<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px">The call for CROPP can be brief:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px">NCUC EC has decided to allocate the "CROPP travel" to RightsCON. Rightscon will be held at the end of March. We will have a workshop there, the detail is below. Please apply by  6 PM UTC, Thursday 9th Feb 2017. Note that since the event will be in Europe, applications from Europe will qualify for this. Please indicate your contribution to the below workshop and a plan for outreach in general at RightsCon (who you will approach, what activities will you initiate etc). The EC will have to decide on a candidate on Friday 10th Feb at 9 AM UTC.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px">Please send your application (just a letter why you want to go there) to me and cc Maryam: Maryam Bakoshi <<a href="mailto:maryam.bakoshi@icann.org">maryam.bakoshi@icann.org</a>></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px">I apologize for the very short notice. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px">Best regards, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px">Farzaneh</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px">***</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Title/Position: Member</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_-1619969477536318806gmail-im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br>Have you, or any co-organizers, organized a RightsCon session before?: No<br><br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Session Title: Content regulation and private ordering at Internet</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">governance institutions</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Session Format: Panel</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">What theme does this session fall under?: Freedom of Expression</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Please describe what you want to do in your session: issue relevant to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">the Internet due to the existence of myriad of players deploying,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">running and managing ICT networks and services and inability of the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">governments to control complex decentralised Internet and address all</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">the existing trheats with the traditional top-down approaches. Private</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">ordering is common in the field of ICT, cybersecurity and cybercrime.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">In particular, it is used in Internet governance institutions such as</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">the Internet Corperation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">mainly creates and implements policies through a bottom-up,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">multistakeholder process and via contractual agreements. Due to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">different concerns related to human rights, private enforcement and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">narrow technical remit of ICANN, it is widely agreed among different</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">stakeholders that ICANN's contracts  and policies must not lead ICANN</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">to become a content regulator on the Internet. This session will</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">primarily address the following issues:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">•       What is private ordering and how do we see it manifest on the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Internet as a new vehicle for content regulation?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">•       What are the key trends and risks digital rights protectors must be</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">aware of and defend against</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">•       The example of ICANN - how do ICANN's policies affect the content on</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">the Internet?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">•       What are the dangers for Internet governance institutions, platforms</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">and the broader Internet Governance ecosystem if they step into the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">domain of enforcing / facilitating enforcement of content regulation?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">•       It will also put forward some solutions as to how the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">multistakeholder community can prevent Internet governance</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">organizations from becoming a content regulator.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">These solutions might be even used in other Internet governance</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">institutions that online platforms that are prone to become content</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">regulators or are already regulating or being forced/expected to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">regulate content.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_-1619969477536318806gmail-im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br><br>Who will be joining you in this session? Have you confirmed their<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">participation? Who will be moderating this session?: The list of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">panellists is no finalized yet. In finalizing the list we consider</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">gender, stakeholder groups and regional diversity.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">We  have interested members of Noncommercial Users Constitutency at</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">ICANN who are willing to speak and lead the session. They have a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">strong academic and activism background and have a wide range of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">experience in Internet governance institutions, cybersecurity,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">cybercrime and knowledge of multistakeholder governance, freedom of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">expression and many more. As to inviting other speakers from the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">industry and government, we would be grateful for suggestions but we</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">also have a network of members of the private sector who work with</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">private ordering on their day to day job and government representative</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">who are against private ordering.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_-1619969477536318806gmail-im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br><br>What outcomes would you like to achieve with your session, and how<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">will you transition these activities into post-conference action?: Our</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">session will lead to an outcome document on the definition of content</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">regulation, what is ICANN doing with regards to content regulation and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">in which areas it has become a content regulator. It will also make</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">suggestions as to how ICANN could be prevented from regulating content</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">by policymaking and multistakeholder participation</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Anything else we should know?: We need RP and would be grateful if we</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">could recruit speakers from the industry and governments.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">How long would you like this session to last?: 75 minutes</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Please list any keywords for your proposed session: Content</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">regulation, ICANN,Censorship, Freedom of Expression</span><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="margin:2px 0px 0px"><div id="gmail-:1w9" class="gmail-ajR" tabindex="0"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div>
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