simultaneously, several of the major social media players have been unwilling or slow to take action to curb organized harassment." Alice Marwick, a fellow at Data & Society "The marketplace of online attention encourages so-called ‘clickbait’ articles and sensationalized news items that often contain misinformation or disinformation, or simply lack rigorous fact-checking." Alice Marwick, a fellow at Data & Society "Without structural changes in both how social media sites respond to conflict, and the economic incentives for spreading inaccurate or sensational information, extremism and therefore conflict will continue." Alice Marwick, a fellow at Data & Society "The geographical and psychological segmentation of the U.S. population into ‘red’ and ‘blue’ neighborhoods, communities, and states is unlikely to change. It is the latter that gives rise to overall political polarization, which is reflected in the incivility of online discourse.” Alice Marwick, a fellow at Data & Society “Some company will get rich by offering registered pseudonyms, so that individuals may wander the Web ‘anonymously’ and yet vouched-for and accountable for bad behavior. When this happens, almost all legitimate sites will ban the unvouched anonymous.” David Brin, leader at UCSD's Arthur C. Clarke Center and author of The Transparent Society “Communications in any medium (the internet being but one example) reflects the people communicating. If those people use profane language, are misogynistic, judge people on irrelevant factors such as race, gender, creed, or other such factors in other parts of their lives, they will do so in any medium of communication." Fred Baker, fellow at Cisco Systems "If we worry about the youth of our age ‘going to the dogs,’ are we so different from our ancestors? In Book III of Odes, circa 20 BC, Horace wrote: ‘Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.’" Fred Baker, fellow at Cisco Systems "The human race is not doomed, not today any more than in Horace’s day. But we have the opportunity to choose to lead them to more noble pursuits, and more noble discussion of them.” Fred Baker, fellow at Cisco Systems "The pressure for more transparency and authenticity that comes with increasing connectivity and flow of information will tend to make life more difficult for the trolls…. Privacy will yield to ‘publicy’ in knowledge economy of abundance…. What we need is Network Publicy Governance instead of market individualism and bureaucratic hierarchies.” David Krieger, director of the Institute for Communication & Leadership at IKF in Lucerne “It seems clear—at least in the U.S.—that 'bad actors,' children of all ages who have never been effectively taught civility and cooperation, are becoming more and more free to 'enjoy' sharing the worst of their 'social' leanings.” Jim Warren, internet pioneer and longtime technology entrepreneur and activist “I expect digital public discourse to skew more negative for several reasons, including: the polarization of the country; the rise of websites, Twitter accounts, and Facebook pages dedicated to portraying an opponent in a bad light; and the awful online trolling and harassment of women who are active in social media." Jan Schaffer, executive director at J-Lab "It is possible that technological solutions may be developed to assign crowdsourced reputation values for what is posted online. This, in my opinion, will not stop people from consuming and re-posting information of low value provided it conforms with their way of thinking.” Daniel Menasce, professor of computer science at George Mason University "Perhaps we will see the development of social media sites with stringent requirements for traceable identity. These systems may have to demand evidence of real-world identity and impose strong (e.g., multifactor) authentication of identity. Even so, malefactors will continue to elude even the best of the attempts to enforce consequences for bad behavior.” M.E. Kabay, a professor of computer information systems at Norwich University “Most dangerous is the emerging monopoly-like power of Facebook and Google to impose their own censorship norms, 100,000’s of thousands of times…This is just one reason to reduce the market dominance by making sure others can take market share, interoperability, users’ ability to take their data (social graph) to new services.” Dave Burstein, editor at fastnet.news “The mass media encourages negative and hateful speech by shifting the bulk of their media coverage to hot-button click-bait.” Jesse Drew, professor of digital media at the University of California-Davis “I see the forces within the market, with Facebook in particular pushing us toward narrower and narrower spheres of interaction. My sense is that 'widespread demand' will be seen as re-affirming that push by social platforms.” Oscar Gandy, emeritus professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania “The continued expansion of sale of personal data by social media platforms and browser companies is bound to expand to distasteful and perhaps criminal activities based on the availability of greater amounts of information about individuals and their relationships.” Ian Peter, Internet pioneer and historian based in Australia “The internet will serve as a reflection of society, good and bad… The Internet echo chamber allows for extreme political or social positions to gain hold. [In] online communities… there is no need for moderation or listening to different points of view; if you don't like what you're reading, you can leave; there is no loyalty. In an actual community... one is more likely to compromise, see differing viewpoints.” Tse-Sung Wu, project portfolio manager at Genentech From: Sarvjeet Singh > Reply-To: Sarvjeet Singh > Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 4:30 PM To: bestbits > Subject: [bestbits] (RightsCon) Confronting Online Hate Speech: Identification and Strategies (Tomorrow – 10.30 am) Dear All, We would like to invite you to a discussion on Confronting Online Hate Speech: Identification and Strategies organised by the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi on March 29, 2017 (tomorrow) from 10:30 - 11.45 am at the Klimt (Ground Floor). The session is the launch point (the first scheduled session) for Track 13 - Stop the Hate. The Stop the Hate track, will focus on countering violent extremism and responding to hate speech. The hashtag for the session is #UnPackingHateSpeech. Additional details about the session and the speakers are provided below. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Best, Sarvjeet A DISCUSSION ON Confronting Online Hate Speech: Identification & Strategies #UnPackingHateSpeech 10:30 – 11.45 am, March 29, 2017 at Klimt organised by Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi Speakers Professor David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression and Clinical Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law Dr. Rob Faris, Research Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (moderator) Siddharth Narrain,Research Associate, Sarai - Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Professor Susan Benesch, Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and Director, Dangerous Speech Project Professor (Dr.) Wolfgang Schulz, Director Hans Bredow Institute and Chair, Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Internet Intermediaries Chinmayi Arun, Executive Director, Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi and Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University -- [https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0BycAZd9M5_7NTWs4YXZxbnJXcWc&revid=0BycAZd9M5_7Na3ROMTFBMzhiakF0dkVacm9tNks2aGlxa2o4PQ] Sarvjeet Singh | Programme Manager Centre for Communication Governance | National Law University, Delhi | Sector-14, Dwarka, New Delhi - 110078 | Cell: (+91) 999-023-2298 | Fax: (+91) 11-280-34256 | skype: sarvjeet.moond | www.ccgdelhi.org . www.ccgtlr.org . www.nludelhi.ac.in | Twitter: @ccgnlud . @sarvjeetmoond PGP: 0x44F8 0166 | Fingerprint: 213D AC8B 5634 B8A2 EDB6 A78D 543B 11EF 44F8 0166 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please share widely and also highly encourage folks to sign up to attend on Rio and São Paulo, if they are there, or to try and join us online. Thanks ---- http://bit.ly/ssigside #SSIG2017 Side talks #NCUC This is to outline a series of side talks in the same week or the week after #SSIG2017. These events are organized in universities in Brazil and groups linked to civil society spaces in I* organizations such as NCUC - ICANN and others. Thanks to GSE ICANN and NCUC, for the support in organizing these. All events will be in Portuguese, Spanish and English (with simultaneous translation). 3-7 Apr - SSIG2017 - www.gobernanzainternet.org Side talks to SSIG2017 An introduction to Internet Governance and policy making - ICANN for universities Follow online on twitter #NCUC - Times in GMT -3 (BRT) or http://participate.icann.org/brazil Rio de Janeiro 4 Apr -14:00-16:00 - Tuesday Praça do Conhecimento - Nova Brasília - Complexo do Alemão Lead educator: Felipe Fernandes (Code Club) Speakers: Dustin Philips (ICANNWiki), Farzaneh Badii (online) Renata Aquino Ribeiro (NCUC-LAC), Daniel Fink (ICANN) Attendance to community members enrolled in courses at the community center 5 Apr - 14:00 - 18:00 - Wednesday UERJ - State University of Rio de Janeiro Lead professors: Edmea Santos, Proped/UERJ & Mariano Pimentel , Informática / UNIRIO Speakers: Olga Cavalli (SSIG), Dustin Philips (ICANNWiki), Farzaneh Badii (online) Renata Aquino Ribeiro (NCUC-LAC), Daniel Fink (ICANN), Jennifer Chung (APrIGF) Register to attend: http://bit.ly/uerjig Audience: post-graduate students in education and technology, computer science, information systems Auditório do Proped - sala 1237, Uerj 12o. andar, bloco f, Maracanã, Rua Francisco Xavier, Rio de Janeiro. São Paulo 10 Apr - 14:00 - Monday UNIFESP - Federal University of São Paulo Lead professor: Paula Carolei Speakers: Olga Cavalli (SSIG) (Online), Farzaneh Badii (online), Dustin Philips (ICANNWiki) Renata Aquino Ribeiro (NCUC-LAC), Daniel Fink (ICANN), Jennifer Chung (APrIGF) Register to attend: http://bit.ly/igunifesp Audience: graduate students in distance learning, design 10 Apr - 19:00 - 21:00 - Monday UNIP - Paulista University Lead professor: Monica Mandaji Speakers: Olga Cavalli (SSIG) (Online), Farzaneh Badii (online), Dustin Philips (ICANNWiki) Renata Aquino Ribeiro (NCUC-LAC), Daniel Fink (ICANN) Attendance only to students and professionals at the institution Audience: undergraduate students in media studies, design From willi.uebelherr at riseup.net Wed Mar 29 14:34:36 2017 From: willi.uebelherr at riseup.net (willi uebelherr) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:34:36 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Robert Steele: Details on NSA Backdoor in INTEL Chips In-Reply-To: <80744451.124562.0@wordpress.com> References: <80744451.124562.0@wordpress.com> Message-ID: <0f651625-8559-6c3d-060b-7e54230b3755@riseup.net> Robert Steele: Details on NSA Backdoor in INTEL Chips http://phibetaiota.net/2017/03/robert-steele-details-on-nsa-backdoor-in-intel-chips/ DuckDuckGo search: NSA backdoor INTEL https://duckduckgo.com/?q=NSA+backdoor+INTEL&t=ha&ia=web Expert Says NSA Have Backdoors Built Into Intel And AMD Processors http://www.eteknix.com/expert-says-nsa-have-backdoors-built-into-intel-and-amd-processors/ Intel ME dumpintel and comments http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/117886401/intel-me Dear friends, many of us speak and write about encryption, about surveillance, about external control. Intel and Samsung, maybe also AMD, IBM/Motorola and others, have it installed. The underlayer between OS and hardware. Totally controlled from outside and independent of BIOS and OS. Intel implemented it in the i3, i5, i7. Personal PC environment. And servers and workstation? I am sure, it is the same. The decryption of the encryption makes too much effort. With ME it is easy and allways working. This is the reality, not the future. Our possible answer: Free technology. many greetings, willi -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [New post] Robert Steele: Details on NSA Backdoor in INTEL Chips Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:58:39 +0000 From: Public Intelligence Blog To: willi.uebelherr at gmail.com Post : Robert Steele: Details on NSA Backdoor in INTEL Chips URL : http://phibetaiota.net/2017/03/robert-steele-details-on-nsa-backdoor-in-intel-chips/ Posted : March 29, 2017 at 8:00 am Author : Editor Categories : Corruption, Government I have consulted with my senior NSA colleagues and they validate this information. http://phibetaiota.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Intel-Inside.jpg _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion at lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion From willi.uebelherr at riseup.net Thu Mar 30 21:08:34 2017 From: willi.uebelherr at riseup.net (willi uebelherr) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 22:08:34 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] To Serve AT&T and Comcast, Congressional GOP Votes to Destroy Online Privacy In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To Serve AT&T and Comcast, Congressional GOP Votes to Destroy Online Privacy https://theintercept.com/2017/03/29/to-serve-att-and-comcast-congressional-gop-votes-to-destroy-online-privacy/ Dear friends, as an extension to the email from Richard Hill "Snoops may soon be able to buy your browsing history. Thank the US Congress" in the ISOC policy list i distribute this email from Glenn Greenwald in The Intercept blog. So we have now a great diversity in this theme with a clear common result of analysis. many greetings, willi Asuncion, Paraguay -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: To Serve AT&T and Comcast, Congressional GOP Votes to Destroy Online Privacy Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:53:28 +0000 From: Glenn Greenwald <> To Serve AT&T and Comcast, Congressional GOP Votes to Destroy Online Privacy _Clarifying events_ in politics are often healthy even when they produce awful outcomes. Such is the case with yesterday’s vote by House Republicans to free internet service providers (ISPs) – primarily AT&T, Comcast and Verizon – from the Obama-era FCC regulations barring them from storing and selling their users’ browsing histories without their consent. The vote followed an identical one last week in the Senate exclusively along party lines . It’s hard to overstate what a blow to individual privacy this is. Unlike Silicon Valley giants like Facebook and Google – which can track and sell only those activities of yours which you engage in while using their specific service – ISPs can track everything you do online. “These companies carry all of your Internet traffic and can examine each packet in detail to build up a profile on you,” explained two experts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Worse, it is not particularly difficult to avoid using specific services (such as Facebook) that are known to undermine privacy, but consumers often have very few choices for ISPs; it’s a virtual monopoly. It’s hardly rare for the U.S. Congress to enact measures gutting online privacy: indeed, the last two decades have ushered in a legislative scheme that implements a virtually ubiquitous Surveillance State composed of both public intelligence and military agencies along with their private-sector “partners.” Members of Congress voting for these pro-surveillance measures invariably offer the pretext that they are acting for the benefit of American citizens – whose privacy they are gutting – by Keeping Them Safe™. But what distinguishes this latest vote is that this pretext is unavailable. Nobody can claim with a straight face that allowing AT&T and Comcast to sell their users’ browser histories has any relationship to national security. Indeed, there’s no minimally persuasive rationale that can be concocted for this vote. It manifestly has only one purpose: maximizing the commercial interests of these telecom giants at the expense of ordinary citizens. It’s so blatant here that it cannot even be disguised. That’s why, despite its devastating harm for individual privacy, there is a beneficial aspect to this episode. It illustrates – for those who haven’t yet realized it – who actually dominates Congress and owns its members: the corporate donor class. There is literally no constituency in favor of this bill other than these telecom giants. It’d be surprising if even a single voter who cast their ballot for Trump or a GOP Congress even thought about, let alone favored, rescission of privacy-protecting rules for ISPs. So blatant is the corporate-donor servitude here that there’s no pretext even available for pretending this benefits ordinary citizens. It’s a bill written exclusively by and for a small number of corporate giants exclusively for their commercial benefit at the expense of everyone else. Right-wing outlets like Breitbart tried hard to sell the bill to their readers . But the only rationale they could provide was that it’s intended to “undo duplicitous regulation around consumer privacy,” which, they suggested, was unfair to telecoms that faced harsher regulations than social media companies. To justify this, Breitbart quoted a GOP Congresswoman, Martha Blackburn, as claiming that the regulation is “unnecessary and just another example of big government overreach.” When the Senate GOP voted last week to undo the restriction, Texas Sen. John Cornyn invoked the right-wing cliché that it “hurt job creators and stifle economic growth.” But the inane idea that individuals should lose all online privacy protections in the name of regulatory consistency or maximizing corporate profits is something that is almost impossible to sell even to the most loyal ideologues. As Matt Stoller noted , there was “lots of anger in the comments section of Breitbart against the GOP for revoking the Obama privacy regs for ISPs.” Lots of "This is one of very few Obama-era regulations that should have stayed…." Everyone hates Comcast. pic.twitter.com/IODmQAkrnk — Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) March 29, 2017 Stoller added that the resentment among even Breitbart readers over the vote was based on a relatively sophisticated understanding that the GOP Congress was subordinating the privacy rights of individuals to the corporate profits of Comcast , along with reinforcing monopoly power for what are really public utilities; as Stoller put it : “it’s fascinating, when the political debates are about the use of concentrated business power, the debates are no longer as partisan.” _This recognition_ – of who owns and controls Congress – is absolutely fundamental to understanding any U.S. political issue. And it does – or at least should – transcend both partisan and ideological allegiance because it prevails in both parties. I still recall very vividly when I attended the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. It was just months after the Democratic Congress (with ample help from the Bush White House and GOP members) spearheaded a truly corrupt bill to vest the telecom industry with retroactive immunity for having broken the law in allowing the NSA to access their American customers’ calls and records without the warrants required by law (that was the 2008 bill which Obama, when seeking the Democratic nomination, vowed to filibuster, only to then flagrantly violate his promise by voting against a filibuster and for the bill itself once he had the nomination secured). The sole beneficiaries of that bill were AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and the other telecom giants who faced serious civil and even criminal liability for this lawbreaking. The main forces ensuring its passage were the Bush White House and the Democratic Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller, whose campaign coffers enjoyed a massive surge of telecom donations immediately before he championed their cause. The first thing one noticed upon arriving on the DNC grounds was the AT&T logo everywhere: they were a major sponsor of the convention, with everything from huge signs to tote bags for the delegates carrying their logo. The apex of this flagrant corruption was when AT&T threw a lavish party for the party centrists who helped pass the bill – entitled “AT&T thanks the Blue Dogs” – which both Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman and I attended in the totally futile attempt to interview the hordes of Democratic lobbyists, delegates and corporate donors who toasted one another: Like most people, I had known on a rational level for quite some time that corporate donors dictate what happens in Congress – that they literally write the laws – regardless of the outcome of elections. But watching that stream of corporate and political power slink in to that venue and congregate together in such blatant corruption, and the secrecy surrounding it, really underscored the reality of this all on a visceral level. That’s the permanent power faction of Washington and they try hard, with great success, to make themselves impenetrable to outside influences – such as democracy, transparency, and ordinary citizens. Perhaps this latest episode of pure corporate servitude – this time delivered by the Congressional GOP, at the expense of individual privacy, with virtually unanimous Democratic opposition – will have a similar effect on others, including those who worked to elect this Republican Congress. This, of course, is the “swamp” that Trump vowed to “drain,” the oozing corruption of both parties that he endlessly denounced (just as Obama did before him in 2008). If Trump signs this bill, as expected, perhaps it will open more eyes about how Washington really works, who really controls it, for whose benefit it functions, and the serious difficulty of changing it even when you elect politicians who swear over and over that they oppose it all. Top photo: An AT&T store on 5th Avenue in New York on Oct. 23, 2016. The post To Serve AT&T and Comcast, Congressional GOP Votes to Destroy Online Privacy appeared first on The Intercept . From yannis at registry.asia Sun Mar 5 22:04:55 2017 From: yannis at registry.asia (Yannis Li) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:04:55 +0800 Subject: [bestbits] [Reminder] APrIGF Bangkok 2017 - Open Call Workshop & Fellowship References: <9B9DAB29-CDFC-4C83-A019-5ACFD52E5224@aprigf.asia> Message-ID: <6996E26E-1356-4C11-8FD5-EEE9456276BA@registry.asia> Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum APrIGF Bangkok 2017 26 Jul - 29 Jul 2016 Chulalongkorn University http://2017.aprigf.asia Submit your Workshop Proposal or Fellowship Application before the deadlines! The overarching theme of APrIGF Bangkok 2017 is “Ensuring an Inclusive and Sustainable Development in Asia Pacific: A Regional Agenda for Internet Governance”. Online Submission Form: http://aprigf.asia/news/2017/how-to-submit-a-workshop.html Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: 15 Mar 2017 (Wed), 24:00 UTC **Read the online submission guide before you submit a proposal! Fellowship Submission: http://igf.asia/2017fellow Application Deadline: 8 Mar 2017 (Wed), 24:00 UTC Our registration and synthesis document process will start soon too. We will keep you posted! If you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact the secretariat at sec at aprigf.asia . If you are interested to follow any news and updates about APrIGF and discuss relevant issues, you may subscribe to the mailing list discuss at aprigf.asia by sending in subscription request. We also welcome any Internet-related organisation to become a sponsor. Please contact sec at aprigf.asia for more information. Best Regards, Secretariat of APrIGF http://www.aprigf.asia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The purpose of this Dynamic Coalition is > to provide an interface for the exchange of information and best > practices between the negotiators of these trade agreements and the > bodies in which they work, and the Internet Governance Forum and its > multi-stakeholder community. This information exchange will be both > substantive (that is, concerning particular Internet public policy > issues) and also procedural (that is, about how Internet public policy > can be developed in a transparent and inclusive way). > > Our provisional 2017 action plan is: > > 1. To publish a background paper describing the major trade agreements > that are in place or under negotiation, as well as the venues where > this takes place, and identifying the key Internet governance issues > that are the subject of such agreements and negotiations. > 2. To develop a multi-stakeholder approach to facilitating the > transparency and inclusiveness in international trade negotiations > and the domestic consultation processes. > 3. To build a network of representatives from trade institutions and > delegations for liaison with our Dynamic Coalition and the broader > IGF community. > 4. To hold our inaugural meeting at the 2017 IGF in Geneva to present > our outputs to the IGF community. > > If you are interested to join, please do so by joining the mailing > list. If you also wish to participate in our web platform (highly > recommended!) you should also separately register an account at > https://opendigital.trade. > > -- > 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/2016/11/27/key_jmalcolm.txt > PGP fingerprint: 75D2 4C0D 35EA EA2F 8CA8 8F79 4911 EC4A EDDF 1122 > -- Carlos A. Afonso [emails são pessoais exceto quando explicitamente indicado em contrário] [emails are personal unless explicitly indicated otherwise] Instituto Nupef - https://nupef.org.br CGI.br - http://cgi.br ISOC-BR - https://isoc.org.br From schalmers at ntia.doc.gov Mon Mar 6 16:50:11 2017 From: schalmers at ntia.doc.gov (Chalmers, Susan) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 21:50:11 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] IGF-USA call for topics ends today Message-ID: For those who are interested in the IGF-USA, there is a call for topics out, which ends today. It appears that the process this year will be: * The IGF-USA Steering Committee (open to all) receives topics via email; * A survey based on these topics is then produced, which then goes to the community; * The Steering Committee decides upon panel sessions based upon the survey responses; * Volunteers self-organize to assist in developing the panel session. From the website: Planning for 2017 Your Opinion Matters - Help Shape the IGF-USA Program for 2017 Planning has begun for the 2017 IGF-USA and we are seeking inputs from the entire community about what subjects to cover this year. Please take a few minutes to email us and tell us what subjects you think are important and should be covered. Your responses will help to produce our annual community wide survey of subjects for inclusion in the IGF-USA program. Please email your suggestions to panelsubject at igf-usa.org by March 6, 2017. The IGF-USA typically takes place in mid-July. Dates for this year are TBD. Susan Elizabeth Chalmers Internet Policy Specialist Office of International Affairs | NTIA | U.S. Department of Commerce 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20230 Desk: 202.482.6789 | schalmers at ntia.doc.gov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 Stuart.Hamilton at ifla.org Thu Mar 9 07:42:54 2017 From: Stuart.Hamilton at ifla.org (Stuart Hamilton) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 12:42:54 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] Moving on from IFLA - thanks! (and new contact details!) Message-ID: Dear friends and colleagues Please accept my apologies for a bulk email (and apologies to those on these lists who do not know me personally) - I wish I had time to write more personal emails, but my time here is running out... After nine years working for IFLA in the Netherlands (and a further five working for them in Denmark a few years before that doing my PhD) I'm moving on to a new position as the Deputy Executive Director and head of international relations at the new national library in Qatar. I'll start there next month and I'm ready for a change and a new challenge (and perhaps less Dutch rain). The new library is due to open in September and I'm looking forward to helping it get on its feet over the next few years. I'm going to be carrying on working with international information policy issues - which I'm very happy about - and I hope to run into many of you sooner rather than later. In particular I'll stay working on Internet governance with IFLA, particularly public access, so please do think of me if you need to reach out for anything libraries and IG. So for now I'll be moving to my personal email address: stuartjameshamilton at gmail.com Please don't hesitate to get in touch! See you all soon, Stuart PS: IFLA has a new Manager of Policy and Advocacy, Stephen Wyber, who is a great guy and a great contact for all your international library needs. He can be found at Stephen.wyber at ifla.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mike.oghia at gmail.com Thu Mar 9 13:40:12 2017 From: mike.oghia at gmail.com (Michael Oghia) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 19:40:12 +0100 Subject: [bestbits] Moving on from IFLA - thanks! (and new contact details!) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Stuart, When I first began to read the message, I was saddened to hear of your departure. The more I read, however, the more uplifting the message became. Congratulations on the new position! It is definitely exciting, and I am delighted to hear that you still plan to stay involved. You have been instrumental in promoting IFLA and advocating for both public access and the use of libraries as an empowering space. @Stephen: welcome! Please let us know if we can assist with your transition into this new role as well. My best, -Michael __________________ Michael J. Oghia ICANN58 fellow iGmena communications manager Independent #netgov consultant & editor Belgrade, Serbia Skype: mikeoghia Twitter *|* LinkedIn On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Stuart Hamilton wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues > > > > Please accept my apologies for a bulk email (and apologies to those on > these lists who do not know me personally) – I wish I had time to write > more personal emails, but my time here is running out… > > > > After nine years working for IFLA in the Netherlands (and a further five > working for them in Denmark a few years before that doing my PhD) I’m > moving on to a new position as the Deputy Executive Director and head of > international relations at the new national library in Qatar. I’ll start > there next month and I’m ready for a change and a new challenge (and > perhaps less Dutch rain). The new library is due to open in September and > I’m looking forward to helping it get on its feet over the next few years. > > > > I’m going to be carrying on working with international information policy > issues – which I’m very happy about - and I hope to run into many of you > sooner rather than later. In particular I’ll stay working on Internet > governance with IFLA, particularly public access, so please do think of me > if you need to reach out for anything libraries and IG. > > > > So for now I’ll be moving to my personal email address: > stuartjameshamilton at gmail.com Please don’t hesitate to get in touch! > > > > See you all soon, > > > > Stuart > > > > > > PS: IFLA has a new Manager of Policy and Advocacy, Stephen Wyber, who is a > great guy and a great contact for all your international library needs. He > can be found at Stephen.wyber at ifla.org > > ____________________________________________________________ > 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 ian.peter at ianpeter.com Thu Mar 9 14:37:13 2017 From: ian.peter at ianpeter.com (Ian Peter) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 06:37:13 +1100 Subject: [bestbits] Moving on from IFLA - thanks! (and new contact details!) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <313A07D8237045BC99E990842A544282@LAPTOP93L8QKEK> All the best for your new appointment Stuart. Ian Peter From: Stuart Hamilton Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:42 PM To: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org Subject: [bestbits] Moving on from IFLA - thanks! (and new contact details!) Dear friends and colleagues Please accept my apologies for a bulk email (and apologies to those on these lists who do not know me personally) – I wish I had time to write more personal emails, but my time here is running out… After nine years working for IFLA in the Netherlands (and a further five working for them in Denmark a few years before that doing my PhD) I’m moving on to a new position as the Deputy Executive Director and head of international relations at the new national library in Qatar. I’ll start there next month and I’m ready for a change and a new challenge (and perhaps less Dutch rain). The new library is due to open in September and I’m looking forward to helping it get on its feet over the next few years. I’m going to be carrying on working with international information policy issues – which I’m very happy about - and I hope to run into many of you sooner rather than later. In particular I’ll stay working on Internet governance with IFLA, particularly public access, so please do think of me if you need to reach out for anything libraries and IG. So for now I’ll be moving to my personal email address: stuartjameshamilton at gmail.com Please don’t hesitate to get in touch! See you all soon, Stuart PS: IFLA has a new Manager of Policy and Advocacy, Stephen Wyber, who is a great guy and a great contact for all your international library needs. He can be found at Stephen.wyber at ifla.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________ 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: