FYI: EC appoints 39 experts [one from ICANN] to a new high level group on fake news and online disinformation.

[Stephanie Perrin]

Personally, I am not worried at all about Veni Markovski being the rep 
here, he has been around a long time and has a great reputation.  He was 
originally on CPSR.  I also think it is important that ICANN have 
representation here, to defend against any bright ideas folks may come 
up with to make ICANN the "one-stop-shopping" centre approach that some 
parties have wanted/expected it to take.  I do think we should invite 
Mr. Markovski to brief us in the future on what is going on with this group.

Kind regards,

Stephanie Perrin


On 2018-01-13 8:40 AM, Ayden Férdeline wrote:
> Hopefully they have joined to make the case for why the technical 
> community should not be involved in content regulation. But I fear I'm 
> giving them too much benefit of the doubt. There should be 
> transparency and community involvement in these important discussions, 
> but sadly I know there won't be, and all we can probably hope for is a 
> vague blog post after the fact.
>
> — Ayden
>
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: FYI: EC appoints 39 experts [one from ICANN] to a new 
>> high level group on fake news and online disinformation.
>> Local Time: 13 January 2018 2:15 PM
>> UTC Time: 13 January 2018 13:15
>> From: farzaneh.badii at GMAIL.COM
>> To: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>>
>> Thank you Sam. We are championing for ICANN not to become a content 
>> regulator and ICANN staffer get appointed to EC initiative on fake 
>> news and online disinformation. I really wonder why. Why should ICANN 
>> be even involved with this?
>>
>>
>> Farzaneh
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:04 PM, Sam Lanfranco <lanfran at yorku.ca 
>> <mailto:lanfran at yorku.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>     FYI:
>>
>>     The European Commission (EC) has appointed 39 experts to a new
>>     High Level Group (HLEG) on fake news and online disinformation.
>>     It comprises representatives of the civil society, social media
>>     platforms, news media organisations, journalists and academia.
>>     Professor dr. Madeleine de Cock Buning is nominated to chair the
>>     Group.
>>
>>     The ICANN person in the HLEG  is Veni Markovski, currently
>>     ICANN's Vice-President for UN engagement, based in New York.
>>
>> -- 
>> Farzaneh
>

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