[NCUC-DISCUSS] notes from the Chaos Communication Congress

[Joana Varon]

Dear Stefania and all,

I was also able to make it to #30c3 on my personal capacity/vacations and
it was also a very exciting/interesting/enlightening experience. It is a
very powerful and engaged community which is currently more and more
conscious about the need to address internet governance issues in the
political sphere, besides technical development.

I managed to talk to some about the Brazilian meeting, thought it is still
far away from most of their work, I've had very very interesting
conversations. I'm totally up to think about how to mix these communities a
little bit in the future (under the surveillance thematic probably?, so
feel free to ping me if you wish.

For those willing to watch some of the panels at 3C, for a start, I truly
recommend watching the presentation from Jacob Applebaum about the catalog
of surveillance tools from the NSA that was released by Der Spiegel during
the event. Quite overwhelming indeed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0w36GAyZIA

all the best,

joana





On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:46 AM, David Cake <dave at difference.com.au> wrote:

> Great to hear you were able to make it, I would love to make it to c3 one
> of these years - a long way from home for me though!
> I agree that it would be great to have some sort of NCUC presence there,
> and get some of their input in IG debates
>
> Regards
>
> David
>
> On 7 Jan 2014, at 7:28 pm, Milan, Stefania <Stefania.Milan at EUI.eu> wrote:
>
> Dear NCUCers,
>
> happy new year!
>
> As the last act of 2013, I attended the Chaos Communication Congress
> (CCC). As I believe this is a relevant venue for NCUC, this mail is to
> share a few impressions/reflections that you might find interesting.
>
> The CCC (or 30C3, given this is edition number 30), is probably the
> biggest hacker festival/gathering in the world. It takes place annually
> in Germany (historically in Berlin, nowadays in Hamburg), towards the end
> of the year (December 27-30).
>
> Imagine some >9500 hackers in one place, engaged in a sort of
> around-the-clock marathon of talks, hacking and partying. Interestingly,
> there is not only politics there (not necessarily a given in this
> environment), but there are also quite some internet governance debates.
> Now, we have to understand internet governance in its broadest sense, one
> that includes the current hot issue (surveillance) and a variety of public
> policy issues concering data privacy, transparency, retention etc.
> There were debates on SOPA/PIPA (nothing new here), on the EU policies
> concerning privacy and data retention, on net neutrality... and the rooms
> were very, very full.
>
> I believe the NCUC should make sure to have a presence at CCC as well, and
> more generally liaise with hacker community(ies). You might remember that
> I am very new to this ICANN business, but particularly concerned with
> inclusion and participation of those communities which are excluded (or,
> best said, typically self-excluded) from these processes - yet, they are
> relevant communities and have much to say, with a legitimacy which is
> derived from serving very real communities, and from a hands-on approach
> that is informed, very concrete and problem-solving-oriented (while being
> rooted on hacker ethics). The challenge is to think about ways in which
> this wonderful container of ideas, values and knowledge can be involved in
> what we do and care about.
>
> If you are curious, check out the (messy) event blog: events.ccc.de - and
> do drop me an email if you are interesting in exchanging ideas or have any
> suggestion in this regard.
>
> Happy new year!
> Stefania
>
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