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

[Stephanie Perrin]

That sounds like a great idea to me!

cheers Stephanie


On 2018-01-14 2:31 PM, farzaneh badii wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>> wrote:
>
>     1++ to Stephanie
>
>     wolfgang
>
>
>
>
>     -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>     Von: NCSG-Discuss im Auftrag von Stephanie Perrin
>     Gesendet: So 14.01.2018 18:30
>     An: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>     <mailto: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.
>
>     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 <mailto:farzaneh.badii at GMAIL.COM>
>     >> To: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>     <mailto: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>
>     >> <mailto: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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