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

[Ayden Férdeline]

Dear Divina,

Congratulations on your appointment! It is comforting to know that we have an NCUC member on this High Level Group.

Best wishes,

Ayden

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> Subject: Re: FYI: EC appoints 39 experts [one from ICANN] to a new high level group on fake news and online disinformation.
> Local Time: 14 January 2018 9:53 PM
> UTC Time: 14 January 2018 20:53
> From: divina.meigs at ORANGE.FR
> To: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>
> I'll be very happy to discuss with Veni Markovski... as I have been appointed to that High Level Expert Group as well... let me know if you need me to push some issues from the perspective of academia and/or civil society
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>>> Message du 14/01/18 20:36
>>> De : "Stephanie Perrin" <stephanie.perrin at MAIL.UTORONTO.CA>
>>> A : NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>>> Copie à :
>>> Objet : Re: [NCSG-Discuss] FYI: EC appoints 39 experts [one from ICANN] to a new high level group on fake news and online disinformation.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>> 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> 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
>>>>> 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
>>>>> >> 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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