Fatima Cambronero's Blog (5)

Dear friends,

I would like to accept Ginger’s invitation to participate at the MAG nominating process.

I form part of a civil society organization from Cordoba, Argentina and I am involved in different spaces related to the Internet Governance field (LACRALO, ICANN, LACIGF, IGF, ISOC, Internet Governance Caucus, DiploFoundation, GigaNet).

Last year I was a Civil Society Candidate for MAG endorsed by the IGC (Internet Governance Caucus).

This year I would be…

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Inclusiveness: attendance, collaboration and capacity building at LACIGF5

 

One of the positive results from LACIGF5 was the inclusion factor.

 

There were many new actors into the Internet Governance fora, particularly local stakeholders, and the event format has made room for the new voices to bring their fresh perspectives into IG issues that they are directly involved with.

 

And the participants who were already familiar with the…

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LACIGF5: recurrent themes and emerging issues

Following the previous post about the multistakeholder and bottom up processes in Latin America and Caribbean preparatory meeting for Internet Governance Forum – LACIGF5 [ http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/lacigf5-bogota-colombia-24-to-26-september-2012 ], this post…

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In the footsteps of the global IGF - a regional IGF's experience: LACIGF5 

From 24 to 26 September 2012, it took place the Fifth Latin American and Caribbean Regional Preparatory Meeting to the United Nations Internet Governance Forum, so called LACIGF5, being held in Bogotá, Colombia.  

LACIGF5 underlies in the 'bottom-up' process, a key principle to Internet Governance, from the venue selection to discussions framework.  

To define the venue, the…

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In first place, we are to distinguish between "Fundamental Rights", on the one hand, and "Human Rights" on the other one. It will also include a contrast between the reasons both in favor and against the idea of considering the access to the Internet as a "Fundamental Right".



To this end, we start… Continue