Feb 10: Singapore Pathfinder Webinar: What every Civil Society Organization should Know about its use of the Internet and Never Dared to Ask! - Part 2

[Klaus Stoll]

Dear Amr

https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p1565uu3ujw/

Please try the link again. I just tested it and it worked for me.

As I wrote before, the outcomes of the study are included in my PPP.

Thanks

Klaus


On 2/3/2015 2:17 PM, Amr Elsadr wrote:
> Hi Klaus,
>
> The link you shared isn’t working. If you could provide another one, 
> I’d appreciate it. It’d also be helpful if you shared the study you 
> referred to.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Amr
>
> On Feb 3, 2015, at 7:23 PM, Klaus Stoll <kdrstoll at GMAIL.COM 
> <mailto:kdrstoll at GMAIL.COM>> wrote:
>
>> Dear Amr
>>
>> Greetings. All webinars are recorded and available online. The first 
>> webinar in DC is available at:
>>
>> _https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p1565uu3ujw/ 
>> <https://icann.adobeconnect.com/p1565uu3ujw/%0D>_
>>
>>
>> All webinars will be available online as audio recordings shortly 
>> after they took place.
>>
>> In addition I can only support what Lori has mentioned. From a 
>> operational concerns perspective, IP is a highly relevant and 
>> important topic. I was myself surprised when some basic research did 
>> show how much Civil Society organizations are afflicted in their work 
>> through infringements against their domains and IP. (You can find 
>> more info on this in my presentation during the first webinar).  It 
>> is right that Civil Society is concerned about most important topics 
>> like human rights, what the Pathfinder initiative and the webinars 
>> are concerned about is that Civil Society can use the DNS fairly and 
>> securely without having their rights infringed and their voices 
>> stifled. In other words, we try to make sure that the microphone is 
>> working so that others can use it to call out the messages. From this 
>> point of view I find the mix of civil society online, domain names 
>> and brand protection everything else then just a little odd, I find 
>> it essential in order to ensure that Civil Society can do its 
>> important job in the first place.
>>
>> I am also happy to let you know that we are planning for 2015 besides 
>> a number of additional regional webinars, capacity and awareness 
>> building events, 2 webinars that are specific to Civil Society and 
>> IP. We will make details for these events available shortly
>>
>> Yours
>>
>> Klaus
>>
>>
>> On 2/3/2015 1:00 PM, Amr Elsadr wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for that Lori. However…,
>>>
>>> On Feb 3, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Lori Schulman <lori.schulman at ASCD.ORG 
>>> <mailto:lori.schulman at ASCD.ORG>> wrote:
>>>
>>> [SNIP]
>>>
>>>> The idea is to create the right balance between fostering basic 
>>>> rights such as free speech and privacy while protecting the name, 
>>>> reputation and intellectual output of worthy organisations.
>>>
>>> This is precisely why I am interested to hear what this section of 
>>> the webinar will include. You’ve (as have others before) certainly 
>>> made a case for why protection of brands is important to the 
>>> operations of NGOs. The thing is; the balance you refer to would 
>>> never really be achieved if the arguments made by members of the IPC 
>>> on Policy Development Process (PDP) working groups were to go 
>>> unchecked without active pushback from those representing civil 
>>> society interests in gTLD policy development. That is generally how 
>>> some semblance of a balance is achieved. More often than not, it 
>>> does feel like an uphill struggle.
>>>
>>> So please do forgive me if I am a bit sceptical on how this webinar 
>>> will be presenting what the policy issues of importance to civil 
>>> society are. To get a feel for how what you describe is presented to 
>>> CS organisations within the context of the whole webinar, it’d be 
>>> helpful to have a recording of it archived somewhere. So are there 
>>> plans to have the webinar recorded?
>>>
>>> Thanks again.
>>>
>>> Amr
>>
>>
>

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