[Chapter-delegates] Your Chapter contributions for ISOC July 2012 Newsletter

[President of ISOC Cambodia]

Dear Jacek,

I am sorry that my report comes only after the 26 July for which you had 
asked. But the event about which I want to report happened only on 26 
July, and important feedback came after that. - If it is too late -- 
never mind. Maybe you can use it later? If not -- it is up to you.


Norbert
Internet Society - Cambodia Chapter


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Internet Society - Cambodia Chapter -- July 2012

The Cambodia Chapter works - since 2010 - in an environment where a 
variety of different Internet related initiatives are actively 
operating. We cannot and do not want to replace any, but we try to 
introduce concerns of the Internet Society worldwide which are 
traditionally not so much seen among a technology oriented Internet 
community.

During the past months we published information about developments on 
the level of ISOC Global on our own website -- http://www.isoc-kh.org 
<http://www.isoc-kh.org/>. It was with this background of the expanding 
scope of the Internet Society that some of our members cooperated to 
with others towards a panel discussion with an audience of about 100 
persons.

The appointment of Markus Kummer as Vice-President of Public Policy was 
a sign that the Internet Society is not only concerned with such 
important fields as the ones covered by the /Internet Engineering Task 
Force/ (/IETF/) and the /Internet/ /Architecture Board (///IAB///)/. 
Markus Kummer is promoting policy development related to privacy, 
cybersecurity, and network neutrality. In actual fact, this led to the 
Internet Society publicly opposing planned legislation for a /Stop 
Online Piracy Act/ - SOPA - in the USA, and the welcoming by the 
Internet Society for the Adoption of a Resolution on Human Rights and 
the Internet by the UN Human Rights Council in July 2012.

The challenge is to bring two different communities closer to each other 
-- one is those people dedicated to the expanding use of the Internet by 
improving its technological elements and the necessary infrastructure, 
and the other is those who put a focus on the concerns for human rights 
and freedom of expression.

We are happy to share information saying that this happened in a public 
event at the *Cambodian-German Cultural Center Meta House* in Phnom Penh 
on 26 July 2012:*"The Intelligent Use of Social Media"* - with two 
special rounds on *"/Social Media and Human Rights"/* and *"/Social 
Media and Innovation/."* The program contained presentations by the 
project coordinator of the Cambodian Freedom of Expression Project of 
the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), introducing a recently 
published report on */"New Media and the Promotion of Human Rights in 
Cambodia."/* And there were reports on /"Selective Internet Blocking and 
Its Legal Context" /as well as about the fact that /"everyone is a 
publisher"/ as everyone can raise their voice publicly.

The plan had been announced on Facebook - 
https://www.facebook.com/events/266410463464813/ - which has tens of 
thousands of subscribers in Cambodia -- quite more that the 100 members 
of our Chapter.

And a *"/Summary of Panel Discussion: Intelligent Use of Social Media"/* 
was published by one of the most widely read bloggers in Cambodia - have 
a look:

http://khmerbird.com/social-media/summary-of-panel-discussion-intelligent-use-of-social-media.html

Five of the seven panelists were members of our Chapter -- maybe no 
surprise, as the Chapter president had been given a major role in 
shaping the whole program. Was it an ISOC Event? No -- we did not have 
any financial expenses for this (though we would need some small money 
for some other of our needs). Was it for "branding" of our Chapter's 
name? No.

But Yes: It engaged a wider public in some of the fundamental concerns 
of the Internet Society.

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