[Chapter-delegates] ISOC meetings in San Francisco - Internet Observatory project proposal

[Tommi Karttaavi]

Dear Jacek,

I'm glad to hear you will participate and thanks for the information. 
I'm very interested in hearing about similar projects.

Best regards,

Tommi

On 10.3.2011 11:17, Jacek Gajewski wrote:
> Dear Tommi,
>
>       this is an exciting and useful idea and I would be glad to
> contribute. Note that there were several similar EC&  UN -funded
> projects. You can contact Prof. Oliver Popov from Stockholm
> University, who was deeply involved in them and whom I cc to this
> mail.
>
>       BTW Prof. Popov is also ISOC member and contributed substantially
> to ISOC community building in Macedonia.
>
> With best regards,
> Jacek Gajewski
> ISOC-PL
>
>
>
> 2011/3/10 Tommi Karttaavi<tommi.karttaavi at isoc.fi>:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I would like to introduce an agenda item I asked Sabrina to add to the
>> agenda a few days ago. It is a proposal for a Community Grant project called
>> "Internet Observatory".
>>
>> The project in a nutshell:
>> - International portal for information on national approaches to public
>> policy issues concerning the Internet
>> - Content consists of reports written by contributors
>> - Contributors are members of ISOC Chapters and other partners
>> - Reports are published as blog entries and categorised by tagging
>> - Reporting language is English
>> - Reports should be short, neutral, stating the facts and providing links to
>> further information (e.g. law texts, news)
>> - Reports can be discussed
>>
>> Objectives
>> - Making it easy to find and compare Internet public policy related
>> information in different countries
>> - Increasing transparency
>> - Building awareness of globally emerging issues
>>
>> We are applying for a small grant for setting up the platform and getting it
>> going.
>>
>> As you can see participation from as many chapters as possible is crucial to
>> the success of this portal, so feedback would be appreciated. We are also
>> looking for members for the project steering group (no physical meetings,
>> we'll set up a mailing list).
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Tommi
>> ISOC Finland
>>
>> On 11.2.2011 18:33, Sabrina Wilmot wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Colleagues,
>>>
>>> This is to let you know about our upcoming ISOC meetings in San Francisco
>>> alongside the ICANN 40 week. We have scheduled two meetings on the following
>>> days:
>>>
>>> 1. “Internet Society Participation @ ICANN” meeting,
>>>       Sunday 13 March 2011,
>>>       UTC 02:30-03:30 (18:30-19:30pm local)
>>>
>>> 2. ISOC Chapters and Members meeting at ICANN 40,
>>>      Tuesday 15 March 2011,
>>>      UTC 02:30-04:00 (18:30-20:00pm local)
>>>
>>> We welcome your suggestions for agenda topics, please send them
>>> to<chapter-support at isoc.org>. Please also feel free to approach us if you
>>> wish to arrange for individual meetings during the week, or in case you have
>>> any further questions. I'm happy to inform you that both, Sebastian
>>> Bellagamba and Sally Wentworth, will be in San Francisco.
>>>
>>> More details regarding the meeting rooms, remote participation, catering
>>> etc. will be provided as soon as possible. Please keep checking the meeting
>>> information on our webpage at:  http://isoc.org/wp/chapter-meetings/
>>>
>>> The notes from our previous meetings in Cartagena (at ICANN 39) are now
>>> available online:
>>> - “Internet Society Participation @ ICANN” meeting notes at
>>> http://isoc.org/wp/chapter-meetings/?p=948
>>> - ISOC Chapters and Members meeting notes at
>>> http://isoc.org/wp/chapter-meetings/?p=952
>>>
>>> As suggested during the meetings in Cartagena we are going to implement a
>>> new "icann-discuss" mailing list, more details on this will follow shortly.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sabrina Wilmot
>>> Internet Society
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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