[governance] Fwd: Capacity building assistance offer to digital rights advocates

[Deirdre Williams]

From Becky Lentz at McGill in Canada

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From: Becky Lentz <roberta.lentz at mcgill.ca>
Date: 22 April 2015 at 15:20
Subject: Capacity building assistance offer to digital rights advocates


Dear colleagues,

Greetings from Montreal. As part of an ongoing experiment in cultivating
university-civil society collaborations, I’m writing to invite expressions
of interest from potential civil society partners (for Fall 2015, in the
Americas only, preferably not in Canada or the US) seeking research that
supports their Internet-related policy advocacy work. Of particular
interest are proposals from groups involved in IGF (or considering becoming
involved in them). Other proposals for research assistance are also invited.

As background, previous civil society partners have included Derechos
Digitales (DD) in Santiago and the Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) in
Kampala. Outcomes for two semester-long projects with DD include the
following research brief, which was developed by students and then
edited/translated/formatted by DD:
https://www.derechosdigitales.org/wp-content/uploads/PP05.pdf; we are now
completing a second project featuring a review of the literature
(scholarly, news, government, and civil society sources) about the benefits
of the IGF for civil society organizations, a report that anticipates the
2015 IGF in Latin America. Testimonials and references from DD
are available about how DD has benefited from both of these collaborations.

The third semester-long project resulted in establishing 3
university-supported internships to help WOUGNET with a variety of capacity
building needs: an Information/ Communications Intern (
http://wougnet.org/2014/02/internship-opportunity-informationcommunications-deadline-28th-february/),
a Technical Support Intern (
https://www.mcgill.ca/arts-internships/files/arts-internships/wougnet_tech_support_intern.pdf),
and Gender and ICT Policy Advocacy (
https://www.mcgill.ca/arts-internships/files/arts-internships/wougnet_gender_and_ict_policy_advocacy_0.pdf).
Testimonials and references from WOUGNET are also available.

The process for identifying a civil society partner for the Fall semester
2015 is now underway; it consists of the following steps: 1) an expression
of interest by a potential civil society partner; 2) based on a possible
match, an invitation for a short proposal (template will be provided); and
3) if selected, a jointly-crafted memorandum of understanding (MOU) between
the selected civil society partner and my class. There are no costs to the
partner organization other than a modest commitment of time during the
semester-long project.

If you have advocacy-related research needs and you think a
September-December timeframe for working together with a report available
to you in late December 2015 meets your needs, please feel free to contact
me off-list.

Best,
Becky Lentz
McGill University




-- 
“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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