NGOs use Davos World Economic Forum Stage to Protest Sale of .org Domain Registry

[Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele]

This is another blow and absolutely a bad global press focus on ISOC.
Perhaps, a time for them to step back and reflect.

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:28 PM Sam Lanfranco <lanfran at yorku.ca> wrote:

> Colleagues,
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> https://www.devex.com/news/ngos-use-davos-stage-to-protest-sale-of-org-domain-96410
> NGOs use Davos stage to protest sale of .org domain*By Adva Saldinger
> <https://www.devex.com/news/authors/815508> // 23 January 2020*
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> DAVOS, Switzerland — Plans to sell the .org domain to a private equity
> firm have international NGOs worried that civil society, which is already
> faced with a closing civic space, will lose its digital commons.
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> The executive directors of 11 international NGOs released an open letter
> Wednesday calling on the leaders of two nonprofits — the Internet Society
> and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — to stop the
> sale of the .org domain.
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> For the rest of the Davos World Economic Forum coverage see:
> https://www.devex.com/news/ngos-use-davos-stage-to-protest-sale-of-org-domain-96410
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