Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Request for proposals/Appel à Propositions

[Bob Omondi]

Dear listers:

Please note that this has now need extended accordingly. Please read the
full advert here: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-11-30-en

Regards
Bob.

2015-12-01 15:01 GMT+03:00 Yaovi Atohoun :

> Dear all / Bonjour à tous,
>
> ENGLISH:  Please go to
> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-11-30-en for more
> information on the announcement.  The deadline for submission is  Dec 05,
> 2015 at  23:59 UTC.
> Français:  Prière visiter
> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-11-30-en pour plus de
> détails concernant un appel à propositions. La date limite est bien le 05
> décembre à 23h59 UTC.
>
> Thanks/Merci
> -
> Yaovi Atohoun
> Stakeholder Engagement and Operations  Manager – Africa
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[AfrICANN-discuss] RightsCon Silicon Valley: Extended submission deadline fast approaching

[Ephraim Percy Kenyanito]

​Dear All,

Apologies for cross posting (incase you have seen this message somewhere
else)

We wanted to share an important update for RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016
 (Wednesday March 30- Friday April 1, 2016). We
received lots of requests for it, so we’re happy to announce that we
have extended
the program session submission deadline until Monday, December 14, 2015!

Confirmed Speaker Highlights (To Date)

   -

   David Kaye , UN Special
   Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression
   -

   Nicole Wong
   
,
   Former US Deputy CTO, Legal Director for Products @Twitter, VP & Deputy GC
   for Google
   -

   Salil Shetty , Secretary General of
   Amnesty International, and former Director of the United Nations Millennium
   Campaign
   -

   Bruce Schneier
   
,
   Internationally renowned security technologist, cryptographer, privacy
   specialist, and author of 13 books
   -

   Eileen Donahoe ,
   Director of Global Affairs at Human Rights Watch, former U.S. Ambassador to
   the United Nations
   -

   Matthew Prince
   
,
Co-Founder and CEO of CloudFlare, a website performance and security
   service that processes more than 5% of global web requests
   -

   Judith Lichtenberg
   
,
Executive Director at Global Network Initiative, previously Head of
   Regulatory Affairs & Digital Rights at Vodafone Netherlands
   -

   Ron Deibert
   
,
   Director of the Citizen Lab, renowned author (including Access
   Controlled), and founder of Psiphon, one of the world’s leading digital
   censorship circumvention services
   -

   Stephen Lowe
   
,
   Head of Business and Human Rights/Freedom of Expression Team, Human Rights
   and Democracy Department, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
   -

   Ejim Dike
   ,
   Executive Director of the US Human Rights Network, and former Director of
   the Human Rights Project at the Urban Justice Center.
   -

   Dan Bross , Senior Director of Corporate
   Citizenship at Microsoft
   -

   Joe Cannataci
   , UN
   Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy
   -

   Cindy Cohn , Executive
   Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
   -

   Chris Riley , Head of Public Policy,
   Mozilla
   -

   Paul Nemitz ,  Director for Fundamental
   Rights and Union Citizenship, European Commission.
   -

   Esra'a Al Shafei,  Founder and director
   of Mideast Youth, a network of online platforms marginalized voices
   throughout the Middle East and North Africa, Bahrain
   -

   Yasmin Green , Head of Research and
   Development for Google Ideas
   -

   Jillian York , Director
   for International Freedom of Expression Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
   -

   Barton Gellman , Journalist, bestselling
   author, and Pulitzer Prize-winner on the global surveillance disclosure
   -

   Morgan Marquis-Boire ,  Director
   of Security for First Look Media, contributing writer for The Intercept,
   and Senior Researcher and Technical Advisor at the Citizen Lab
   -

   Walid Al-Saqaf
   ,
   Board Trustee for the Internet Society (ISOC)
   -

   Lisl Brunner , Facilitator for the
   Telecommunications Industry Dialogue at The Global Network Initiative
   -

   Chinmayi Arun , Research
   Director of Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University,
   Delhi
   -

   Kenneth Carter , Counsel at CloudFlare, a
   website performance and security service that processes more than 5% of
   global web requests
   -

   Rebecca MacKinnon , Author of Consent of the
   Networked, Co-founder of Ranking Digital Rights, GNI and Global Voices
   -

   Esther Dyson ,