[governance] off-topic An invitation to write about your organization's pursuit of Internet Governance issues.

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Hello All,

This is an invitation to the participants of this list, as individuals and
as representatives of the organizations that they represent, to publish blog
posts at the OneWebDay Stories blog.

One of the challenges in Internet Governance is to create awareness of the
Internet Governance issues among the public. On this challenging task,
OneWebDay is beginning to do some good work.

OneWebDay was founded by Susan Crawford. According to Crawford, “peoples’
lives now are as dependent on the Internet as they are on the basics like
roads, energy supplies and running water. We can no longer take that for
granted, and we must advocate for the Internet politically and support its
vitality personally.”

Sepember 22 is celebrated worldwide as OneWebDay. For the last three years,
OneWebDay has attracted a global network of partner organizations and
individual activists committed to broadening the public’s awareness of
Internet and Web issues while deepening a culture of participation in
building a Web that works for everyone. In 2008, OneWebDay organizers
documented volunteer-driven events 34 different cities across the world.

As part of the activities of OneWebDay, a Stories blog is open for
individuals to blog about how the Internet transforms the lives of people,
or for organizations to write about the the values they stand for.

For an overview of the Stories published last year, please take a look at
http://www.onewebday.org/stories. This year apart from inviting Bloggers
from around the world to write stories to share their positive experiences
on the Web, OneWebDay is inviting Internet voluntary Orgnaizations to write
about what makes the Internet an extraordinary ecosystem for the people of
the world to connect to each other.

The blog is set up with easy an interface to post text, pictures and video.
Please post a story about how the web has transformed your life or the lives
of a community you belong to, or the city you live in or your country. The
’story’ could be on the theme of Digital Inclusion but coudl also be about
any topic related to the Internet.  The story needs to be factual but you
have a choice to be businesslike, narrative or even poetic. The stories can
be reflections of how the web has transformed people’s lives, in the
individual, political, economic, cultural and spiritual sphere.
Organizations may write in easy-to-understand format about Privacy, Freedom
of Expression, Access to knolwlege or any other value(s) they work for.

For more information please visit http://www.onewebday.org/stories and
http://www,onewebday.org

Thank you

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
as a volunteer for OneWebDay Stories.
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