From parminder at itforchange.net Fri Sep 1 00:56:27 2017 From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 10:26:27 +0530 Subject: [bestbits] Google exercises its funding muscle Message-ID: <95734e2e-a779-1fde-0e0f-e8f5ff3622a4@itforchange.net> Quotes from the below article, which connects to the discussion (or non discussion) we recently had here on Google's funding of non profit/ academic research in digital area. Firing Lynn and his team “raises a lot of questions,” a Warren aide told HuffPost. Warren, herself, later tweeted her concerns. A senior aide to a progressive House Democrat, who commented on the condition of anonymity, called the firings “an example of the way that funding think tanks is a way to achieve policy outcomes, in the same way that lobbying and funding campaigns is. It’s a business expense.” Jonathan Taplin, the author of /Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy/, was more blunt in his assessment of what happened at New America. “It’s just classic monopoly muscle,” he told HuffPost. “This is the way bullies act.” *Google Just Proved That Monopolies Imperil Democracy, Not Just The Economy* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-monopoly-barry-lynn_us_59a738fde4b010ca289a1155?section=us_politics Barry Lynn and his team of anti-monopoly researchers were fired by a think tank after criticizing the search giant. WASHINGTON ― For the past decade, former business journalist Barry Lynn has used his perch at the New America Foundation to warn politicians and the public that a new era of corporate monopolies threatened not only American workers, but also democracy itself. Lynn was just proven right: New America has fired him as head of its Open Markets program along with his team of about 10 researchers and journalists, after they called for an antitrust investigation of the think tank’s largest longtime donor, Google. On June 27, the Open Markets team in a 150-word statement called for the Federal Trade Commission to follow the lead of the European Union, which leveled a $2.7 billion fine on Google for violating antitrust laws. Since New America’s start in 1999 , Google has given it $21 million. And Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Alphabet, Inc., Google’s parent company, served as New America’s chairman from 2008 through mid-2016. According to a report on Wednesday in The New York Times , Lynn was called on the carpet by New America head Anne-Marie Slaughter shortly after the Open Markets program praised the E.U.’s decision to find Google in violation of antitrust law for providing preferential placement to its own products and those of its subsidiaries over its rivals in search results. Schmidt, the Times reported, had expressed to Slaughter his “displeasure” with the statement backing the E.U.’s move. Slaughter, according to an email obtained by the Times, told Lynn that he and his team had to leave New America. The firing was, “in no way based on the content of your work,” she wrote, while also saying Lynn was “imperiling the institution as a whole.” Two current members of the Open Markets team confirmed this timeline of events to HuffPost. Lynn and his Open Markets colleagues were told to depart New America two days after the statement that supported the E.U. antitrust fine and called upon “U.S. enforcers” to “build upon this important precedent/. /The team, though, stuck around in an attempt to question New America’s leadership about whether it really wanted to fire the entire group. “We were trying to be, like, ’Are you sure you want to do this because it sort of seems bad,” Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Program, told HuffPost. “Are you sure you want to prove us right? Are you sure you want to back a monopoly in such an obvious and clumsy way? We were negotiating with them.” (Stoller is an occasional HuffPost contributor.) Despite those negotiations, Slaughter on Wednesday officially terminated Lynn and his team. Slaughter disputed the Times story, saying in a statement that the claim “that Google lobbied New America to expel the Open Markets program” was “false.” Instead, she said that Lynn refused “to adhere to New America’s standards of openness and institutional collegiality.” She offered no explanation for firing the entire Open Markets team. A Google spokeswoman denied any involvement in Lynn’s firing in an email to HuffPost. She also said that Schmidt did not threaten to cut off funding for the think tank because of the Open Markets statement on Google’s antitrust fine. “We support hundreds of organizations that promote a free and open Internet, greater access to information, and increased opportunity,” Riva Sciuto, the Google spokesperson, said in the statement. “We don’t agree with every group 100 percent of the time, and while we sometimes respectfully disagree, we respect each group’s independence, personnel decisions, and policy perspectives.” New America did not immediately respond to a request for comment to HuffPost. Lynn is now building an independent think tank to continue his anti-monopoly work with his New America team. The group has already launched a campaign aimed at mobilizing public opposition to the power of modern-day monopolies by highlighting Google’s power to quash independent research like that by the Open Markets team. Its supporters say this case underscores that argument. Lynn and his colleagues “have long argued that monopolies are a problem for the economy, but they’re also a problem for democracy,” Zephyr Teachout, a fellow at Open Markets and board member of its new campaign ― called Citizens Against Monopolies ― told HuffPost. “This kind of proves the point.” It’s not as though the Open Markets team needed to get fired to buttress their concerns about monopoly power. Their efforts already have been influential ― more so than work by many other think tanks. The Democratic Party recently adopted the team’s warnings about monopolies in its “A Better Deal” platform . Politicians ― including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) ― are pushing for enhanced antitrust enforcement and calling out concentrations of economic power more than before. Open Markets has helped lead the economic debate to a “more populist strain over the past couple of years,” Marshall Steinbaum, a fellow at the progressive economics think tank Roosevelt Institute, told HuffPost. Firing Lynn and his team “raises a lot of questions,” a Warren aide told HuffPost. Warren, herself, later tweeted her concerns. A senior aide to a progressive House Democrat, who commented on the condition of anonymity, called the firings “an example of the way that funding think tanks is a way to achieve policy outcomes, in the same way that lobbying and funding campaigns is. It’s a business expense.” Jonathan Taplin, the author of /Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy/, was more blunt in his assessment of what happened at New America. “It’s just classic monopoly muscle,” he told HuffPost. “This is the way bullies act.” The internal workings of New America, though, is not the real issue, Stoller said. The public needs to recognize Google as an autocratic private power that is exerting itself in the economy and in policy to increase its own power over people, he argued. “We love a lot of the people at New America,” Stoller said. “We think their work is great. ... This is not an issue of New America. This is an issue about monopoly and Google.” And Google is undeniably a monopoly. Just ask monopoly proponent and billionaire investor Peter Thiel , who has said the company is able to offer so many wonderful perks to its employees because it doesn’t have to worry too much about competition. It controls 80 percent of the market for online search and 54 percent of the browser market in the U.S. Google and Facebook, another powerful online platform monopoly, have gobbled up practically every new online advertising dollar (thanks to their past acquisitions of online advertising companies) in recent years while pressuring news organizations , including HuffPost, to publish directly to their platforms. Google’s control of internet search has given it the power to squeeze money away from other websites (see: CelebrityNetWorth.com and Yelp.com ). Google’s dominant position as an advertising seller has also given it increasing power over newsrooms (although not as much as Facebook). The company ― which once went by the motto “Don’t be evil” ― has also sought to replicate its economic power in political and policy spheres. Google has previously sought to pressure a nonprofit over its criticism of the company. In 2009, Google’s head of public policy reached out to the foundation funding the California-based Consumer Watchdog to warn it about continuing to underwrite the work by the pro-privacy group. That work was critical of many of Google’s privacy policies. In the past decade, Google also has poured tens of millions of dollars into campaign contributions, lobbying firms, think tanks and policy nonprofits in the past decade. This political investment soared after 2011 when Google’s antitrust issues first came under the microscope. Its lobbying expenses doubled from $9.6 million in 2011 to $18.2 million in 2012, and have not fallen below $15 million since. In 2011, Google gave grants to 44 different nonprofits and think tanks. That number jumped to 81 in 2012 and now sits at 170. Goggle executives enjoyed unrivaled access to the White House under President Barack Obama , visiting hundreds of times, according to Secret Service visitor logs. Google has also pumped millions of dollars into research at universities , often to buttress its public policy positions, and is pushing its own agenda for public school education across the country. Google’s huge increase in political investment post-2011 was in direct reaction to the Federal Trade Commission opening an antitrust investigation into whether it abused its market position in internet searches. The FTC commissioners eventually dropped the investigation in exchange for small concessions by the company, despite a report by the agency’s legal team that labeled Google a “monopoly” and supported a full investigation. “The ‘A’ word is the one thing that can stop the music,” Luther Lowe, Yelp’s vice president of public policy, said of Google’s interest in antitrust issues. “It’s the one that’s an all-hands-on-deck situation.” -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From valeriab at apc.org Fri Sep 1 14:34:34 2017 From: valeriab at apc.org (Valeria Betancourt) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:34:34 -0500 Subject: [bestbits] Unesco consultation on indicators for internet universality - Your chance to contribute Message-ID: Dear all, As most of you might have heard, UNESCO has launched a programme of work earlier this year to develop indicators for Internet Universality. UNESCO's Internet Universality framework is built around four core themes in Internet development, which are concerned with Rights, Openness, Access and Multistakeholder Participation (the R-O-A-M principles). The indicators which are to be developed will be used to assess progress towards an Internet which is consistent with the R-O-A-M principles at national and international levels. Work to develop the indicators is being led by the Association for Progressive Communications, together with research partners from Africa, Asia and Latin America (Research ICT Africa, LIRNEasia and DIRSI). Particular attention is being paid, within the R-O-A-M framework, to indicators concerned with gender inclusion and the inclusion of children and young people. UNESCO, APC and its partners are keen to ensure that as many stakeholders as possible contribute to the development of these indicators. Stakeholder contributions are vital to ensuring that the indicators meet the needs and concerns of the whole Internet community. We are writing to you now to encourage you to complete and questionnaire and contribute your views to help achieve this goal. A questionnaire inviting contributions to the project can be found in six languages at the following websites: Arabic: https://ar.unesco.org/internetuniversality Chinese: https://zh.unesco.org/feedback/diao-cha-wen-juan English: https://en.unesco.org/internetuniversality French: https://fr.unesco.org/internetuniversality Russian: https://ru.unesco.org/internetuniversality Spanish: https://es.unesco.org/internetuniversality As well as contributing yourselves to this consultation, we would be very grateful if you could circulate this email within your networks, and encourage your member-organisations and supporters to contribute their views as well. That will help to ensure that the indicator framework which emerges will be of greater value to all members of the Internet community. If you do circulate to your networks, it would be really helpful if you could let us know that you have done so. The closing date for contributions is 31 October, but it would be really helpful to receive inputs well before that date! Many thanks for your help. We look forward to reading your inputs and those from your networks. Best regards, Valeria -- Valeria Betancourt Directora / Manager Programa de Políticas de Information y Comunicación / Communication and Information Policy Programme Asociación para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones / Association for Progressive Communications, APC http://www.apc.org From imran at igfpak.org Sat Sep 2 04:26:16 2017 From: imran at igfpak.org (imran at igfpak.org) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 03:26:16 -0500 Subject: [bestbits] Results of Best Bits steering committee election In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20170902032616.Horde.azeEzjYe_kNji5aoJ4W6Nrr@carrera.websitewelcome.com> Dear Jeremy and All, Thanks for your efforts and support for conducting the Best Bits Steering Committee Election perfectly. Congratulation to the elected members of the "Best Bits Steering Committee". Although voting turnout is very low, which is around 12% out of 26% who (at least) tried to use their ballot, but only 47% out of them could successfully cast their e-vote. So, one of the agenda item could be encouraging our members to participate in the BestBits activities, whereas election is also an important activity. I also agree on the suggestion to co-opt Antonella onto the steering committee. I hope her participation would be helpful for us. > Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members! Thanks > I would also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them with > administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing > list, if required. Thanks for your offer, yes we need your support, please keep performing administrative role of the website as well as mailing list. I am also available to assist you if and when required. Thanking you and Best Regards Imran Ahmed Shah Founder, President & Executive Member of Linguistic Internet Council, Urdu Internet Society Internet Governance Forum of Pakistan Quoting Jeremy Malcolm : > The results of the Best Bits steering committee election are in. > > Ballots were sent to the 519 members of this list who have been members > for two months prior to the election, although some of these bounced.  > 134 of these members clicked on the invitation email, but only 63 of > them followed through and completed the voting forum by clicking the > submit button on the page.  (The former figure might not be completely > accurate, because some corporate email systems will automatically click > on links in email, to check whether they are phishing or as part of a > malware scan.  But we can be pretty confident about the latter figure.) > > Although we had more available positions on the steering committee than > nominees, because of the availability of "no candidate" as an option, I > have applied the criterion that in order to be elected to the steering > committee you must have had more people voting for you than voting for > "no candidate".  With 63 votes cast, this means that the threshold for > election was 32 votes.  In other words, if 31 people didn't want you on > the committee but 32 people did, you would be elected. > > Of the 63 votes, 15 did not want a steering committee to be elected at > all; in other words they voted "no candidate" for every position.  Of > the remaining 48: > > * 3 voted for the election of a only single member > * 4 voted for the election of only two members > * 4 voted for the election of only three members > * 12 voted for the election of only four members > * 7 voted for the election of only five members > * 18 voted for the election of all six members > > The precise number of votes received for each candidate was as follows: > > * Nighat Dad: 38 votes > * Poncelet Ileleji: 38 votes > * Renata Ribeiro: 37 votes > * Dave Burstein: 37 votes > * Imran Ahmed Shah: 33 votes > * Antonella Perini: 31 votes > > This means that only one candidate received less than 32 votes, but only > a single vote less, which is virtually a rounding error!  So I feel bad > for Antonella Perini and I would like to point out to the new steering > committee that if they would like to co-opt her onto the committee as an > honorary non-voting member, past precedent would allow them to do this.  > Also, this would ensure that the steering committee has a 50/50% equal > gender balance, as well as giving effect to the most popular choice that > there should be a steering committee of six.  Nevertheless, I leave this > for the new committee to decide. > > Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members!  I would > also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them with > administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing > list, if required. > > If anyone would like to review the raw data from the polling software in > order to verify the results as I have presented them, please let me know > and I will send it to you as a spreadsheet. > > -- > 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 From anawidix73 at gmail.com Sun Sep 3 11:03:28 2017 From: anawidix73 at gmail.com (Zina BRAHIM) Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 16:03:28 +0100 Subject: [bestbits] The KICTANET PRELIMINARY ELECTIONS REPORT - KENYA ELECTIONS 2017 In-Reply-To: <1653712258.417806.1502540378173@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1344152865.247917.1502520584794@mail.yahoo.com> <1653712258.417806.1502540378173@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Thanks, received. On Aug 12, 2017 13:19, "WANGARI KABIRU" wrote: > There is an attachment > > Blessed day. > > Regards/Wangari > > --- > Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored > Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on > Earth". > > > On Saturday, 12 August 2017, 14:20, Seun Ojedeji > wrote: > > > Was there supposed to be an attachment to this mail as it does seem not to > be included? > > Regards > > Sent from my mobile > Kindly excuse brevity and typos > > On Aug 12, 2017 9:01 AM, "Zina BRAHIM" wrote: > > Thanks for sharing. > > On Aug 12, 2017 07:49, "WANGARI KABIRU" wrote: > > Pray you are very well! > > The KICTANET PRELIMINARY ELECTIONS REPORT - KENYA ELECTIONS 2017 may be > of interest to this community. > > Transmission was to be powered 100% via the internet even from most > remote point of the nation. > > Read on.... 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URL: From raquino at gmail.com Sun Sep 3 20:43:18 2017 From: raquino at gmail.com (Renata Aquino Ribeiro) Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 21:43:18 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Results of Best Bits steering committee election In-Reply-To: <20170902032616.Horde.azeEzjYe_kNji5aoJ4W6Nrr@carrera.websitewelcome.com> References: <20170902032616.Horde.azeEzjYe_kNji5aoJ4W6Nrr@carrera.websitewelcome.com> Message-ID: Hello Thank you Imram and Dave I guess, seeing we are six and four are on the same page, we can consider that integrating Antonella into the SC group w/ voting rights is a go :) Unless there are objections. I guess now our challenge is talking about our next steps. And as we had fewer candidates than SC slots, I'm guessing other volunteers who want to collaborate may be joining in for projects or tasks. There's a lot that can be done and not too many of us. Best, Renata On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 5:26 AM, wrote: > Dear Jeremy and All, > > Thanks for your efforts and support for conducting the Best Bits Steering > Committee Election perfectly. > > Congratulation to the elected members of the "Best Bits Steering Committee". > > Although voting turnout is very low, which is around 12% out of 26% who (at > least) tried to use their ballot, but only 47% out of them could > successfully cast their e-vote. So, one of the agenda item could be > encouraging our members to participate in the BestBits activities, whereas > election is also an important activity. > > I also agree on the suggestion to co-opt Antonella onto the steering > committee. I hope her participation would be helpful for us. > >> Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members! > > Thanks > >> I would also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them >> with >> administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing >> list, if required. > > > Thanks for your offer, yes we need your support, please keep performing > administrative role of the website as well as mailing list. I am also > available to assist you if and when required. > > Thanking you and Best Regards > > > Imran Ahmed Shah > > Founder, President & Executive Member of > Linguistic Internet Council, > Urdu Internet Society > Internet Governance Forum of Pakistan > > > > Quoting Jeremy Malcolm : > >> The results of the Best Bits steering committee election are in. >> >> Ballots were sent to the 519 members of this list who have been members >> for two months prior to the election, although some of these bounced. >> 134 of these members clicked on the invitation email, but only 63 of >> them followed through and completed the voting forum by clicking the >> submit button on the page. (The former figure might not be completely >> accurate, because some corporate email systems will automatically click >> on links in email, to check whether they are phishing or as part of a >> malware scan. But we can be pretty confident about the latter figure.) >> >> Although we had more available positions on the steering committee than >> nominees, because of the availability of "no candidate" as an option, I >> have applied the criterion that in order to be elected to the steering >> committee you must have had more people voting for you than voting for >> "no candidate". With 63 votes cast, this means that the threshold for >> election was 32 votes. In other words, if 31 people didn't want you on >> the committee but 32 people did, you would be elected. >> >> Of the 63 votes, 15 did not want a steering committee to be elected at >> all; in other words they voted "no candidate" for every position. Of >> the remaining 48: >> >> * 3 voted for the election of a only single member >> * 4 voted for the election of only two members >> * 4 voted for the election of only three members >> * 12 voted for the election of only four members >> * 7 voted for the election of only five members >> * 18 voted for the election of all six members >> >> The precise number of votes received for each candidate was as follows: >> >> * Nighat Dad: 38 votes >> * Poncelet Ileleji: 38 votes >> * Renata Ribeiro: 37 votes >> * Dave Burstein: 37 votes >> * Imran Ahmed Shah: 33 votes >> * Antonella Perini: 31 votes >> >> >> This means that only one candidate received less than 32 votes, but only >> a single vote less, which is virtually a rounding error! So I feel bad >> for Antonella Perini and I would like to point out to the new steering >> committee that if they would like to co-opt her onto the committee as an >> honorary non-voting member, past precedent would allow them to do this. >> Also, this would ensure that the steering committee has a 50/50% equal >> gender balance, as well as giving effect to the most popular choice that >> there should be a steering committee of six. Nevertheless, I leave this >> for the new committee to decide. >> >> Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members! I would >> also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them with >> administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing >> list, if required. >> >> If anyone would like to review the raw data from the polling software in >> order to verify the results as I have presented them, please let me know >> and I will send it to you as a spreadsheet. >> >> -- >> 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 > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits From mike.oghia at gmail.com Mon Sep 4 01:49:01 2017 From: mike.oghia at gmail.com (Michael J. Oghia) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 07:49:01 +0200 Subject: [bestbits] Results of Best Bits steering committee election In-Reply-To: References: <20170902032616.Horde.azeEzjYe_kNji5aoJ4W6Nrr@carrera.websitewelcome.com> Message-ID: I support you Renata, and thank you for being part of this. Best, -Michael On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro wrote: > Hello > > Thank you Imram and Dave > I guess, seeing we are six and four are on the same page, we can > consider that integrating Antonella into the SC group w/ voting rights > is a go :) Unless there are objections. > > I guess now our challenge is talking about our next steps. > And as we had fewer candidates than SC slots, I'm guessing other > volunteers who want to collaborate may be joining in for projects or > tasks. > There's a lot that can be done and not too many of us. > > Best, > > Renata > > > On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 5:26 AM, wrote: > > Dear Jeremy and All, > > > > Thanks for your efforts and support for conducting the Best Bits Steering > > Committee Election perfectly. > > > > Congratulation to the elected members of the "Best Bits Steering > Committee". > > > > Although voting turnout is very low, which is around 12% out of 26% who > (at > > least) tried to use their ballot, but only 47% out of them could > > successfully cast their e-vote. So, one of the agenda item could be > > encouraging our members to participate in the BestBits activities, > whereas > > election is also an important activity. > > > > I also agree on the suggestion to co-opt Antonella onto the steering > > committee. I hope her participation would be helpful for us. > > > >> Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members! > > > > Thanks > > > >> I would also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them > >> with > >> administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing > >> list, if required. > > > > > > Thanks for your offer, yes we need your support, please keep performing > > administrative role of the website as well as mailing list. I am also > > available to assist you if and when required. > > > > Thanking you and Best Regards > > > > > > Imran Ahmed Shah > > > > Founder, President & Executive Member of > > Linguistic Internet Council, > > Urdu Internet Society > > Internet Governance Forum of Pakistan > > > > > > > > Quoting Jeremy Malcolm : > > > >> The results of the Best Bits steering committee election are in. > >> > >> Ballots were sent to the 519 members of this list who have been members > >> for two months prior to the election, although some of these bounced. > >> 134 of these members clicked on the invitation email, but only 63 of > >> them followed through and completed the voting forum by clicking the > >> submit button on the page. (The former figure might not be completely > >> accurate, because some corporate email systems will automatically click > >> on links in email, to check whether they are phishing or as part of a > >> malware scan. But we can be pretty confident about the latter figure.) > >> > >> Although we had more available positions on the steering committee than > >> nominees, because of the availability of "no candidate" as an option, I > >> have applied the criterion that in order to be elected to the steering > >> committee you must have had more people voting for you than voting for > >> "no candidate". With 63 votes cast, this means that the threshold for > >> election was 32 votes. In other words, if 31 people didn't want you on > >> the committee but 32 people did, you would be elected. > >> > >> Of the 63 votes, 15 did not want a steering committee to be elected at > >> all; in other words they voted "no candidate" for every position. Of > >> the remaining 48: > >> > >> * 3 voted for the election of a only single member > >> * 4 voted for the election of only two members > >> * 4 voted for the election of only three members > >> * 12 voted for the election of only four members > >> * 7 voted for the election of only five members > >> * 18 voted for the election of all six members > >> > >> The precise number of votes received for each candidate was as follows: > >> > >> * Nighat Dad: 38 votes > >> * Poncelet Ileleji: 38 votes > >> * Renata Ribeiro: 37 votes > >> * Dave Burstein: 37 votes > >> * Imran Ahmed Shah: 33 votes > >> * Antonella Perini: 31 votes > >> > >> > >> This means that only one candidate received less than 32 votes, but only > >> a single vote less, which is virtually a rounding error! So I feel bad > >> for Antonella Perini and I would like to point out to the new steering > >> committee that if they would like to co-opt her onto the committee as an > >> honorary non-voting member, past precedent would allow them to do this. > >> Also, this would ensure that the steering committee has a 50/50% equal > >> gender balance, as well as giving effect to the most popular choice that > >> there should be a steering committee of six. Nevertheless, I leave this > >> for the new committee to decide. > >> > >> Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members! I would > >> also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them with > >> administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing > >> list, if required. > >> > >> If anyone would like to review the raw data from the polling software in > >> order to verify the results as I have presented them, please let me know > >> and I will send it to you as a spreadsheet. > >> > >> -- > >> 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From antomperini at gmail.com Mon Sep 4 09:06:24 2017 From: antomperini at gmail.com (Antonella Perini) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 10:06:24 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Results of Best Bits steering committee election In-Reply-To: References: <20170902032616.Horde.azeEzjYe_kNji5aoJ4W6Nrr@carrera.websitewelcome.com> Message-ID: Thank you Jeremy and the SC group for your intentions to co-opting me onto the SC. I really appreciate it and I wait for all elected members to give their view. It will be ok either way ;) Best, Antonella On 4 September 2017 at 02:49, Michael J. Oghia wrote: > I support you Renata, and thank you for being part of this. > > Best, > -Michael > > On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro > wrote: > >> Hello >> >> Thank you Imram and Dave >> I guess, seeing we are six and four are on the same page, we can >> consider that integrating Antonella into the SC group w/ voting rights >> is a go :) Unless there are objections. >> >> I guess now our challenge is talking about our next steps. >> And as we had fewer candidates than SC slots, I'm guessing other >> volunteers who want to collaborate may be joining in for projects or >> tasks. >> There's a lot that can be done and not too many of us. >> >> Best, >> >> Renata >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 5:26 AM, wrote: >> > Dear Jeremy and All, >> > >> > Thanks for your efforts and support for conducting the Best Bits >> Steering >> > Committee Election perfectly. >> > >> > Congratulation to the elected members of the "Best Bits Steering >> Committee". >> > >> > Although voting turnout is very low, which is around 12% out of 26% who >> (at >> > least) tried to use their ballot, but only 47% out of them could >> > successfully cast their e-vote. So, one of the agenda item could be >> > encouraging our members to participate in the BestBits activities, >> whereas >> > election is also an important activity. >> > >> > I also agree on the suggestion to co-opt Antonella onto the steering >> > committee. I hope her participation would be helpful for us. >> > >> >> Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members! >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> >> I would also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them >> >> with >> >> administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing >> >> list, if required. >> > >> > >> > Thanks for your offer, yes we need your support, please keep performing >> > administrative role of the website as well as mailing list. I am also >> > available to assist you if and when required. >> > >> > Thanking you and Best Regards >> > >> > >> > Imran Ahmed Shah >> > >> > Founder, President & Executive Member of >> > Linguistic Internet Council, >> > Urdu Internet Society >> > Internet Governance Forum of Pakistan >> > >> > >> > >> > Quoting Jeremy Malcolm : >> > >> >> The results of the Best Bits steering committee election are in. >> >> >> >> Ballots were sent to the 519 members of this list who have been members >> >> for two months prior to the election, although some of these bounced. >> >> 134 of these members clicked on the invitation email, but only 63 of >> >> them followed through and completed the voting forum by clicking the >> >> submit button on the page. (The former figure might not be completely >> >> accurate, because some corporate email systems will automatically click >> >> on links in email, to check whether they are phishing or as part of a >> >> malware scan. But we can be pretty confident about the latter figure.) >> >> >> >> Although we had more available positions on the steering committee than >> >> nominees, because of the availability of "no candidate" as an option, I >> >> have applied the criterion that in order to be elected to the steering >> >> committee you must have had more people voting for you than voting for >> >> "no candidate". With 63 votes cast, this means that the threshold for >> >> election was 32 votes. In other words, if 31 people didn't want you on >> >> the committee but 32 people did, you would be elected. >> >> >> >> Of the 63 votes, 15 did not want a steering committee to be elected at >> >> all; in other words they voted "no candidate" for every position. Of >> >> the remaining 48: >> >> >> >> * 3 voted for the election of a only single member >> >> * 4 voted for the election of only two members >> >> * 4 voted for the election of only three members >> >> * 12 voted for the election of only four members >> >> * 7 voted for the election of only five members >> >> * 18 voted for the election of all six members >> >> >> >> The precise number of votes received for each candidate was as follows: >> >> >> >> * Nighat Dad: 38 votes >> >> * Poncelet Ileleji: 38 votes >> >> * Renata Ribeiro: 37 votes >> >> * Dave Burstein: 37 votes >> >> * Imran Ahmed Shah: 33 votes >> >> * Antonella Perini: 31 votes >> >> >> >> >> >> This means that only one candidate received less than 32 votes, but >> only >> >> a single vote less, which is virtually a rounding error! So I feel bad >> >> for Antonella Perini and I would like to point out to the new steering >> >> committee that if they would like to co-opt her onto the committee as >> an >> >> honorary non-voting member, past precedent would allow them to do this. >> >> Also, this would ensure that the steering committee has a 50/50% equal >> >> gender balance, as well as giving effect to the most popular choice >> that >> >> there should be a steering committee of six. Nevertheless, I leave >> this >> >> for the new committee to decide. >> >> >> >> Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members! I >> would >> >> also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them with >> >> administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing >> >> list, if required. >> >> >> >> If anyone would like to review the raw data from the polling software >> in >> >> order to verify the results as I have presented them, please let me >> know >> >> and I will send it to you as a spreadsheet. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ____________________________________________________________ >> > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> > > > ____________________________________________________________ > 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 pranesh at cis-india.org Mon Sep 4 09:23:21 2017 From: pranesh at cis-india.org (Pranesh Prakash) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 18:53:21 +0530 Subject: [bestbits] Xiamen Statement from BRICS Summit 2017 Message-ID: Dear all, I've pasted below 3 paragraphs that I feel are important to Internet governance from the Xiamen Statement released today: (Link to PDF) https://goo.gl/Py31Um ... 57\. We believe that all states should participate on an equal footing in the evolution and functioning of the Internet and its governance, bearing in mind the need to involve relevant stakeholders in their respective roles and responsibilities. The structures that manage and regulate the critical Internet resources need to be made more representative and inclusive. We note with satisfaction the progress made by the BRICS Working Group on ICT Cooperation. We recognize the necessity to strengthen our cooperation in this area. To that end, BRICS will continue to work together through the existing mechanism to contribute to the secure, open, peaceful and cooperative use of ICTs on the basis of equal participation of the international community in its management. ... 50\. We call upon all nations to adopt a comprehensive approach in combating terrorism, which should include countering radicalization, recruitment, movement of terrorists including Foreign Terrorist Fighters, blocking sources of financing terrorism including, for instance, through organized crime by means of money-laundering, supply of weapons, drug trafficking and other criminal activities, dismantling terrorist bases, and countering misuse of the Internet including social media by terrorist entities through misuse of the latest Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). We are committed to prevent and counter the growing spread of terrorist narratives, and to tackle all sources, techniques and channels of terrorist financing. We call for swift and effective implementation of relevant UNSC Resolutions and the FATF International Standards worldwide. We seek to intensify our cooperation in FATF and FATF-style regional bodies (FSRBs). We recall the responsibility of all States to prevent financing of terrorist networks and terrorist actions from their territories. ... 12\. We highlight the importance of innovation as a key driver for mid and long term economic growth and global sustainable development. We commit to promote cooperation on science, technology and innovation (STI) to forge synergy in tapping new growth momentum for our five economies and continue to address the development challenges we face. We commend the selection of BRICS research and development projects under the BRICS STI Framework Program and note the launch of the 2nd call for projects. We welcome the BRICS STI Cooperation MOU and support enhanced cooperation on innovation and entrepreneurship, including by promoting technology transfer and application, cooperation among science and technology parks and enterprises as well as mobility of researchers, entrepreneurs, professionals and students. We encourage increased participation of the academia, businesses, civil society and other stakeholders in this process, and support the promotion of STI investment and cross-border investment through existing funding, institutions and platforms including the NDB. We agree to continue to work on a cooperation platform for innovation and entrepreneurship and support the implementation of the BRICS Innovation Cooperation Action Plan 2017-2020. 13\. We reaffirm our commitment to BRICS industrial cooperation, including on industrial capacities and policies, new industrial infrastructure and standards, and among small, micro and medium-sized enterprises (SMMEs), so as to jointly seize the opportunities brought about by the new industrial revolution and expedite our respective industrialization processes. We encourage exploring the establishment of BRICS Institute of Future networks. We will enhance joint BRICS research, development and innovation in ICT including the Internet of Things, Cloud computing, Big Data, Data Analytics, Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and 5G and their innovative applications to elevate the level of ICT infrastructure and connectivity in our countries. We will advocate the establishment of internationally applicable rules for security of ICT infrastructure, data protection and the Internet that can be widely accepted by all parties concerned, and jointly build a network that is safe and secure. We will increase investment of ICT, recognize the need to further increase investment in ICT Research and development, unleash the dynamics of innovation in producing goods and services. We encourage identification and facilitation of partnership between institutes, organizations, enterprises in the implementation of proof of concepts and pilot projects by leveraging complementary strengths in ICT hardware, software and skills through developing next generation of innovative solutions in the areas of smart cities, health care and energy efficient device, etc. We support active collaboration in implementing the BRICS ICT Development Agenda and Action Plan. -- Pranesh Prakash Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society http://cis-india.org | tel:+91 80 40926283 sip:pranesh at ostel.co | xmpp:pranesh at cis-india.org https://twitter.com/pranesh -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From raquino at gmail.com Mon Sep 4 10:10:16 2017 From: raquino at gmail.com (Renata Aquino Ribeiro) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 11:10:16 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Xiamen Statement from BRICS Summit 2017 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Thanks for sending this material. Uninterruptedly on the news cycle in Brazil was our president participation in this. I heard so many BRICS mentions in Globonews that I almost forgot we had corruptions indictments all over the country ongoing. While it is good that there's support for a BRICS action, there's also great concern here as it is not easy to identify consistent policy proposals in AI, IOT and other emerging issues from the interim government yet. All we know is that IOT, for instance, is high on the list for the new government and they went as far as trying an overnight consultation to "re-mold" our internet steering committee and help on moving this forward. So it is expected that IOT and concerns for privacy and digital rights may not be things moving together. However, the recent win in India in privacy cases gives us hope and maybe a path to follow. It is also a time when Brazil and other LAC countries turn into cybersecurity for counterterrorism heavily. This has been moved mainly through the participation in OAS initiatives, among other IGOs which are moving people along these debates. Best, Renata On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Pranesh Prakash wrote: > Dear all, > I've pasted below 3 paragraphs that I feel are important to Internet > governance from the Xiamen Statement released today: > > (Link to PDF) https://goo.gl/Py31Um > > ... > > 57\. We believe that all states should participate on an equal footing in > the evolution and functioning of the Internet and its governance, bearing in > mind the need to involve relevant stakeholders in their respective roles and > responsibilities. The structures that manage and regulate the critical > Internet resources need to be made more representative and inclusive. We > note with satisfaction the progress made by the BRICS Working Group on ICT > Cooperation. We recognize the necessity to strengthen our cooperation in > this area. To that end, BRICS will continue to work together through the > existing mechanism to contribute to the secure, open, peaceful and > cooperative use of ICTs on the basis of equal participation of the > international community in its management. > > > ... > > 50\. We call upon all nations to adopt a comprehensive approach in combating > terrorism, which should include countering radicalization, recruitment, > movement of terrorists including Foreign Terrorist Fighters, blocking > sources of financing terrorism including, for instance, through organized > crime by means of money-laundering, supply of weapons, drug trafficking and > other criminal activities, dismantling terrorist bases, and countering > misuse of the Internet including social media by terrorist entities through > misuse of the latest Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). We > are committed to prevent and counter the growing spread of terrorist > narratives, and to tackle all sources, techniques and channels of terrorist > financing. We call for swift and effective implementation of relevant UNSC > Resolutions and the FATF International Standards worldwide. We seek to > intensify our cooperation in FATF and FATF-style regional bodies (FSRBs). We > recall the responsibility of all States to prevent financing of terrorist > networks and terrorist actions from their territories. > > ... > > 12\. We highlight the importance of innovation as a key driver for mid and > long term economic growth and global sustainable development. We commit to > promote cooperation on science, technology and innovation (STI) to forge > synergy in tapping new growth momentum for our five economies and continue > to address the development challenges we face. We commend the selection of > BRICS research and development projects under the BRICS STI Framework > Program and note the launch of the 2nd call for projects. We welcome the > BRICS STI Cooperation MOU and support enhanced cooperation on innovation and > entrepreneurship, including by promoting technology transfer and > application, cooperation among science and technology parks and enterprises > as well as mobility of researchers, entrepreneurs, professionals and > students. We encourage increased participation of the academia, businesses, > civil society and other stakeholders in this process, and support the > promotion of STI investment and cross-border investment through existing > funding, institutions and platforms including the NDB. We agree to continue > to work on a cooperation platform for innovation and entrepreneurship and > support the implementation of the BRICS Innovation Cooperation Action Plan > 2017-2020. > > 13\. We reaffirm our commitment to BRICS industrial cooperation, including > on industrial capacities and policies, new industrial infrastructure and > standards, and among small, micro and medium-sized enterprises (SMMEs), so > as to jointly seize the opportunities brought about by the new industrial > revolution and expedite our respective industrialization processes. We > encourage exploring the establishment of BRICS Institute of Future networks. > > We will enhance joint BRICS research, development and innovation in ICT > including the Internet of Things, Cloud computing, Big Data, Data Analytics, > Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and 5G and their innovative > applications to elevate the level of ICT infrastructure and connectivity in > our countries. We will advocate the establishment of internationally > applicable rules for security of ICT infrastructure, data protection and the > Internet that can be widely accepted by all parties concerned, and jointly > build a network that is safe and secure. We will increase investment of ICT, > recognize the need to further increase investment in ICT Research and > development, unleash the dynamics of innovation in producing goods and > services. We encourage identification and facilitation of partnership > between institutes, organizations, enterprises in the implementation of > proof of concepts and pilot projects by leveraging complementary strengths > in ICT hardware, software and skills through developing next generation of > innovative solutions in the areas of smart cities, health care and energy > efficient device, etc. We support active collaboration in implementing the > BRICS ICT Development Agenda and Action Plan. > > -- > Pranesh Prakash > Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society > http://cis-india.org | tel:+91 80 40926283 > sip:pranesh at ostel.co | xmpp:pranesh at cis-india.org > https://twitter.com/pranesh > From raquino at gmail.com Mon Sep 4 11:18:01 2017 From: raquino at gmail.com (Renata Aquino Ribeiro) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 12:18:01 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Results of Best Bits steering committee election In-Reply-To: References: <20170902032616.Horde.azeEzjYe_kNji5aoJ4W6Nrr@carrera.websitewelcome.com> Message-ID: Super! Thanks Mike and Antonella! It's great to see this positive energy for the new members of the SC, we'll need your support for the challenges ahead :) On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Antonella Perini wrote: > Thank you Jeremy and the SC group for your intentions to co-opting me onto > the SC. I really appreciate it and I wait for all elected members to give > their view. It will be ok either way ;) > > Best, > > Antonella > > > On 4 September 2017 at 02:49, Michael J. Oghia wrote: >> >> I support you Renata, and thank you for being part of this. >> >> Best, >> -Michael >> >> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello >>> >>> Thank you Imram and Dave >>> I guess, seeing we are six and four are on the same page, we can >>> consider that integrating Antonella into the SC group w/ voting rights >>> is a go :) Unless there are objections. >>> >>> I guess now our challenge is talking about our next steps. >>> And as we had fewer candidates than SC slots, I'm guessing other >>> volunteers who want to collaborate may be joining in for projects or >>> tasks. >>> There's a lot that can be done and not too many of us. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Renata >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 5:26 AM, wrote: >>> > Dear Jeremy and All, >>> > >>> > Thanks for your efforts and support for conducting the Best Bits >>> > Steering >>> > Committee Election perfectly. >>> > >>> > Congratulation to the elected members of the "Best Bits Steering >>> > Committee". >>> > >>> > Although voting turnout is very low, which is around 12% out of 26% who >>> > (at >>> > least) tried to use their ballot, but only 47% out of them could >>> > successfully cast their e-vote. So, one of the agenda item could be >>> > encouraging our members to participate in the BestBits activities, >>> > whereas >>> > election is also an important activity. >>> > >>> > I also agree on the suggestion to co-opt Antonella onto the steering >>> > committee. I hope her participation would be helpful for us. >>> > >>> >> Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members! >>> > >>> > Thanks >>> > >>> >> I would also like offer my services to the new committee to assist >>> >> them >>> >> with >>> >> administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing >>> >> list, if required. >>> > >>> > >>> > Thanks for your offer, yes we need your support, please keep performing >>> > administrative role of the website as well as mailing list. I am also >>> > available to assist you if and when required. >>> > >>> > Thanking you and Best Regards >>> > >>> > >>> > Imran Ahmed Shah >>> > >>> > Founder, President & Executive Member of >>> > Linguistic Internet Council, >>> > Urdu Internet Society >>> > Internet Governance Forum of Pakistan >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > Quoting Jeremy Malcolm : >>> > >>> >> The results of the Best Bits steering committee election are in. >>> >> >>> >> Ballots were sent to the 519 members of this list who have been >>> >> members >>> >> for two months prior to the election, although some of these bounced. >>> >> 134 of these members clicked on the invitation email, but only 63 of >>> >> them followed through and completed the voting forum by clicking the >>> >> submit button on the page. (The former figure might not be completely >>> >> accurate, because some corporate email systems will automatically >>> >> click >>> >> on links in email, to check whether they are phishing or as part of a >>> >> malware scan. But we can be pretty confident about the latter >>> >> figure.) >>> >> >>> >> Although we had more available positions on the steering committee >>> >> than >>> >> nominees, because of the availability of "no candidate" as an option, >>> >> I >>> >> have applied the criterion that in order to be elected to the steering >>> >> committee you must have had more people voting for you than voting for >>> >> "no candidate". With 63 votes cast, this means that the threshold for >>> >> election was 32 votes. In other words, if 31 people didn't want you >>> >> on >>> >> the committee but 32 people did, you would be elected. >>> >> >>> >> Of the 63 votes, 15 did not want a steering committee to be elected at >>> >> all; in other words they voted "no candidate" for every position. Of >>> >> the remaining 48: >>> >> >>> >> * 3 voted for the election of a only single member >>> >> * 4 voted for the election of only two members >>> >> * 4 voted for the election of only three members >>> >> * 12 voted for the election of only four members >>> >> * 7 voted for the election of only five members >>> >> * 18 voted for the election of all six members >>> >> >>> >> The precise number of votes received for each candidate was as >>> >> follows: >>> >> >>> >> * Nighat Dad: 38 votes >>> >> * Poncelet Ileleji: 38 votes >>> >> * Renata Ribeiro: 37 votes >>> >> * Dave Burstein: 37 votes >>> >> * Imran Ahmed Shah: 33 votes >>> >> * Antonella Perini: 31 votes >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> This means that only one candidate received less than 32 votes, but >>> >> only >>> >> a single vote less, which is virtually a rounding error! So I feel >>> >> bad >>> >> for Antonella Perini and I would like to point out to the new steering >>> >> committee that if they would like to co-opt her onto the committee as >>> >> an >>> >> honorary non-voting member, past precedent would allow them to do >>> >> this. >>> >> Also, this would ensure that the steering committee has a 50/50% equal >>> >> gender balance, as well as giving effect to the most popular choice >>> >> that >>> >> there should be a steering committee of six. Nevertheless, I leave >>> >> this >>> >> for the new committee to decide. >>> >> >>> >> Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members! I >>> >> would >>> >> also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them with >>> >> administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing >>> >> list, if required. >>> >> >>> >> If anyone would like to review the raw data from the polling software >>> >> in >>> >> order to verify the results as I have presented them, please let me >>> >> know >>> >> and I will send it to you as a spreadsheet. >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> 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 >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > ____________________________________________________________ >>> > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________ >>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > From sana.pryhod at gmail.com Tue Sep 5 06:26:40 2017 From: sana.pryhod at gmail.com (Oksana Prykhodko) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:26:40 +0300 Subject: [bestbits] [governance] Russia In-Reply-To: <2DA93620FC07494C926D60C8E3C2F1A801D3B9DA@server1.medienkomm.uni-halle.de> References: <95734e2e-a779-1fde-0e0f-e8f5ff3622a4@itforchange.net> <2DA93620FC07494C926D60C8E3C2F1A801D3B9DA@server1.medienkomm.uni-halle.de> Message-ID: Dear Wolfgang, Thank you very much for raising this issue! Could you please provide the link to UN document? Does EU have any statement on this issue? Kind regards, Oksana Prykhodko director of iNGO European Media Platform On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 5:43 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" < wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote: > FYI (see below) > > Wolfgang > > > > Izvestia: Russia will raise the issue of behavior in cyberspace at the UN > General Assembly > > August 28, 2017 > > Russia will raise the issue of international rules of conduct in the > information sphere at the UN General Assembly, which opens on September 12 > in New York. The special representative of the Russian President on > international cooperation in the field of information security Andrei > Krutskikh told the Izvestia. It is reported that the main proposals of > Russia on this topic will be made public at the BRICS summit. > > Krutskikh clarified that at the same time "important shifts will begin to > occur much earlier": the effectiveness of proposals concerning > international norms of behavior in cyberspace will be first proved by the > example of regional platforms - CSTO, BRICS and SCO. > > "The theme will definitely be discussed at the General Assembly, but very > important decisions will be made in the first week of September, when BRICS > will meet (the summit of the BRICS leaders will be held in China on > September 3-5. No one refuses, and we continue to work on their > implementation, "the presidential envoy said. > > Earlier, at a meeting of the UN Group of Governmental Experts on > International Information Security, Russia proposed to include in the final > report of the meeting provisions on the need to draft a resolution of the > UN General Assembly on the rules of responsible behavior of states in the > information space. As Krutskikh said in an interview with Izvestiya in > July, "unfortunately, not all states share our peacekeeping approach in > trying to uphold the" right of the strong "in the digital sphere, > persistently promote their own vision of international information security > based not on prevention but on regulation of Conflicts ". > > As Krutskikh notes, now Russia, "in spite of the failure of a group of UN > governmental experts, on the contrary, is speeding up this process." > According to the diplomat, international norms of behavior in the > information sphere "will begin to take shape" thanks to the efforts of the > CSTO, BRICS, SCO members, and then the UN. "This topic is in demand and > increasingly popular," - he concluded. > > To unsubscribe from this list, click here: http://lists.igcaucus.org/ > sympa/auto_signoff/governance/sana.pryhod%40gmail.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From parminder at itforchange.net Fri Sep 1 01:00:46 2017 From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 10:30:46 +0530 Subject: [bestbits] Google exercises its funding muscle In-Reply-To: <95734e2e-a779-1fde-0e0f-e8f5ff3622a4@itforchange.net> References: <95734e2e-a779-1fde-0e0f-e8f5ff3622a4@itforchange.net> Message-ID: two more articles on the same issue Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant By KENNETH P. VOGEL Aug 30 2017 AND New America Foundation Head Anne-Marie Slaughter Botches Laundering Google’s Money, Fires Anti-Trust Team at Eric Schmidt’s Behest - 08/31/2017 - Yves Smith https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/08/new-america-foundation-head-anne-marie-slaughter-botches-laundering-googles-money.html We should ideally be doing a statement on this very significant and structural issue, basic to civil society work in this area. What do people here say? parminder On Friday 01 September 2017 10:26 AM, parminder wrote: > > Quotes from the below article, which connects to the discussion (or > non discussion) we recently had here on Google's funding of non > profit/ academic research in digital area. > > Firing Lynn and his team “raises a lot of questions,” a > Warren aide told HuffPost. Warren, herself, later tweeted > her concerns. > > A senior aide to a progressive House Democrat, who > commented on the condition of anonymity, called the > firings “an example of the way that funding think tanks is > a way to achieve policy outcomes, in the same way that > lobbying and funding campaigns is. It’s a business expense.” > > Jonathan Taplin, the author of /Move Fast and Break > Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture > and Undermined Democracy/, was more blunt in his > assessment of what happened at New America. > > “It’s just classic monopoly muscle,” he told HuffPost. > “This is the way bullies act.” > > *Google Just Proved That Monopolies Imperil Democracy, Not Just The > Economy* > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-monopoly-barry-lynn_us_59a738fde4b010ca289a1155?section=us_politics > > Barry Lynn and his team of anti-monopoly researchers were fired by a > think tank after criticizing the search giant. > > WASHINGTON ― For the past decade, former business journalist Barry > Lynn has used his perch at the New America Foundation to warn > politicians and the public that a new era of corporate monopolies > threatened not only American workers, but also democracy itself. > > > Lynn was just proven right: New America has fired him as head of its > Open Markets program along with his team of about 10 researchers and > journalists, after they called for an antitrust investigation of the > think tank’s largest longtime donor, Google. > > On June 27, the Open Markets team in a 150-word statement > > called for the Federal Trade Commission to follow the lead of the > European Union, which leveled a $2.7 billion fine on Google for > violating antitrust laws. Since New America’s start in 1999 > , > Google has given it $21 million. And Eric Schmidt, the executive > chairman of Alphabet, Inc., Google’s parent company, served as New > America’s chairman from 2008 through mid-2016. > > According to a report on Wednesday in The New York Times > , > Lynn was called on the carpet by New America head Anne-Marie Slaughter > shortly after the Open Markets program praised the E.U.’s decision to > find Google in violation of antitrust law for providing preferential > placement to its own products and those of its subsidiaries over its > rivals in search results. Schmidt, the Times reported, had expressed > to Slaughter his “displeasure” with the statement backing the E.U.’s move. > > Slaughter, according to an email obtained by the Times, told Lynn that > he and his team had to leave New America. The firing was, “in no way > based on the content of your work,” she wrote, while also saying Lynn > was “imperiling the institution as a whole.” > > Two current members of the Open Markets team confirmed this timeline > of events to HuffPost. Lynn and his Open Markets colleagues were told > to depart New America two days after the statement that supported the > E.U. antitrust fine and called upon “U.S. enforcers” to “build upon > this important precedent/. /The team, though, stuck around in an > attempt to question New America’s leadership about whether it really > wanted to fire the entire group. > > “We were trying to be, like, ’Are you sure you want to do this because > it sort of seems bad,” Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets > Program, told HuffPost. “Are you sure you want to prove us right? Are > you sure you want to back a monopoly in such an obvious and clumsy > way? We were negotiating with them.” (Stoller is an occasional > HuffPost contributor.) > > Despite those negotiations, Slaughter on Wednesday officially > terminated Lynn and his team. > > > > Slaughter disputed the Times story, saying in a statement > that > the claim “that Google lobbied New America to expel the Open Markets > program” was “false.” Instead, she said that Lynn refused “to adhere > to New America’s standards of openness and institutional > collegiality.” She offered no explanation for firing the entire Open > Markets team. > > A Google spokeswoman denied any involvement in Lynn’s firing in an > email to HuffPost. She also said that Schmidt did not threaten to cut > off funding for the think tank because of the Open Markets statement > on Google’s antitrust fine. > > “We support hundreds of organizations that promote a free and open > Internet, greater access to information, and increased opportunity,” > Riva Sciuto, the Google spokesperson, said in the statement. “We don’t > agree with every group 100 percent of the time, and while we sometimes > respectfully disagree, we respect each group’s independence, personnel > decisions, and policy perspectives.” > > New America did not immediately respond to a request for comment to > HuffPost. > > Lynn is now building an independent think tank to continue his > anti-monopoly work with his New America team. The group has already > launched a campaign aimed at > mobilizing public opposition to the power of modern-day monopolies by > highlighting Google’s power to quash independent research like that by > the Open Markets team. > > Its supporters say this case underscores that argument. > > Lynn and his colleagues “have long argued that monopolies are a > problem for the economy, but they’re also a problem for democracy,” > Zephyr Teachout, a fellow at Open Markets and board member of its new > campaign ― called Citizens Against Monopolies ― told HuffPost. “This > kind of proves the point.” > > It’s not as though the Open Markets team needed to get fired to > buttress their concerns about monopoly power. Their efforts already > have been influential ― more so than work by many other think tanks. > > The Democratic Party recently adopted the team’s warnings about > monopolies in its “A Better Deal” platform > . > Politicians ― including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie > Sanders (I-Vt.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) > ― are pushing for enhanced antitrust enforcement and calling out > concentrations of economic power more than before. > > Open Markets has helped lead the economic debate to a “more populist > strain over the past couple of years,” Marshall Steinbaum, a fellow at > the progressive economics think tank Roosevelt Institute, told HuffPost. > > Firing Lynn and his team “raises a lot of questions,” a Warren aide > told HuffPost. Warren, herself, later tweeted her concerns. > > A senior aide to a progressive House Democrat, who commented on the > condition of anonymity, called the firings “an example of the way that > funding think tanks is a way to achieve policy outcomes, in the same > way that lobbying and funding campaigns is. It’s a business expense.” > > Jonathan Taplin, the author of /Move Fast and Break Things: How > Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined > Democracy/, was more blunt in his assessment of what happened at New > America. > > “It’s just classic monopoly muscle,” he told HuffPost. “This is the > way bullies act.” > > The internal workings of New America, though, is not the real > issue, Stoller said. The public needs to recognize Google as an > autocratic private power that is exerting itself in the economy and in > policy to increase its own power over people, he argued. > > “We love a lot of the people at New America,” Stoller said. “We think > their work is great. ... This is not an issue of New America. This is > an issue about monopoly and Google.” > > And Google is undeniably a monopoly. Just ask monopoly proponent and > billionaire investor Peter Thiel > , > who has said the company is able to offer so many wonderful perks to > its employees because it doesn’t have to worry too much about > competition. It controls 80 percent > > of the market for online search and 54 percent > > of the browser market in the U.S. > > Google and Facebook, another powerful online platform monopoly, have > gobbled up practically every new online advertising dollar > > (thanks to their past acquisitions of online advertising companies) in > recent years while pressuring news organizations > , > including HuffPost, to publish directly to their platforms. Google’s > control of internet search has given it the power to squeeze money > away from other websites (see: CelebrityNetWorth.com > > and Yelp.com > ). > Google’s dominant position as an advertising seller has also given it > increasing power over newsrooms > > (although not as much as Facebook). > > The company ― which once went by the motto “Don’t be evil” ― has also > sought to replicate its economic power in political and policy spheres. > > Google has previously sought to pressure a nonprofit over its > criticism of the company. In 2009, Google’s head of public policy > reached out to the foundation funding the California-based Consumer > Watchdog to warn it about continuing to underwrite the work by the > pro-privacy group. That work was critical of many of Google’s privacy > policies. > > In the past decade, Google also has poured tens of millions of dollars > into campaign contributions, lobbying firms, think tanks and policy > nonprofits in the past decade. > > This political investment soared after 2011 when Google’s antitrust > issues first came under the microscope. Its lobbying expenses doubled > from $9.6 million in 2011 to $18.2 million in 2012, and have not > fallen below $15 million since. In 2011, Google gave grants to 44 > different nonprofits and think tanks. That number jumped to 81 in 2012 > and now sits at 170. > > Goggle executives enjoyed unrivaled access > > to the White House under President Barack Obama > , visiting hundreds > of times, according to Secret Service visitor logs. Google has also > pumped millions of dollars into research at universities > , > often to buttress its public policy positions, and is pushing its own > agenda for public school education > > across the country. > > Google’s huge increase in political investment post-2011 was in direct > reaction to the Federal Trade Commission opening an antitrust > investigation > > into whether it abused its market position in internet searches. The > FTC commissioners eventually dropped the investigation in exchange for > small concessions by the company, despite a report by the agency’s > legal team that labeled Google a “monopoly” > > and supported a full investigation. > > “The ‘A’ word is the one thing that can stop the music,” Luther Lowe, > Yelp’s vice president of public policy, said of Google’s interest in > antitrust issues. “It’s the one that’s an all-hands-on-deck situation.” -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you do not have a personal IGF Community profile yet, create one now: It will allow fast registrations, proposal submissions, commenting, setting site preferences and more. https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2017-registration-front From ryan.johnson at accesspartnership.com Tue Sep 5 17:18:44 2017 From: ryan.johnson at accesspartnership.com (Ryan Johnson) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 21:18:44 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] Xiamen Statement from BRICS Summit 2017 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3711E3AD-13CF-4A02-BE0E-37F4B6709DC9@accesspartnership.com> Thanks Pranesh, I might add that Para 56 also has some impact on the cybersecurity elements of internet governance, and should be considered carefully as well. While I’m not (yet) an expert in the BRICS roadmap on ICT security, I’m sure there’s a lot in that document that merits review by civil society and other stakeholders. 56\. We consider the UN has a central role in developing universally accepted norms of responsible state behavior in the use of ICTs to ensure a peaceful, secure, open, cooperative, stable, orderly, accessible and equitable ICT environment. We emphasize the paramount importance of the principles of international law enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, particularly the state sovereignty, the political independence, territorial integrity and sovereign equality of states, non-interference in internal affairs of other states and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. We emphasize the need to enhance international cooperation against terrorist and criminal misuse of ICTs, reaffirm the general approach laid in the eThekwini, Fortaleza, Ufa and Goa declarations in this regard, and recognize the need for a universal regulatory binding instrument on combatting the criminal use of ICTs under the UN auspices as stated in the Ufa Declaration. We note with satisfaction the progress achieved by the Working Group of Experts of the BRICS States on Security in the use of ICTs. We decide to promote cooperation according to the BRICS Roadmap of Practical Cooperation on Ensuring Security in the Use of ICTs or any other mutually agreed mechanism and acknowledge the initiative of the Russian Federation on a BRICS intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in ensuring security in the use of ICTs. Best, Ryan Johnson On 9/4/17, 9:23 AM, "Pranesh Prakash" wrote: Dear all, I've pasted below 3 paragraphs that I feel are important to Internet governance from the Xiamen Statement released today: (Link to PDF) https://goo.gl/Py31Um ... 57\. We believe that all states should participate on an equal footing in the evolution and functioning of the Internet and its governance, bearing in mind the need to involve relevant stakeholders in their respective roles and responsibilities. The structures that manage and regulate the critical Internet resources need to be made more representative and inclusive. We note with satisfaction the progress made by the BRICS Working Group on ICT Cooperation. We recognize the necessity to strengthen our cooperation in this area. To that end, BRICS will continue to work together through the existing mechanism to contribute to the secure, open, peaceful and cooperative use of ICTs on the basis of equal participation of the international community in its management. ... 50\. We call upon all nations to adopt a comprehensive approach in combating terrorism, which should include countering radicalization, recruitment, movement of terrorists including Foreign Terrorist Fighters, blocking sources of financing terrorism including, for instance, through organized crime by means of money-laundering, supply of weapons, drug trafficking and other criminal activities, dismantling terrorist bases, and countering misuse of the Internet including social media by terrorist entities through misuse of the latest Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). We are committed to prevent and counter the growing spread of terrorist narratives, and to tackle all sources, techniques and channels of terrorist financing. We call for swift and effective implementation of relevant UNSC Resolutions and the FATF International Standards worldwide. We seek to intensify our cooperation in FATF and FATF-style regional bodies (FSRBs). We recall the responsibility of all States to prevent financing of terrorist networks and terrorist actions from their territories. ... 12\. We highlight the importance of innovation as a key driver for mid and long term economic growth and global sustainable development. We commit to promote cooperation on science, technology and innovation (STI) to forge synergy in tapping new growth momentum for our five economies and continue to address the development challenges we face. We commend the selection of BRICS research and development projects under the BRICS STI Framework Program and note the launch of the 2nd call for projects. We welcome the BRICS STI Cooperation MOU and support enhanced cooperation on innovation and entrepreneurship, including by promoting technology transfer and application, cooperation among science and technology parks and enterprises as well as mobility of researchers, entrepreneurs, professionals and students. We encourage increased participation of the academia, businesses, civil society and other stakeholders in this process, and support the promotion of STI investment and cross-border investment through existing funding, institutions and platforms including the NDB. We agree to continue to work on a cooperation platform for innovation and entrepreneurship and support the implementation of the BRICS Innovation Cooperation Action Plan 2017-2020. 13\. We reaffirm our commitment to BRICS industrial cooperation, including on industrial capacities and policies, new industrial infrastructure and standards, and among small, micro and medium-sized enterprises (SMMEs), so as to jointly seize the opportunities brought about by the new industrial revolution and expedite our respective industrialization processes. We encourage exploring the establishment of BRICS Institute of Future networks. We will enhance joint BRICS research, development and innovation in ICT including the Internet of Things, Cloud computing, Big Data, Data Analytics, Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and 5G and their innovative applications to elevate the level of ICT infrastructure and connectivity in our countries. We will advocate the establishment of internationally applicable rules for security of ICT infrastructure, data protection and the Internet that can be widely accepted by all parties concerned, and jointly build a network that is safe and secure. We will increase investment of ICT, recognize the need to further increase investment in ICT Research and development, unleash the dynamics of innovation in producing goods and services. We encourage identification and facilitation of partnership between institutes, organizations, enterprises in the implementation of proof of concepts and pilot projects by leveraging complementary strengths in ICT hardware, software and skills through developing next generation of innovative solutions in the areas of smart cities, health care and energy efficient device, etc. We support active collaboration in implementing the BRICS ICT Development Agenda and Action Plan. -- Pranesh Prakash Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society http://cis-india.org | tel:+91 80 40926283 sip:pranesh at ostel.co | xmpp:pranesh at cis-india.org https://twitter.com/pranesh From wangarikabiru at yahoo.co.uk Wed Sep 6 03:40:20 2017 From: wangarikabiru at yahoo.co.uk (WANGARI KABIRU) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 07:40:20 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [bestbits] Xiamen Statement from BRICS Summit 2017 In-Reply-To: <3711E3AD-13CF-4A02-BE0E-37F4B6709DC9@accesspartnership.com> References: <3711E3AD-13CF-4A02-BE0E-37F4B6709DC9@accesspartnership.com> Message-ID: <446259310.6298110.1504683620068@mail.yahoo.com> Warm greetings! Certainly advancing the tech giant's call earlier in the year for a Digital Geneva Convention and Digital Red Cross! Both greatly needed now for tech development, trusted development of the internet and for protection of the users. Blessed day. Regards/Wangari The need for a Digital Geneva Convention - Microsoft on the Issues | | | | | | | | | | | The need for a Digital Geneva Convention - Microsoft on the Issues This year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco brings the world’s security professionals together to discuss cybers... | | | | We should start by acknowledging that no single step by itself will be sufficient to address this problem.  Of course, each of our companies needs to continue to do more to protect and defend our customers around the world, and at Microsoft we’re focused on doing precisely that.  So are others across the industry.  But in addition, the time has arrived to call on the world’s governments to implement international rules to protect the civilian use of the internet.Transcript of Brad Smith’s Keynote Address at the RSA Conference 2017.Just as the Fourth Geneva Convention has long protected civilians in times of war, we now need a Digital Geneva Convention that will commit governments to protecting civilians from nation-state attacks in times of peace.  And just as the Fourth Geneva Convention recognized that the protection of civilians required the active involvement of the Red Cross, protection against nation-state cyberattacks requires the active assistance of technology companies.  The tech sector plays a unique role as the internet’s first responders, and we therefore should commit ourselves to collective action that will make the internet a safer place, affirming a role as a neutral Digital Switzerland that assists customers everywhere and retains the world’s trust.A growing problem in need of new solutionsThe bad news starts with the fact that 74 percent of the world’s businesses expect to be hacked each year.[1]  The estimated economic loss of cybercrime is estimated to reach $3 trillion by 2020.  Yet as these costs continue to climb, the financial damage is overshadowed by new and broadening risks. --- Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth". On Wednesday, 6 September 2017, 0:18, Ryan Johnson wrote: Thanks Pranesh, I might add that Para 56 also has some impact on the cybersecurity elements of internet governance, and should be considered carefully as well. While I’m not (yet) an expert in the BRICS roadmap on ICT security, I’m sure there’s a lot in that document that merits review by civil society and other stakeholders. 56\. We consider the UN has a central role in developing universally accepted norms of responsible state behavior in the use of ICTs to ensure a peaceful, secure, open, cooperative, stable, orderly, accessible and equitable ICT environment. We emphasize the paramount importance of the principles of international law enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, particularly the state sovereignty, the political independence, territorial integrity and sovereign equality of states, non-interference in internal affairs of other states and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. We emphasize the need to enhance international cooperation against terrorist and criminal misuse of ICTs, reaffirm the general approach laid in the eThekwini, Fortaleza, Ufa and Goa declarations in this regard, and recognize the need for a universal regulatory binding instrument on combatting the criminal use of ICTs under the UN auspices as stated in the Ufa Declaration. We note with satisfaction the progress achieved by the Working Group of Experts of the BRICS States on Security in the use of ICTs. We decide to promote cooperation according to the BRICS Roadmap of Practical Cooperation on Ensuring Security in the Use of ICTs or any other mutually agreed mechanism and acknowledge the initiative of the Russian Federation on a BRICS intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in ensuring security in the use of ICTs. Best, Ryan Johnson On 9/4/17, 9:23 AM, "Pranesh Prakash" wrote:     Dear all,     I've pasted below 3 paragraphs that I feel are important to Internet     governance from the Xiamen Statement released today:         (Link to PDF) https://goo.gl/Py31Um         ...         57\. We believe that all states should participate on an equal footing     in the evolution and functioning of the Internet and its governance,     bearing in mind the need to involve relevant stakeholders in their     respective roles and responsibilities. The structures that manage and     regulate the critical Internet resources need to be made more     representative and inclusive. We note with satisfaction the progress     made by the BRICS Working Group on ICT Cooperation. We recognize the     necessity to strengthen our cooperation in this area. To that end, BRICS     will continue to work together through the existing mechanism to     contribute to the secure, open, peaceful and cooperative use of ICTs on     the basis of equal participation of the international community in its     management.             ...         50\. We call upon all nations to adopt a comprehensive approach in     combating terrorism, which should include countering radicalization,     recruitment, movement of terrorists including Foreign Terrorist     Fighters, blocking sources of financing terrorism including, for     instance, through organized crime by means of money-laundering, supply     of weapons, drug trafficking and other criminal activities, dismantling     terrorist bases, and countering misuse of the Internet including social     media by terrorist entities through misuse of the latest Information and     Communication Technologies (ICTs). We are committed to prevent and     counter the growing spread of terrorist narratives, and to tackle all     sources, techniques and channels of terrorist financing. We call for     swift and effective implementation of relevant UNSC Resolutions and the     FATF International Standards worldwide. We seek to intensify our     cooperation in FATF and FATF-style regional bodies (FSRBs). We recall     the responsibility of all States to prevent financing of terrorist     networks and terrorist actions from their territories.         ...         12\. We highlight the importance of innovation as a key driver for mid     and long term economic growth and global sustainable development. We     commit to promote cooperation on science, technology and innovation     (STI) to forge synergy in tapping new growth momentum for our five     economies and continue to address the development challenges we face. We     commend the selection of BRICS research and development projects under     the BRICS STI Framework Program and note the launch of the 2nd call for     projects. We welcome the BRICS STI Cooperation MOU and support enhanced     cooperation on innovation and entrepreneurship, including by promoting     technology transfer and application, cooperation among science and     technology parks and enterprises as well as mobility of researchers,     entrepreneurs, professionals and students. We encourage increased     participation of the academia, businesses, civil society and other     stakeholders in this process, and support the promotion of STI     investment and cross-border investment through existing funding,     institutions and platforms including the NDB. We agree to continue to     work on a cooperation platform for innovation and entrepreneurship and     support the implementation of the BRICS Innovation Cooperation Action     Plan 2017-2020.         13\. We reaffirm our commitment to BRICS industrial cooperation,     including on industrial capacities and policies, new industrial     infrastructure and standards, and among small, micro and medium-sized     enterprises (SMMEs), so as to jointly seize the opportunities brought     about by the new industrial revolution and expedite our respective     industrialization processes. We encourage exploring the establishment of     BRICS Institute of Future networks.         We will enhance joint BRICS research, development and innovation in ICT     including the Internet of Things, Cloud computing, Big Data, Data     Analytics, Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and 5G and their     innovative applications to elevate the level of ICT infrastructure and     connectivity in our countries. We will advocate the establishment of     internationally applicable rules for security of ICT infrastructure,     data protection and the Internet that can be widely accepted by all     parties concerned, and jointly build a network that is safe and secure.     We will increase investment of ICT, recognize the need to further     increase investment in ICT Research and development, unleash the     dynamics of innovation in producing goods and services. We encourage     identification and facilitation of partnership between institutes,     organizations, enterprises in the implementation of proof of concepts     and pilot projects by leveraging complementary strengths in ICT     hardware, software and skills through developing next generation of     innovative solutions in the areas of smart cities, health care and     energy efficient device, etc. We support active collaboration in     implementing the BRICS ICT Development Agenda and Action Plan.         --     Pranesh Prakash     Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society     http://cis-india.org | tel:+91 80 40926283     sip:pranesh at ostel.co | xmpp:pranesh at cis-india.org     https://twitter.com/pranesh         ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list:     bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. 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As you will see, there is a suggestion that the overall meeting theme be "Private regulation of the Internet", because this is broad enough to include many different topics including private speech regulation, trade, the Internet of Things, and Internet standards and human rights.  When suggesting session topics, please try to relate them to this overall theme.  But the survey also allows you to suggest a different main theme if you disagree with the one that we have suggested. Thanks, and we look forward to receiving your responses. -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Here are somes link to those articles. https://internetwithoutborders.org/fr/internet-mobile-bloque-au-togo-une-atteinte-a-la-libre-expression-en-ligne/ http://www.mfwa.org/opposition-demonstration-eclipsed-by-social-media-blackout/ http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41174005?ocid=socialflow_twitter twitter can also help you find out more. Kindly search #Togo Thanks Norbert GLAKPE President / Chair Man, Internet Society​ @norbertglakpe 2017-09-06 21:17 GMT+00:00 Tomslin Samme-Nlar : > Thank you Norbert for the update. > Do you know what the reason for the shutdown is? > > > ---- > Tomslin > > > On 7 September 2017 at 06:43, Norbert Komlan GLAKPE < > norbertglakpe at gmail.com> wrote: > >> ​Dear All, >> >> I apologize for cross posting. >> >> We are experiencing internet shut down in Togo since this Morning. >> Social Media was fluctuating since yesterday morning according to many >> users. >> But the black out has been total ince 9AM. >> 3G internet is completely Down on the 2 GSM operators networks. >> Broad band internet (ADSL) was working one ISP's network but the bigger >> ISP's network is still down. >> Until nos, the black Out is ongoing. >> >> We are actively working on a communique with the help of ISoc Afric >> Bureau. >> >> Kindly join us spread the information to put pressure on Togo authorities >> in order to restore the Internet. >> thanks, >> >> Norbert Komlan GLAKPE >> President/Chair Man, Internet Society Togo >> >> [image: Images intégrées 1]​ >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, click here: http://lists.igcaucus.org/symp >> a/auto_signoff/governance/mesumbeslin%40gmail.com >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can find the podcast here: http://www.gp-digital.org/ multimedia/understanding-the-icdppc/ You can also find more information about the ICDPPC and its relevance for human rights defenders in our recently launched tool to the ICDPPC: Navigating Human Rights In The Digital Environment: The ICDPPC. We look forward to welcoming many of you at the webinar next week (details for joining are included in the previous email below), *Thursday 14 September at 3 PM UTC*, which will be an opportunity to ask questions and partake in a live discussion. We'd also encourage you to send questions beforehand to sheetal at gp-digital.org. Best Sheetal On 1 September 2017 at 17:43, Sheetal Kumar wrote: > Dear all, > > > > We'd like to invite you to an interactive discussion on the ICDPPC – the > International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners and > its relevance for human rights defenders. The discussion will take place *on > September 14 at 15:00 UTC* and will be hosted by myself and Fanny Hidvégi > from Access Now. > > > > This discussion will provide an opportunity for anyone to ask questions > about the upcoming edition of the annual Conference this year in Hong Kong > (25-29 September), and more generally about the ICDPPC, its relevance for > human rights advocacy and opportunities for civil society engagement. You > can also find more information about the ICDPPC and its relevance for human > rights defenders in our recently launched tool to the ICDPPC: Navigating > Human Rights In The Digital Environment: The ICDPPC. > > > > Details on how to join the discussion are below. Please feel free to share > this with your colleagues and networks! 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Judith Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: norbert GLAKPE > Date: September 7, 2017 at 9:16:07 AM EDT > To: "internetsociety-africa at connectedcommunity.org" , "internetsociety-chapterleaderscommunity at connectedcommunity.org" , ISOC Chapter Delegates , "internetsociety-togo at connectedcommunity.org" > Subject: [Chapter-delegates] ISoc Togo's Communiqué on the Internet Shut Down in TOGO > Reply-To: norbert GLAKPE > > Dear All, > The internet shutdown in Togo has taken more than one days now. > The situation, at the time i'm writing this mail to you is becoming more difficult, us SMS service has been blocked (it wasn't the case yesterday). > While we are struggling to put pressure on the authorities in order to recover our online freedom, we have publised a Communiqué that is accessible on our website: https://goo.gl/vSGg9X > Kindly visit and share world wide. > > Thanks, > > Norbert GLAKPE > President/Fair, internet Society Togo Chapter > > > > Le Mercredi 6 septembre 2017 23h11, norbert GLAKPE a écrit : > > ​Dear All, > > We are experiencing internet shut down in Togo since this Morning. > Social Media was fluctuating since yesterday evening according to many users. > But the black out has been total since 9AM, on the September 6th, 2017. > 3G internet is completely Down on the 2 GSM operators networks. > Broad band internet (ADSL) was working one ISP's network but the biggest ISP's network is still down. > Until now, the black Out is ongoing. > > Kindly help spread the information world wide to put pressure on Togo authorities in order to restore the Internet. > thanks, > > Norbert Komlan GLAKPE > President/Chair Man, Internet Society Togo > ​ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically subscribed > to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet Society > Chapter Portal (AMS): https://portal.isoc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Kindly make this situation known of the hole world by sharing the Internet Society Togo's communiqué published on the chapter's web site: https://www.internetsociety.tg/home/communique-de-presse-du-06-septembre-2017-relatif-aux-pertubations-de-la-connexion-internet-au-togo/ Regards, ​ Norbert Komlan GLAKPE President/Chair, Internet Society Togo @norbertglakpe 2017-09-06 20:43 GMT+00:00 Norbert Komlan GLAKPE : > ​Dear All, > > I apologize for cross posting. > > We are experiencing internet shut down in Togo since this Morning. > Social Media was fluctuating since yesterday morning according to many > users. > But the black out has been total ince 9AM. > 3G internet is completely Down on the 2 GSM operators networks. > Broad band internet (ADSL) was working one ISP's network but the bigger > ISP's network is still down. > Until nos, the black Out is ongoing. > > We are actively working on a communique with the help of ISoc Afric Bureau. > > Kindly join us spread the information to put pressure on Togo authorities > in order to restore the Internet. > thanks, > > ​​ > Norbert Komlan GLAKPE > President/Chair Man, Internet Society Togo > > [image: Images intégrées 1]​ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I find we are often very quick to denounce the activities of governments and platforms (as we should), but seem to give think tanks, conservative and libertarian, free reign to behave how they like. Maybe this is a bit of an over-simplification but that is my perception at least as to how they are held accountable. Best wishes, Ayden Férdeline [linkedin.com/in/ferdeline](http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline) > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [governance] Google exercises its funding muscle > Local Time: 1 September 2017 6:00 AM > UTC Time: 1 September 2017 05:00 > From: parminder at itforchange.net > To: BestBitsList , governance at lists.igcaucus.org > > two more articles on the same issue > > Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant > By KENNETH P. VOGEL > Aug 30 2017 > [](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/us/politics/eric-schmidt-google-new-america.html) > AND > > New America Foundation Head Anne-Marie Slaughter Botches Laundering > Google’s Money, Fires Anti-Trust Team at Eric Schmidt’s Behest - > 08/31/2017 - Yves Smith > https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/08/new-america-foundation-head-anne-marie-slaughter-botches-laundering-googles-money.html > > We should ideally be doing a statement on this very significant and structural issue, basic to civil society work in this area. What do people here say? > > parminder > > On Friday 01 September 2017 10:26 AM, parminder wrote: > >> Quotes from the below article, which connects to the discussion (or non discussion) we recently had here on Google's funding of non profit/ academic research in digital area. >> >>>>> Firing Lynn and his team “raises a lot of questions,” a Warren aide told HuffPost. Warren, herself, later tweeted her concerns. >>>>> >>>>> A senior aide to a progressive House Democrat, who commented on the condition of anonymity, called the firings “an example of the way that funding think tanks is a way to achieve policy outcomes, in the same way that lobbying and funding campaigns is. It’s a business expense.” >>>>> >>>>> Jonathan Taplin, the author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, was more blunt in his assessment of what happened at New America. >>>>> >>>>> “It’s just classic monopoly muscle,” he told HuffPost. “This is the way bullies act.” >> >> Google Just Proved That Monopolies Imperil Democracy, Not Just The Economy >> >> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-monopoly-barry-lynn_us_59a738fde4b010ca289a1155?section=us_politics >> >> Barry Lynn and his team of anti-monopoly researchers were fired by a think tank after criticizing the search giant. >> >> WASHINGTON ― For the past decade, former business journalist Barry Lynn has used his perch at the New America Foundation to warn politicians and the public that [a new era of corporate monopolies threatened not only American workers, but also democracy itself.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barry-lynn-washington-corporations_us_57c8a6a7e4b0e60d31de6433) >> >> Lynn was just proven right: New America has fired him as head of its Open Markets program along with his team of about 10 researchers and journalists, after they called for an antitrust investigation of the think tank’s largest longtime donor, Google. >> >> On June 27, the Open Markets team in a [150-word statement](https://www.newamerica.org/open-markets/press-releases/open-markets-applauds-european-commissions-finding-against-google-abuse-dominance/) called for the Federal Trade Commission to follow the lead of the European Union, which leveled a $2.7 billion fine on Google for violating antitrust laws. Since New America’s [start in 1999](http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/15/arts/silicon-valley-s-new-think-tank-stakes-out-radical-center.html), Google has given it $21 million. And Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Alphabet, Inc., Google’s parent company, served as New America’s chairman from 2008 through mid-2016. >> >> According to a [report on Wednesday in The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/us/politics/eric-schmidt-google-new-america.html?_r=0), Lynn was called on the carpet by New America head Anne-Marie Slaughter shortly after the Open Markets program praised the E.U.’s decision to find Google in violation of antitrust law for providing preferential placement to its own products and those of its subsidiaries over its rivals in search results. Schmidt, the Times reported, had expressed to Slaughter his “displeasure” with the statement backing the E.U.’s move. >> >> Slaughter, according to an email obtained by the Times, told Lynn that he and his team had to leave New America. The firing was, “in no way based on the content of your work,” she wrote, while also saying Lynn was “imperiling the institution as a whole.” >> >> Two current members of the Open Markets team confirmed this timeline of events to HuffPost. Lynn and his Open Markets colleagues were told to depart New America two days after the statement that supported the E.U. antitrust fine and called upon “U.S. enforcers” to “build upon this important precedent. The team, though, stuck around in an attempt to question New America’s leadership about whether it really wanted to fire the entire group. >> >> “We were trying to be, like, ’Are you sure you want to do this because it sort of seems bad,” Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Program, told HuffPost. “Are you sure you want to prove us right? Are you sure you want to back a monopoly in such an obvious and clumsy way? We were negotiating with them.” (Stoller is an occasional HuffPost contributor.) >> >> Despite those negotiations, Slaughter on Wednesday officially terminated Lynn and his team. >> >> Slaughter disputed the Times story, saying in a [statement](https://www.newamerica.org/new-america/press-releases/new-americas-response-new-york-times/) that the claim “that Google lobbied New America to expel the Open Markets program” was “false.” Instead, she said that Lynn refused “to adhere to New America’s standards of openness and institutional collegiality.” She offered no explanation for firing the entire Open Markets team. >> >> A Google spokeswoman denied any involvement in Lynn’s firing in an email to HuffPost. She also said that Schmidt did not threaten to cut off funding for the think tank because of the Open Markets statement on Google’s antitrust fine. >> >> “We support hundreds of organizations that promote a free and open Internet, greater access to information, and increased opportunity,” Riva Sciuto, the Google spokesperson, said in the statement. “We don’t agree with every group 100 percent of the time, and while we sometimes respectfully disagree, we respect each group’s independence, personnel decisions, and policy perspectives.” >> >> New America did not immediately respond to a request for comment to HuffPost. >> >> Lynn is now building an independent think tank to continue his anti-monopoly work with his New America team. The group has already [launched a campaign](https://citizensagainstmonopoly.org/) aimed at mobilizing public opposition to the power of modern-day monopolies by highlighting Google’s power to quash independent research like that by the Open Markets team. >> >> Its supporters say this case underscores that argument. >> >> Lynn and his colleagues “have long argued that monopolies are a problem for the economy, but they’re also a problem for democracy,” Zephyr Teachout, a fellow at Open Markets and board member of its new campaign ― called Citizens Against Monopolies ― told HuffPost. “This kind of proves the point.” >> >> It’s not as though the Open Markets team needed to get fired to buttress their concerns about monopoly power. Their efforts already have been influential ― more so than work by many other think tanks. >> >> The Democratic Party recently adopted the team’s warnings about monopolies in its [“A Better Deal” platform](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-antitrust_us_5976572fe4b0a8a40e817612). Politicians ― including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) ― are pushing for enhanced antitrust enforcement and calling out concentrations of economic power more than before. >> >> Open Markets has helped lead the economic debate to a “more populist strain over the past couple of years,” Marshall Steinbaum, a fellow at the progressive economics think tank Roosevelt Institute, told HuffPost. >> >> Firing Lynn and his team “raises a lot of questions,” a Warren aide told HuffPost. Warren, herself, later tweeted her concerns. >> >> A senior aide to a progressive House Democrat, who commented on the condition of anonymity, called the firings “an example of the way that funding think tanks is a way to achieve policy outcomes, in the same way that lobbying and funding campaigns is. It’s a business expense.” >> >> Jonathan Taplin, the author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, was more blunt in his assessment of what happened at New America. >> >> “It’s just classic monopoly muscle,” he told HuffPost. “This is the way bullies act.” >> >> The internal workings of New America, though, is not the real issue, Stoller said. The public needs to recognize Google as an autocratic private power that is exerting itself in the economy and in policy to increase its own power over people, he argued. >> >> “We love a lot of the people at New America,” Stoller said. “We think their work is great. ... This is not an issue of New America. This is an issue about monopoly and Google.” >> >> And Google is undeniably a monopoly. [Just ask monopoly proponent and billionaire investor Peter Thiel](http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-google-monopoly-2014-9), who has said the company is able to offer so many wonderful perks to its employees because it doesn’t have to worry too much about competition. It controls [80 percent](http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-search_engine-US-monthly-201608-201608-bar) of the market for online search and [54 percent](http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-search_engine-US-monthly-201608-201608-bar) of the browser market in the U.S. >> >> Google and Facebook, another powerful online platform monopoly, have [gobbled up practically every new online advertising dollar](https://www.recode.net/2017/5/2/15516674/global-ad-spending-charts) (thanks to their past acquisitions of online advertising companies) in recent years while [pressuring news organizations](https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/platform-press-how-silicon-valley-reengineered-journalism.php), including HuffPost, to publish directly to their platforms. Google’s control of internet search has given it the power to squeeze money away from other websites (see: [CelebrityNetWorth.com](https://theoutline.com/post/1399/how-google-ate-celebritynetworth-com) and [Yelp.com](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/technology/yelp-google-european-union-antitrust.html?mcubz=3)). Google’s dominant position as an advertising seller has also given it [increasing power over newsrooms](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/business/media/google-facebook-news-media-alliance.html?mcubz=3) (although not as much as Facebook). >> >> The company ― which once went by the motto “Don’t be evil” ― has also sought to replicate its economic power in political and policy spheres. >> >> Google has previously sought to pressure a nonprofit over its criticism of the company. In 2009, Google’s head of public policy reached out to the foundation funding the California-based Consumer Watchdog to warn it about continuing to underwrite the work by the pro-privacy group. That work was critical of many of Google’s privacy policies. >> >> In the past decade, Google also has poured tens of millions of dollars into campaign contributions, lobbying firms, think tanks and policy nonprofits in the past decade. >> >> This political investment soared after 2011 when Google’s antitrust issues first came under the microscope. Its lobbying expenses doubled from $9.6 million in 2011 to $18.2 million in 2012, and have not fallen below $15 million since. In 2011, Google gave grants to 44 different nonprofits and think tanks. That number jumped to 81 in 2012 and now sits at 170. >> >> Goggle executives enjoyed [unrivaled access](https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts/) to the White House under President [Barack Obama](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/barack-obama), visiting hundreds of times, according to Secret Service visitor logs. Google has also pumped [millions of dollars into research at universities](https://www.wsj.com/articles/paying-professors-inside-googles-academic-influence-campaign-1499785286), often to buttress its public policy positions, and is [pushing its own agenda for public school education](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html) across the country. >> >> Google’s huge increase in political investment post-2011 was in direct reaction to the Federal Trade Commission [opening an antitrust investigation](http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/25/business/la-fi-google-ftc-20110625) into whether it abused its market position in internet searches. The FTC commissioners eventually dropped the investigation in exchange for small concessions by the company, despite [a report by the agency’s legal team that labeled Google a “monopoly”](https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-u-s-antitrust-probe-of-google-1426793274) and supported a full investigation. >> >> “The ‘A’ word is the one thing that can stop the music,” Luther Lowe, Yelp’s vice president of public policy, said of Google’s interest in antitrust issues. “It’s the one that’s an all-hands-on-deck situation.” -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raquino at gmail.com Sat Sep 9 22:38:31 2017 From: raquino at gmail.com (Renata Aquino Ribeiro) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 23:38:31 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] FOR ACTION: survey on programming suggestions for 2017 IGF civil society pre-meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Just answered this and suggested a totally different theme, geared more towards Global South participation. It is important to note that, in a long time, this is an IGF where the Global South will not be represented as it was before and Civil Society can have a role in discussing this and enabling representation. So I hope more people answer and have this in mind too Best, Renata On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: > Dear all, > > Previously I sent around a save-the-date notice (with the wrong date > initially!) for our annual pre-IGF civil society meeting. Just to > reconfirm, it will be on Saturday 16 December 2017. > > The organizing committee is now soliciting suggestions for the meeting > agenda and volunteers, using this survey: > > http://bestbits.net/limesurvey/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=628143&lang=en > > You are invited to complete that survey between now and 18 September. > > As you will see, there is a suggestion that the overall meeting theme be > "Private regulation of the Internet", because this is broad enough to > include many different topics including private speech regulation, trade, > the Internet of Things, and Internet standards and human rights. When > suggesting session topics, please try to relate them to this overall theme. > But the survey also allows you to suggest a different main theme if you > disagree with the one that we have suggested. > > Thanks, and we look forward to receiving your responses. > > -- > 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 From parminder at itforchange.net Sun Sep 10 00:24:30 2017 From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 09:54:30 +0530 Subject: [bestbits] FOR ACTION: survey on programming suggestions for 2017 IGF civil society pre-meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sunday 10 September 2017 08:08 AM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro wrote: > Hi > > Just answered this and suggested a totally different theme, geared > more towards Global South participation. Thanks Renata for this important theme. But let me undertake a sunday morning indulgence. Southern participation is important, but equally if not more is a southern narrative on Internet/ digital governance. Does it exist today? Just saying, connect us as well, help us because we are way behind on the digital path that "you" are taking,, does it constitute a southern discourse? Or does the south have a view on "well, is the path itself not the best one?". Does merely getting connected to an arrangement which is exploitative at its core a worthwhile agenda?Especially for civil society. Questions like this.... But the unfortunate fact is; southern participation in global Internet/ digital governance spaces have contributed more to hailing and legitimising a Northern model of Internet/ digital governance rather than seeking one which serves its own interests, and arises from what have in other sectors been considered as "southern perspectives". Partly, it also has to do with how the IG/ digital sector is framed so solidly by North, including controlling its funding streams, which unlike in other areas like trade, access to knowledge, climate justice, etc does not promote a distinctively southern perspective/ alternative, but largely contributes to legitimising a interests-based Northern discourse. What is the role, responsibility and accountability of the incumbent civil society in this. That IMHO is the key "southern question" for civil society to address. Why has it failed to connect and make common cause with southern and social justice based groups in other global civil society sectors? Why have we still to interact on elists where simple questions on practices of biggest digital corporates get shot down and contested by status quo-ists, as we witnessed in the recent case of google's questionable funding practices. These cracks vis a vis relationship of IG civil society and the global Southern and social justice oriented civil society (which is rightly the bulk of the global civil society) are beginning to show up as the digital enters into areas like global trade, where trade justice activists look at IG civil society dumbly pushing proclamations of unhindered "free flow of data" and such with astonishment ... Renata, i am not picking on the subject that you have proposed, which is very important, but providing what in my view is a very important context to it.... parminder > > It is important to note that, in a long time, this is an IGF where the > Global South will not be represented as it was before and Civil > Society can have a role in discussing this and enabling > representation. > > So I hope more people answer and have this in mind too > > Best, > > Renata > > > > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> Previously I sent around a save-the-date notice (with the wrong date >> initially!) for our annual pre-IGF civil society meeting. Just to >> reconfirm, it will be on Saturday 16 December 2017. >> >> The organizing committee is now soliciting suggestions for the meeting >> agenda and volunteers, using this survey: >> >> http://bestbits.net/limesurvey/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=628143&lang=en >> >> You are invited to complete that survey between now and 18 September. >> >> As you will see, there is a suggestion that the overall meeting theme be >> "Private regulation of the Internet", because this is broad enough to >> include many different topics including private speech regulation, trade, >> the Internet of Things, and Internet standards and human rights. When >> suggesting session topics, please try to relate them to this overall theme. >> But the survey also allows you to suggest a different main theme if you >> disagree with the one that we have suggested. >> >> Thanks, and we look forward to receiving your responses. >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> 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 daveb at dslprime.com Sun Sep 10 02:14:35 2017 From: daveb at dslprime.com (Dave Burstein) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 02:14:35 -0400 Subject: [bestbits] FOR ACTION: survey on programming suggestions for 2017 IGF civil society pre-meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Folks It seems to me a useful session would be "What the Global South would want the Global North to understand. What would be the right content, beyond the obvious lack of representation? On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 12:24 AM, parminder wrote: > > On Sunday 10 September 2017 08:08 AM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro wrote: > > Hi > > Just answered this and suggested a totally different theme, geared > more towards Global South participation. > > > Thanks Renata for this important theme. > > But let me undertake a sunday morning indulgence. Southern participation > is important, but equally if not more is a southern narrative on Internet/ > digital governance. Does it exist today? Just saying, connect us as well, > help us because we are way behind on the digital path that "you" are > taking,, does it constitute a southern discourse? Or does the south have a > view on "well, is the path itself not the best one?". Does merely getting > connected to an arrangement which is exploitative at its core a worthwhile > agenda?Especially for civil society. Questions like this.... But the > unfortunate fact is; southern participation in global Internet/ digital > governance spaces have contributed more to hailing and legitimising a > Northern model of Internet/ digital governance rather than seeking one > which serves its own interests, and arises from what have in other sectors > been considered as "southern perspectives". > > Partly, it also has to do with how the IG/ digital sector is framed so > solidly by North, including controlling its funding streams, which unlike > in other areas like trade, access to knowledge, climate justice, etc does > not promote a distinctively southern perspective/ alternative, but largely > contributes to legitimising a interests-based Northern discourse. What is > the role, responsibility and accountability of the incumbent civil society > in this. That IMHO is the key "southern question" for civil society to > address. Why has it failed to connect and make common cause with southern > and social justice based groups in other global civil society sectors? Why > have we still to interact on elists where simple questions on practices of > biggest digital corporates get shot down and contested by status quo-ists, > as we witnessed in the recent case of google's questionable funding > practices. > > These cracks vis a vis relationship of IG civil society and the global > Southern and social justice oriented civil society (which is rightly the > bulk of the global civil society) are beginning to show up as the digital > enters into areas like global trade, where trade justice activists look at > IG civil society dumbly pushing proclamations of unhindered "free flow of > data" and such with astonishment ... > > Renata, i am not picking on the subject that you have proposed, which is > very important, but providing what in my view is a very important context > to it.... > > parminder > > > It is important to note that, in a long time, this is an IGF where the > Global South will not be represented as it was before and Civil > Society can have a role in discussing this and enabling > representation. > > So I hope more people answer and have this in mind too > > Best, > > Renata > > > > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: > > Dear all, > > Previously I sent around a save-the-date notice (with the wrong date > initially!) for our annual pre-IGF civil society meeting. Just to > reconfirm, it will be on Saturday 16 December 2017. > > The organizing committee is now soliciting suggestions for the meeting > agenda and volunteers, using this survey: > http://bestbits.net/limesurvey/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=628143&lang=en > > You are invited to complete that survey between now and 18 September. > > As you will see, there is a suggestion that the overall meeting theme be > "Private regulation of the Internet", because this is broad enough to > include many different topics including private speech regulation, trade, > the Internet of Things, and Internet standards and human rights. When > suggesting session topics, please try to relate them to this overall theme. > But the survey also allows you to suggest a different main theme if you > disagree with the one that we have suggested. > > Thanks, and we look forward to receiving your responses. > > -- > Jeremy Malcolm > Senior Global Policy Analyst > Electronic Frontier Foundationhttps://eff.orgjmalcolm at eff.org > > Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161 <(415)%20436-9333> > > :: 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 > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > -- Editor, Fast Net News, WIreless One.news, Net Policy News and DSL Prime Author with Jennie Bourne DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed (Peachpit) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From parminder at itforchange.net Sun Sep 10 10:07:16 2017 From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 19:37:16 +0530 Subject: [bestbits] FOR ACTION: survey on programming suggestions for 2017 IGF civil society pre-meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <00e69a17-f571-694e-cd9a-7c6ef0cf39b1@itforchange.net> On Sunday 10 September 2017 11:44 AM, Dave Burstein wrote: > Folks > > It seems to me a useful session would be "What the Global South would > want the Global North to understand. Agree, Dave, that would a good entry point to developing a southern discourse.... > > What would be the right content, beyond the obvious lack of > representation? We can develop that if there is initial agreement to have the meeting around this subject, at least have one session on it.... parminder > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 12:24 AM, parminder > wrote: > > > On Sunday 10 September 2017 08:08 AM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro wrote: >> Hi >> >> Just answered this and suggested a totally different theme, geared >> more towards Global South participation. > > Thanks Renata for this important theme. > > But let me undertake a sunday morning indulgence. Southern > participation is important, but equally if not more is a southern > narrative on Internet/ digital governance. Does it exist today? > Just saying, connect us as well, help us because we are way behind > on the digital path that "you" are taking,, does it constitute a > southern discourse? Or does the south have a view on "well, is the > path itself not the best one?". Does merely getting connected to > an arrangement which is exploitative at its core a worthwhile > agenda?Especially for civil society. Questions like this.... But > the unfortunate fact is; southern participation in global > Internet/ digital governance spaces have contributed more to > hailing and legitimising a Northern model of Internet/ digital > governance rather than seeking one which serves its own interests, > and arises from what have in other sectors been considered as > "southern perspectives". > > Partly, it also has to do with how the IG/ digital sector is > framed so solidly by North, including controlling its funding > streams, which unlike in other areas like trade, access to > knowledge, climate justice, etc does not promote a distinctively > southern perspective/ alternative, but largely contributes to > legitimising a interests-based Northern discourse. What is the > role, responsibility and accountability of the incumbent civil > society in this. That IMHO is the key "southern question" for > civil society to address. Why has it failed to connect and make > common cause with southern and social justice based groups in > other global civil society sectors? Why have we still to interact > on elists where simple questions on practices of biggest digital > corporates get shot down and contested by status quo-ists, as we > witnessed in the recent case of google's questionable funding > practices. > > These cracks vis a vis relationship of IG civil society and the > global Southern and social justice oriented civil society (which > is rightly the bulk of the global civil society) are beginning to > show up as the digital enters into areas like global trade, where > trade justice activists look at IG civil society dumbly pushing > proclamations of unhindered "free flow of data" and such with > astonishment ... > > Renata, i am not picking on the subject that you have proposed, > which is very important, but providing what in my view is a very > important context to it.... > > parminder > >> It is important to note that, in a long time, this is an IGF where the >> Global South will not be represented as it was before and Civil >> Society can have a role in discussing this and enabling >> representation. >> >> So I hope more people answer and have this in mind too >> >> Best, >> >> Renata >> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Previously I sent around a save-the-date notice (with the wrong date >>> initially!) for our annual pre-IGF civil society meeting. Just to >>> reconfirm, it will be on Saturday 16 December 2017. >>> >>> The organizing committee is now soliciting suggestions for the meeting >>> agenda and volunteers, using this survey: >>> >>> http://bestbits.net/limesurvey/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=628143&lang=en >>> >>> >>> You are invited to complete that survey between now and 18 September. >>> >>> As you will see, there is a suggestion that the overall meeting theme be >>> "Private regulation of the Internet", because this is broad enough to >>> include many different topics including private speech regulation, trade, >>> the Internet of Things, and Internet standards and human rights. When >>> suggesting session topics, please try to relate them to this overall theme. >>> But the survey also allows you to suggest a different main theme if you >>> disagree with the one that we have suggested. >>> >>> Thanks, and we look forward to receiving your responses. >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________ >>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . >>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net . > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > > > > > -- > Editor, Fast Net News, WIreless One.news, Net Policy News and DSL Prime > Author with Jennie Bourne DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, > Getting It Noticed (Peachpit) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From raquino at gmail.com Sun Sep 10 22:03:15 2017 From: raquino at gmail.com (Renata Aquino Ribeiro) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 23:03:15 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] FOR ACTION: survey on programming suggestions for 2017 IGF civil society pre-meeting In-Reply-To: <00e69a17-f571-694e-cd9a-7c6ef0cf39b1@itforchange.net> References: <00e69a17-f571-694e-cd9a-7c6ef0cf39b1@itforchange.net> Message-ID: Hi While I agree that it is not just about participation but creating a Global South narrative, the dualism North-South can hide important aspects of internet governance debates which need to be uncovered, such as inclusion of indigenous population, gender issues and many others. So, yes, social justice and internet governance is shaped by the narrative which dominates this latter concept. But that doesn't mean it is still important to debate internet governance and Global South and do it so looking into the southern rather than just taking a stance of opposition. There are many themes and subthemes which can be raised from recent internet governance issues in the Global South: shutdowns, threats to multistakeholder governance, challenges to participation and so much more. These issues may originate or affect the Global South but have an impact in a global level. And still Private Ordering can be one of these issues. I'll take it that the mapping will bring the sessions themes which should be covered. I'd just note that we should maintain an inclusive and productive environment on the Civil Society meeting and, yes, support maintaining the debate on Global South issues and participation too, despite IGF moving out of the South this time. Best, Renata On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 11:07 AM, parminder wrote: > > > On Sunday 10 September 2017 11:44 AM, Dave Burstein wrote: > > Folks > > It seems to me a useful session would be "What the Global South would want > the Global North to understand. > > > Agree, Dave, that would a good entry point to developing a southern > discourse.... > > > What would be the right content, beyond the obvious lack of representation? > > > We can develop that if there is initial agreement to have the meeting around > this subject, at least have one session on it.... parminder > > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 12:24 AM, parminder > wrote: >> >> >> On Sunday 10 September 2017 08:08 AM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Just answered this and suggested a totally different theme, geared >> more towards Global South participation. >> >> >> Thanks Renata for this important theme. >> >> But let me undertake a sunday morning indulgence. Southern participation >> is important, but equally if not more is a southern narrative on Internet/ >> digital governance. Does it exist today? Just saying, connect us as well, >> help us because we are way behind on the digital path that "you" are >> taking,, does it constitute a southern discourse? Or does the south have a >> view on "well, is the path itself not the best one?". Does merely getting >> connected to an arrangement which is exploitative at its core a worthwhile >> agenda?Especially for civil society. Questions like this.... But the >> unfortunate fact is; southern participation in global Internet/ digital >> governance spaces have contributed more to hailing and legitimising a >> Northern model of Internet/ digital governance rather than seeking one which >> serves its own interests, and arises from what have in other sectors been >> considered as "southern perspectives". >> >> Partly, it also has to do with how the IG/ digital sector is framed so >> solidly by North, including controlling its funding streams, which unlike in >> other areas like trade, access to knowledge, climate justice, etc does not >> promote a distinctively southern perspective/ alternative, but largely >> contributes to legitimising a interests-based Northern discourse. What is >> the role, responsibility and accountability of the incumbent civil society >> in this. That IMHO is the key "southern question" for civil society to >> address. Why has it failed to connect and make common cause with southern >> and social justice based groups in other global civil society sectors? Why >> have we still to interact on elists where simple questions on practices of >> biggest digital corporates get shot down and contested by status quo-ists, >> as we witnessed in the recent case of google's questionable funding >> practices. >> >> These cracks vis a vis relationship of IG civil society and the global >> Southern and social justice oriented civil society (which is rightly the >> bulk of the global civil society) are beginning to show up as the digital >> enters into areas like global trade, where trade justice activists look at >> IG civil society dumbly pushing proclamations of unhindered "free flow of >> data" and such with astonishment ... >> >> Renata, i am not picking on the subject that you have proposed, which is >> very important, but providing what in my view is a very important context to >> it.... >> >> parminder >> >> It is important to note that, in a long time, this is an IGF where the >> Global South will not be represented as it was before and Civil >> Society can have a role in discussing this and enabling >> representation. >> >> So I hope more people answer and have this in mind too >> >> Best, >> >> Renata >> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> Previously I sent around a save-the-date notice (with the wrong date >> initially!) for our annual pre-IGF civil society meeting. Just to >> reconfirm, it will be on Saturday 16 December 2017. >> >> The organizing committee is now soliciting suggestions for the meeting >> agenda and volunteers, using this survey: >> >> http://bestbits.net/limesurvey/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=628143&lang=en >> >> You are invited to complete that survey between now and 18 September. >> >> As you will see, there is a suggestion that the overall meeting theme be >> "Private regulation of the Internet", because this is broad enough to >> include many different topics including private speech regulation, trade, >> the Internet of Things, and Internet standards and human rights. When >> suggesting session topics, please try to relate them to this overall >> theme. >> But the survey also allows you to suggest a different main theme if you >> disagree with the one that we have suggested. >> >> Thanks, and we look forward to receiving your responses. >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > > > > -- > Editor, Fast Net News, WIreless One.news, Net Policy News and DSL Prime > Author with Jennie Bourne DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, > Getting It Noticed (Peachpit) > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits From amritachoudhury8 at gmail.com Tue Sep 12 01:50:34 2017 From: amritachoudhury8 at gmail.com (Amrita) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:20:34 +0530 Subject: [bestbits] IG related news and events August,2017 - CCAOI Newsletter Message-ID: <116801d32b8b$0e7762f0$2b6628d0$@com> Dear All, Apologies for cross posting. 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Then please apply here: https://article.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=2849051e-979a-4421-aa16-2a5b7dee6550 Application deadline: September 26 All the best, Niels PS I will continue to collaborate with ARTICLE19 and work in the realm of human rights and Internet infrastructure, but will also spend a bit more time working on my PhD (which luckily is on the same topic). From ayden at ferdeline.com Fri Sep 1 07:23:45 2017 From: ayden at ferdeline.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Ayden_F=C3=A9rdeline?=) Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 07:23:45 -0400 Subject: [bestbits] [governance] Google exercises its funding muscle In-Reply-To: References: <95734e2e-a779-1fde-0e0f-e8f5ff3622a4@itforchange.net> Message-ID: Hi, I did read the emails in the link that I shared. I still think it reflects poorly on New America. May I suggest you read through [this Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/hshaban/status/903084804178104320)to see how New America’s response is factually incorrect. Best wishes, Ayden Férdeline [linkedin.com/in/ferdeline](http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline) > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [governance] Google exercises its funding muscle > Local Time: 1 September 2017 12:17 PM > UTC Time: 1 September 2017 11:17 > From: dogwallah at gmail.com > To: Ayden Férdeline > parminder , BestBitsList , governance at lists.igcaucus.org > > Hi, > > If you read more than the hit pieces about this, it does not reflect > pporly on New America at all. > > The guy acted like douchebag, they gave him loads of chances to do > the right thing, he refused to take them. > > read the emails in the link you provided, then read this one: > > https://www.newamerica.org/new-america/press-releases/new-americas-response-new-york-times/ > > "Statement to be attributed to Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America: > > Today’s New York Times story implies that Google lobbied New America > to expel the Open Markets program because of this press release. I > want to be clear: this implication is absolutely false." > > The "anti-Google at all costs" types see this as red meat for their > cause. Sad. Bigly Sad. > > Regards, > > McTim > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 6:13 AM, Ayden Férdeline wrote: >> I think the incident reflects far more poorly on the part of New America >> than it does Google. I notice they have now published on their website some >> correspondence between their CEO and the terminated staffer, but what is >> lacking is the correspondence between their CEO and Google executives on >> this matter. Perhaps we could ask for some more transparency around that. I >> find we are often very quick to denounce the activities of governments and >> platforms (as we should), but seem to give think tanks, conservative and >> libertarian, free reign to behave how they like. Maybe this is a bit of an >> over-simplification but that is my perception at least as to how they are >> held accountable. >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Ayden Férdeline >> linkedin.com/in/ferdeline >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: [governance] Google exercises its funding muscle >> Local Time: 1 September 2017 6:00 AM >> UTC Time: 1 September 2017 05:00 >> From: parminder at itforchange.net >> To: BestBitsList , >> governance at lists.igcaucus.org >> >> >> two more articles on the same issue >> >> Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant >> By KENNETH P. VOGEL >> Aug 30 2017 >> >> >> AND >> >> New America Foundation Head Anne-Marie Slaughter Botches Laundering >> Google’s Money, Fires Anti-Trust Team at Eric Schmidt’s Behest - >> 08/31/2017 - Yves Smith >> >> https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/08/new-america-foundation-head-anne-marie-slaughter-botches-laundering-googles-money.html >> >> >> We should ideally be doing a statement on this very significant and >> structural issue, basic to civil society work in this area. What do people >> here say? >> >> parminder >> >> >> >> On Friday 01 September 2017 10:26 AM, parminder wrote: >> >> Quotes from the below article, which connects to the discussion (or non >> discussion) we recently had here on Google"s funding of non profit/ academic >> research in digital area. >> >> Firing Lynn and his team “raises a lot of questions,” a Warren aide told >> HuffPost. Warren, herself, later tweeted her concerns. >> >> A senior aide to a progressive House Democrat, who commented on the >> condition of anonymity, called the firings “an example of the way that >> funding think tanks is a way to achieve policy outcomes, in the same way >> that lobbying and funding campaigns is. It’s a business expense.” >> >> Jonathan Taplin, the author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, >> Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, was more blunt >> in his assessment of what happened at New America. >> >> “It’s just classic monopoly muscle,” he told HuffPost. “This is the way >> bullies act.” >> >> Google Just Proved That Monopolies Imperil Democracy, Not Just The Economy >> >> >> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-monopoly-barry-lynn_us_59a738fde4b010ca289a1155?section=us_politics >> >> Barry Lynn and his team of anti-monopoly researchers were fired by a think >> tank after criticizing the search giant. >> >> WASHINGTON ― For the past decade, former business journalist Barry Lynn has >> used his perch at the New America Foundation to warn politicians and the >> public that a new era of corporate monopolies threatened not only American >> workers, but also democracy itself. >> >> Lynn was just proven right: New America has fired him as head of its Open >> Markets program along with his team of about 10 researchers and journalists, >> after they called for an antitrust investigation of the think tank’s largest >> longtime donor, Google. >> >> On June 27, the Open Markets team in a 150-word statement called for the >> Federal Trade Commission to follow the lead of the European Union, which >> leveled a $2.7 billion fine on Google for violating antitrust laws. Since >> New America’s start in 1999, Google has given it $21 million. And Eric >> Schmidt, the executive chairman of Alphabet, Inc., Google’s parent company, >> served as New America’s chairman from 2008 through mid-2016. >> >> According to a report on Wednesday in The New York Times, Lynn was called on >> the carpet by New America head Anne-Marie Slaughter shortly after the Open >> Markets program praised the E.U.’s decision to find Google in violation of >> antitrust law for providing preferential placement to its own products and >> those of its subsidiaries over its rivals in search results. Schmidt, the >> Times reported, had expressed to Slaughter his “displeasure” with the >> statement backing the E.U.’s move. >> >> Slaughter, according to an email obtained by the Times, told Lynn that he >> and his team had to leave New America. The firing was, “in no way based on >> the content of your work,” she wrote, while also saying Lynn was “imperiling >> the institution as a whole.” >> >> Two current members of the Open Markets team confirmed this timeline of >> events to HuffPost. Lynn and his Open Markets colleagues were told to depart >> New America two days after the statement that supported the E.U. antitrust >> fine and called upon “U.S. enforcers” to “build upon this important >> precedent. The team, though, stuck around in an attempt to question New >> America’s leadership about whether it really wanted to fire the entire >> group. >> >> “We were trying to be, like, ’Are you sure you want to do this because it >> sort of seems bad,” Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Program, told >> HuffPost. “Are you sure you want to prove us right? Are you sure you want to >> back a monopoly in such an obvious and clumsy way? We were negotiating with >> them.” (Stoller is an occasional HuffPost contributor.) >> >> Despite those negotiations, Slaughter on Wednesday officially terminated >> Lynn and his team. >> >> >> >> Slaughter disputed the Times story, saying in a statement that the claim >> “that Google lobbied New America to expel the Open Markets program” was >> “false.” Instead, she said that Lynn refused “to adhere to New America’s >> standards of openness and institutional collegiality.” She offered no >> explanation for firing the entire Open Markets team. >> >> A Google spokeswoman denied any involvement in Lynn’s firing in an email to >> HuffPost. She also said that Schmidt did not threaten to cut off funding for >> the think tank because of the Open Markets statement on Google’s antitrust >> fine. >> >> “We support hundreds of organizations that promote a free and open Internet, >> greater access to information, and increased opportunity,” Riva Sciuto, the >> Google spokesperson, said in the statement. “We don’t agree with every group >> 100 percent of the time, and while we sometimes respectfully disagree, we >> respect each group’s independence, personnel decisions, and policy >> perspectives.” >> >> New America did not immediately respond to a request for comment to >> HuffPost. >> >> Lynn is now building an independent think tank to continue his anti-monopoly >> work with his New America team. The group has already launched a campaign >> aimed at mobilizing public opposition to the power of modern-day monopolies >> by highlighting Google’s power to quash independent research like that by >> the Open Markets team. >> >> Its supporters say this case underscores that argument. >> >> Lynn and his colleagues “have long argued that monopolies are a problem for >> the economy, but they’re also a problem for democracy,” Zephyr Teachout, a >> fellow at Open Markets and board member of its new campaign ― called >> Citizens Against Monopolies ― told HuffPost. “This kind of proves the >> point.” >> >> It’s not as though the Open Markets team needed to get fired to buttress >> their concerns about monopoly power. Their efforts already have been >> influential ― more so than work by many other think tanks. >> >> The Democratic Party recently adopted the team’s warnings about monopolies >> in its “A Better Deal” platform. Politicians ― including Sens. Elizabeth >> Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. >> Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) ― are pushing for enhanced antitrust enforcement and >> calling out concentrations of economic power more than before. >> >> Open Markets has helped lead the economic debate to a “more populist strain >> over the past couple of years,” Marshall Steinbaum, a fellow at the >> progressive economics think tank Roosevelt Institute, told HuffPost. >> >> Firing Lynn and his team “raises a lot of questions,” a Warren aide told >> HuffPost. Warren, herself, later tweeted her concerns. >> >> A senior aide to a progressive House Democrat, who commented on the >> condition of anonymity, called the firings “an example of the way that >> funding think tanks is a way to achieve policy outcomes, in the same way >> that lobbying and funding campaigns is. It’s a business expense.” >> >> Jonathan Taplin, the author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, >> Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, was more blunt >> in his assessment of what happened at New America. >> >> “It’s just classic monopoly muscle,” he told HuffPost. “This is the way >> bullies act.” >> >> The internal workings of New America, though, is not the real issue, Stoller >> said. The public needs to recognize Google as an autocratic private power >> that is exerting itself in the economy and in policy to increase its own >> power over people, he argued. >> >> “We love a lot of the people at New America,” Stoller said. “We think their >> work is great. ... This is not an issue of New America. This is an issue >> about monopoly and Google.” >> >> And Google is undeniably a monopoly. Just ask monopoly proponent and >> billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who has said the company is able to offer >> so many wonderful perks to its employees because it doesn’t have to worry >> too much about competition. It controls 80 percent of the market for online >> search and 54 percent of the browser market in the U.S. >> >> Google and Facebook, another powerful online platform monopoly, have gobbled >> up practically every new online advertising dollar (thanks to their past >> acquisitions of online advertising companies) in recent years while >> pressuring news organizations, including HuffPost, to publish directly to >> their platforms. Google’s control of internet search has given it the power >> to squeeze money away from other websites (see: CelebrityNetWorth.com and >> Yelp.com). Google’s dominant position as an advertising seller has also >> given it increasing power over newsrooms (although not as much as Facebook). >> >> The company ― which once went by the motto “Don’t be evil” ― has also sought >> to replicate its economic power in political and policy spheres. >> >> Google has previously sought to pressure a nonprofit over its criticism of >> the company. In 2009, Google’s head of public policy reached out to the >> foundation funding the California-based Consumer Watchdog to warn it about >> continuing to underwrite the work by the pro-privacy group. That work was >> critical of many of Google’s privacy policies. >> >> In the past decade, Google also has poured tens of millions of dollars into >> campaign contributions, lobbying firms, think tanks and policy nonprofits in >> the past decade. >> >> This political investment soared after 2011 when Google’s antitrust issues >> first came under the microscope. Its lobbying expenses doubled from $9.6 >> million in 2011 to $18.2 million in 2012, and have not fallen below $15 >> million since. In 2011, Google gave grants to 44 different nonprofits and >> think tanks. That number jumped to 81 in 2012 and now sits at 170. >> >> Goggle executives enjoyed unrivaled access to the White House under >> President Barack Obama, visiting hundreds of times, according to Secret >> Service visitor logs. Google has also pumped millions of dollars into >> research at universities, often to buttress its public policy positions, and >> is pushing its own agenda for public school education across the country. >> >> Google’s huge increase in political investment post-2011 was in direct >> reaction to the Federal Trade Commission opening an antitrust investigation >> into whether it abused its market position in internet searches. The FTC >> commissioners eventually dropped the investigation in exchange for small >> concessions by the company, despite a report by the agency’s legal team that >> labeled Google a “monopoly” and supported a full investigation. >> >> “The ‘A’ word is the one thing that can stop the music,” Luther Lowe, Yelp’s >> vice president of public policy, said of Google’s interest in antitrust >> issues. “It’s the one that’s an all-hands-on-deck situation.” >> >> >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, click here: >> http://lists.igcaucus.org/sympa/auto_signoff/governance/dogwallah%40gmail.com > > -- > Cheers, > > McTim > "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A > route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This means engagement with the IETF, ICANN, IEEE, ITU on > topics ranging from encryption, privacy, access, algorithms to human rights > impact assessments. > > Can you: > - support a global team of talented professionals? > - manage a several project on the cutting edge of tech development? > - be a bridge between law and tech? > - build collaborations with businesses, governments and civil society > organizations? > - develop new plans and ideas to make the Internet a more rights enabling > space? > > Then please apply here: > > https://article.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=2849051e-979a-4421-aa16-2a5b7dee6550 > > Application deadline: September 26 > > All the best, > > Niels > > PS I will continue to collaborate with ARTICLE19 and work in the realm of > human rights and Internet infrastructure, but will also spend a bit more > time working on my PhD (which luckily is on the same topic). > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits From yannis at registry.asia Thu Sep 14 01:35:05 2017 From: yannis at registry.asia (Yannis Li) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:35:05 +0800 Subject: [bestbits] APrIGF 2018 - Open Call for Thematic Suggestions (Deadline: 22 Oct, 2017) References: <4316FFA3-E1A6-4FC6-9270-52074C02F1E7@aprigf.asia> Message-ID: Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) Vanuatu 2018 is going to be held at Port Vila from 13-16 August, co-hosted by the Office of Government of Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) and the Telecommunication & Radiocommunications Regulator (TRR) of Vanuatu. The MSG would like to invite the Asia Pacific community to all contribute your thoughts and topic of interests in shaping the overarching theme and respective sub-themes for the upcoming 2018 meeting. Thematic Suggestions Survey Link: http://igf.asia/2018themes Please submit your suggestions by the deadline 22 October 2017. Stay tuned with the latest updates at www.aprigf.asia . For any enquiries, kindly contact the secretariat at sec at aprigf.asia . 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 ICDPPC: An interactive Q&A *14 Sep, 16:00* | 1 hr London (Western European Summer Time, GMT+01:00) Host: Global Partners Digital Join On 1 September 2017 at 17:43, Sheetal Kumar wrote: > Dear all, > > > > We'd like to invite you to an interactive discussion on the ICDPPC – the > International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners and > its relevance for human rights defenders. The discussion will take place *on > September 14 at 15:00 UTC* and will be hosted by myself and Fanny Hidvégi > from Access Now. > > > > This discussion will provide an opportunity for anyone to ask questions > about the upcoming edition of the annual Conference this year in Hong Kong > (25-29 September), and more generally about the ICDPPC, its relevance for > human rights advocacy and opportunities for civil society engagement. You > can also find more information about the ICDPPC and its relevance for human > rights defenders in our recently launched tool to the ICDPPC: Navigating > Human Rights In The Digital Environment: The ICDPPC. > > > > Details on how to join the discussion are below. Please feel free to share > this with your colleagues and networks! Any questions, do let me know. > > Best > Sheetal. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To join the call online, please click the green "join" button below and > follow the on-screen prompts. 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Find the letter in the etherpad below: https://pad.riseup.net/p/wvDnM0Z05bE9 With apologies for the short notice, should you or your organisation be interested in signing onto this letter, we welcome signatures until *COB Monday 18 September.* The letter will be presented to the organisers of the Conference before the start of the next Conference proceedings, which start on 25 September in Hong Kong. In case of interest, for more information about the ICDPPC, GPD and Access Now have worked together on tools which provide an introduction to the ICDPPC for human rights advocates and which you can find by following the links below: - *Navigating human rights in the digital environment: the ICDPPC: * http://www.gp-digital.org/publication/navigating-human-rights-in-the-digital-environment-the-icdppc - *Understanding the ICDPPC (podcast):* http://www.gp-digital.org/multimedia/understanding-the-icdppc/ - *Recording of a webinar & live Q&A on the ICCDPC: * https://soundcloud.com/globalpartnersdigital/the-icdppc-live-qa-140917 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 | PGP ID: AAEDBF8AFE87EF53 | PGP Fingerprint: 9CD3 46A5 21A1 DFD9 FDD0 457D AAED BF8A FE87 EF53 | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As many of you will be aware, the GFCE is a members-only organisation that is currently not open to civil society, so this is a unique opportunity to share your views on the current iteration of the document and shape what could be an influential outcome related to the future of capacity building in the context of cybersecurity, cybercrime etc. And if you can't participate in this consultation round, no worries – there is likely to be another round of consultations (on the next iteration of the doc) in October. Feel free to share this with your networks. Any questions - let me know! Best wishes, *Lea Kaspar* Executive Director | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)20 3818 3258 | M: +44 (0)7583 929216 <+44%207583%20929216> gp-digital.org ---- Dear all, International communities recognize a strong sense of urgency to develop global cyber capacities to address the (known and unknown) risks to cyberspace. For this reason the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) was launched in 2015 at the Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCCS) in The Hague. The GFCE currently entails 60+ members consisting of governments, industry, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), technical communities and international organizations. *The Global Agenda on Cyber Capacity Building (GACCB) has been developed by the GFCE community over the past months through extensive research, consultation and discussion. The GACCB will be presented to the global community at the GCCS2017 on 23-24 November in New Delhi, India.* With the GACCB the GFCE identifies future priorities for cyber capacity building (CCB) and recognizes the need for practical guides, frameworks and practices for cyber capacity building. This GACCB addresses the sense of urgency and calls for action to jointly strengthen cyber capacities. With the GACCB the GFCE aims to encourage the global community to: - Strengthen international cooperation; - Develop a common (global) focus; - Make more efficient use of available resources; - Establish a concrete set of ambitions and actions. The GFCE welcomes the input from civil society on the GACCB draft. We would like to invite you to give your remarks on the GACCB draft by using the feedback form. Please send your completed templates to *tjarda.krabbendam at tno.nl before September 22nd, 2017*. We imagine you would prefer some extra information on the GACCB, therefore we have scheduled *two conference call timeslots* for civil society next week. - *Tuesday September 19th 10:00 – 12:00 (UTC)* - *Thursday September 21st 07:00 – 09:00 (UTC)* Please use instructions below to join the conference call at the above mentioned time: · Please join my meeting from your *computer, tablet or smartphone* by using the link below: *https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/660312453 * OR · You can also dial in using your *phone*. 1. Please find your dial-in number below. 2. 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Thank you all in advanced and warm regards. -- Valeria Milanes Directora Area Digital Asociación por los Derechos Civiles Av. Córdoba 795, 8º piso Buenos Aires (C1054AAG) Tel/Fax: (5411) 5236-0556 www.adcdigital.org.ar PGP: 0x8A79DA46 Fingerprint: A83E D1F8 E2D1 8BF0 5872 836D 0FFC C8D6 8A79 DA46 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gus at publicknowledge.org Wed Sep 20 14:12:15 2017 From: gus at publicknowledge.org (Gus Rossi) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:12:15 -0400 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary Message-ID: Hi everyone, *Context: *Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next month. The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning of the territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish postal service. Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted to bring to your attention. *The Internet:* Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled over Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open Internet: .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil: https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web pages under that domain that have information about the referendum have been suspended. The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police (including one ISOC-CAT member). This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: ref1oct.eu There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare is under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, some email. This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. 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But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective responsibility. I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our organisations and spaces. R Renata Avila *Senior Digital Rights Advisor* renata.avila at webfoundation.org *1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA* *| * *www.webfoundation.org* * | Twitter: @webfoundation* On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi wrote: > Hi everyone, > > *Context: *Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next month. > The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning of the > territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved having > a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids at > regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan > officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, > websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff > have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist > association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish > postal service. > > Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, > independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted > to bring to your attention. > > *The Internet:* Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled over > Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open > Internet: > > .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil: > https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web pages > under that domain that have information about the referendum have been > suspended. > > The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police (including one > ISOC-CAT member). > > This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: > http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are > reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: > ref1oct.eu > > There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare is > under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic manipulation by > the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). > > In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the Catalan > politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, some email. > > This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should be > worried. > > ---- > # # # > # • # > # # > > *Gus Rossi* > Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 > <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs > *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge > | www.publicknowledge.org > 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 > > *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. > > > ____________________________________________________________ > 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 gus at publicknowledge.org Wed Sep 20 14:22:48 2017 From: gus at publicknowledge.org (Gus Rossi) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:22:48 -0400 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) ---- # # # # • # # # *Gus Rossi* Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge | www.publicknowledge.org 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila < renata.avila at webfoundation.org> wrote: > Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - repressive > laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and practiced the > last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable if people from > the international community remain silent. > > Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. > > But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective > responsibility. > > I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our > organisations and spaces. > > R > > > > Renata Avila > > *Senior Digital Rights Advisor* > renata.avila at webfoundation.org > > *1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA > * > *| **www.webfoundation.org* * | Twitter: > @webfoundation* > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> *Context: *Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next month. >> The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning of the >> territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved having >> a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids at >> regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan >> officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, >> websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff >> have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist >> association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish >> postal service. >> >> Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, >> independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted >> to bring to your attention. >> >> *The Internet:* Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled over >> Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open >> Internet: >> >> .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil: >> https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web pages >> under that domain that have information about the referendum have been >> suspended. >> >> The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police (including >> one ISOC-CAT member). >> >> This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: >> http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are >> reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: >> ref1oct.eu >> >> There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare is >> under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic manipulation by >> the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). >> >> In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the Catalan >> politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, some email. >> >> This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should be >> worried. >> >> ---- >> # # # >> # • # >> # # >> >> *Gus Rossi* >> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >> | www.publicknowledge.org >> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 >> >> | CFC 12259 >> >> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> 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 ayden at ferdeline.com Fri Sep 1 08:08:33 2017 From: ayden at ferdeline.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Ayden_F=C3=A9rdeline?=) Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 08:08:33 -0400 Subject: [bestbits] [governance] Google exercises its funding muscle In-Reply-To: References: <95734e2e-a779-1fde-0e0f-e8f5ff3622a4@itforchange.net> Message-ID: <5pDh3bYpxpeRk1OELEA6EET1lu6VG-v_c9l1Y88HQQ3fmsBd92aAGL0h80VIOrvjcdG3yp8FtVBRz6PlICgAPm3CUrWIwelYk6hVW4o2ZO8=@ferdeline.com> Hi McTim, Please don’t assume people that have a different read of something than you do haven’t read the material. I have. Thanks, Ayden Férdeline [linkedin.com/in/ferdeline](http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline) > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [governance] Google exercises its funding muscle > Local Time: 1 September 2017 1:02 PM > UTC Time: 1 September 2017 12:02 > From: dogwallah at gmail.com > To: Ayden Férdeline > parminder , BestBitsList , governance at lists.igcaucus.org > > you need to read the NA statement that I sent AND the emails for context. > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Ayden Férdeline wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I did read the emails in the link that I shared. I still think it reflects >> poorly on New America. >> >> May I suggest you read through this Twitter thread to see how New America’s >> response is factually incorrect. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Ayden Férdeline >> linkedin.com/in/ferdeline >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: [governance] Google exercises its funding muscle >> Local Time: 1 September 2017 12:17 PM >> UTC Time: 1 September 2017 11:17 >> From: dogwallah at gmail.com >> To: Ayden Férdeline >> parminder , BestBitsList >> , governance at lists.igcaucus.org >> >> >> Hi, >> >> If you read more than the hit pieces about this, it does not reflect >> pporly on New America at all. >> >> The guy acted like douchebag, they gave him loads of chances to do >> the right thing, he refused to take them. >> >> read the emails in the link you provided, then read this one: >> >> https://www.newamerica.org/new-america/press-releases/new-americas-response-new-york-times/ >> >> "Statement to be attributed to Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America: >> >> Today’s New York Times story implies that Google lobbied New America >> to expel the Open Markets program because of this press release. I >> want to be clear: this implication is absolutely false." >> >> The "anti-Google at all costs" types see this as red meat for their >> cause. Sad. Bigly Sad. >> >> Regards, >> >> McTim >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 6:13 AM, Ayden Férdeline wrote: >>> I think the incident reflects far more poorly on the part of New America >>> than it does Google. I notice they have now published on their website >>> some >>> correspondence between their CEO and the terminated staffer, but what is >>> lacking is the correspondence between their CEO and Google executives on >>> this matter. Perhaps we could ask for some more transparency around that. >>> I >>> find we are often very quick to denounce the activities of governments and >>> platforms (as we should), but seem to give think tanks, conservative and >>> libertarian, free reign to behave how they like. Maybe this is a bit of an >>> over-simplification but that is my perception at least as to how they are >>> held accountable. >>> >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Ayden Férdeline >>> linkedin.com/in/ferdeline >>> >>> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: Re: [governance] Google exercises its funding muscle >>> Local Time: 1 September 2017 6:00 AM >>> UTC Time: 1 September 2017 05:00 >>> From: parminder at itforchange.net >>> To: BestBitsList , >>> governance at lists.igcaucus.org >>> >>> >>> two more articles on the same issue >>> >>> Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant >>> By KENNETH P. VOGEL >>> Aug 30 2017 >>> >>> >>> >>> AND >>> >>> New America Foundation Head Anne-Marie Slaughter Botches Laundering >>> Google’s Money, Fires Anti-Trust Team at Eric Schmidt’s Behest - >>> 08/31/2017 - Yves Smith >>> >>> >>> https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/08/new-america-foundation-head-anne-marie-slaughter-botches-laundering-googles-money.html >>> >>> >>> We should ideally be doing a statement on this very significant and >>> structural issue, basic to civil society work in this area. What do people >>> here say? >>> >>> parminder >>> >>> >>> >>> On Friday 01 September 2017 10:26 AM, parminder wrote: >>> >>> Quotes from the below article, which connects to the discussion (or non >>> discussion) we recently had here on Google"s funding of non profit/ >>> academic >>> research in digital area. >>> >>> Firing Lynn and his team “raises a lot of questions,” a Warren aide told >>> HuffPost. Warren, herself, later tweeted her concerns. >>> >>> A senior aide to a progressive House Democrat, who commented on the >>> condition of anonymity, called the firings “an example of the way that >>> funding think tanks is a way to achieve policy outcomes, in the same way >>> that lobbying and funding campaigns is. It’s a business expense.” >>> >>> Jonathan Taplin, the author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, >>> Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, was more >>> blunt >>> in his assessment of what happened at New America. >>> >>> “It’s just classic monopoly muscle,” he told HuffPost. “This is the way >>> bullies act.” >>> >>> Google Just Proved That Monopolies Imperil Democracy, Not Just The Economy >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-monopoly-barry-lynn_us_59a738fde4b010ca289a1155?section=us_politics >>> >>> Barry Lynn and his team of anti-monopoly researchers were fired by a think >>> tank after criticizing the search giant. >>> >>> WASHINGTON ― For the past decade, former business journalist Barry Lynn >>> has >>> used his perch at the New America Foundation to warn politicians and the >>> public that a new era of corporate monopolies threatened not only American >>> workers, but also democracy itself. >>> >>> Lynn was just proven right: New America has fired him as head of its Open >>> Markets program along with his team of about 10 researchers and >>> journalists, >>> after they called for an antitrust investigation of the think tank’s >>> largest >>> longtime donor, Google. >>> >>> On June 27, the Open Markets team in a 150-word statement called for the >>> Federal Trade Commission to follow the lead of the European Union, which >>> leveled a $2.7 billion fine on Google for violating antitrust laws. Since >>> New America’s start in 1999, Google has given it $21 million. And Eric >>> Schmidt, the executive chairman of Alphabet, Inc., Google’s parent >>> company, >>> served as New America’s chairman from 2008 through mid-2016. >>> >>> According to a report on Wednesday in The New York Times, Lynn was called >>> on >>> the carpet by New America head Anne-Marie Slaughter shortly after the Open >>> Markets program praised the E.U.’s decision to find Google in violation of >>> antitrust law for providing preferential placement to its own products and >>> those of its subsidiaries over its rivals in search results. Schmidt, the >>> Times reported, had expressed to Slaughter his “displeasure” with the >>> statement backing the E.U.’s move. >>> >>> Slaughter, according to an email obtained by the Times, told Lynn that he >>> and his team had to leave New America. The firing was, “in no way based on >>> the content of your work,” she wrote, while also saying Lynn was >>> “imperiling >>> the institution as a whole.” >>> >>> Two current members of the Open Markets team confirmed this timeline of >>> events to HuffPost. Lynn and his Open Markets colleagues were told to >>> depart >>> New America two days after the statement that supported the E.U. antitrust >>> fine and called upon “U.S. enforcers” to “build upon this important >>> precedent. The team, though, stuck around in an attempt to question New >>> America’s leadership about whether it really wanted to fire the entire >>> group. >>> >>> “We were trying to be, like, ’Are you sure you want to do this because it >>> sort of seems bad,” Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Program, >>> told >>> HuffPost. “Are you sure you want to prove us right? Are you sure you want >>> to >>> back a monopoly in such an obvious and clumsy way? We were negotiating >>> with >>> them.” (Stoller is an occasional HuffPost contributor.) >>> >>> Despite those negotiations, Slaughter on Wednesday officially terminated >>> Lynn and his team. >>> >>> >>> >>> Slaughter disputed the Times story, saying in a statement that the claim >>> “that Google lobbied New America to expel the Open Markets program” was >>> “false.” Instead, she said that Lynn refused “to adhere to New America’s >>> standards of openness and institutional collegiality.” She offered no >>> explanation for firing the entire Open Markets team. >>> >>> A Google spokeswoman denied any involvement in Lynn’s firing in an email >>> to >>> HuffPost. She also said that Schmidt did not threaten to cut off funding >>> for >>> the think tank because of the Open Markets statement on Google’s antitrust >>> fine. >>> >>> “We support hundreds of organizations that promote a free and open >>> Internet, >>> greater access to information, and increased opportunity,” Riva Sciuto, >>> the >>> Google spokesperson, said in the statement. “We don’t agree with every >>> group >>> 100 percent of the time, and while we sometimes respectfully disagree, we >>> respect each group’s independence, personnel decisions, and policy >>> perspectives.” >>> >>> New America did not immediately respond to a request for comment to >>> HuffPost. >>> >>> Lynn is now building an independent think tank to continue his >>> anti-monopoly >>> work with his New America team. The group has already launched a campaign >>> aimed at mobilizing public opposition to the power of modern-day >>> monopolies >>> by highlighting Google’s power to quash independent research like that by >>> the Open Markets team. >>> >>> Its supporters say this case underscores that argument. >>> >>> Lynn and his colleagues “have long argued that monopolies are a problem >>> for >>> the economy, but they’re also a problem for democracy,” Zephyr Teachout, a >>> fellow at Open Markets and board member of its new campaign ― called >>> Citizens Against Monopolies ― told HuffPost. “This kind of proves the >>> point.” >>> >>> It’s not as though the Open Markets team needed to get fired to buttress >>> their concerns about monopoly power. Their efforts already have been >>> influential ― more so than work by many other think tanks. >>> >>> The Democratic Party recently adopted the team’s warnings about monopolies >>> in its “A Better Deal” platform. Politicians ― including Sens. Elizabeth >>> Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. >>> Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) ― are pushing for enhanced antitrust enforcement and >>> calling out concentrations of economic power more than before. >>> >>> Open Markets has helped lead the economic debate to a “more populist >>> strain >>> over the past couple of years,” Marshall Steinbaum, a fellow at the >>> progressive economics think tank Roosevelt Institute, told HuffPost. >>> >>> Firing Lynn and his team “raises a lot of questions,” a Warren aide told >>> HuffPost. Warren, herself, later tweeted her concerns. >>> >>> A senior aide to a progressive House Democrat, who commented on the >>> condition of anonymity, called the firings “an example of the way that >>> funding think tanks is a way to achieve policy outcomes, in the same way >>> that lobbying and funding campaigns is. It’s a business expense.” >>> >>> Jonathan Taplin, the author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, >>> Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, was more >>> blunt >>> in his assessment of what happened at New America. >>> >>> “It’s just classic monopoly muscle,” he told HuffPost. “This is the way >>> bullies act.” >>> >>> The internal workings of New America, though, is not the real issue, >>> Stoller >>> said. The public needs to recognize Google as an autocratic private power >>> that is exerting itself in the economy and in policy to increase its own >>> power over people, he argued. >>> >>> “We love a lot of the people at New America,” Stoller said. “We think >>> their >>> work is great. ... This is not an issue of New America. This is an issue >>> about monopoly and Google.” >>> >>> And Google is undeniably a monopoly. Just ask monopoly proponent and >>> billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who has said the company is able to >>> offer >>> so many wonderful perks to its employees because it doesn’t have to worry >>> too much about competition. It controls 80 percent of the market for >>> online >>> search and 54 percent of the browser market in the U.S. >>> >>> Google and Facebook, another powerful online platform monopoly, have >>> gobbled >>> up practically every new online advertising dollar (thanks to their past >>> acquisitions of online advertising companies) in recent years while >>> pressuring news organizations, including HuffPost, to publish directly to >>> their platforms. Google’s control of internet search has given it the >>> power >>> to squeeze money away from other websites (see: CelebrityNetWorth.com and >>> Yelp.com). Google’s dominant position as an advertising seller has also >>> given it increasing power over newsrooms (although not as much as >>> Facebook). >>> >>> The company ― which once went by the motto “Don’t be evil” ― has also >>> sought >>> to replicate its economic power in political and policy spheres. >>> >>> Google has previously sought to pressure a nonprofit over its criticism of >>> the company. In 2009, Google’s head of public policy reached out to the >>> foundation funding the California-based Consumer Watchdog to warn it about >>> continuing to underwrite the work by the pro-privacy group. That work was >>> critical of many of Google’s privacy policies. >>> >>> In the past decade, Google also has poured tens of millions of dollars >>> into >>> campaign contributions, lobbying firms, think tanks and policy nonprofits >>> in >>> the past decade. >>> >>> This political investment soared after 2011 when Google’s antitrust issues >>> first came under the microscope. Its lobbying expenses doubled from $9.6 >>> million in 2011 to $18.2 million in 2012, and have not fallen below $15 >>> million since. In 2011, Google gave grants to 44 different nonprofits and >>> think tanks. That number jumped to 81 in 2012 and now sits at 170. >>> >>> Goggle executives enjoyed unrivaled access to the White House under >>> President Barack Obama, visiting hundreds of times, according to Secret >>> Service visitor logs. Google has also pumped millions of dollars into >>> research at universities, often to buttress its public policy positions, >>> and >>> is pushing its own agenda for public school education across the country. >>> >>> Google’s huge increase in political investment post-2011 was in direct >>> reaction to the Federal Trade Commission opening an antitrust >>> investigation >>> into whether it abused its market position in internet searches. The FTC >>> commissioners eventually dropped the investigation in exchange for small >>> concessions by the company, despite a report by the agency’s legal team >>> that >>> labeled Google a “monopoly” and supported a full investigation. >>> >>> “The ‘A’ word is the one thing that can stop the music,” Luther Lowe, >>> Yelp’s >>> vice president of public policy, said of Google’s interest in antitrust >>> issues. “It’s the one that’s an all-hands-on-deck situation.” >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, click here: >>> >>> http://lists.igcaucus.org/sympa/auto_signoff/governance/dogwallah%40gmail.com >> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> >> McTim >> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A >> route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel >> >> > > -- > Cheers, > > McTim > "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A > route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From james at cyberinvasion.net Wed Sep 20 14:26:51 2017 From: james at cyberinvasion.net (James Gannon) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:26:51 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response, First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to self organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these heavy handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight against this kind of action in far flung corners of the world, in Europe we lose a lot of our creditability when we allow things like this to happen on our own doorstep. Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end of the day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no role in. If the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a different conversation but again, my understanding is that its official LEO and government actions here with the takedowns. -James On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi > wrote: I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) ---- # # # # • # # # Gus Rossi Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 (mobile) | @agustinrs Public Knowledge | @publicknowledge | www.publicknowledge.org 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 The IP3 Awards are September 28th! RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila > wrote: Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - repressive laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and practiced the last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable if people from the international community remain silent. Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective responsibility. I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our organisations and spaces. R Renata Avila Senior Digital Rights Advisor renata.avila at webfoundation.org 1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA | www.webfoundation.org | Twitter: @webfoundation On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi > wrote: Hi everyone, Context: Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next month. The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning of the territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish postal service. Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted to bring to your attention. The Internet: Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled over Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open Internet: .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil: https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web pages under that domain that have information about the referendum have been suspended. The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police (including one ISOC-CAT member). This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: ref1oct.eu There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare is under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, some email. This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should be worried. ---- # # # # • # # # Gus Rossi Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 (mobile) | @agustinrs Public Knowledge | @publicknowledge | www.publicknowledge.org 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 The IP3 Awards are September 28th! RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raquino at gmail.com Wed Sep 20 14:29:40 2017 From: raquino at gmail.com (Renata Aquino Ribeiro) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:29:40 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary In-Reply-To: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> References: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> Message-ID: I like this thread https://twitter.com/netfreedom/status/910498838137499648 The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all i would be careful, though, with the brand "Spanish government". Itself is very divided and so far I haven't really understood who was the genius responsible for this raid. On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:26 PM, James Gannon wrote: > Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response, > > First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to self > organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these heavy > handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight against this kind > of action in far flung corners of the world, in Europe we lose a lot of our > creditability when we allow things like this to happen on our own doorstep. > > Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end of the > day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no role in. If > the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a different > conversation but again, my understanding is that its official LEO and > government actions here with the takedowns. > > -James > > > On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi wrote: > > I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. > > Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) > > ---- > # # # > # • # > # # > > * Gus Rossi* > Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 > <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs > *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge > | www.publicknowledge.org > 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 > > *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. > > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila org> wrote: > >> Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - repressive >> laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and practiced the >> last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable if people from >> the international community remain silent. >> >> Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. >> >> But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective >> responsibility. >> >> I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our >> organisations and spaces. >> >> R >> >> >> >> Renata Avila >> >> *Senior Digital Rights Advisor* >> renata.avila at webfoundation.org >> >> *1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA >> * >> *| **www.webfoundation.org* * | Twitter: >> @webfoundation* >> >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi >> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> *Context: *Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next month. >>> The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning of the >>> territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved having >>> a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids at >>> regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan >>> officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, >>> websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff >>> have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist >>> association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish >>> postal service. >>> >>> Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, >>> independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted >>> to bring to your attention. >>> >>> *The Internet:* Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled over >>> Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open >>> Internet: >>> >>> .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil: >>> https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web pages >>> under that domain that have information about the referendum have been >>> suspended. >>> >>> The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police (including >>> one ISOC-CAT member). >>> >>> This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: >>> http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are >>> reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: >>> ref1oct.eu >>> >>> There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare is >>> under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic manipulation >>> by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). >>> >>> In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the >>> Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, >>> some email. >>> >>> This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should be >>> worried. >>> >>> ---- >>> # # # >>> # • # >>> # # >>> >>> * Gus Rossi* >>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 >>> >>> | CFC 12259 >>> >>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017 >>> . >>> >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________ >>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >> >> > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > 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 james at cyberinvasion.net Wed Sep 20 14:33:13 2017 From: james at cyberinvasion.net (James Gannon) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:33:13 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary In-Reply-To: References: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> Message-ID: <3CFA3CD9-615E-48FB-A028-2D19CB78A998@cyberinvasion.net> Its off topic but John is right, there is non compliant content on .cat all over the place - but in that point we are talking about non compliance with the .cat charter, not what the takedowns are about so two different topics. -J On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:29, Renata Aquino Ribeiro > wrote: I like this thread https://twitter.com/netfreedom/status/910498838137499648 The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all i would be careful, though, with the brand "Spanish government". Itself is very divided and so far I haven't really understood who was the genius responsible for this raid. On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:26 PM, James Gannon > wrote: Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response, First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to self organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these heavy handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight against this kind of action in far flung corners of the world, in Europe we lose a lot of our creditability when we allow things like this to happen on our own doorstep. Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end of the day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no role in. If the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a different conversation but again, my understanding is that its official LEO and government actions here with the takedowns. -James On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi > wrote: I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) ---- # # # # • # # # Gus Rossi Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 (mobile) | @agustinrs Public Knowledge | @publicknowledge | www.publicknowledge.org 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 The IP3 Awards are September 28th! RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila > wrote: Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - repressive laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and practiced the last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable if people from the international community remain silent. Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective responsibility. I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our organisations and spaces. R Renata Avila Senior Digital Rights Advisor renata.avila at webfoundation.org 1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA | www.webfoundation.org | Twitter: @webfoundation On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi > wrote: Hi everyone, Context: Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next month. The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning of the territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish postal service. Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted to bring to your attention. The Internet: Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled over Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open Internet: .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil: https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web pages under that domain that have information about the referendum have been suspended. The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police (including one ISOC-CAT member). This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: ref1oct.eu There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare is under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, some email. This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should be worried. ---- # # # # • # # # Gus Rossi Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 (mobile) | @agustinrs Public Knowledge | @publicknowledge | www.publicknowledge.org 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 The IP3 Awards are September 28th! 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URL: From ayden at ferdeline.com Wed Sep 20 14:33:27 2017 From: ayden at ferdeline.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Ayden_F=C3=A9rdeline?=) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:33:27 -0400 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary In-Reply-To: References: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> Message-ID: <8g78D3VwEsD2XWathLfvfMLVFq8A_A0w58UW-fVPCY9m_7H5w-2mXwLg14iDdGLCcklBJT1ipEBZ01IkZaFd6XRJO0P2ItPk0zUcy9zSJrk=@ferdeline.com> There is a separation of powers in Spain; this action is the result of judicial action, not the more ominous sounding "Spanish government" ;-). I think it is important we remember this. Thanks! Ayden Férdeline [linkedin.com/in/ferdeline](http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline) > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary > Local Time: 20 September 2017 7:29 PM > UTC Time: 20 September 2017 18:29 > From: raquino at gmail.com > To: James Gannon > Gus Rossi , Renata Avila , bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> < > > I like this thread > > https://twitter.com/netfreedom/status/910498838137499648 > > The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all > > i would be careful, though, with the brand "Spanish government". Itself is very divided and so far I haven't really understood who was the genius responsible for this raid. > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:26 PM, James Gannon wrote: > >> Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response, >> >> First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to self organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these heavy handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight against this kind of action in far flung corners of the world, in Europe we lose a lot of our creditability when we allow things like this to happen on our own doorstep. >> >> Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end of the day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no role in. If the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a different conversation but again, my understanding is that its official LEO and government actions here with the takedowns. >> -James >> >>> On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi wrote: >>> >>> I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. >>> >>> Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) >>> >>> ---- >>> >>> # # # >>> # • # >>> # # >>> >>> Gus Rossi >>> Global Policy Director [(202) 861-0020](tel:(202)%20861-0020) (x123) | [(202) 651 1337](tel:(202)%651-1337) (mobile) | [@agustinrs](https://twitter.com/agustinrs) >>> Public Knowledge | [@publicknowledge](https://twitter.com/publicknowledge) | [www.publicknowledge.org](http://www.publicknowledge.org/) >>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 >>> >>> The IP3 Awards are September 28th! RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila wrote: >>> >>>> Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - repressive laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and practiced the last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable if people from the international community remain silent. >>>> >>>> Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. >>>> >>>> But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective responsibility. >>>> >>>> I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our organisations and spaces. >>>> >>>> R >>>> >>>> Renata Avila >>>> >>>> Senior Digital Rights Advisor >>>> >>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org >>>> >>>> [1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA](https://maps.google.com/?q=1110+Vermont+Ave+NW,+Suite+500,+Washington+DC+20005,+USA&entry=gmail&source=g) | [www.webfoundation.org](http://www.webfoundation.org/) | Twitter: @webfoundation >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>> >>>>> Context: Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next month. The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning of the territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish postal service. >>>>> >>>>> Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted to bring to your attention. >>>>> >>>>> The Internet: Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled over Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open Internet: >>>>> >>>>> .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil: https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web pages under that domain that have information about the referendum have been suspended. >>>>> >>>>> The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police (including one ISOC-CAT member). >>>>> >>>>> This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: [ref1oct.eu](http://ref1oct.eu/) >>>>> >>>>> There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare is under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). >>>>> >>>>> In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, some email. >>>>> >>>>> This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should be worried. >>>>> >>>>> ---- >>>>> >>>>> # # # >>>>> # • # >>>>> # # >>>>> >>>>> Gus Rossi >>>>> Global Policy Director [(202) 861-0020](tel:(202)%20861-0020) (x123) | [(202) 651 1337](tel:(202)%651-1337) (mobile) | [@agustinrs](https://twitter.com/agustinrs) >>>>> Public Knowledge | [@publicknowledge](https://twitter.com/publicknowledge) | [www.publicknowledge.org](http://www.publicknowledge.org/) >>>>> [1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036](https://maps.google.com/?q=1818+N+St.+NW,+Suite+410+%7C%C2%A0Washington,+DC+20036&entry=gmail&source=g) | CFC 12259 >>>>> >>>>> The IP3 Awards are September 28th! 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URL: From gus at publicknowledge.org Wed Sep 20 14:43:02 2017 From: gus at publicknowledge.org (Gus Rossi) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:43:02 -0400 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary In-Reply-To: <8g78D3VwEsD2XWathLfvfMLVFq8A_A0w58UW-fVPCY9m_7H5w-2mXwLg14iDdGLCcklBJT1ipEBZ01IkZaFd6XRJO0P2ItPk0zUcy9zSJrk=@ferdeline.com> References: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> <8g78D3VwEsD2XWathLfvfMLVFq8A_A0w58UW-fVPCY9m_7H5w-2mXwLg14iDdGLCcklBJT1ipEBZ01IkZaFd6XRJO0P2ItPk0zUcy9zSJrk=@ferdeline.com> Message-ID: Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution establishes a mechanism for the intervention of a region (Comunidad Autonoma) that requires approval by the Senate after the President of the Spanish Government asks the President of the Comunidad Autonoma for redress ( http://www.congreso.es/consti/constitucion/indice/titulos/articulos.jsp?ini=155&tipo=2). Point here being: there is a Constitutional mechanism to do what the Spanish executive is doing through the action of the judiciary that involves and includes the opinion of the Parliament. In my opinion, this is a case that should include the voice of the Parliament. But in addition, the Spanish President said today: "The Government is doing what it has to do" ( http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20170920/431423116122/cronologia-20s-inflexion-referendum-1-o.html ). So no Ayden, I think it is correct to talk about Spanish government. ---- # # # # • # # # *Gus Rossi* Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge | www.publicknowledge.org 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Ayden Férdeline wrote: > There is a separation of powers in Spain; this action is the result of > judicial action, not the more ominous sounding "Spanish government" ;-). I > think it is important we remember this. Thanks! > > Ayden Férdeline > linkedin.com/in/ferdeline > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary > Local Time: 20 September 2017 7:29 PM > UTC Time: 20 September 2017 18:29 > From: raquino at gmail.com > To: James Gannon > Gus Rossi , Renata Avila < > renata.avila at webfoundation.org>, bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> < < > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> > > I like this thread > > https://twitter.com/netfreedom/status/910498838137499648 > > The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have > nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all > > i would be careful, though, with the brand "Spanish government". Itself is > very divided and so far I haven't really understood who was the genius > responsible for this raid. > > > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:26 PM, James Gannon > wrote: > >> Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response, >> >> First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to self >> organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these heavy >> handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight against this kind >> of action in far flung corners of the world, in Europe we lose a lot of our >> creditability when we allow things like this to happen on our own doorstep. >> >> Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end of the >> day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no role in. If >> the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a different >> conversation but again, my understanding is that its official LEO and >> government actions here with the takedowns. >> >> -James >> >> >> On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi wrote: >> >> I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. >> >> Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) >> >> ---- >> >> # >> # >> # >> # >> • >> # >> # >> # >> >> >> *Gus Rossi* >> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >> | www.publicknowledge.org >> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | >> >> Washington, DC 20036 >> >> | CFC 12259 >> >> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila < >> renata.avila at webfoundation.org> wrote: >> >> Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - repressive >>> laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and practiced the >>> last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable if people from >>> the international community remain silent. >>> >>> Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. >>> >>> But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective >>> responsibility. >>> >>> I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our >>> organisations and spaces. >>> >>> R >>> >>> >>> >>> Renata Avila >>> >>> *Senior Digital Rights Advisor* >>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org >>> >>> *1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA >>> * >>> *| **www.webfoundation.org* * | >>> Twitter: @webfoundation* >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> *Context: *Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next month. >>>> The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning of the >>>> territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved having >>>> a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids at >>>> regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan >>>> officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, >>>> websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff >>>> have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist >>>> association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish >>>> postal service. >>>> >>>> Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, >>>> independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted >>>> to bring to your attention. >>>> >>>> *The Internet:* Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled over >>>> Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open >>>> Internet: >>>> >>>> .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil: >>>> https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web pages >>>> under that domain that have information about the referendum have been >>>> suspended. >>>> >>>> The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police (including >>>> one ISOC-CAT member). >>>> >>>> This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: >>>> http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are >>>> reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: >>>> ref1oct.eu >>>> >>>> There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare is >>>> under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic manipulation >>>> by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). >>>> >>>> In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the >>>> Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, >>>> some email. >>>> >>>> This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should be >>>> worried. >>>> >>>> ---- >>>> >>>> # >>>> # >>>> # >>>> # >>>> • >>>> # >>>> # >>>> # >>>> >>>> >>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 >>>> >>>> | CFC 12259 >>>> >>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>> >>>> >>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>> >>> >>> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> 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 ayden at ferdeline.com Wed Sep 20 14:46:55 2017 From: ayden at ferdeline.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Ayden_F=C3=A9rdeline?=) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:46:55 -0400 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary In-Reply-To: References: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> <8g78D3VwEsD2XWathLfvfMLVFq8A_A0w58UW-fVPCY9m_7H5w-2mXwLg14iDdGLCcklBJT1ipEBZ01IkZaFd6XRJO0P2ItPk0zUcy9zSJrk=@ferdeline.com> Message-ID: I'm not looking to get into the matter of the broader intervention, Gus; if we are focusing on the .cat situation, which is where I thought the conversation had gone, then that *was* a judicial decision. —Ayden On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:43 pm, Gus Rossi wrote: > Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution establishes a mechanism for the intervention of a region (Comunidad Autonoma) that requires approval by the Senate after the President of the Spanish Government asks the President of the Comunidad Autonoma for redress (http://www.congreso.es/consti/constitucion/indice/titulos/articulos.jsp?ini=155&tipo=2). Point here being: there is a Constitutional mechanism to do what the Spanish executive is doing through the action of the judiciary that involves and includes the opinion of the Parliament. In my opinion, this is a case that should include the voice of the Parliament. > > But in addition, the Spanish President said today: "The Government is doing what it has to do" ( http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20170920/431423116122/cronologia-20s-inflexion-referendum-1-o.html ). > > So no Ayden, I think it is correct to talk about Spanish government. > > ---- > > # # # > # • # > # # > > Gus Rossi > Global Policy Director [(202) 861-0020](tel:(202)%20861-0020) (x123) | [(202) 651 1337](tel:(202)%651-1337) (mobile) | [@agustinrs](https://twitter.com/agustinrs) > > Public Knowledge | [@publicknowledge](https://twitter.com/publicknowledge) | [www.publicknowledge.org](http://www.publicknowledge.org/) > 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 > > The IP3 Awards are September 28th! RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Ayden Férdeline wrote: > >> There is a separation of powers in Spain; this action is the result of judicial action, not the more ominous sounding "Spanish government" ;-). I think it is important we remember this. Thanks! >> >> Ayden Férdeline >> [linkedin.com/in/ferdeline](http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdeline) >> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: Re: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary >>> Local Time: 20 September 2017 7:29 PM >>> UTC Time: 20 September 2017 18:29 >>> From: raquino at gmail.com >>> To: James Gannon >>> Gus Rossi , Renata Avila , bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> < >>> >>> I like this thread >>> >>> https://twitter.com/netfreedom/status/910498838137499648 >>> >>> The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all >>> >>> i would be careful, though, with the brand "Spanish government". Itself is very divided and so far I haven't really understood who was the genius responsible for this raid. >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:26 PM, James Gannon wrote: >>> >>>> Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response, >>>> >>>> First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to self organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these heavy handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight against this kind of action in far flung corners of the world, in Europe we lose a lot of our creditability when we allow things like this to happen on our own doorstep. >>>> >>>> Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end of the day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no role in. If the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a different conversation but again, my understanding is that its official LEO and government actions here with the takedowns. >>>> -James >>>> >>>>> On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. >>>>> >>>>> Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) >>>>> >>>>> ---- >>>>> >>>>> # # # >>>>> # • # >>>>> # # >>>>> >>>>> Gus Rossi >>>>> Global Policy Director [(202) 861-0020](tel:(202)%20861-0020) (x123) | [(202) 651 1337](tel:(202)%651-1337) (mobile) | [@agustinrs](https://twitter.com/agustinrs) >>>>> >>>>> Public Knowledge | [@publicknowledge](https://twitter.com/publicknowledge) | [www.publicknowledge.org](http://www.publicknowledge.org/) >>>>> [1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 |](https://maps.google.com/?q=1818+N+St.+NW,+Suite+410+%7C%C2%A0Washington,+DC+20036&entry=gmail&source=g) [Washington, DC 20036](https://maps.google.com/?q=1818+N+St.+NW,+Suite+410+%7C%C2%A0Washington,+DC+20036&entry=gmail&source=g)| CFC 12259 >>>>> >>>>> The IP3 Awards are September 28th! RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - repressive laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and practiced the last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable if people from the international community remain silent. >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. >>>>>> >>>>>> But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective responsibility. >>>>>> >>>>>> I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our organisations and spaces. >>>>>> >>>>>> R >>>>>> >>>>>> Renata Avila >>>>>> >>>>>> Senior Digital Rights Advisor >>>>>> >>>>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org >>>>>> >>>>>> [1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA](https://maps.google.com/?q=1110+Vermont+Ave+NW,+Suite+500,+Washington+DC+20005,+USA&entry=gmail&source=g) | [www.webfoundation.org](http://www.webfoundation.org/) | Twitter: @webfoundation >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Context: Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next month. The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning of the territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish postal service. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted to bring to your attention. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The Internet: Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled over Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open Internet: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil: https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web pages under that domain that have information about the referendum have been suspended. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police (including one ISOC-CAT member). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: [ref1oct.eu](http://ref1oct.eu/) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare is under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, some email. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should be worried. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ---- >>>>>>> >>>>>>> # # # >>>>>>> # • # >>>>>>> # # >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Gus Rossi >>>>>>> Global Policy Director [(202) 861-0020](tel:(202)%20861-0020) (x123) | [(202) 651 1337](tel:(202)%651-1337) (mobile) | [@agustinrs](https://twitter.com/agustinrs) >>>>>>> Public Knowledge | [@publicknowledge](https://twitter.com/publicknowledge) | [www.publicknowledge.org](http://www.publicknowledge.org/) >>>>>>> [1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036](https://maps.google.com/?q=1818+N+St.+NW,+Suite+410+%7C%C2%A0Washington,+DC+20036&entry=gmail&source=g) | CFC 12259 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The IP3 Awards are September 28th! 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URL: From gus at publicknowledge.org Wed Sep 20 14:49:21 2017 From: gus at publicknowledge.org (Gus Rossi) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:49:21 -0400 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary In-Reply-To: References: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> <8g78D3VwEsD2XWathLfvfMLVFq8A_A0w58UW-fVPCY9m_7H5w-2mXwLg14iDdGLCcklBJT1ipEBZ01IkZaFd6XRJO0P2ItPk0zUcy9zSJrk=@ferdeline.com> Message-ID: Which you cannot just simply fully attribute only to the Spanish judiciary just because the Spanish Constitution declares a division of powers, as the political context and history of Spain indicate otherwise. Which was my point. ---- # # # # • # # # *Gus Rossi* Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge | www.publicknowledge.org 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Ayden Férdeline wrote: > I'm not looking to get into the matter of the broader intervention, Gus; > if we are focusing on the .cat situation, which is where I thought the > conversation had gone, then that *was* a judicial decision. > > —Ayden > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:43 pm, Gus Rossi > wrote: > > Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution establishes a mechanism for the > intervention of a region (Comunidad Autonoma) that requires approval by the > Senate after the President of the Spanish Government asks the President of > the Comunidad Autonoma for redress (http://www.congreso.es/ > consti/constitucion/indice/titulos/articulos.jsp?ini=155&tipo=2). Point > here being: there is a Constitutional mechanism to do what the Spanish > executive is doing through the action of the judiciary that involves and > includes the opinion of the Parliament. In my opinion, this is a case that > should include the voice of the Parliament. > > But in addition, the Spanish President said today: "The Government is > doing what it has to do" ( http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20170920/ > 431423116122/cronologia-20s-inflexion-referendum-1-o.html ). > > So no Ayden, I think it is correct to talk about Spanish government. > > ---- > # # # > # • # > # # > > *Gus Rossi* > Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 > <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs > *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge > | www.publicknowledge.org > 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | > > Washington, DC 20036 > > | CFC 12259 > > *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. > > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Ayden Férdeline > wrote: > >> There is a separation of powers in Spain; this action is the result of >> judicial action, not the more ominous sounding "Spanish government" ;-). I >> think it is important we remember this. Thanks! >> >> Ayden Férdeline >> linkedin.com/in/ferdeline >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary >> Local Time: 20 September 2017 7:29 PM >> UTC Time: 20 September 2017 18:29 >> From: raquino at gmail.com >> To: James Gannon >> Gus Rossi , Renata Avila < >> renata.avila at webfoundation.org>, bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> < < >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> >> >> I like this thread >> >> https://twitter.com/netfreedom/status/910498838137499648 >> >> The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have >> nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all >> >> i would be careful, though, with the brand "Spanish government". Itself >> is very divided and so far I haven't really understood who was the genius >> responsible for this raid. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:26 PM, James Gannon >> wrote: >> >>> Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response, >>> >>> First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to self >>> organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these heavy >>> handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight against this kind >>> of action in far flung corners of the world, in Europe we lose a lot of our >>> creditability when we allow things like this to happen on our own doorstep. >>> >>> Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end of the >>> day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no role in. If >>> the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a different >>> conversation but again, my understanding is that its official LEO and >>> government actions here with the takedowns. >>> >>> -James >>> >>> >>> On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi wrote: >>> >>> I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. >>> >>> Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) >>> >>> ---- >>> >>> # >>> # >>> # >>> # >>> • >>> # >>> # >>> # >>> >>> >>> *Gus Rossi* >>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | >>> >>> Washington, DC 20036 >>> | CFC >>> 12259 >>> >>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila < >>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org> wrote: >>> >>> Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - >>>> repressive laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and >>>> practiced the last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable >>>> if people from the international community remain silent. >>>> >>>> Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. >>>> >>>> But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective >>>> responsibility. >>>> >>>> I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our >>>> organisations and spaces. >>>> >>>> R >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Renata Avila >>>> >>>> *Senior Digital Rights Advisor* >>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org >>>> >>>> *1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA >>>> * >>>> *| * *www.webfoundation.org* * | >>>> Twitter: @webfoundation* >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>> >>>>> *Context: *Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next >>>>> month. The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning >>>>> of the territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved >>>>> having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids >>>>> at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan >>>>> officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, >>>>> websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff >>>>> have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist >>>>> association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish >>>>> postal service. >>>>> >>>>> Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, >>>>> independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted >>>>> to bring to your attention. >>>>> >>>>> *The Internet:* Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled >>>>> over Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open >>>>> Internet: >>>>> >>>>> .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil: >>>>> https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web pages >>>>> under that domain that have information about the referendum have been >>>>> suspended. >>>>> >>>>> The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police (including >>>>> one ISOC-CAT member). >>>>> >>>>> This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: >>>>> http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are >>>>> reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: >>>>> ref1oct.eu >>>>> >>>>> There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare >>>>> is under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic >>>>> manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). >>>>> >>>>> In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the >>>>> Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, >>>>> some email. >>>>> >>>>> This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should be >>>>> worried. >>>>> >>>>> ---- >>>>> >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> • >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>>> >>>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 >>>>> >>>>> | CFC 12259 >>>>> >>>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> ______________________________ ______________________________ >>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________ ______________________________ >>> 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 raquino at gmail.com Wed Sep 20 15:00:13 2017 From: raquino at gmail.com (Renata Aquino Ribeiro) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:00:13 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary In-Reply-To: References: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> <8g78D3VwEsD2XWathLfvfMLVFq8A_A0w58UW-fVPCY9m_7H5w-2mXwLg14iDdGLCcklBJT1ipEBZ01IkZaFd6XRJO0P2ItPk0zUcy9zSJrk=@ferdeline.com> Message-ID: Wow You just lost an incredible dialogue in LACNIC between Steve Crocker and Jordi Palet (community member who is from Catalonia) Highly recommend watching the streaming On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Gus Rossi wrote: > Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution establishes a mechanism for the > intervention of a region (Comunidad Autonoma) that requires approval by the > Senate after the President of the Spanish Government asks the President of > the Comunidad Autonoma for redress (http://www.congreso.es/ > consti/constitucion/indice/titulos/articulos.jsp?ini=155&tipo=2). Point > here being: there is a Constitutional mechanism to do what the Spanish > executive is doing through the action of the judiciary that involves and > includes the opinion of the Parliament. In my opinion, this is a case that > should include the voice of the Parliament. > > But in addition, the Spanish President said today: "The Government is > doing what it has to do" ( http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20170920/ > 431423116122/cronologia-20s-inflexion-referendum-1-o.html ). > > So no Ayden, I think it is correct to talk about Spanish government. > > ---- > # # # > # • # > # # > > *Gus Rossi* > Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 > <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs > *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge > | www.publicknowledge.org > 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 > > | CFC 12259 > > *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. > > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Ayden Férdeline > wrote: > >> There is a separation of powers in Spain; this action is the result of >> judicial action, not the more ominous sounding "Spanish government" ;-). I >> think it is important we remember this. Thanks! >> >> Ayden Férdeline >> linkedin.com/in/ferdeline >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary >> Local Time: 20 September 2017 7:29 PM >> UTC Time: 20 September 2017 18:29 >> From: raquino at gmail.com >> To: James Gannon >> Gus Rossi , Renata Avila < >> renata.avila at webfoundation.org>, bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> < < >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> >> >> I like this thread >> >> https://twitter.com/netfreedom/status/910498838137499648 >> >> The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have >> nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all >> >> i would be careful, though, with the brand "Spanish government". Itself >> is very divided and so far I haven't really understood who was the genius >> responsible for this raid. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:26 PM, James Gannon >> wrote: >> >>> Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response, >>> >>> First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to self >>> organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these heavy >>> handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight against this kind >>> of action in far flung corners of the world, in Europe we lose a lot of our >>> creditability when we allow things like this to happen on our own doorstep. >>> >>> Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end of the >>> day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no role in. If >>> the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a different >>> conversation but again, my understanding is that its official LEO and >>> government actions here with the takedowns. >>> >>> -James >>> >>> >>> On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi wrote: >>> >>> I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. >>> >>> Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) >>> >>> ---- >>> >>> # >>> # >>> # >>> # >>> • >>> # >>> # >>> # >>> >>> >>> *Gus Rossi* >>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | >>> >>> >>> Washington, >>> DC 20036 >>> >>> | CFC 12259 >>> >>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017 >>> . >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila < >>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org> wrote: >>> >>> Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - >>>> repressive laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and >>>> practiced the last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable >>>> if people from the international community remain silent. >>>> >>>> Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. >>>> >>>> But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective >>>> responsibility. >>>> >>>> I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our >>>> organisations and spaces. >>>> >>>> R >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Renata Avila >>>> >>>> *Senior Digital Rights Advisor* >>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org >>>> >>>> *1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA >>>> * >>>> *| **www.webfoundation.org* * | >>>> Twitter: @webfoundation* >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>> >>>>> *Context: *Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next >>>>> month. The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning >>>>> of the territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved >>>>> having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids >>>>> at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan >>>>> officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, >>>>> websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff >>>>> have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist >>>>> association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish >>>>> postal service. >>>>> >>>>> Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, >>>>> independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted >>>>> to bring to your attention. >>>>> >>>>> *The Internet:* Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled >>>>> over Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open >>>>> Internet: >>>>> >>>>> .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil: >>>>> https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web pages >>>>> under that domain that have information about the referendum have been >>>>> suspended. >>>>> >>>>> The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police (including >>>>> one ISOC-CAT member). >>>>> >>>>> This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: >>>>> http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are >>>>> reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: >>>>> ref1oct.eu >>>>> >>>>> There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare >>>>> is under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic >>>>> manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). >>>>> >>>>> In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the >>>>> Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, >>>>> some email. >>>>> >>>>> This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should be >>>>> worried. >>>>> >>>>> ---- >>>>> >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> • >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 >>>>> >>>>> | CFC 12259 >>>>> >>>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> ____________________________________________________________ >>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >>> >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________ >>> 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 plommer at gmail.com Wed Sep 20 15:06:28 2017 From: plommer at gmail.com (Raoul Plommer) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:06:28 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary In-Reply-To: References: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> <8g78D3VwEsD2XWathLfvfMLVFq8A_A0w58UW-fVPCY9m_7H5w-2mXwLg14iDdGLCcklBJT1ipEBZ01IkZaFd6XRJO0P2ItPk0zUcy9zSJrk=@ferdeline.com> Message-ID: Can we have the link to the video, please? On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 22:01 Renata Aquino Ribeiro wrote: > Wow > You just lost an incredible dialogue in LACNIC between Steve Crocker and > Jordi Palet (community member who is from Catalonia) > Highly recommend watching the streaming > > > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Gus Rossi > wrote: > >> Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution establishes a mechanism for the >> intervention of a region (Comunidad Autonoma) that requires approval by the >> Senate after the President of the Spanish Government asks the President of >> the Comunidad Autonoma for redress ( >> http://www.congreso.es/consti/constitucion/indice/titulos/articulos.jsp?ini=155&tipo=2). >> Point here being: there is a Constitutional mechanism to do what the >> Spanish executive is doing through the action of the judiciary that >> involves and includes the opinion of the Parliament. In my opinion, this is >> a case that should include the voice of the Parliament. >> >> But in addition, the Spanish President said today: "The Government is >> doing what it has to do" ( >> http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20170920/431423116122/cronologia-20s-inflexion-referendum-1-o.html >> ). >> >> So no Ayden, I think it is correct to talk about Spanish government. >> >> ---- >> # # # >> # • # >> # # >> >> *Gus Rossi* >> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >> | www.publicknowledge.org >> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 >> >> | CFC 12259 >> >> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Ayden Férdeline >> wrote: >> >>> There is a separation of powers in Spain; this action is the result of >>> judicial action, not the more ominous sounding "Spanish government" ;-). I >>> think it is important we remember this. Thanks! >>> >>> Ayden Férdeline >>> linkedin.com/in/ferdeline >>> >>> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: Re: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary >>> Local Time: 20 September 2017 7:29 PM >>> UTC Time: 20 September 2017 18:29 >>> From: raquino at gmail.com >>> To: James Gannon >>> Gus Rossi , Renata Avila < >>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org>, bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> < < >>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> >>> >>> I like this thread >>> >>> https://twitter.com/netfreedom/status/910498838137499648 >>> >>> The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have >>> nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all >>> >>> i would be careful, though, with the brand "Spanish government". Itself >>> is very divided and so far I haven't really understood who was the genius >>> responsible for this raid. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:26 PM, James Gannon >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response, >>>> >>>> First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to self >>>> organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these heavy >>>> handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight against this kind >>>> of action in far flung corners of the world, in Europe we lose a lot of our >>>> creditability when we allow things like this to happen on our own doorstep. >>>> >>>> Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end of >>>> the day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no role in. >>>> If the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a different >>>> conversation but again, my understanding is that its official LEO and >>>> government actions here with the takedowns. >>>> >>>> -James >>>> >>>> >>>> On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. >>>> >>>> Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) >>>> >>>> ---- >>>> >>>> # >>>> # >>>> # >>>> # >>>> • >>>> # >>>> # >>>> # >>>> >>>> >>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | >>>> >>>> >>>> Washington, >>>> DC 20036 >>>> >>>> | CFC 12259 >>>> >>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila < >>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - >>>>> repressive laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and >>>>> practiced the last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable >>>>> if people from the international community remain silent. >>>>> >>>>> Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. >>>>> >>>>> But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective >>>>> responsibility. >>>>> >>>>> I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our >>>>> organisations and spaces. >>>>> >>>>> R >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Renata Avila >>>>> >>>>> *Senior Digital Rights Advisor* >>>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org >>>>> >>>>> *1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA >>>>> * >>>>> *| **www.webfoundation.org* * | >>>>> Twitter: @webfoundation* >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>>> >>>>>> *Context: *Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next >>>>>> month. The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning >>>>>> of the territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved >>>>>> having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids >>>>>> at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan >>>>>> officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, >>>>>> websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff >>>>>> have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist >>>>>> association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish >>>>>> postal service. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, >>>>>> independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted >>>>>> to bring to your attention. >>>>>> >>>>>> *The Internet:* Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled >>>>>> over Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open >>>>>> Internet: >>>>>> >>>>>> .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil: >>>>>> https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web >>>>>> pages under that domain that have information about the referendum have >>>>>> been suspended. >>>>>> >>>>>> The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police >>>>>> (including one ISOC-CAT member). >>>>>> >>>>>> This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: >>>>>> http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there >>>>>> are reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: >>>>>> ref1oct.eu >>>>>> >>>>>> There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare >>>>>> is under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic >>>>>> manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). >>>>>> >>>>>> In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the >>>>>> Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, >>>>>> some email. >>>>>> >>>>>> This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should >>>>>> be worried. >>>>>> >>>>>> ---- >>>>>> >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> • >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>>>> >>>>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 >>>>>> >>>>>> | CFC 12259 >>>>>> >>>>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>> >>> >>> >> > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raquino at gmail.com Wed Sep 20 15:07:39 2017 From: raquino at gmail.com (Renata Aquino Ribeiro) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:07:39 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary In-Reply-To: References: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> <8g78D3VwEsD2XWathLfvfMLVFq8A_A0w58UW-fVPCY9m_7H5w-2mXwLg14iDdGLCcklBJT1ipEBZ01IkZaFd6XRJO0P2ItPk0zUcy9zSJrk=@ferdeline.com> Message-ID: i think it will take some time to be up in LACNIC channel on Youtube http://www.lacnic.net/web/eventos/lacnic28-webcasting On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Raoul Plommer wrote: > Can we have the link to the video, please? > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 22:01 Renata Aquino Ribeiro > wrote: > >> Wow >> You just lost an incredible dialogue in LACNIC between Steve Crocker and >> Jordi Palet (community member who is from Catalonia) >> Highly recommend watching the streaming >> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Gus Rossi >> wrote: >> >>> Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution establishes a mechanism for the >>> intervention of a region (Comunidad Autonoma) that requires approval by the >>> Senate after the President of the Spanish Government asks the President of >>> the Comunidad Autonoma for redress (http://www.congreso.es/ >>> consti/constitucion/indice/titulos/articulos.jsp?ini=155&tipo=2). Point >>> here being: there is a Constitutional mechanism to do what the Spanish >>> executive is doing through the action of the judiciary that involves and >>> includes the opinion of the Parliament. In my opinion, this is a case that >>> should include the voice of the Parliament. >>> >>> But in addition, the Spanish President said today: "The Government is >>> doing what it has to do" ( http://www.lavanguardia.com/ >>> politica/20170920/431423116122/cronologia-20s- >>> inflexion-referendum-1-o.html ). >>> >>> So no Ayden, I think it is correct to talk about Spanish government. >>> >>> ---- >>> # # # >>> # • # >>> # # >>> >>> *Gus Rossi* >>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 >>> >>> | CFC 12259 >>> >>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017 >>> . >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Ayden Férdeline >>> wrote: >>> >>>> There is a separation of powers in Spain; this action is the result of >>>> judicial action, not the more ominous sounding "Spanish government" ;-). I >>>> think it is important we remember this. Thanks! >>>> >>>> Ayden Férdeline >>>> linkedin.com/in/ferdeline >>>> >>>> >>>> -------- Original Message -------- >>>> Subject: Re: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary >>>> Local Time: 20 September 2017 7:29 PM >>>> UTC Time: 20 September 2017 18:29 >>>> From: raquino at gmail.com >>>> To: James Gannon >>>> Gus Rossi , Renata Avila < >>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org>, bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> < < >>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> >>>> >>>> I like this thread >>>> >>>> https://twitter.com/netfreedom/status/910498838137499648 >>>> >>>> The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have >>>> nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all >>>> >>>> i would be careful, though, with the brand "Spanish government". Itself >>>> is very divided and so far I haven't really understood who was the genius >>>> responsible for this raid. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:26 PM, James Gannon >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response, >>>>> >>>>> First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to >>>>> self organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these heavy >>>>> handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight against this kind >>>>> of action in far flung corners of the world, in Europe we lose a lot of our >>>>> creditability when we allow things like this to happen on our own doorstep. >>>>> >>>>> Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end of >>>>> the day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no role in. >>>>> If the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a different >>>>> conversation but again, my understanding is that its official LEO and >>>>> government actions here with the takedowns. >>>>> >>>>> -James >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. >>>>> >>>>> Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) >>>>> >>>>> ---- >>>>> >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> • >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> # >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Washington, >>>>> DC 20036 >>>>> >>>>> | CFC 12259 >>>>> >>>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila < >>>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - >>>>>> repressive laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and >>>>>> practiced the last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable >>>>>> if people from the international community remain silent. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. >>>>>> >>>>>> But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective >>>>>> responsibility. >>>>>> >>>>>> I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our >>>>>> organisations and spaces. >>>>>> >>>>>> R >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Renata Avila >>>>>> >>>>>> *Senior Digital Rights Advisor* >>>>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org >>>>>> >>>>>> *1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA >>>>>> * >>>>>> *| **www.webfoundation.org* * | >>>>>> Twitter: @webfoundation* >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *Context: *Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next >>>>>>> month. The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning >>>>>>> of the territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved >>>>>>> having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids >>>>>>> at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan >>>>>>> officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, >>>>>>> websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff >>>>>>> have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist >>>>>>> association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish >>>>>>> postal service. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, >>>>>>> independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I wanted >>>>>>> to bring to your attention. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *The Internet:* Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled >>>>>>> over Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open >>>>>>> Internet: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia >>>>>>> Civil: https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All >>>>>>> web pages under that domain that have information about the referendum have >>>>>>> been suspended. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police >>>>>>> (including one ISOC-CAT member). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: >>>>>>> http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there >>>>>>> are reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: >>>>>>> ref1oct.eu >>>>>>> >>>>>>> There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare >>>>>>> is under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic >>>>>>> manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the >>>>>>> Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, >>>>>>> some email. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should >>>>>>> be worried. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ---- >>>>>>> >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> • >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>>>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>>>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>>>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>>>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> | CFC 12259 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>>>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>>>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>>>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Scary In-Reply-To: References: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> <8g78D3VwEsD2XWathLfvfMLVFq8A_A0w58UW-fVPCY9m_7H5w-2mXwLg14iDdGLCcklBJT1ipEBZ01IkZaFd6XRJO0P2ItPk0zUcy9zSJrk=@ferdeline.com> Message-ID: Jordi is listed in more than one presentantion in LACNIC. What would be the title of it? Thanks and thank you for the information and discussion! Raquel Renno Tactical Tech Collective On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:07 PM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro wrote: > i think it will take some time to be up in LACNIC channel on Youtube > > http://www.lacnic.net/web/eventos/lacnic28-webcasting > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Raoul Plommer wrote: > >> Can we have the link to the video, please? >> >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 22:01 Renata Aquino Ribeiro >> wrote: >> >>> Wow >>> You just lost an incredible dialogue in LACNIC between Steve Crocker and >>> Jordi Palet (community member who is from Catalonia) >>> Highly recommend watching the streaming >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Gus Rossi >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution establishes a mechanism for the >>>> intervention of a region (Comunidad Autonoma) that requires approval by the >>>> Senate after the President of the Spanish Government asks the President of >>>> the Comunidad Autonoma for redress (http://www.congreso.es/consti >>>> /constitucion/indice/titulos/articulos.jsp?ini=155&tipo=2). Point here >>>> being: there is a Constitutional mechanism to do what the Spanish executive >>>> is doing through the action of the judiciary that involves and includes the >>>> opinion of the Parliament. In my opinion, this is a case that should >>>> include the voice of the Parliament. >>>> >>>> But in addition, the Spanish President said today: "The Government is >>>> doing what it has to do" ( http://www.lavanguardia.com/po >>>> litica/20170920/431423116122/cronologia-20s-inflexion- >>>> referendum-1-o.html ). >>>> >>>> So no Ayden, I think it is correct to talk about Spanish government. >>>> >>>> ---- >>>> # # # >>>> # • # >>>> # # >>>> >>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 >>>> >>>> | CFC 12259 >>>> >>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Ayden Férdeline >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> There is a separation of powers in Spain; this action is the result of >>>>> judicial action, not the more ominous sounding "Spanish government" ;-). I >>>>> think it is important we remember this. Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> Ayden Férdeline >>>>> linkedin.com/in/ferdeline >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -------- Original Message -------- >>>>> Subject: Re: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary >>>>> Local Time: 20 September 2017 7:29 PM >>>>> UTC Time: 20 September 2017 18:29 >>>>> From: raquino at gmail.com >>>>> To: James Gannon >>>>> Gus Rossi , Renata Avila < >>>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org>, bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> < < >>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> >>>>> >>>>> I like this thread >>>>> >>>>> https://twitter.com/netfreedom/status/910498838137499648 >>>>> >>>>> The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have >>>>> nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all >>>>> >>>>> i would be careful, though, with the brand "Spanish government". >>>>> Itself is very divided and so far I haven't really understood who was the >>>>> genius responsible for this raid. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:26 PM, James Gannon >>>> > wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response, >>>>>> >>>>>> First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to >>>>>> self organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these heavy >>>>>> handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight against this kind >>>>>> of action in far flung corners of the world, in Europe we lose a lot of our >>>>>> creditability when we allow things like this to happen on our own doorstep. >>>>>> >>>>>> Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end of >>>>>> the day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no role in. >>>>>> If the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a different >>>>>> conversation but again, my understanding is that its official LEO and >>>>>> government actions here with the takedowns. >>>>>> >>>>>> -James >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. >>>>>> >>>>>> Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) >>>>>> >>>>>> ---- >>>>>> >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> • >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>>>> >>>>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Washington, >>>>>> DC 20036 >>>>>> >>>>>> | CFC 12259 >>>>>> >>>>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila < >>>>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - >>>>>>> repressive laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and >>>>>>> practiced the last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable >>>>>>> if people from the international community remain silent. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective >>>>>>> responsibility. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our >>>>>>> organisations and spaces. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> R >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Renata Avila >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *Senior Digital Rights Advisor* >>>>>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA >>>>>>> * >>>>>>> *| **www.webfoundation.org* * | >>>>>>> Twitter: @webfoundation* >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> *Context: *Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next >>>>>>>> month. The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning >>>>>>>> of the territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved >>>>>>>> having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids >>>>>>>> at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan >>>>>>>> officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, >>>>>>>> websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff >>>>>>>> have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist >>>>>>>> association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish >>>>>>>> postal service. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political >>>>>>>> process, independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things >>>>>>>> I wanted to bring to your attention. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> *The Internet:* Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled >>>>>>>> over Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open >>>>>>>> Internet: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia >>>>>>>> Civil: https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All >>>>>>>> web pages under that domain that have information about the referendum have >>>>>>>> been suspended. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police >>>>>>>> (including one ISOC-CAT member). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: >>>>>>>> http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there >>>>>>>> are reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: >>>>>>>> ref1oct.eu >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently >>>>>>>> Cloudflare is under attack, as per some reports), and there is >>>>>>>> traffic manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the >>>>>>>> Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, >>>>>>>> some email. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should >>>>>>>> be worried. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ---- >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> # >>>>>>>> # >>>>>>>> # >>>>>>>> # >>>>>>>> • >>>>>>>> # >>>>>>>> # >>>>>>>> # >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>>>>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>>>>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>>>>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>>>>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> | CFC 12259 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>>>>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>>>>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>>>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>>>>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> ____________________________________________________________ >>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >> >> > > ____________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Raquel Rennó www.raquelrenno.net Researcher ID : F-5319-2014 Profile URL:http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-5319-2014 ------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From khouzeifi99 at gmail.com Wed Sep 20 15:39:43 2017 From: khouzeifi99 at gmail.com (Khouzeifi Issakha) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:39:43 +0200 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary In-Reply-To: References: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> <8g78D3VwEsD2XWathLfvfMLVFq8A_A0w58UW-fVPCY9m_7H5w-2mXwLg14iDdGLCcklBJT1ipEBZ01IkZaFd6XRJO0P2ItPk0zUcy9zSJrk=@ferdeline.com> Message-ID: Hi all of you What is going on in Spanish is so complicated but wish them the best. Khouzeifi Issakha Doudbane On Wednesday, 20 September 2017, Raquel Rennó wrote: > Jordi is listed in more than one presentantion in LACNIC. What would be > the title of it? > > Thanks and thank you for the information and discussion! > > Raquel Renno > Tactical Tech Collective > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:07 PM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro > wrote: > >> i think it will take some time to be up in LACNIC channel on Youtube >> >> http://www.lacnic.net/web/eventos/lacnic28-webcasting >> >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Raoul Plommer > > wrote: >> >>> Can we have the link to the video, please? >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 22:01 Renata Aquino Ribeiro >> > wrote: >>> >>>> Wow >>>> You just lost an incredible dialogue in LACNIC between Steve Crocker >>>> and Jordi Palet (community member who is from Catalonia) >>>> Highly recommend watching the streaming >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Gus Rossi >>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution establishes a mechanism for >>>>> the intervention of a region (Comunidad Autonoma) that requires approval by >>>>> the Senate after the President of the Spanish Government asks the President >>>>> of the Comunidad Autonoma for redress (http://www.congreso.es/consti >>>>> /constitucion/indice/titulos/articulos.jsp?ini=155&tipo=2). Point >>>>> here being: there is a Constitutional mechanism to do what the Spanish >>>>> executive is doing through the action of the judiciary that involves and >>>>> includes the opinion of the Parliament. In my opinion, this is a case that >>>>> should include the voice of the Parliament. >>>>> >>>>> But in addition, the Spanish President said today: "The Government is >>>>> doing what it has to do" ( http://www.lavanguardia.com/po >>>>> litica/20170920/431423116122/cronologia-20s-inflexion-refere >>>>> ndum-1-o.html ). >>>>> >>>>> So no Ayden, I think it is correct to talk about Spanish government. >>>>> >>>>> ---- >>>>> # # # >>>>> # • # >>>>> # # >>>>> >>>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 >>>>> >>>>> | CFC 12259 >>>>> >>>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Ayden Férdeline >>>> > wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> There is a separation of powers in Spain; this action is the result >>>>>> of judicial action, not the more ominous sounding "Spanish government" ;-). >>>>>> I think it is important we remember this. Thanks! >>>>>> >>>>>> Ayden Férdeline >>>>>> linkedin.com/in/ferdeline >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -------- Original Message -------- >>>>>> Subject: Re: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary >>>>>> Local Time: 20 September 2017 7:29 PM >>>>>> UTC Time: 20 September 2017 18:29 >>>>>> From: raquino at gmail.com >>>>>> >>>>>> To: James Gannon >>>>> > >>>>>> Gus Rossi >>>>> >, Renata >>>>>> Avila >>>>> >, >>>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net >>>>>> > < < >>>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net >>>>>> > >>>>>> >>>>>> I like this thread >>>>>> >>>>>> https://twitter.com/netfreedom/status/910498838137499648 >>>>>> >>>>>> The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have >>>>>> nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all >>>>>> >>>>>> i would be careful, though, with the brand "Spanish government". >>>>>> Itself is very divided and so far I haven't really understood who was the >>>>>> genius responsible for this raid. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:26 PM, James Gannon < >>>>>> james at cyberinvasion.net >>>>>> > wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to >>>>>>> self organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these heavy >>>>>>> handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight against this kind >>>>>>> of action in far flung corners of the world, in Europe we lose a lot of our >>>>>>> creditability when we allow things like this to happen on our own doorstep. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end of >>>>>>> the day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no role in. >>>>>>> If the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a different >>>>>>> conversation but again, my understanding is that its official LEO and >>>>>>> government actions here with the takedowns. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -James >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi >>>>>> > wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ---- >>>>>>> >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> • >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>>>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>>>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>>>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>>>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Washington, >>>>>>> DC 20036 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> | CFC 12259 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>>>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila < >>>>>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - >>>>>>>> repressive laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and >>>>>>>> practiced the last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is acceptable >>>>>>>> if people from the international community remain silent. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective >>>>>>>> responsibility. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our >>>>>>>> organisations and spaces. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> R >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Renata Avila >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> *Senior Digital Rights Advisor* >>>>>>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> *1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA >>>>>>>> * >>>>>>>> *| **www.webfoundation.org* * | >>>>>>>> Twitter: @webfoundation* >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi >>>>>>> > wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> *Context: *Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next >>>>>>>>> month. The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning >>>>>>>>> of the territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament approved >>>>>>>>> having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out morning raids >>>>>>>>> at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several Catalan >>>>>>>>> officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In addition, >>>>>>>>> websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical staff >>>>>>>>> have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important independentist >>>>>>>>> association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the Spanish >>>>>>>>> postal service. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political >>>>>>>>> process, independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things >>>>>>>>> I wanted to bring to your attention. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> *The Internet:* Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled >>>>>>>>> over Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open >>>>>>>>> Internet: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia >>>>>>>>> Civil: https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) >>>>>>>>> All web pages under that domain that have information about the referendum >>>>>>>>> have been suspended. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police >>>>>>>>> (including one ISOC-CAT member). >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: >>>>>>>>> http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there >>>>>>>>> are reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: >>>>>>>>> ref1oct.eu >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently >>>>>>>>> Cloudflare is under attack, as per some reports), and there is >>>>>>>>> traffic manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the >>>>>>>>> Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing plants, >>>>>>>>> some email. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We >>>>>>>>> should be worried. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> ---- >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> # >>>>>>>>> # >>>>>>>>> # >>>>>>>>> # >>>>>>>>> • >>>>>>>>> # >>>>>>>>> # >>>>>>>>> # >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>>>>>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>>>>>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>>>>>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>>>>>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> | CFC 12259 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>>>>>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>>>>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net >>>>>>>>> . >>>>>>>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>>>>>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>>>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net >>>>>>> . >>>>>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>>>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>>>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net >>>>>>> . >>>>>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>>>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net >>>> . >>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>> >>> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Raquel Rennó > www.raquelrenno.net > Researcher ID : F-5319-2014 > Profile URL:http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-5319-2014 > > ------- > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rguerra at privaterra.org Wed Sep 20 15:39:53 2017 From: rguerra at privaterra.org (Robert Guerra) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:39:53 -0400 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary In-Reply-To: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> References: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> Message-ID: <41D6CAE4-7C78-4245-B4E4-F2B46782403D@privaterra.org> As a member of this community and a Spanish citizen, let me share some brief comments… Instead of going down the path that allows for dialogue, debate and allowing for a vote to take place (was was the case with the Quebec referendums in 1980 & 1995, The Scottish referendum in 2014) the Spanish central government has instead chosen to use the force of law to repress a the democratic and UN enshrined right of self-determination. Ballots have been seized, domains have been seized, separatist leaders have been criminally sanctioned, authority has been taken away from the Cataluña government, and a raid took place earlier today at offices of the .cat registry! It’s a complex political issue with a lot of history, that’s for sure.. It’s now time for those (like this list and others) who are supportive of digital… human rights … to speak out and comment on this repressive and fascist reaction by the Spanish government. regards, Robert — The offices of the .cat registry were raided by Spanish police this morning. https://www.internetnews.me/2017/09/20/dotcat-registry-offices-raided-spanish-police/ -- Robert Guerra Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom Email: rguerra at privaterra.org PGP Keys : https://keybase.io/rguerra On 20 Sep 2017, at 14:26, James Gannon wrote: > Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response, > > First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to > self organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these > heavy handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight > against this kind of action in far flung corners of the world, in > Europe we lose a lot of our creditability when we allow things like > this to happen on our own doorstep. > > Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end of > the day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no > role in. If the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a > different conversation but again, my understanding is that its > official LEO and government actions here with the takedowns. > > -James > > > On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi > > wrote: > > I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. > > Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) > > ---- > # # # > # • # > # # > > > Gus Rossi > Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | > (202) 651 1337 (mobile) | > @agustinrs > Public Knowledge | > @publicknowledge | > www.publicknowledge.org > 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 > > The IP3 Awards are September 28th! RSVP at > publicknowledge.org/IP32017. > > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila > > > wrote: > Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - > repressive laws and practices the Spanish government has approved and > practiced the last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is > acceptable if people from the international community remain silent. > > Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. > > But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective > responsibility. > > I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our > organisations and spaces. > > R > > > > > Renata Avila > > Senior Digital Rights Advisor > > renata.avila at webfoundation.org > > 1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, > USA > | www.webfoundation.org | Twitter: > @webfoundation > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi > > wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Context: Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next month. > The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of questioning of > the territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament > approved having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out > morning raids at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting > several Catalan officials involved in preparations for the referendum. > In addition, websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain > technical staff have been detained. Also, the magazines of an > important independentist association (Omnium Cultural) have been > denied delivery by the Spanish postal service. > > Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political process, > independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some things I > wanted to bring to your attention. > > The Internet: Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled over > Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right to an open > Internet: > > .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia Civil: > https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web pages > under that domain that have information about the referendum have been > suspended. > > The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police (including > one ISOC-CAT member). > > This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: > http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there are > reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the DNSs: > ref1oct.eu > > There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently Cloudflare > is under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic > manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). > > In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the > Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing > plants, some email. > > This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We should be > worried. > > ---- > # # # > # • # > # # > > > Gus Rossi > Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | > (202) 651 1337 (mobile) | > @agustinrs > Public Knowledge | > @publicknowledge | > www.publicknowledge.org > 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC > 20036 > | CFC 12259 > > The IP3 Awards are September 28th! 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URL: From rguerra at privaterra.org Wed Sep 20 15:53:08 2017 From: rguerra at privaterra.org (Robert Guerra) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:53:08 -0400 Subject: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary In-Reply-To: References: <9069E5E9-D1FC-4064-B30D-5017BB49410B@cyberinvasion.net> <8g78D3VwEsD2XWathLfvfMLVFq8A_A0w58UW-fVPCY9m_7H5w-2mXwLg14iDdGLCcklBJT1ipEBZ01IkZaFd6XRJO0P2ItPk0zUcy9zSJrk=@ferdeline.com> Message-ID: <8E1194AA-4B83-47FF-8C6E-94B45CF1B682@privaterra.org> Spain & Cataluña have a complex and long history It would be worthwhile to know if similar actions have been used in the past, for instance in the basque region, where ETA (now disbanded) also organized and articulated calls for independence of the Basque Country. regards Robert -- Robert Guerra Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom Email: rguerra at privaterra.org PGP Keys : https://keybase.io/rguerra On 20 Sep 2017, at 14:49, Gus Rossi wrote: > Which you cannot just simply fully attribute only to the Spanish > judiciary > just because the Spanish Constitution declares a division of powers, > as the > political context and history of Spain indicate otherwise. Which was > my > point. > > ---- > # # # > # • # > # # > > *Gus Rossi* > Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 > <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs > *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge > > | www.publicknowledge.org > 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 > > *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at > publicknowledge.org/IP32017. > > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Ayden Férdeline > > wrote: > >> I'm not looking to get into the matter of the broader intervention, >> Gus; >> if we are focusing on the .cat situation, which is where I thought >> the >> conversation had gone, then that *was* a judicial decision. >> >> —Ayden >> >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:43 pm, Gus Rossi >> wrote: >> >> Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution establishes a mechanism for >> the >> intervention of a region (Comunidad Autonoma) that requires approval >> by the >> Senate after the President of the Spanish Government asks the >> President of >> the Comunidad Autonoma for redress (http://www.congreso.es/ >> consti/constitucion/indice/titulos/articulos.jsp?ini=155&tipo=2). >> Point >> here being: there is a Constitutional mechanism to do what the >> Spanish >> executive is doing through the action of the judiciary that involves >> and >> includes the opinion of the Parliament. In my opinion, this is a case >> that >> should include the voice of the Parliament. >> >> But in addition, the Spanish President said today: "The Government is >> doing what it has to do" ( >> http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20170920/ >> 431423116122/cronologia-20s-inflexion-referendum-1-o.html ). >> >> So no Ayden, I think it is correct to talk about Spanish government. >> >> ---- >> # # # >> # • # >> # # >> >> *Gus Rossi* >> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >> >> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >> | www.publicknowledge.org >> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | >> >> Washington, DC 20036 >> >> | CFC 12259 >> >> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Ayden Férdeline >> >> wrote: >> >>> There is a separation of powers in Spain; this action is the result >>> of >>> judicial action, not the more ominous sounding "Spanish government" >>> ;-). I >>> think it is important we remember this. Thanks! >>> >>> Ayden Férdeline >>> linkedin.com/in/ferdeline >>> >>> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: Re: [bestbits] Spain/Catalunya Developments. Scary >>> Local Time: 20 September 2017 7:29 PM >>> UTC Time: 20 September 2017 18:29 >>> From: raquino at gmail.com >>> To: James Gannon >>> Gus Rossi , Renata Avila < >>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org>, bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> < < >>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> >>> >>> I like this thread >>> >>> https://twitter.com/netfreedom/status/910498838137499648 >>> >>> The violence of it all could end up taking offline things which have >>> nothing to do w/ Catalonia at all >>> >>> i would be careful, though, with the brand "Spanish government". >>> Itself >>> is very divided and so far I haven't really understood who was the >>> genius >>> responsible for this raid. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:26 PM, James Gannon >>> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Im going to go out on a limb here and split my response, >>>> >>>> First - this is a terrible terrible action, the right of people to >>>> self >>>> organise and decide their future should be sacrosanct and these >>>> heavy >>>> handed tactics should be denounced far and wide. We fight against >>>> this kind >>>> of action in far flung corners of the world, in Europe we lose a >>>> lot of our >>>> creditability when we allow things like this to happen on our own >>>> doorstep. >>>> >>>> Secondly - I don’t think ICANN should have a response, at the end >>>> of the >>>> day this is a content issue and that is something ICANN has no role >>>> in. If >>>> the whole of .cat had been taken down yes that would be a different >>>> conversation but again, my understanding is that its official LEO >>>> and >>>> government actions here with the takedowns. >>>> >>>> -James >>>> >>>> >>>> On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:22, Gus Rossi >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm writing a blogpost from PK's side. >>>> >>>> Looking forward seeing/hearing more voices :) >>>> >>>> ---- >>>> >>>> # >>>> # >>>> # >>>> # >>>> • >>>> # >>>> # >>>> # >>>> >>>> >>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>> >>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | >>>> >>>> Washington, DC 20036 >>>> | >>>> CFC >>>> 12259 >>>> >>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Renata Avila < >>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Totally and it is not isolated from increasingly restrictive - >>>>> repressive laws and practices the Spanish government has approved >>>>> and >>>>> practiced the last 5 years. And it sets a precedent of what is >>>>> acceptable >>>>> if people from the international community remain silent. >>>>> >>>>> Yes, politics are complicated. Everywhere. >>>>> >>>>> But the defence of human rights is non partisan and a collective >>>>> responsibility. >>>>> >>>>> I am curious to read ICANN response and diff positions from our >>>>> organisations and spaces. >>>>> >>>>> R >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Renata Avila >>>>> >>>>> *Senior Digital Rights Advisor* >>>>> renata.avila at webfoundation.org >>>>> >>>>> *1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA >>>>> * >>>>> *| * *www.webfoundation.org* * | >>>>> Twitter: @webfoundation* >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Gus Rossi >>>>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>>> >>>>>> *Context: *Catalunya is holding an independence referendum next >>>>>> month. The Spanish Constitution does not recognize any kind of >>>>>> questioning >>>>>> of the territorial integrity of Spain. But the Catalan parliament >>>>>> approved >>>>>> having a referendum anyway. Today, Spanish police carried out >>>>>> morning raids >>>>>> at regional government offices in Barcelona, arresting several >>>>>> Catalan >>>>>> officials involved in preparations for the referendum. In >>>>>> addition, >>>>>> websites have been shutdown or blocked, and .CAT domain technical >>>>>> staff >>>>>> have been detained. Also, the magazines of an important >>>>>> independentist >>>>>> association (Omnium Cultural) have been denied delivery by the >>>>>> Spanish >>>>>> postal service. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regardless of what you might think of the Catalan political >>>>>> process, >>>>>> independentist movements in Europe, or else, there are some >>>>>> things I wanted >>>>>> to bring to your attention. >>>>>> >>>>>> *The Internet:* Right now, this conflict has definitively spilled >>>>>> over Internet Freedom of Expression, human rights, and the right >>>>>> to an open >>>>>> Internet: >>>>>> >>>>>> .CAT domain has been intervened by the Spanish Police (Guardia >>>>>> Civil: >>>>>> https://twitter.com/puntcat/status/910446518494269440) All web >>>>>> pages >>>>>> under that domain that have information about the referendum have >>>>>> been >>>>>> suspended. >>>>>> >>>>>> The technical staff of .CAT has been detained by the police >>>>>> (including >>>>>> one ISOC-CAT member). >>>>>> >>>>>> This was the webpage calling for the catalan referendum: >>>>>> http://ref1oct.cat/. nic.EU is now hosting the webpage, but there >>>>>> are >>>>>> reports that Spanish authorities have ordered ISPs to block the >>>>>> DNSs: >>>>>> ref1oct.eu >>>>>> >>>>>> There are large DDoS attacks on some websites (apparently >>>>>> Cloudflare >>>>>> is under attack, as per some reports), and there is traffic >>>>>> manipulation by the ISPs (DNS blocking on certain domains). >>>>>> >>>>>> In addition, there has been confiscation of personal goods of the >>>>>> Catalan politicians, police searches in newspapers and printing >>>>>> plants, >>>>>> some email. >>>>>> >>>>>> This is Western Europe in 2017 that we are talking about. We >>>>>> should be >>>>>> worried. >>>>>> >>>>>> ---- >>>>>> >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> • >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> # >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> *Gus Rossi* >>>>>> Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 >>>>>> <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs >>>>>> >>>>>> *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge >>>>>> | www.publicknowledge.org >>>>>> 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 >>>>>> >>>>>> | CFC 12259 >>>>>> >>>>>> *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at >>>>>> publicknowledge.org/IP32017. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ____________________________________________________________ >>>>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> ______________________________ ______________________________ >>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ______________________________ ______________________________ >>>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list: >>>> bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. >>>> To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: >>>> http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits >>>> >>> >>> >> > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits From richard at gp-digital.org Thu Sep 21 08:41:16 2017 From: richard at gp-digital.org (Richard Wingfield) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:41:16 +0100 Subject: [bestbits] GPD World Map of Encryption Laws and Policies Message-ID: Dear all, Following on from my email last week on our new Travel Guide to the Digital World – Encryption Policy for Human Rights Defenders , I wanted to let you know that we have today launched a new tool for encryption advocates, an interactive world map of national encryption laws and policies . The map provides details on all known laws and policies for each country in the world relating to encryption, which we've divided into six categories: - General right to encryption - Import/export controls - Licensing/registration requirements - Min/max standards - Powers to intercept/decrypt encrypted communications - Other restrictions You can either look at all of a particular country's laws and policies, or see at a glance all the countries in the world which have laws or policies falling into one of those categories. We want this tool to be used as much as possible, so please do share the map with any colleagues, partners or networks who might find it useful. We also strongly welcome your feedback. In particular, the information relating to each country’s national laws and policies has been collected through publicly available information, which we have found sometimes not always be as complete or up-to-date as we would have liked. While we have sought to validate all the information collected, if you have any further information about the laws or policies in a particular country, or spot any inaccuracies on the map, we would be really grateful if you could let us know. Many thanks, Richard *Richard Wingfield* Legal Officer | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 | Skype: richard at gp-digital.org gp-digital.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Research Fellow, Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1377-full.html https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=131084 Strategy and Engagement Officer with Regional Focus https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=131218 http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1381-full.html Best Carolin Weisser Portal Manager Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre Oxford Martin School University of Oxford Old Indian Institute 34 Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BD Phone: +44(0)1865 287364 www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/cybersecurity Visit our Cybersecurity Capacity Portal: www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/cybersecurity-capacity -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There is going to be webcasting available in case you are interested in participating remotely. *More details on webcasting will be provided shortly.* It is possible that some parts of the events are going to be *only *in Spanish. *If you are in DC and would like to attend in person, please let me know via private email.* A preliminary agenda for the event is attached. ---- # # # # • # # # *Gus Rossi* Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge | www.publicknowledge.org 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I was able to register for this year's IGF using the > same credentials I used last year. > > Best wishes, > > Ayden Férdeline > Sent from ProtonMail Mobile > > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 3:27 pm, Raoul Plommer wrote: > > For some reason, the website refuses to acknowledge my old email address > that I've used for the two previous IGFs. I would like to use the same > instead of making a new account. I checked from the previous IGFs > registration details that I really have used plommer at gmail.com for those > too. > > Is anyone else having this problem? https://www.intgovfor > um.org/multilingual/user > > -Raoul > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jmalcolm at eff.org Fri Sep 1 13:02:16 2017 From: jmalcolm at eff.org (Jeremy Malcolm) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 10:02:16 -0700 Subject: [bestbits] Results of Best Bits steering committee election Message-ID: The results of the Best Bits steering committee election are in. Ballots were sent to the 519 members of this list who have been members for two months prior to the election, although some of these bounced.  134 of these members clicked on the invitation email, but only 63 of them followed through and completed the voting forum by clicking the submit button on the page.  (The former figure might not be completely accurate, because some corporate email systems will automatically click on links in email, to check whether they are phishing or as part of a malware scan.  But we can be pretty confident about the latter figure.) Although we had more available positions on the steering committee than nominees, because of the availability of "no candidate" as an option, I have applied the criterion that in order to be elected to the steering committee you must have had more people voting for you than voting for "no candidate".  With 63 votes cast, this means that the threshold for election was 32 votes.  In other words, if 31 people didn't want you on the committee but 32 people did, you would be elected. Of the 63 votes, 15 did not want a steering committee to be elected at all; in other words they voted "no candidate" for every position.  Of the remaining 48: * 3 voted for the election of a only single member * 4 voted for the election of only two members * 4 voted for the election of only three members * 12 voted for the election of only four members * 7 voted for the election of only five members * 18 voted for the election of all six members The precise number of votes received for each candidate was as follows: * Nighat Dad: 38 votes * Poncelet Ileleji: 38 votes * Renata Ribeiro: 37 votes * Dave Burstein: 37 votes * Imran Ahmed Shah: 33 votes * Antonella Perini: 31 votes This means that only one candidate received less than 32 votes, but only a single vote less, which is virtually a rounding error!  So I feel bad for Antonella Perini and I would like to point out to the new steering committee that if they would like to co-opt her onto the committee as an honorary non-voting member, past precedent would allow them to do this.  Also, this would ensure that the steering committee has a 50/50% equal gender balance, as well as giving effect to the most popular choice that there should be a steering committee of six.  Nevertheless, I leave this for the new committee to decide. Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members!  I would also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them with administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing list, if required. If anyone would like to review the raw data from the polling software in order to verify the results as I have presented them, please let me know and I will send it to you as a spreadsheet. -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I was able to register for this year's IGF > using the same credentials I used last year.  > > Best wishes, > > Ayden Férdeline > Sent from ProtonMail Mobile > > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 3:27 pm, Raoul Plommer > wrote: >> For some reason, the website refuses to acknowledge my old email >> address that I've used for the two previous IGFs. I would like to >> use the same instead of making a new account. I checked from the >> previous IGFs registration details that I really have used >> plommer at gmail.com for those too. >> >> Is anyone else having this >> problem? https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/user >> >> >> -Raoul > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It'd be useful to have it all in one place and I espcially don't like it if's been deleted. :( -Raoul On 26 September 2017 at 17:45, Niels ten Oever wrote: > I wasn't able to gain access with the same password as last year (was > still in my password manager), but a quick password reset fixed that. > > On 09/26/2017 04:37 PM, Raoul Plommer wrote: > > Tapani told me he wasn't able to use his old credentials either. > > -Raoul > > On 26 September 2017 at 17:29, Ayden Férdeline > wrote: > >> How strange, Raoul. I was able to register for this year's IGF using the >> same credentials I used last year. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Ayden Férdeline >> Sent from ProtonMail Mobile >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 3:27 pm, Raoul Plommer wrote: >> >> For some reason, the website refuses to acknowledge my old email address >> that I've used for the two previous IGFs. I would like to use the same >> instead of making a new account. I checked from the previous IGFs >> registration details that I really have used plommer at gmail.com for those >> too. >> >> Is anyone else having this problem? https://www.intgovfor >> um.org/multilingual/user >> >> -Raoul >> >> > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net. > To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: > http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The goal would be to have the new appointments announced before the IGF meeting in December of this year allowing a more seamless transition year to year, and better supporting all the IGF activities. This note is simply to minimize surprises and allow all stakeholders to begin preparations. More information on the process and MAG composition specifics will be made available shortly. Please feel free to forward through your networks. Best, Lynn _______________________________________________ Igfmaglist mailing list Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/igfmaglist_intgovforum.org From jac at apcwomen.org Wed Sep 27 06:18:18 2017 From: jac at apcwomen.org (Jac sm Kee) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:18:18 +0800 Subject: [bestbits] IGF Best Practice Forum on Gender: Access Message-ID: Dear colleagues, As mentioned in previous meetings, the IGF Best Practice Forum on Gender this year is looking specifically at access issues faced by: a) Indigenous women b) Refugee women c) Women with disabilities d) Young women e) Rural women We are looking for insights and initiatives that you may know of that addresses these issues directly, or in partial or indrect ways. To help in this process, we have developed a brief survey here: https://www.apc.org/limesurvey/index.php/783797/lang-en Please do submit your work into this process, and would appreciate it if you can share this broadly and in targetted ways to your networks. Best, jac -- --------------------------------- Jac sm Kee Manager, Women's Rights Programme Association for Progressive Communications www.apc.org | www.takebackthetech.net | erotics.apc.org Jitsi: jacsmk | Skype: jacsmk | Twitter: @jhybe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We plan to take advantage of the ongoing Conference to present this statement to the outgoing and incoming Executive Committees and to the ICDPPC Secretariat. You can find the statement below: https://pad.riseup.net/p/qjfjAhCwVfi7 We plan to present this on Friday AM Hong Kong time, before the close of the Conference and welcome sign-ons until COB Thursday, 28 September. Note the statement will remain open for signature past the 28 September deadline but we strongly encourage sign on beforehand so that we can add the signatures to the statement that will be presented during the Conference itself. Should you have any trouble adding your organisational signature, please let me know. In case you can't access the letter please find it below in full below the dotted line. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ *DRAFT JOINT PRESS RELEASE/STATEMENT* *Joint global civil society statement on the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners* To the outgoing and incoming Executive Committees of the ICDPPC *Hong Kong *– Ahead of the 2017 International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC) held in Hong Kong between September 25 to 29, a group of more than 30 civil society organisations sent a letter to the organisers and data protection authorities calling for greater inclusion of NGOs in the event. We acknowledge the positive steps forward, taken during the Hong Kong conference, in particular by lifting the participation fee for several civil society groups. As a result, this year's conference has already acknowledged the value of civil society participation and active dialogue with data protection authorities. Despite these improvements, civil society continues to be kept at the periphery of the event, absent from the programming committee and underrepresented at public sessions. To that effect we call on the Executive Committee to: 1. Include civil society in the Programme Committee to guarantee civil society representation in developing the agenda 2. Promote diversity and inclusion through public consultations 3. Restore space and visibility for civil society speakers at the sessions. This includes the restoration of the full day joint civil society-DPA event in the official programme and ensuring a civil society representative is included when non-members of the ICDPPC are part of the deliberations which lead to the official outcomes 4. Enhance civil society participation and meaningful dialogue by removing the access fee and providing travel support for civil society representatives 5. Increase transparency of the event sessions and deliberations through remote participation and publication of draft resolutions We look forward to cooperation with the incoming Secretariat, Executive Committee and hosts of the upcoming Conference in 2018. -- *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 <+44%207739%20569514> | PGP ID: AAEDBF8AFE87EF53 | PGP Fingerprint: 9CD3 46A5 21A1 DFD9 FDD0 457D AAED BF8A FE87 EF53 | On 15/09/2017, Sheetal Kumar wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm writing to share an open letter to the organisers of the International > Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC > ) which has been drafted by civil society groups and > signed on to by more than 25 civil society groups from around the world. > > The letter calls for a more open, inclusive and transparent Conference and > includes concrete recommendations to the ICDPPC. Find the letter in the > etherpad below: > > https://pad.riseup.net/p/wvDnM0Z05bE9 > > With apologies for the short notice, should you or your organisation be > interested in signing onto this letter, we welcome signatures until *COB > Monday 18 September.* The letter will be presented to the organisers of the > Conference before the start of the next Conference proceedings, which start > on 25 September in Hong Kong. > > In case of interest, for more information about the ICDPPC, GPD and Access > Now have worked together on tools which provide an introduction to the > ICDPPC for human rights advocates and which you can find by following the > links below: > > > - *Navigating human rights in the digital environment: the ICDPPC: * > > http://www.gp-digital.org/publication/navigating-human-rights-in-the-digital-environment-the-icdppc > - *Understanding the ICDPPC (podcast):* > http://www.gp-digital.org/multimedia/understanding-the-icdppc/ > - *Recording of a webinar & live Q&A on the ICCDPC: * > https://soundcloud.com/globalpartnersdigital/the-icdppc-live-qa-140917 > > > > 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 | > PGP ID: AAEDBF8AFE87EF53 | PGP Fingerprint: 9CD3 46A5 21A1 DFD9 FDD0 457D > AAED BF8A FE87 EF53 | > -- *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 | PGP ID: AAEDBF8AFE87EF53 | PGP Fingerprint: 9CD3 46A5 21A1 DFD9 FDD0 457D AAED BF8A FE87 EF53 | From raquino at gmail.com Thu Sep 28 10:18:10 2017 From: raquino at gmail.com (Renata Aquino Ribeiro) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:18:10 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Fwd: Call for Applications: Research Methods Workshop for Internet Policy & Advocacy in Africa In-Reply-To: <4e737cdd4472a960c7fb7030b.777a2f97a1.20170928055945.071fdb4ab6.57eb86fa@mail129.atl21.rsgsv.net> References: <4e737cdd4472a960c7fb7030b.777a2f97a1.20170928055945.071fdb4ab6.57eb86fa@mail129.atl21.rsgsv.net> Message-ID: ---------- Mensagem encaminhada ---------- De: "Internet Policy Observatory, University of Pennsylvania" < thelaura at asc.upenn.edu> Data: 28 de set de 2017 3:00 AM Assunto: Call for Applications: Research Methods Workshop for Internet Policy & Advocacy in Africa Para: Cc: Scholarships available for African researchers, activists, lawyers, technologists, and policymakers CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Research Methods Workshop for Internet Policy & Advocacy in Africa - Feb 26 - Mar 3, 2018 - Kampala, Uganda - Application Due: Nov 10, 2017 The Annenberg School for Communication’s Internet Policy Observatory has teamed up with the Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), Research ICT Africa, Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet), Unwanted Witness, Paradigm Initiative, and YoungICTAdvocates to organize the fourth regional Research Methods Workshop for Internet Policy and Advocacy in Africa. The workshop, taking place from Feb 26 to March 3 in Kampala, seeks applications from young scholars, activists, lawyers, and technologists working across Africa for an intensive practicum on using methodologically rigorous, data-driven, and contextually appropriate research for advocacy. The workshop seeks to provide a venue for stakeholders in the region to build collaborative possibilities across sectors, expand research capacity within practitioner and digital rights advocacy communities, and to provide the skills and know-how to strategically use research and data to advance advocacy efforts. Sessions will cover both qualitative and quantitative methods and will provide the space for hands-on activities and the development of individual and group research interests. The workshop aims to create opportunities to connect scholarly expertise with advocates and improve working synergies between emerging African networks of civil society organizations, academic centers, think-tanks, and policymakers. Sessions will include workshops on stakeholder analysis, conducting interviews, researching laws and regulations, social network analysis, network measurement, survey methods, data visualization, and strategic communication for policy impact. We encourage individuals from Africa in the academic (early career), NGO, technology, and public policy sectors to apply. Prospective applicants should have a particular area of interest related to internet governance and policymaking, censorship, surveillance, internet access, political engagement online, protection of human rights online, and/or corporate governance in the ICT sector. Applicants will be asked to bring a specific research question to the program to be developed and operationalized through trainings, group projects, and one-on-one mentorship with top researchers and experts from around the world. Several partial and full scholarships will be made for the most competitive applicants to participate. The course will be conducted in English and applicants should have high proficiency in English in order to interact with experts, lecturers and other participants who will come from diverse backgrounds. Please also note that we require all participants to have a laptop to use for the duration of the program. For more information about the program please visit: *http://globalnetpolicy.org/event/research-methods-africa/* For questions, please email Laura at lsh at asc.upenn.edu . 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[image: WTO Public Forum 2017] *Day 1 update from the WTO Public Forum * Dear Colleagues, This week we are reporting from the WTO Public Forum (26-28 Sept.), currently taking place in Geneva, on discussions related to digital policy. Catch up with the discussions, by reading our reports from Day 1 sessions: - 09:00 to 11:15 - Opening Plenary Debate - 14:30 to 15:30 - No One Left Behind: How Trade can Fairly Contribute to Economic Growth and Decent Work for Marginalised Communities - 17:00 to 18:30 - Making E-commerce Work for Consumers - 17:00 to 18:30 - The Business Case for E-commerce and Development: Towards Sustainable Development - 17:00 to 18:30 - Trade without Compromise: Digital Innovation, Social Impact and Regulatory Challenges *Read also our summary: Digital policy at WTO Public Forum: Summarising Day 1 * More reports will be available on our dedicated space, at https://dig.watch/wto-public-forum-2017 *Participate in our session* We invite you to join our session on 'Emerging digital trends on digital technology and their impact on e-commerce ', organised by the Geneva Internet Platform and DiploFoundation, tomorrow Thursday, 28th September, at 17.00–18.30 CEST. 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The copyright lobby is trying to turn NAFTA into ACTA (nAfCTA?). ---- # # # # • # # # *Gus Rossi* Global Policy Director (202) 861-0020 (x123) | (202) 651 1337 <(202)%651-1337> (mobile) | @agustinrs *Public Knowledge* | @publicknowledge | www.publicknowledge.org 1818 N St. NW, Suite 410 | Washington, DC 20036 | CFC 12259 *The IP3 Awards are September 28th!* RSVP at publicknowledge.org/IP32017. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sheetal at gp-digital.org Fri Sep 29 06:49:13 2017 From: sheetal at gp-digital.org (Sheetal Kumar) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:49:13 +0800 Subject: [bestbits] New podcast series on the big questions facing the digital environment In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, After a brief August hiatus, In beta is back. In the new episode, we talk to Emma Llanso of CDT about the evolving role of intermediaries in regulating online content. Listen here:https://www.gp-digital.org/multimedia/in-beta-episode-6- who-gets-to-decide-when-content-is-removed/ As ever we welcome your feedback! Best Sheetal. On 4 July 2017 at 19:04, Sheetal Kumar wrote: > Dear all, > > Just to let you know that episode five of our In beta podcast is now live > . > In this episode, we examine questions of civil society sustainability in > the global South with three voices from civil society and the donor > community: Julie Broome, director of the Ariadne donor network; Andrew > Puddephatt, executive chair of GPD’s advisory board; and Khilen Nathwani of > the Kays Foundation. > > Listen to it here: http://www.gp-digital.org/multimedia/in-beta-episode- > 5-is-civil-society-in-the-global-south-sustainable/ > > And explore the In beta series here: https://soundcloud.com/in_beta > > Best, > Sheetal. > > On 11 May 2017 at 17:00, Sheetal Kumar wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> Just in case it's of interest, episode 4 of our new podcast series >> *In beta* is now live: https://soundcloud.com/i >> n_beta/are-we-missing-the-bigger-picture-behind-network-disruptions-ep4 >> >> This episode, recorded at the Internet Freedom Forum in Lagos, Nigeria, >> looks at the bigger picture behind network disruptions (or internet >> shutdowns as they're more commonly known), with contributions from Deji >> Olukotun from Access Now, Julie Owono from Internet San Frontiers and >> Arthur Gwagwa from Strathmore University and the Open Technology Fund. >> >> Thanks for the positive feedback on the series so far. As ever please >> feel free to share with anyone who might be interested; and let me know if >> you have any questions about the series, or would like to be involved. >> >> Thank you! >> >> Best - >> Sheetal. >> >> On 5 April 2017 at 14:28, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> In case of interest, episode 3 of this series *In beta* is now live: >>> http://www.gp-digital.org/multimedia/in-beta-episode-3 >>> -can-a-business-be-a-human-rights-defender/ >>> >>> *In the latest episode, GPD’s Executive Director interviews Michael >>> Samway, former Vice-President and Deputy General Counsel for Yahoo! and >>> current adjunct professor at Georgetown University, posing the question: >>> can a business be a human rights defender?* >>> >>> Thanks for the positive feedback on the series so far. As ever please >>> feel free to share with anyone who might be interested! >>> Best >>> >>> Sheetal. >>> >>> On 16 March 2017 at 13:12, Sheetal Kumar wrote: >>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> In case of interest, just a heads up that episode 2 of this series *In >>>> beta* is now live: https://soundcloud.com/i >>>> n_beta/in-beta-episode-2-how-should-human-rights-defenders-a >>>> pproach-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 < >>>> mishi at softwarefreedom.org> 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 >>>>> > >>>> 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-s >>>>> eries-in-beta/ >>>>> > >>>> 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 >>>>> > >>>> olicymaking-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/ >>>>> > >>>> -series-in-beta/> >>>>> > * *The episode >>>>> > itself*: http://www.gp-digital.org/mult >>>>> imedia/in-beta-episode-1-is-policymaking-stuck-in-the-19th-century/ >>>>> > >>>> 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-s >>>>> eries-in-beta/ >>>>> > >>>> 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/mult >>>>> imedia/in-beta-episode-1-is-policymaking-stuck-in-the-19th-century/ >>>>> > >>>> olicymaking-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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If you have received this communication in error, please >>>>> immediately notify us by email, help at softwarefreedom.org, and destroy >>>>> the original message. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> *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 >>>> <+44%207739%20569514> | >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> *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 <+44%207739%20569514> >>> | >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> *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 <+44%207739%20569514> >> | >> > > > > -- > > > *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 <+44%207739%20569514> > | > -- *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 | PGP ID: AAEDBF8AFE87EF53 | PGP Fingerprint: 9CD3 46A5 21A1 DFD9 FDD0 457D AAED BF8A FE87 EF53 | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raquino at gmail.com Fri Sep 1 13:30:15 2017 From: raquino at gmail.com (Renata Aquino Ribeiro) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 14:30:15 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] Results of Best Bits steering committee election In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Jeremy and all Thank you for the participation in this election and thanks Jeremy for helping us conduct this process and continuing on helping the new SC. While I value engagement in the elections, I also value volunteers who stand up to do work for the community and conduct themselves with transparency and willingness to provide information. This is what Antonella did, sending her SOI, naming who nominated her, so her transparent steps in this process were remarkable and I would be glad to welcome her in the SC in equal footing to the other members. I am also grateful and humbled by the votes received and for all the other SC members. This is a strong team and I'm sure Bestbits will be strengthened for new times and challenges for civil society in internet governance. Best, Renata On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: > The results of the Best Bits steering committee election are in. > > Ballots were sent to the 519 members of this list who have been members for > two months prior to the election, although some of these bounced. 134 of > these members clicked on the invitation email, but only 63 of them followed > through and completed the voting forum by clicking the submit button on the > page. (The former figure might not be completely accurate, because some > corporate email systems will automatically click on links in email, to check > whether they are phishing or as part of a malware scan. But we can be > pretty confident about the latter figure.) > > Although we had more available positions on the steering committee than > nominees, because of the availability of "no candidate" as an option, I have > applied the criterion that in order to be elected to the steering committee > you must have had more people voting for you than voting for "no candidate". > With 63 votes cast, this means that the threshold for election was 32 votes. > In other words, if 31 people didn't want you on the committee but 32 people > did, you would be elected. > > Of the 63 votes, 15 did not want a steering committee to be elected at all; > in other words they voted "no candidate" for every position. Of the > remaining 48: > > 3 voted for the election of a only single member > 4 voted for the election of only two members > 4 voted for the election of only three members > 12 voted for the election of only four members > 7 voted for the election of only five members > 18 voted for the election of all six members > > The precise number of votes received for each candidate was as follows: > > Nighat Dad: 38 votes > Poncelet Ileleji: 38 votes > Renata Ribeiro: 37 votes > Dave Burstein: 37 votes > Imran Ahmed Shah: 33 votes > Antonella Perini: 31 votes > > This means that only one candidate received less than 32 votes, but only a > single vote less, which is virtually a rounding error! So I feel bad for > Antonella Perini and I would like to point out to the new steering committee > that if they would like to co-opt her onto the committee as an honorary > non-voting member, past precedent would allow them to do this. Also, this > would ensure that the steering committee has a 50/50% equal gender balance, > as well as giving effect to the most popular choice that there should be a > steering committee of six. Nevertheless, I leave this for the new committee > to decide. > > Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members! I would > also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them with > administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing list, > if required. > > If anyone would like to review the raw data from the polling software in > order to verify the results as I have presented them, please let me know and > I will send it to you as a spreadsheet. > > -- > 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 From richard at gp-digital.org Fri Sep 29 07:53:09 2017 From: richard at gp-digital.org (Richard Wingfield) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:53:09 +0100 Subject: [bestbits] Blog Post on OTTs at the ITU In-Reply-To: <5fa7f782-df63-7cba-b7a6-24c265083ddf@article19.org> References: <5fa7f782-df63-7cba-b7a6-24c265083ddf@article19.org> Message-ID: Hi all, Thanks for sharing that blogpost, Mehwish, which is excellent and really informative. It's a complex subject being discussed in an opaque forum, but the post is really helpful in unpicking the issues so thank you! It was great to have so many civil society organisations at the event in Geneva and for our positions to be so consistent and clearly expressed. For those who weren't able to attend, the CWG has published the "brief summary" of the event and the discussions (attached). As Mehwish said, the next consultation is on gender and, having just checked the website, some more details have been announced. The consultation questions can be found here and the deadline for submissions is 23 December. The physical open meeting will take place in Geneva on 22 January 2018. GPD will certainly be engaging and so perhaps as we get closer to the deadline, we can look again at who'll be engaging (online and/or in person) and coordinate. Yours, Richard *Richard Wingfield* Legal Officer | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 | Skype: richard at gp-digital.org gp-digital.org On 28 September 2017 at 19:19, Mehwish Ansari wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Following up on last week's discussion at the CWG-Internet, A19 > published a blog post on OTTs and why we're concerned by the ITU's > interest in them. You can find it here: > https://www.article19.org/resources.php/resource/38886/ > en/otts-at-the-itu:-a-case-of-over-the-top-mandate-expansion > > Looking forward to working together in preparation for the next > CWG-Internet open consultation in January, which will be held on gender > and ICTs. > > Best, > Mehwish > > -- > Mehwish Ansari > Digital Programme > > ARTICLE 19 > www.article19.org > > PGP Fingerprint C502 CF43 EEE3 4C8D 0976 > C5F3 CE71 E459 F6CF A79F > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Cheers, Niels On 09/29/2017 01:53 PM, Richard Wingfield wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for sharing that blogpost, Mehwish, which is excellent and > really informative. It's a complex subject being discussed in an > opaque forum, but the post is really helpful in unpicking the issues > so thank you! > > It was great to have so many civil society organisations at the event > in Geneva and for our positions to be so consistent and clearly > expressed. For those who weren't able to attend, the CWG has published > the "brief summary" of the event and the discussions (attached). > > As Mehwish said, the next consultation is on gender and, having just > checked the website, some more details have been announced. The > consultation questions can be found here >  and > the deadline for submissions is 23 December. The physical open meeting > will take place in Geneva on 22 January 2018. GPD will certainly be > engaging and so perhaps as we get closer to the deadline, we can look > again at who'll be engaging (online and/or in person) and coordinate. > > Yours, > > Richard > > > > *Richard Wingfield* > Legal Officer | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL > Second Home, 68 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL > T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 | Skype: richard at gp-digital.org > > gp-digital.org > > On 28 September 2017 at 19:19, Mehwish Ansari > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Following up on last week's discussion at the CWG-Internet, A19 > published a blog post on OTTs and why we're concerned by the ITU's > interest in them. You can find it here: > https://www.article19.org/resources.php/resource/38886/en/otts-at-the-itu:-a-case-of-over-the-top-mandate-expansion > > > Looking forward to working together in preparation for the next > CWG-Internet open consultation in January, which will be held on > gender > and ICTs.  > > Best, > Mehwish > > -- > Mehwish Ansari > Digital Programme > > ARTICLE 19 > www.article19.org > > PGP Fingerprint    C502 CF43 EEE3 4C8D 0976 >                    C5F3 CE71 E459 F6CF A79F > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > 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 julian at colnodo.apc.org Fri Sep 29 09:36:45 2017 From: julian at colnodo.apc.org (=?UTF-8?Q?Juli=c3=a1n_Casasbuenas_G.?=) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:36:45 -0500 Subject: [bestbits] [IGFmaglist] IGF Best Practice Forum on Gender: Access In-Reply-To: References: <20170928132438.A286F26009B@mail1.mfa.gov.cn> Message-ID: Ji, I can only share the observations of Aida and Lynn. We can not ignore all the efforts made over the years from the IGF to include gender issues in the agenda. From civil organization organization that works on gender issues and as a member of MAG we reject these trivial comments. Julián Casasbuenas G. Director Colnodo El 29/09/17 a las 07:51, Lynn St.Amour escribió: > Dear Ji, > > your comment below trivializes the very important gender discussion, and much of the work of the MAG. > > Equally, it is important that we maintain a culture of respect in all MAG communications, and I hope we can achieve this going forward. > > Lynn St.Amour > > IGF-MAG Chair > > >> On Sep 28, 2017, at 9:24 AM, 计颢骏 wrote: >> >> >> Dear all, >> >> I think the access issue,for some countries, shall start from allowing women to drive and travel alone first. >> >> JI Haojun >> >> >> >> ----- 回复邮件 ----- >> 发信人:Jac sm Kee >> 收信人:Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org , ,Governance ,dc at intgovforum.org >> 时 间:2017年09月27日 18时05分01秒 >> 主 题:[IGFmaglist] IGF Best Practice Forum on Gender: Access >> >> >> Dear colleagues, >> >> As mentioned in previous meetings, the IGF Best Practice Forum on >> Gender this year is looking specifically at access issues faced by: >> >> a) Indigenous women >> b) Refugee women >> c) Women with disabilities >> d) Young women >> e) Rural women >> >> We are looking for insights and initiatives that you may know of that >> addresses these issues directly, or in partial or indrect ways. To help >> in this process, we have developed a brief survey here: >> >> https://www.apc.org/limesurvey/index.php/783797/lang-en >> >> Please do submit your work into this process, and would appreciate it >> if you can share this broadly and in targetted ways to your networks. >> >> Best, >> jac >> >> -- >> >> --------------------------------- >> Jac sm Kee >> Manager, Women's Rights Programme >> Association for Progressive Communications >> www.apc.org | www.takebackthetech.net | erotics.apc.org >> Jitsi: jacsmk | Skype: jacsmk | Twitter: @jhybe >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Igfmaglist mailing list >> Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org >> http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/igfmaglist_intgovforum.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Igfmaglist mailing list >> Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org >> http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/igfmaglist_intgovforum.org > > _______________________________________________ > Igfmaglist mailing list > Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org > http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/igfmaglist_intgovforum.org -- Colnodo - Uso estratégico de Internet para el desarrollo *Julián Casasbuenas G.* Director Tels: 57-1-2324246, 57-315-2585596 Cel. 57-315-3339099 Diagonal 40A (Antigua Av. 39) No. 14-75, Bogotá, Colombia Twitter @jcasasbuenas @colnodo www.colnodo.apc.org - Uso Estratégico de Internet para el Desarrollo Miembro de la Asociación para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones -APC- www.apc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In the meantime we hope that it is of use to you. Best, Chinmayi and Smitha Chinmayi Arun | Executive Director Centre for Communication Governance | National Law University, Delhi | Sector-14, Dwarka, New Delhi - 110078 | Cell: (+91) 971-770-2630 <+91%2097177%2002630> | Fax: (+91) 11-280-34256 | www.ccgdelhi.org . www.nludelhi.ac.in | Twitter: @chinmayiarun -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nigel.hickson at icann.org Sat Sep 30 02:00:52 2017 From: nigel.hickson at icann.org (Nigel Hickson) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 06:00:52 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] [Ext] Re: [DC] [IGFmaglist] IGF Best Practice Forum on Gender: Access In-Reply-To: References: <20170928132438.A286F26009B@mail1.mfa.gov.cn> Message-ID: Good evening I absolutely endorse the eloquent comments of Lynn. Gender discussions are simply too important to be trivialised. We all have pasts we should be ashamed of, the UK being no exception in this respect; so important we move forward. Best Nigel -----Original Message----- From: DC on behalf of "Lynn St.Amour" Date: Friday, 29 September 2017 at 21:45 To: 计颢骏 Cc: "dc at intgovforum.org" , Governance , "bestbits at lists.bestbits.net" , IGF Maglist Subject: [Ext] Re: [DC] [IGFmaglist] IGF Best Practice Forum on Gender: Access Dear Ji, your comment below trivializes the very important gender discussion, and much of the work of the MAG. Equally, it is important that we maintain a culture of respect in all MAG communications, and I hope we can achieve this going forward. Lynn St.Amour IGF-MAG Chair > On Sep 28, 2017, at 9:24 AM, 计颢骏 wrote: > > > Dear all, > > I think the access issue,for some countries, shall start from allowing women to drive and travel alone first. > > JI Haojun > > > > ----- 回复邮件 ----- > 发信人:Jac sm Kee > 收信人:Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org , ,Governance ,dc at intgovforum.org > 时 间:2017年09月27日 18时05分01秒 > 主 题:[IGFmaglist] IGF Best Practice Forum on Gender: Access > > > Dear colleagues, > > As mentioned in previous meetings, the IGF Best Practice Forum on > Gender this year is looking specifically at access issues faced by: > > a) Indigenous women > b) Refugee women > c) Women with disabilities > d) Young women > e) Rural women > > We are looking for insights and initiatives that you may know of that > addresses these issues directly, or in partial or indrect ways. To help > in this process, we have developed a brief survey here: > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.apc.org_limesurvey_index.php_783797_lang-2Den&d=DwIGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=RrrXyaBfa00GH1liTedM3FwobVakuhJ-qs1N8-Ji8VE&m=ybfTGAbmOf0i2cgbYtLuTzz9QDoItWlPfnM3s7Ked8M&s=R_A6T-4mIyUQYWfMrt2ETEyBOZgGEnxv0_T9NFMBY8Y&e= > > Please do submit your work into this process, and would appreciate it > if you can share this broadly and in targetted ways to your networks. > > Best, > jac > > -- > > --------------------------------- > Jac sm Kee > Manager, Women's Rights Programme > Association for Progressive Communications > www.apc.org | www.takebackthetech.net | erotics.apc.org > Jitsi: jacsmk | Skype: jacsmk | Twitter: @jhybe > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Igfmaglist mailing list > Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__intgovforum.org_mailman_listinfo_igfmaglist-5Fintgovforum.org&d=DwIGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=RrrXyaBfa00GH1liTedM3FwobVakuhJ-qs1N8-Ji8VE&m=ybfTGAbmOf0i2cgbYtLuTzz9QDoItWlPfnM3s7Ked8M&s=aVwvpDkwI7DMLt90yF18iBItC_7FCVL0M9XSkT34TYI&e= > _______________________________________________ > Igfmaglist mailing list > Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__intgovforum.org_mailman_listinfo_igfmaglist-5Fintgovforum.org&d=DwIGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=RrrXyaBfa00GH1liTedM3FwobVakuhJ-qs1N8-Ji8VE&m=ybfTGAbmOf0i2cgbYtLuTzz9QDoItWlPfnM3s7Ked8M&s=aVwvpDkwI7DMLt90yF18iBItC_7FCVL0M9XSkT34TYI&e= _______________________________________________ DC mailing list DC at intgovforum.org https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__intgovforum.org_mailman_listinfo_dc-5Fintgovforum.org&d=DwIGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=RrrXyaBfa00GH1liTedM3FwobVakuhJ-qs1N8-Ji8VE&m=ybfTGAbmOf0i2cgbYtLuTzz9QDoItWlPfnM3s7Ked8M&s=8bkIderhszbEPxG6DpNIOOJ5zHLWy16aFNeMD9sKzS4&e= -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Last year the World Bank also launched its Identification for Development (ID4D) agenda highlighting the transformational potential of biometric ID systems for the delivery of basic services to the poor, with the goal of making “everyone count” by providing legal identity and delivering digital ID-enabled services to all. A person lacking a legally verifiable ID suffers legally, politically, socially, and economically. But in the developing world, enormous gains can be obtained from extending services and opportunities to all in new ways that can help developing countries improve electoral processes, political participation, functioning of governments and civil liberties. This all can help lead countries with poor democratic record transform in to a fully functional democracy.  It will be really interesting to collaborate and research on mitigating the unintended consequences of digital ID systems and probably Center for Communication Governance can help create a multi-stakeholder group for furthering research and understanding of this new phenomena. Best, Arzak From: netsociety on behalf of Chinmayi Arun Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2017 2:12 AM To: bestbits; governance at lists.igcaucus.org; netsociety at lists.networkofcenters.net Cc: Smitha Krishna Prasad Subject: [netsociety] Infographic: Biometric ID systems & democracies   Dear All, This is to introduce an ongoing project which we hope will contribute to the public debate on Aadhaar.   This work is in response to the argument that India should adopt a biometric identification system because several other countries have done it. We set out to examine which other countries had done this (starting with commonwealth countries for now), whether they had data protection safeguards and whether they were democracies. Scroll.in was kind enough to build an infographic based on our dataset which you can see here. It appears that it is mostly countries with a poor democratic record that use these systems.  Please do take a look. This is ongoing work, so we would welcome additional information and ways in which we can improve it. In the meantime we hope that it is of use to you. Best, Chinmayi and Smitha   https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0BycAZd9M5_7NTWs4YXZxbnJXcWc&revid=0BycAZd9M5_7Na3ROMTFBMzhiakF0dkVacm9tNks2aGlxa2o4PQ Chinmayi Arun | Executive Director Centre for Communication Governance | National Law University, Delhi | Sector-14, Dwarka, New Delhi - 110078 | Cell: (+91) 971-770-2630 | Fax: (+91) 11-280-34256 | www.ccgdelhi.org . www.nludelhi.ac.in | Twitter: @chinmayiarun From wisdom.dk at gmail.com Sat Sep 30 05:12:07 2017 From: wisdom.dk at gmail.com (Wisdom Donkor) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:12:07 +0000 Subject: [bestbits] IGF Best Practice Forum on Gender: Access In-Reply-To: References: <20170928132438.A286F26009B@mail1.mfa.gov.cn> Message-ID: I put forward my displeasure as well and I fully support the response of Lynn. Looking at the complex nature of my region Africa and considering the fact that the region has become the center of development globally (connecting the next billion) of which gender is one of the key subjects to addressing the gender disparities or imbalances of the region. So putting out such statements trivialises the gender processes within and outside of MAG. Such statements needs to be discouraged in the strongest terms and rather work together for the course of humanity. Kind regards, On Saturday, September 30, 2017, Nigel Hickson wrote: > Good evening > > I absolutely endorse the eloquent comments of Lynn. Gender discussions > are simply too important to be trivialised. We all have pasts we should be > ashamed of, the UK being no exception in this respect; so important we move > forward. > > Best > > Nigel > > -----Original Message----- > From: DC > on behalf of "Lynn > St.Amour" > > Date: Friday, 29 September 2017 at 21:45 > To: 计颢骏 > > Cc: "dc at intgovforum.org " >, > Governance >, " > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net " >, IGF Maglist > > Subject: [Ext] Re: [DC] [IGFmaglist] IGF Best Practice Forum on Gender: > Access > > Dear Ji, > > your comment below trivializes the very important gender discussion, > and much of the work of the MAG. > > Equally, it is important that we maintain a culture of respect in all > MAG communications, and I hope we can achieve this going forward. > > Lynn St.Amour > > IGF-MAG Chair > > > > On Sep 28, 2017, at 9:24 AM, 计颢骏 > wrote: > > > > > > Dear all, > > > > I think the access issue,for some countries, shall start > from allowing women to drive and travel alone first. > > > > JI Haojun > > > > > > > > ----- 回复邮件 ----- > > 发信人:Jac sm Kee > > > 收信人:Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org < > Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org >, > >,Governance < > governance at lists.igcaucus.org >,dc at intgovforum.org > > > > 时 间:2017年09月27日 18时05分01秒 > > 主 题:[IGFmaglist] IGF Best Practice Forum on Gender: Access > > > > > > Dear colleagues, > > > > As mentioned in previous meetings, the IGF Best Practice Forum on > > Gender this year is looking specifically at access issues faced by: > > > > a) Indigenous women > > b) Refugee women > > c) Women with disabilities > > d) Young women > > e) Rural women > > > > We are looking for insights and initiatives that you may know of that > > addresses these issues directly, or in partial or indrect ways. To > help > > in this process, we have developed a brief survey here: > > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www. > apc.org_limesurvey_index.php_783797_lang-2Den&d=DwIGaQ&c= > FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r= > RrrXyaBfa00GH1liTedM3FwobVakuhJ-qs1N8-Ji8VE&m= > ybfTGAbmOf0i2cgbYtLuTzz9QDoItWlPfnM3s7Ked8M&s=R_A6T- > 4mIyUQYWfMrt2ETEyBOZgGEnxv0_T9NFMBY8Y&e= > > > > Please do submit your work into this process, and would appreciate it > > if you can share this broadly and in targetted ways to your networks. > > > > Best, > > jac > > > > -- > > > > --------------------------------- > > Jac sm Kee > > Manager, Women's Rights Programme > > Association for Progressive Communications > > www.apc.org | www.takebackthetech.net | erotics.apc.org > > Jitsi: jacsmk | Skype: jacsmk | Twitter: @jhybe > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Igfmaglist mailing list > > Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ > intgovforum.org_mailman_listinfo_igfmaglist-5Fintgovforum.org&d=DwIGaQ&c= > FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r= > RrrXyaBfa00GH1liTedM3FwobVakuhJ-qs1N8-Ji8VE&m= > ybfTGAbmOf0i2cgbYtLuTzz9QDoItWlPfnM3s7Ked8M&s=aVwvpDkwI7DMLt90yF18iBItC_ > 7FCVL0M9XSkT34TYI&e= > > _______________________________________________ > > Igfmaglist mailing list > > Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ > intgovforum.org_mailman_listinfo_igfmaglist-5Fintgovforum.org&d=DwIGaQ&c= > FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r= > RrrXyaBfa00GH1liTedM3FwobVakuhJ-qs1N8-Ji8VE&m= > ybfTGAbmOf0i2cgbYtLuTzz9QDoItWlPfnM3s7Ked8M&s=aVwvpDkwI7DMLt90yF18iBItC_ > 7FCVL0M9XSkT34TYI&e= > > > _______________________________________________ > DC mailing list > DC at intgovforum.org > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ > intgovforum.org_mailman_listinfo_dc-5Fintgovforum.org&d=DwIGaQ&c= > FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r= > RrrXyaBfa00GH1liTedM3FwobVakuhJ-qs1N8-Ji8VE&m= > ybfTGAbmOf0i2cgbYtLuTzz9QDoItWlPfnM3s7Ked8M&s= > 8bkIderhszbEPxG6DpNIOOJ5zHLWy16aFNeMD9sKzS4&e= > > -- *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 mike.oghia at gmail.com Sat Sep 30 07:37:44 2017 From: mike.oghia at gmail.com (Michael J. Oghia) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 13:37:44 +0200 Subject: [bestbits] [Ext] Re: [DC] [IGFmaglist] IGF Best Practice Forum on Gender: Access In-Reply-To: References: <20170928132438.A286F26009B@mail1.mfa.gov.cn> Message-ID: Might I add that, in addition to what has already been said, the comments expressed by our colleague from China disregard the fact that his suggestions are completely outside of the remit and mission of the Internet governance community. Moreover, addressing various challenges to gender equality can – and perhaps should – occur simultaneously, especially since they are often not mutually exclusive but actually reinforce each other. Best, -Michael On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Nigel Hickson wrote: > Good evening > > I absolutely endorse the eloquent comments of Lynn. Gender discussions > are simply too important to be trivialised. We all have pasts we should be > ashamed of, the UK being no exception in this respect; so important we move > forward. > > Best > > Nigel > > -----Original Message----- > From: DC on behalf of "Lynn St.Amour" < > st.amour at bluewin.ch> > Date: Friday, 29 September 2017 at 21:45 > To: 计颢骏 > Cc: "dc at intgovforum.org" , Governance < > governance at lists.igcaucus.org>, "bestbits at lists.bestbits.net" < > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>, IGF Maglist > Subject: [Ext] Re: [DC] [IGFmaglist] IGF Best Practice Forum on Gender: > Access > > Dear Ji, > > your comment below trivializes the very important gender discussion, > and much of the work of the MAG. > > Equally, it is important that we maintain a culture of respect in all > MAG communications, and I hope we can achieve this going forward. > > Lynn St.Amour > > IGF-MAG Chair > > > > On Sep 28, 2017, at 9:24 AM, 计颢骏 wrote: > > > > > > Dear all, > > > > I think the access issue,for some countries, shall start > from allowing women to drive and travel alone first. > > > > JI Haojun > > > > > > > > ----- 回复邮件 ----- > > 发信人:Jac sm Kee > > 收信人:Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org ,< > bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> ,Governance < > governance at lists.igcaucus.org>,dc at intgovforum.org > > 时 间:2017年09月27日 18时05分01秒 > > 主 题:[IGFmaglist] IGF Best Practice Forum on Gender: Access > > > > > > Dear colleagues, > > > > As mentioned in previous meetings, the IGF Best Practice Forum on > > Gender this year is looking specifically at access issues faced by: > > > > a) Indigenous women > > b) Refugee women > > c) Women with disabilities > > d) Young women > > e) Rural women > > > > We are looking for insights and initiatives that you may know of that > > addresses these issues directly, or in partial or indrect ways. To > help > > in this process, we have developed a brief survey here: > > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www. > apc.org_limesurvey_index.php_783797_lang-2Den&d=DwIGaQ&c= > FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r= > RrrXyaBfa00GH1liTedM3FwobVakuhJ-qs1N8-Ji8VE&m= > ybfTGAbmOf0i2cgbYtLuTzz9QDoItWlPfnM3s7Ked8M&s=R_A6T- > 4mIyUQYWfMrt2ETEyBOZgGEnxv0_T9NFMBY8Y&e= > > > > Please do submit your work into this process, and would appreciate it > > if you can share this broadly and in targetted ways to your networks. > > > > Best, > > jac > > > > -- > > > > --------------------------------- > > Jac sm Kee > > Manager, Women's Rights Programme > > Association for Progressive Communications > > www.apc.org | www.takebackthetech.net | erotics.apc.org > > Jitsi: jacsmk | Skype: jacsmk | Twitter: @jhybe > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Igfmaglist mailing list > > Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ > intgovforum.org_mailman_listinfo_igfmaglist-5Fintgovforum.org&d=DwIGaQ&c= > FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r= > RrrXyaBfa00GH1liTedM3FwobVakuhJ-qs1N8-Ji8VE&m= > ybfTGAbmOf0i2cgbYtLuTzz9QDoItWlPfnM3s7Ked8M&s=aVwvpDkwI7DMLt90yF18iBItC_ > 7FCVL0M9XSkT34TYI&e= > > _______________________________________________ > > Igfmaglist mailing list > > Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ > intgovforum.org_mailman_listinfo_igfmaglist-5Fintgovforum.org&d=DwIGaQ&c= > FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r= > RrrXyaBfa00GH1liTedM3FwobVakuhJ-qs1N8-Ji8VE&m= > ybfTGAbmOf0i2cgbYtLuTzz9QDoItWlPfnM3s7Ked8M&s=aVwvpDkwI7DMLt90yF18iBItC_ > 7FCVL0M9XSkT34TYI&e= > > > _______________________________________________ > DC mailing list > DC at intgovforum.org > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ > intgovforum.org_mailman_listinfo_dc-5Fintgovforum.org&d=DwIGaQ&c= > FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r= > RrrXyaBfa00GH1liTedM3FwobVakuhJ-qs1N8-Ji8VE&m= > ybfTGAbmOf0i2cgbYtLuTzz9QDoItWlPfnM3s7Ked8M&s= > 8bkIderhszbEPxG6DpNIOOJ5zHLWy16aFNeMD9sKzS4&e= > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raquino at gmail.com Sat Sep 30 09:03:35 2017 From: raquino at gmail.com (Renata Aquino Ribeiro) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 10:03:35 -0300 Subject: [bestbits] [netsociety] Infographic: Biometric ID systems & democracies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Great work here The developments of biometric ID in LAC are slower but no less scarier Venezuela doesn't disguise its full blown use for surveillance, there's an IGF workshop on that Brazil elections upcoming, on post-coup atmosphere, biometrics for voters has started on small and mid size cities in a "chaos control" mode. I do not think there will be chaos in elections but should be interesting to see if fraud is a possibility. There is already a lot of fraud in biometrics for attendance of public servants, silicon fingers style. Brasil political representation crisis is so deep considerable attendance in elections may not be something to expect. Border controls seem to be a place where biometrics is working 100% but with no effects on reducing migration. The biggest LAC crisis on migration does not come from ports anyway but terrestrial migration from Venezuela and rural/indigenous > urban perpetual moves. Social welfare programs use of biometrics and its ties to fraud or surveillance are concerns so it is interesting to see how the landscape in India will evolve. Keep us posted -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From daveb at dslprime.com Fri Sep 1 13:47:01 2017 From: daveb at dslprime.com (Dave Burstein) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:47:01 -0400 Subject: [bestbits] Results of Best Bits steering committee election In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: All First, let's thank Jeremy Malcolm for the work he did. Second, let me make a motion to the new steering committee to add Ms. Perini, who clearly has interest and experience. Lots of work to do. Dave Virus-free. www.avast.com <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: > The results of the Best Bits steering committee election are in. > > Ballots were sent to the 519 members of this list who have been members > for two months prior to the election, although some of these bounced. 134 > of these members clicked on the invitation email, but only 63 of them > followed through and completed the voting forum by clicking the submit > button on the page. (The former figure might not be completely accurate, > because some corporate email systems will automatically click on links in > email, to check whether they are phishing or as part of a malware scan. > But we can be pretty confident about the latter figure.) > > Although we had more available positions on the steering committee than > nominees, because of the availability of "no candidate" as an option, I > have applied the criterion that in order to be elected to the steering > committee you must have had more people voting for you than voting for "no > candidate". With 63 votes cast, this means that the threshold for election > was 32 votes. In other words, if 31 people didn't want you on the > committee but 32 people did, you would be elected. > > Of the 63 votes, 15 did not want a steering committee to be elected at > all; in other words they voted "no candidate" for every position. Of the > remaining 48: > > - 3 voted for the election of a only single member > - 4 voted for the election of only two members > - 4 voted for the election of only three members > - 12 voted for the election of only four members > - 7 voted for the election of only five members > - 18 voted for the election of all six members > > The precise number of votes received for each candidate was as follows: > > - Nighat Dad: 38 votes > - Poncelet Ileleji: 38 votes > - Renata Ribeiro: 37 votes > - Dave Burstein: 37 votes > - Imran Ahmed Shah: 33 votes > - Antonella Perini: 31 votes > > This means that only one candidate received less than 32 votes, but only a > single vote less, which is virtually a rounding error! So I feel bad for > Antonella Perini and I would like to point out to the new steering > committee that if they would like to co-opt her onto the committee as an > honorary non-voting member, past precedent would allow them to do this. > Also, this would ensure that the steering committee has a 50/50% equal > gender balance, as well as giving effect to the most popular choice that > there should be a steering committee of six. Nevertheless, I leave this > for the new committee to decide. > > Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members! I would > also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them with > administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing list, > if required. > > If anyone would like to review the raw data from the polling software in > order to verify the results as I have presented them, please let me know > and I will send it to you as a spreadsheet. > > -- > Jeremy Malcolm > Senior Global Policy Analyst > Electronic Frontier Foundationhttps://eff.orgjmalcolm at eff.org > > Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161 <(415)%20436-9333> > > :: 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 > > -- Editor, Fast Net News, WIreless One.news, Net Policy News and DSL Prime Author with Jennie Bourne DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed (Peachpit) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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