Hello All, Received an invite for holding an "internet Social Forum" under the title "Laying the seeds for a movement for a People's Internet" from Parminder, ITforchange. Please go through the below mail, and join in the virtual meeting. The meeting is being held at thoughtworks, Hyderabad from 7PM to 9PM IST. You can join the virtual meeting at https://join.skype.com/ktbQDsptSKOs
Please refer the below mail for further details. p.s : Passing on the information, not an active member of the team, so dont have more info. ------------------------------------------ On Friday 29 July 2016 02:41 PM, parminder wrote: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [Isf] The first Internet Social Forum Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 14:39:29 +0530 From: parminder <parmin...@itforchange.net> <parmin...@itforchange.net> To: i...@internetsocialforum.net Dear All, We are sorry that there has not been any news about the first Internet Social Forum meeting. The problem is that we have still not been able to put together the required resources, although we have a venue and a ground team in Hyderabad, India, worked out. However, we are not going to allow this to dampen our spirit and commitment. It just means that it will take longer, and we see the first ISF meeting now going to early 2017. Whoever we talk to about this initiative, we find great interest, even enthusiasm. it. But the real thing is to get enough funders to put in there money - which has yet not added up. But we will get there. Although it is just I who have been corresponding with you, let me assure you that there are a number of committed people busy behind the scene to make ISF a reality! We know that it is the first ISF that requires the biggest shove, and the 'power' and importance of this area is such that once we do the first one well, it should take a momentum of its own. We do solicit any ideas, not necessarily funds related (which of course are most welcome), that you may want to contribute to holding of the first meeting of ISF. Meanwhile, we were planning to hold an event on the ISF at this year's World Social Forum in Montreal, as we held one in Tunis last year. The Montreal WSF is from 9th to 14th Aug. Although we registered an event titled " Laying the seeds for a movement for a People's Internet" for Montreal WSF, it so happens that four of us who were the key organisers of the event are all, for different reasons, not able to travel to Montreal. We have therefore cancelled the on-site meeting at Montreal. *We have now decided to hold a virtual meeting on the 5th of August, from 1330 to 1530 hrs UTC/ GMT, that some of us in India will anchor from Hyderabad, under the same topic "Laying the seeds for a movement for a People's Internet", but with the main objective of discussing and seeking inputs for holding the first ISF.* This meeting will be linked with the WSF process through the latter's extension mechanisms. We will discuss both 1. Substantive issues about what should be the major subject thrust of the ISF, what key messages sent out in its framing, whether sub activities like developing a possible People's Internet Manifesto should be taken up, and if so, at which stage, and so on. 2. Procedural issues, like what actors, organisations etc to connect with, what lessons do we have from similar WSF thematic forums in other areas, what and how resources can be gathered, local organisational on-the-ground issues, and so on. This is just a tentative agenda, and suggestions are welcome. We invite as many of you to join us in this virtual meeting, the means of doing which will be shared here soon. In Solidarity parminder On Sunday 07 February 2016 12:58 PM, parminder wrote: Dear All, We have been getting many anxious inquires about the state of the ISF :), which is understandable because many have put hopes and stakes by this idea. First of all, apologies from those of us who have been more closely involved with initially driving this idea that it took many months for us to begin shaping it into something real. It had to do with paucity of resources to commit to it, and many conflicting demands on the time of those who were pushing this idea, which I am sure you all will understand. However, the good news is that the fog is clearing now, and we have begun to have a better picture of how we will go forward. A Coordination Committee for holding the first ISF is being formed, largely with representatives of the organisations that gathered at the workshop on ISF at the World Social Forum, Tunis last year. We are adding to it a few people who have been centrally involved holding of WSFs plus another 2-3 organisations that have had such engagements and have expressed interest in getting closely involved. We welcome comments and ideas in this regard. There are two proposals on the table for holding the first ISF, one from Turkey and another from India. Since the formation of the Coordination Committee is almost complete, they should soon look into these bids and announce the venue and time of the first ISF.... Meanwhile, I may also report that we held a short, half an hour, session on 'Holding an ISF' at the Internet Governance Forum in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, last November, where we apprised IGF participants about our proposal to hold an ISF and invited their participation. We think the proposal got an enthusiastic response, not only among those who could come for the workshop, but also those with whom we spoke in the corridors, at other workshops, and so on... And yes we have a website up for the ISF http://internetsocialforum.net/isf/ . parminder IT for Change -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. 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