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

[farzaneh badii]

We can  invite Veni to our NCSG open meeting at ICANN 61. I think direct
communication would be better and ncsg open meeting in PR might have better
remote participation and more members would join.

O Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 1:12 PM "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <
wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:

> 1++ to Stephanie
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> wolfgang
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: NCSG-Discuss im Auftrag von Stephanie Perrin
> Gesendet: So 14.01.2018 18:30
> An: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Betreff: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] FYI: EC appoints 39 experts [one from ICANN]
> to a new high level group on fake news and online disinformation.
>
> 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.
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> Kind regards,
>
> Stephanie Perrin
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>
> 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
> >
>
-- 
Farzaneh
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