[Chapter-delegates] A session on Internet and Internet Governance at India - invitation to remote participation.

Sun Jan 15 10:40:23 PST 2012

Dear Alejandro,

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch <
apisan at unam.mx> wrote:

>  Joly,
>
>  I will dig into my files or ask: contemporary to the presentation you
> mention was Vint's "Internet 101" delivered in the United Nations
> headquarters in New York, in a meeting which was the kick-start of all we
> now know and suffer related to WSIS, the WGIG, and the IGF.
>
>  That was the first global occasion in which the "if it ain't broke,
> don't fix it" mantra was expressed by Vint as a consequence of
> understanding how the Internet works. The understanding hasn't spread
> enough and the threats continue to arise in consequence.
>

All the 'noise' against harmful legislation comes from a handful of people
who are knowledgeable about Internet's architectural principles and core
values - ISOC members, ICANN participants, IGF participants, a handful of
civil society organizations such as the EFF, ORG, EPIC and a few others.
The size of the population  opposing harm is minuscule, largely because the
average Internet user does not know what is going on. A news item of an
Internet legislation that hurts civil liberties would be widely read, but
not all readers understand the implications in its entire depth.

Public participation in Internet policy in India is so low that one could
say that public participation is almost non-existent. What is required to
encourage participation is to reach  out at least to the technical
community with lucid presentations on Internet Basics, Threats and the harm
being done.

I posted this message to collect existing videos and slide presentations
useful for an audience so far unexposed to Internet Policy. Vint Cerf's
video would be of great help.

It would also help if Alejandro and a few others could tune into this
session and talk for about 10 minutes each.

The event is on 30 January

San Francisco  01 30 - 04 30;  Mexico:  03 30 - 06 30; UTC :  09 30 - 12
30;
Chennai:  15 00 - 18 00; New York: 04 30 - 07 30; Sofia:  11 30 - 14 30;
Hong Kong  17 30 - 20 30; Suva 21 30 - 00 30

The last one hour,  15 00 to 16 00 India time, could be relatively good
time for most time zones.  Would be helpful if you could tune in.

>  This happened at the same time as big technology events became
> impossible to finance and the global INETs died (I was in an organizing
> commitee, together with others like Mike Nelson, which had to come to the
> conclusion that ISOC could not organize it any more; the events industry
> had collapsed and there was no sponsorship money, while ISOC itself was
> barely making it to the payroll each month with a staff of very few.)
>
>  This brings us back to the strategic importance of a very successful
> INET this year. It cannot substitute for the IGF but it can begin to be a
> very different kind of meeting - one which the global, multistakeholder
> Internet community owns with joy, instead of walking into it in a
> damage-limitation mode.
>

We could organize a session on Core Internet Values in continuation of the
deliberations so far at the IGF on this theme.  A discussion on this topic
is needed at these troubled times, and the session could be organized as a
discussion between Chapters and Organizations - especially Social Networks
and Search Engines who are now the target of Governments. Chapters could
share their concerns with organizations and draw up action plans to defend
the Internet.  We have other initiatives within ISOC, such as the Internet
Observatory project and as you have suggested in a mail to me earlier, we
could involve this initiative as part of the program.

Thank you

Sivasubramanian M

>
>  Yours,
>
>  Alejandro Pisanty
>
>  Yours,
>
>  Alejandro Pisanty
>
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> *Desde:* chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org [
> chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] en nombre de Joly MacFie [
> joly at punkcast.com]
> *Enviado el:* domingo, 15 de enero de 2012 03:36
> *Hasta:* Sivasubramanian M
> *CC:* Chapter Delegates
> *Asunto:* Re: [Chapter-delegates] A session on Internet and Internet
> Governance at India - invitation to remote participation.
>
>   Siva
>
>  I have to process it, but I am going through old files and I have Vint
> Cerf's "How the Internet works in 5 minutes" from a presentation to ISOC-NY
> in 1999.
>
>  j
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>>  There is an event at Pondichery, India that attracts about 5000 +
>> students for its 10 sessions of 500 participants each. This event is
>> organized by Kokula Krishna Hari of our Chapter, and he has invited Olivier
>> Crepin LeBlond to handle a session on  IPv6 Transition<http://icca.org.in/10.html> and
>> I am to organize a session on History of Internet, Internet Governance
>> and Opportunities for Participation <http://icca.org.in/09.html>.
>>  Chapter funds are NOT utilized, but the session on History of Internet
>> covers the History of ISOC for this audience of young professionals and
>> students.
>>
>>  The session on the History of Internet would be January 30, 0930 hours
>> UTC - 1230 hours UTC.  We will work on remote participation and hope to be
>> successful. I will post an update on this event in the list, and would
>> invite Chapter Members and Chapter Leaders to tune in and participate.
>>
>>  Though we have resources in the ISOC Chapter portel, I am looking for
>> more, especially interesting short duration videos picteresquely narrating
>> the history of the Internet and videos / slides on the present developments
>> in Internet Governance, for a non-IG audience.
>>
>>  Thank you.
>>
>>  Sivasubramanian M
>> ISOC India Chennai
>> http://isocindiachennai.org
>>
>>
>>
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