[IRP] [governance] Second Latin American and Caribbean Preparatory Meeting for the IGF

[Ginger Paque]

Count me in too! Just let me know....
Best,
Ginger

Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza wrote:
> Hi everyone: just to let you know that we at the Center for Technology
> and Society (CTS/FGV) are willing to help in the organization of the
> IRP workshop here in Rio in August.
>
> It would be important for the regional meeting to reflect the debates
> that are going on inside the DCs. In addition to that, a major debate
> over the balance between the needs of criminal prosecution and the
> enforcement of human rights at the Internet environment is going on in
> Brazil nowadays, as some of you may have heard, due to the proposal of
> a very controversial Bill-of-Law. For reasons like that it would be
> important to have the IRP DC staging this debate at the Rio meeting.
>
> Count us in for the organization of such workshop. It would be very
> nice to have some input from the members of the DC on what to target
> in the event and, of course, all the help we can get to organize (and
> think about) the workshop down here in Rio would be great.
>
> Best,
> Carlos
>
>
> 2009/7/15 Graciela Selaimen <graciela at rits.org.br>:
>   
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I agree that it's a good opportunity for the IRP LAC members to meet in
>> August.
>> I'd suggest that the members of the coalition that are keen to organizing a
>> meeting write directly to the group of organizers - which includes, beside
>> myself, Carlos Afonso, Valeria Betancourt and Raul Echeberria.
>>
>> all the best,
>> Graciela
>>
>> Jaco Aizenman escreveu:
>>     
>>> Agree!.
>>>
>>> 2009/7/14, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi Max and all,
>>>> I would be interested, but do not know if the agenda is set. Graciela
>>>> could tell us.
>>>>
>>>> I think rights and principles is an especially important area for LA
>>>> right now.
>>>>
>>>> What do others say?
>>>>
>>>> Saludos,
>>>> Ginger
>>>>
>>>> Max Senges wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hola Graciela, Carlos, Ginger, Olga, Jaco y todos los participantes de
>>>>> america latina
>>>>> is there interest in organizing a Rights and Principles related
>>>>> workshop during the Latin American IGF?
>>>>>
>>>>> Saludos
>>>>> Max
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Graciela Selaimen
>>>>> <graciela at rits.org.br <mailto:graciela at rits.org.br>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>    Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>>    [sorry for cross posting]
>>>>>
>>>>>    The registrations for the Second Latin American and Caribbean
>>>>>    Preparatory Meeting for the IGF are now open. The meeting will be
>>>>>    held in Rio de Janeiro, in August, 2009.
>>>>>
>>>>>    The proposal of the regional preparatory meetings of the IGF is
>>>>>    being considered since the Rio de Janeiro's IGF meeting in 2007,
>>>>>    when it was identified the need for a more intense regionalization
>>>>>    of the IGF process. In the Egypt meeting there will be specific
>>>>>    spaces in the schedule for regional inputs, where there will be
>>>>>    presented the priorities of each region, discussed in the
>>>>>    preparatory meetings. To effectively take advantage of the space
>>>>>    dedicated to Latin America and the Caribbean, the Nupef Institute,
>>>>>    RITS, APC, (Association for Progressive Communications) and LACNIC
>>>>>    (Latin American and Caribbean Internet Registry) are organizing
>>>>>    the Second Latin American and Caribbean Preparatory Meeting for
>>>>>    the IGF - that will happen in Rio de Janeiro from August 11th to
>>>>>    August 13th, at the Novo Mundo Hotel. This meeting has the goal to
>>>>>    inform and raise awareness among LAC players about the topics and
>>>>>    discussions of the global IGF, to promote the debate on central
>>>>>    topics of the IGF 2009 and to identify the priorities of the
>>>>>    region in each of the topics.
>>>>>
>>>>>    The first meeting was organized by the same institutions, in
>>>>>    Montevideo, in 2008, and brought important inputs for the debates
>>>>>    that occured in the IGF Hyderabad.
>>>>>
>>>>>    Detailed information about the agenda and the event organization
>>>>>    is avalable in the following web
>>>>>    site: http://www.nupef.org.br/igf/english/
>>>>>
>>>>>    For further information about the Internet Governance Forum please
>>>>>    visit:
>>>>>    http://www.intgovforum.org/ <http://www.intgovforum.org/>
>>>>>
>>>>>    Results and information of the Regional Preparatory Meeting of the
>>>>>    IGF 2008:
>>>>>    http://lacnic.net/en/eventos/mvd2008/igf.html
>>>>>
>>>>>    regards,
>>>>>    Graciela
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>       
>>     
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