DC3 September 2018

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A Community-Run ISP Is the Highest Rated Broadband Company in America

by Marco Zennaro

Interesting news: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5k5m/consumer-reports-broadban… <https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5k5m/consumer-reports-broadban…> Cheers, Marco Marco Zennaro, PhD // Research Officer // T/ICT4D Lab // ICTP // wireless.ictp.it

5 years, 2 months

Microsoft Airband Initiative Grant Fund

by Raoul Plommer

Hi guys, I instantly thought of you, especially Nicholas. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/affordable-access-initiative/grant-fund -Raoul

5 years, 9 months

Draft Guidelines to EU Policy-Makers on Community Networks

by Félix Tréguer

Dear all, At netCommons.eu, we're expanding on the open letter from last year [1] to move towards guidelines to European policy-makers on steps that can be taken to support the development of Community Networks and adapt the regulatory framework accordingly. The draft document takes stock of the new rules agreed upon at the EU level as a result of our work with European CNs and digital rights groups, using these provisions as a platform to start a dialogue between CNs across Europe and regulators. We will be releasing that policy brief next month. In the meantime, any comment/feedback would be greatly appreciated. https://etherpad.netcommons.eu/p/wp4-guidelines_policymakers Thanks, Félix [1] https://netcommons.eu/?q=news/open-letter-eu-policy-makers-community-networ…

5 years, 11 months

WSIS Conclusions

by Karla Velasco

Hello everybody, As WSIS just took place a couple of weeks ago, I just wanted to ask to the ones who went or the ones who followed it, if there were any important conclusions or statements on Community Networks or Community Connectivity. Any information or document would be of great help! Best, Karla Velasco Ramos www.redesac.org.mx +52 1 55 36 66 69 24

5 years, 11 months

Open Source Wind Turbine- 1 kw

by Glenn McKnight

Hi Folks I have installed a 500 Watt Solar system and we hooked up the system to our greenhouse and to the demonstration trailer https://www.flickr.com/photos/glennmcknight/albums/72157699002999371 My next project is to install a small Open Source Wind Turbine . I am looking for any suggestions for templates or suppliers for a suitable system. Thanks Glenn McKnight NARALO Secretariat mcknight.glenn(a)gmail.com http://toronto.ieee.ca/ IEEE Toronto SIGHT Chair glenn.mcknight(a)ieee.org skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight 289-830 6259 .

6 years

Open Letter on Business and Human Rights Treaty

by Luca Belli

Dear all, Please find below a forwarded email from Surya Deva of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. They are seeking signatures from academics (must have academic affiliation) for an open letter that aims to advance the zero draft of the Business and Human Rights treaty. If you or your colleagues have an interest in this particular initiative, please direct emails directly to Surya (see contact below) by 28 September. All the best, Luca [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_direito_rio.jpg] Luca Belli, PhD Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_tel.jpg]+55 21 3799 5763 t @1lucabelli<https://twitter.com/1lucabelli> [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_direito_rio_map.j… de Botafogo, 190 13º andar Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - CEP: 22250-900 [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_ass_email.jpg] luca.belli(a)fgv.br<mailto:luca.belli@fgv.br> [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_ass_url.jpg]inter… <https://internet-governance.fgv.br/> De: Surya Deva [mailto:suryad@cityu.edu.hk] Enviada em: quinta-feira, 27 de setembro de 2018 11:55 Para: Luca Belli <luca.belli(a)fgv.br> Assunto: RE: Invitation to join an open letter to states re the BHR Treaty Dear Luca Please feel free to circulate to other academics who may be interested to join this letter. They should write to me (suryad(a)cityu.edu.hk<mailto:suryad@cityu.edu.hk>) by Friday evening. Thanks in advance! Should I add your name? pl let me know. Best Surya Dear all As you may know, an open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights – established by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2014 – is currently negotiating an international legally binding instrument: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/WGTransCorp/Pages/IGWGOnTNC.aspx The fourth session of the OEIGWG is scheduled for 15-19 October 2018 to discuss a zero draft of the proposed instrument as well as its optional protocol. I along with a few other scholars have drafted an open letter to states. Please see the attached letter. It makes three points: (i) that an international legally binding instrument is needed to complement existing regulatory initiatives at national, regional and international levels; (ii) that the zero draft of the proposed instrument as well as the optional protocol provides a concrete basis for states to negotiate in good faith; and (iii) that there is sufficient legal basis to hold further sessions (including the Fourth Session) without a new resolution of the Human Rights Council. We are inviting scholars from all the over world to join this open letter to states to be released on Monday, 1 October 2018. If you would like to sign the letter, please send an email to me – mentioning your name and your institutional affiliation – latest by Friday, 28 September. Kindly do not publish or post the letter before 1 October. You may though circulate within your networks to collect signatures. Apologies in advance for cross-posting. Best Surya ------------------------------- Surya Deva Associate Professor School of Law, City University of Hong Kong 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel.: (852) 3442 7370 Fax: (852) 3442 0190 Skype: surya.deva Twitter: @ProfSuryaDeva<https://twitter.com/ProfSuryaDeva> Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours<http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/human-rights/building-tre…> Human Rights Obligations of Business: Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect?<http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/human-rights/human-rights…> Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations: Humanizing Business <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415715270/> Some of Surya's papers are available on SSRN<http://ssrn.com/author=403831> Disclaimer: This email (including any attachments) is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential information and/or copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email and all copies from your system. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other form of unauthorized dissemination of the contents is expressly prohibited.

6 years

DCs+MAG IGF Main Session on Sustainable Development

by Luca Belli

Dear all, As I mentioned in August,some DCs are organising an IGF session on SDGs with some MAG members. In case anyone is interested in knowing more there will be a DC coordination meeting on the topic (see details below) DC Coordination Meeting XXI Friday, September 28, 2018 2:00 pm | Greenwich Time (Reykjavik, GMT) | 1 hr Register <https://intgovforum.webex.com/intgovforum/j.php?RGID=r01ee9cff349f8b7ea1273…> Personally, I cannot participate to the organisation of this session due to a very packed agenda over the next weeks. If anyone wants to prepare a 1-page paper stressing the relation between the activity of this DC and the SDGs, as background for the thematic session, please be my guests. All the best Luca --------- Original Message --------- Subject: [nncoalition] DCs+MAG IGF Main Session on Sustainable Development From: LB(a)lucabelli.net<mailto:LB@lucabelli.net> Date: 8/15/18 8:40 am To: "DC NN" <nncoalition(a)mailman.edri.org<mailto:nncoalition@mailman.edri.org>>, dcpr(a)lists.platformresponsibility.info<mailto:dcpr@lists.platformresponsibility.info> Cc: "Luca Belli" <luca.belli(a)fgv.br<mailto:luca.belli@fgv.br>> Dear all, Please see the invitation below in case you are interested Best Luca --------- Original Message --------- Subject: [DC] Sign Up for IGF Main Session Organizing Team! From: "Eleonora Mazzucchi" <eleonora.mazzucchi(a)un.org<mailto:eleonora.mazzucchi@un.org>> Date: 8/15/18 6:30 am To: "dc(a)intgovforum.org<mailto:dc@intgovforum.org>" <dc(a)intgovforum.org<mailto:dc@intgovforum.org>>, "Markus Kummer" <kummer.markus(a)gmail.com<mailto:kummer.markus@gmail.com>>, "Jutta Croll" <jcroll(a)digitale-chancen.de<mailto:jcroll@digitale-chancen.de>> Dear DC Members/Coordinators, In line with what was discussed in our last meeting, DCs will be co-organizing with MAG members the thematic main session at the IGF on 'Development, Innovation & Economic Issues' with a focus on the SDGs. To kickstart the planning, a mailing list for each of the session organizing teams has been set up. We invite all DCs interested to please subscribe themselves asap to the list for the Development session here: https://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/development-innovation-economiciss… The MAG members who have so far indicated they will be part of this effort are: Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro Jennifer Chung Wisdom Donkor Kenta Mochizuki Pablo Bello Timea Suto Ben Wallis Raquel Gatto If there are any questions on the list, please do not hesitate to reach out. We hope many of you will sign on and join the planning team!!! Very best, Eleonora

6 years

Alphabet's Loon Balloons Can Now Cover 1000km of Internet Connectivity via 1 Access Point

by Glenn McKnight

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20180913_alphabet_loon_balloons_cover_1000km_… Glenn McKnight NARALO Secretariat mcknight.glenn(a)gmail.com http://toronto.ieee.ca/ IEEE Toronto SIGHT Chair glenn.mcknight(a)ieee.org skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight 289-830 6259 .

6 years

Intro to OLI & an offsite during at IGF

by Don Means

Hi All, Per Jane’s recommendation, allow me to introduce a group that formed (is still forming) earlier this year at the ASU Library who hosted the Offline Internet Summit <https://asunow.asu.edu/20180219-solutions-offline-internet-summit-asu-laura…> Cc:’d here is Jérémy Lachal, who co-chairs the OLI software group in addition to being Directeur Général / Executive Director, Bibliothèques Sans Frontières / Libraries Without Borders www.bibliosansfrontieres.org <http://www.bibliosansfrontieres.org/> OLI is great group of people with lots of overlapping interests to the DC-3. As does another IGF dynamic coalition for Public Access at Libraries (DC-PAL includes other centers). IGF Session on Nov. 14 at 10:00am. It’s our thinking that these represent three tightly interlocking, mutually reinforcing approaches to (actually) achieving universal access/inclusion and hope for more interactions/alignments. IGF should be the place! Thanks, Don Means, Director GigLibraries.Net

6 years

DC3 Session (only 60 minutes)

by Luca Belli

Dear all, The IGF schedule is online https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/678… As you may notice the DC3 session will be on Day 1 - Monday 12 November, from11:10 to 12:10. The draft description of our session, as discussed in June, is available here https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2018-community-network… You will also notice that, unfortunately, the MAG has decided to maintain a reduced time-slot for DC sessions, allowing only 60 minutes for all DC session, as it did last year. This decision imposes some adjustments in the session organization, in order to fir in the reduced time-slot. Fortunately, we still have almost 2 months to make such adjustments in the most efficient way. Let me share my concern as regards the MAG decision to keep on limiting DC session to 60 minutes, which is of course a very shortsighted decision , as it is extraordinary hard to present the work of the DC, have a constructive debate and request feedback in only 60 minutes. I have formally voiced my disapproval of the MAG decision, stressing that this is not only counterproductive but also very discriminatorily applied (only to DC sessions and not to Best Practice Fora that, of course, are organized by MAG members) through a very opaque and unaccountable process (as, on the IGF website, there is no trace of when this decision was taken and what was its motivation) and totally disregards the many contributions sent during the stocktaking consultation, early this year, which praised the work of the DCs and requested to restore a 90 minute slot. I attach below the message I shared yesterday on the DC coordinators list to stress my disapproval. Here is the full list of MAG members, in case you want to reconsider your support (assuming that anyone here supports them) https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/mag-2018-members Here is the publicly available email address of the Secretariat in case you want to voice your concern igf(a)un.org<mailto:igf@un.org> Needless to say, it would be good to voice your concern during the next stocktaking consultation that, hopefully, will be not disregarded by the MAG again. Best regards Luca [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_direito_rio.jpg] Luca Belli, PhD Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_tel.jpg]+55 21 3799 5763 t @1lucabelli<https://twitter.com/1lucabelli> [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_direito_rio_map.j… de Botafogo, 190 13º andar Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - CEP: 22250-900 [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_ass_email.jpg] luca.belli(a)fgv.br<mailto:luca.belli@fgv.br> [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_ass_url.jpg]inter… <https://internet-governance.fgv.br/> Dear Farzaneh, You are raising some legitimate points and I think many of us would agree with several concerns you are voicing. However, your account seems a little incomplete and this line of thinking seems to be very subjectively implemented by the MAG. Moreover although the MAG, as the IGF programme committee, has the authority to take decisions regarding the IGF programme, there is no trace of such decision and its motivation in any part of the IGF website, besides the IGF draft schedule, which of course is already the implementation of the decision. Let me briefly elaborate on each of these points, for the sake of clarity. Of course there are some DCs that have been more "dynamic" than others and, personally, I am on record in at least three occasions arguing that DC time slots should be based on a differentiated approach considering what outcome each DC plans to develop for the upcoming IGF (60 minutes are sufficient for discussing the update of a previously initiated outcome but largely insufficient when you have to present and request feedback on a completely new and large outcome such as a 200+ page report with 30+ co-authors). NOTE that the application of such differentiated approach, using clearly specified criteria, would not be a way to punish DCs but rather a strategy to stimulate outcome production and foster appropriate schedule planning (objectives that one would assume should orientate the MAG's activities). However, let me point that this critical approach equally applies to BPFs. There is no reason to limit it to DCs. It is quite easy to check the IGF webstie and realise that, exactly as DCs, some BPF are cleraly more innovative/ productive than others. Moreover, your narrative fails to acknowledge that the large majority of DCs have acted not only in the public interest but in the collective IGF community interest, demonstrating with solid achievements that DCs (and IGF in general) are not mere talking shops but can promote research, concretely suggest policy and being heard, and be incredible vectors of stakeholder engagement and coordination. If you wanted to adopt a case-by-case differentiated evaluation, than you would have to give 120 minutes to those DCs who concretely produce outcomes that are utilisable and utilised by stakeholders. Here we come to the discriminatory implementation of what may otherwise be a very legitimate critique. The critique you raise is only applied to DC sessions and it seems quite evident that the only reason for this "special" treatment is that BPFs are organised by MAG members. Furthermore, although the reduction of time-slots may be in line with reduced-time optimisation, it seems quite incompatible with the fact that the MAG started reducing DC slots last year, when both time and space where quite abundant. Last year, on the afternoon of 14 December (which means less than 2 working days before the beginning of the IGF 2017) I personally received - together with many other session organisers - an invitation to organise a 30 minute-long flash session as there were 20 free slots! This means that, when the MAG started cutting 30 minutes per DC session, they even forgot to reallocate the time-slots that had been cut, which were available and unused until 2 days before IGF 2017!!! This brings me to a final consideration to reply to the fact that the MAG, as IGF programme committee, has the power to reduce session length. Of course it has this power and no-one has ever contested this, but could anyone share a publicly available document (i) relating when such decision was taken, (ii) providing a motivation for the decision and (iii) stressing why the time-slot reduction is applied only to specific intersessional activities rather than all? I have been asking for this explanation for almost a year. Either I have been ignored or there is no such document. In both cases I would not really qualify this as the most transparent and accountable scenario. Unfortunately, this looks like one of those situations in which some stakeholders are more equal than others and very short-sighted choices have been made for the sole purpose of demonstrating that the MAG has the power to define the programme. Fine, it has it and quite honestly no-one has ever questioned it. What is in question is the WAY it is used. IMHO, the purpose of the MAG should be to facilitate the work of those who are producing useful outcomes, debating them at IGF and allowing IGF participants to provide their feedback. This looks very unlikely to happen in 60 minutes. Although the original considerations you raise may be absolutely legitimate, their discriminatory and short-sighted application simply undermines the credibility of the MAG's decisions. And it is not really reassuring to see that MAG members are taking more than two years to understand these quite elementary considerations. With my best regards, Luca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Luca Belli, PhD Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School Chercheur Associé, Centre de Droit Public Comparé, Université Paris 2 www.internet-governance.fgv.br @1lucabelli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message, as well as any attached document, may contain information that is confidential and privileged and is intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying or distribution of this email or attached documents, or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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