Changes between Version 10 and Version 11 of projects/leadership-committee/dec-2011/reports

Timestamp:

Dec 6, 2011, 7:42:38 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Mallory Knodel

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projects/leadership-committee/dec-2011/reports

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 '''International Policy''' The annual Internet Governance Forum was held in Nairobi, Kenya in October 2011. I attended this meeting for one day and was able to meet face-to-face many of our collaborating organizers from the Association for Progressive Communications and Access Now. Access Now is also a group which MF/PL has been working more with on Internet policy issues, such as the letter that I helped them draft to the eG8 participants back in May 2011 in hopes that more civil society organizations would be invited to participate. Additionally, an Italian group asked for MF/PL's signature on a similar letter to be submitted to the eG20 in November 2011. While many other important international policy documents have been endorsed by MF/PL, the other which included collaborative feedback worth mentioning was a letter to congress against SOPA, which was subsequently signed by nearly 60 organizations. MF/PL funded the change fees for extending a layover I had already scheduled through Kenya.
 
-Future work may include working with the APC and Access, and other peer organizations, to help draft and edit policy, research, and campaign documents, as well as utilizing an announcement list for MF/PL members to endorse policy documents as well. It is perhaps more long-term work to use policy and research as a way to conduct "inreach" with MF/PL members. Taking steps forward with policy work may also include membership with CSISAC, a sub-committee of the OECD on Internet society, ICANN, or ECOSOC, in order to gain membership with the UN as an NGO.
+Future work may include working with the APC and Access, and other peer organizations, to help draft and edit policy, research, and campaign documents, as well as utilizing an announcement list for MF/PL members to endorse policy documents as well. It is perhaps more long-term work to use policy and research as a way to conduct "inreach" with MF/PL members. Taking steps forward with policy work may also include membership with CSISAC, a sub-committee of the OECD on Internet society, ICANN, or ECOSOC, in order to gain membership with the UN as an NGO. Also, this future work would need to include participation in annual conferences such as the APC membership meeting and the next IGF.
 
 '''National Policy''' There is a great deal of overlap between national and international policy work simply by the nature of Internet governance. However, there are two important developments so far this year related to national policy work: MF/PL's membership in MAG-Net and MF/PL's participation in the National Rural Assembly in June 2011. MAG-Net is a coalition of media and technology organizations in the United States that campaign around national policy issues. Hilary was our main point-person for this application, which was accepted in September 2011. The National Rural Assembly is an interesting mix of progressive policy groups who recognize the traditional disadvantage of rural places, which includes access to the Internet. My participation in the National Rural Assembly was funded by the National Rural Assembly organizing committee.