[governance] [bestbits] CSCG nominations for civil society speakers at IGF

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

Hi

Knowing politicians from the region who will also interact w/
national, I fully agree.

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Ooops, I sent that before I finished my thought.
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> Anyway, as the closing ceremony speaker from last year, I would highly
> recommend that Joanna be in the opening session! She’ll get 10 times as much
> exposure.
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> [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Carolina Rossini
> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 1:32 PM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; joana at varonferraz.com
> Cc: Lea Kaspar <lea at gp-digital.org>; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net&gt &lt
> <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>; Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>; JNC Forum
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> Subject: Re: [governance] [bestbits] CSCG nominations for civil society
> speakers at IGF
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> Good that you sent an updated bio Jo, I was about to do that when I saw
> Ian's email.
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> I am very happy about the nominations, but I would invert the order of
> possible. Having a Brazilian at the end, as we had Grace and Burcu as CS for
> closing ceremony, is VERY important politically.
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> Not just for CS, but actually more as a opportunity to have the closing
> speech also refer to national issues and ask specific commitments from the
> Brazilian policy makers there. As Joana is incredible aware, since she is
> deeply involved in the discussions, folks are trying to puncture Marco Civil
> and cut back on other digital rights in Brazil... We - the digital rights
> community - lost a lot of attention due to all the political corruption that
> has take over all the media attention.
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> We need to have Joana - as a Brasilian - putting the "country" against the
> wall in front of everybody. And I feel the closing ceremony is better for
> that purpose.
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> I am saying all this without having spoken with Joana. So, I am not sure if
> she is available.
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> But I wanted to make sure to leave my opinion on this issue.
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> On Friday, October 30, 2015, <joana at varonferraz.com> wrote:
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> Thanks, Ian and everyone!
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> I cannot express how honored I'm for this nomination. I hope I can respond
> to the task with the bright it entails.
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> As soon as nomination is confirmed I will share a pad for people to bring
> inputs. Will already be dreaming with some insights.
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> Just a correction in my institutional presentation as I'm not CTS for more
> then 1 and half year now :):
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> I'm founder director and creative chaos catalyst of Coding Rights, a women
> lead think-and-do tank with the mission to bring hackers, geeks, artists,
> researchers and activists together to protect, promote and mainstream
> digital rights and empower women on ICTs. More on @codingrights or
> codingrights.org (still temporary work in progress)
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> Thank you once again and have safe travels to João Pessoa. We will be
> waiting for you all to cheer with caipirinhas or fresh coconut water.
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> Kind regards,
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> Joana
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> On 30 Oct 2015 17:36, Lea Kaspar <lea at gp-digital.org> wrote:
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> Congratulations to both, proud to be represented by these women.
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> Many thanks to the CSCG for their work - excellent choices.
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> Best wishes,
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> Lea
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> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
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> Below are the two nominations from Civil Society Coordination Group for
> speakers for this years IGF opening and closing ceremonies. They were chosen
> from a field of 20 names submitted from various civil society coalitions,
> and have been forwarded to the IGF Secretariat. I must say that any of the
> 20 names submitted could have represented us admirably, and that it was a
> tough decision for the CSCG members to come up with 2 names.
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> Joana Varon (Brazil) – opening ceremony – joana at varonferraz.com
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> Nadine Moawad (Lebanon) – closing ceremony – nadine at apcwomen.org
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> For those who don’t know them,
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> Joana Varon Ferraz is a researcher and project coordinator at the Centre for
> Technology and Society from Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro
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> Nadine Moawad is a Lebanese feminist activist and grasssroots worker who
> leads Association for Progressive Communication (APC)'s sexual
> rights work.
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> We commend them both as informed excellent communicators to represent civil
> society. They have both been informed of their nominations.
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> Ian Peter (Independent Chair, Civil Society Coordination Group)
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