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

[Nighat Dad]

Congratulations to both of my friends. I am sure you will be wonderful as
always.

Best,
Nighat Dad

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Carolina Rossini <
carolina.rossini at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good that you sent an updated bio Jo, I was about to do that when I saw
> Ian's email.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I am saying all this without having spoken with Joana. So, I am not sure
> if she is available.
>
> But I wanted to make sure to leave my opinion on this issue.
>
> C
>
>
> On Friday, October 30, 2015, <joana at varonferraz.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Ian and everyone!
>>
>> I cannot express how honored I'm for this nomination. I hope I can
>> respond to the task with the bright it entails.
>>
>> As soon as nomination is confirmed I will share a pad for people to bring
>> inputs. Will already be dreaming with some insights.
>>
>> Just a correction in my institutional presentation as I'm not CTS for
>> more then 1 and half year now :):
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Joana
>> On 30 Oct 2015 17:36, Lea Kaspar <lea at gp-digital.org> wrote:
>>
>> Congratulations to both, proud to be represented by these women.
>>
>> Many thanks to the CSCG for their work - excellent choices.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Lea
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Joana Varon (Brazil) – opening ceremony – joana at varonferraz.com
>>>
>>> Nadine Moawad (Lebanon) – closing ceremony – nadine at apcwomen.org
>>>
>>>
>>> For those who don’t know them,
>>>
>>>
>>> Joana Varon Ferraz is a researcher and project coordinator at the Centre
>>> for Technology and Society from Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro
>>>
>>> Nadine Moawad is a Lebanese feminist activist and grasssroots worker who
>>> leads Association for Progressive Communication (APC)'s sexual
>>> rights work.
>>>
>>>
>>> We commend them both as informed excellent communicators to represent
>>> civil society. They have both been informed of their nominations.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ian Peter (Independent Chair, Civil Society Coordination Group)
>>>
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