<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since I’m on the GIPO Advisory Group I feel compelled to respond to the call to “share with your networks,” so please see below if interested.<br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>The Global Internet Policy Observatory <a href="http://www.giponet.org" class="">www.giponet.org</a> is a European Commission-instigated effort to build a clearing house tool for Internet governance information. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>We are also looking to add a couple people to the Advisory Group and will be issuing an open RFP somewhere in the weeks ahead.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Best</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Bill</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Federica Porcu <<a href="mailto:fporcu@open-evidence.com" class="">fporcu@open-evidence.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Kind Reminder - Invitation to the next webinar "GIPO and taxonomies of internet governance - open collaboration" - Tuesday 15 September, 15:30 - 16:30 CEST (13:30-14:30 UTC)</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">September 9, 2015 at 10:32:34 AM GMT+2<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Kasia Jakimowicz <<a href="mailto:kjakimowicz@open-evidence.com" class="">kjakimowicz@open-evidence.com</a>>, David Osimo <<a href="mailto:dosimo@open-evidence.com" class="">dosimo@open-evidence.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Dear Sir/ Madam,</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><font class="">We are pleased to </font><span style="" class="">invite</span><font class=""> you to t</font></font><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">he </span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">next GIPO (Global Internet Policy Observatory) webinar:</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><font class="">"</font>GIPO and taxonomies of internet governance - open collaboration<font class="">"</font></i><font class="">, </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><b class="">15th September, 15:30 - 16:30 CEST (13:30-14:30 UTC)</b></span></font><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><div style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Please register at: </font><a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5501876288792389634" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(19,133,178);text-decoration:none;font-family:Montserrat,serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.32px" class="">https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5501876288792389634</a></div><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0pt 0px;color:rgb(76,72,72);line-height:1.38;text-align:justify" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""> </font></p><div style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Internet governance is a complex topic encompassing a broad range of aspects (technological, social, economic, developmental, legal and political). The development of a shared taxonomy is one of the key challenges for GIPO. Currently different observatories and mapping initiatives adopted different approaches to the taxonomy of internet governance, which could reduce the synergies and interoperability between the initiatives. </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Taking this into consideration, the GIPO initiative attempts to address this challenge during the development of the platform and invites the IG community for wider collaboration on the creation of a more unified conceptual approach that will simplify the interoperability of the platforms and mapping initiatives. This will also provide an important input in the ¨federation roadmap¨ that GIPO will release later this year.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">In addition, the IG taxonomy finally used (in English) should ideally also be "multilingual-aware” or expandable. This leads us to the question of how we could integrate in GIPO some kind of translation mechanism that complies with GIPO requirements.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(76,72,72);line-height:22px" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">During this webinar we will discuss taxonomies of internet governance and a possible approach to achieve maximum usability and synergies with other initiatives. </font></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify;" class="">Moreover, the GIPO Advisory Group and its role in taxonomy development will be presented. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: justify;" class="">In line with the concept of open collaboration, we invite other IG initiatives to present their developments and possible synergies with GIPO. During this webinar DiploFoundation will present its Digital Watch initiative.</span></p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 22px;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""> </font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 1.38;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><b class="">Agenda:</b></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 1.38;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">15:30 - Introduction (moderator: Kasia Jakimowicz, Open Evidence)</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 1.38;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">15:35 - </span><span style="line-height: 22.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Introduction to internet governance taxonomies (DiploFoundation)</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 1.38;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">15:45 - </span><span style="line-height: 22.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">GIPO and taxonomies of internet governance (Luis Meijuerio, Fundacion CTIC)</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 1.38;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">15:55 - </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; background-color: transparent;" class="">Presentation of Digital Watch/ Geneva Internet Platform (DiploFoundation)</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 1.38;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">16:05 - Open nominations to GIPO Advisory Group and AG role (Jamal Shahin and Trisha Meyer, VUB)</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 1.38;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">16:15 - Q&A</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 1.38;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">16:25 - Wrap up</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(76, 72, 72); line-height: 22px;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""> </font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">About GIPO platform</font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">This webinar is the third of a series of webinars and workshops aimed at engaging all those interested in Internet Governance in an active discussion on the development of the GIPO platform. </font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><b class="">GIPO </b>(the Global Internet Policy Observatory) will present a prototype tool that will be monitoring Internet-related policy, regulatory and technological developments across the world. The Observatory tool will share knowledge among all actors, including countries, NGOs and interest groups which may have been marginalised in Internet debates and decisions. </font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.giponet.org/" target="_blank" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">www.giponet.org</font></a></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(76,72,72);line-height:22px" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(76,72,72);line-height:22px" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">On behalf of GIPO team,</font></p><div class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt" class=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class=""><font size="2" color="#999999" class=""><br class=""></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt" class=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class=""><font size="2" color="#444444" class="">Federica Porcu</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt" class=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class=""><font size="2" color="#999999" class=""><br class=""></font></font></p></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:small" class=""><font color="#666666" class="">Researcher</font></span><br class=""></font></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#999999" class=""><a href="http://www.open-evidence.com/staff/federica-porcu/" style="font-size:small" target="_blank" class="">Open Evidence</a><span style="font-size:small" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#999999" class=""><span style="font-size:small" class="">E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:fporcu@open-evidence.com" style="font-size:small" target="_blank" class="">fporcu@open-evidence.com</a><span style="font-size:small" class=""> </span><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#999999" class="">Mobile: +34 722585425 /+39 3407125066</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#999999" class="">Twitter: @fedefener</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#999999" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#999999" class=""><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0ByYrkgChwHUrS0ZYUERnWTlLSDg&revid=0ByYrkgChwHUrVnd5WFptT3pKWE4wVWZlWHJWL1VHOGdOWlFjPQ" width="96" height="63" class=""></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font size="1" class="">This electronic message contains information from Federica Porcu. 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