Dear all, I refer to the email sent by the Representative of ApTI and feel the need to bring clarity, as a non-fact based information of a defamation nature was spread to the community and can affect the image and the work done by the organization I lead, TaC-Together against Cybercrime, the team and dozen of volunteers doing great job every day to empower users in the field of safe and responsible Internet. Furthermore the neutrality was broken during a sensible nominating period, as ApTI mail can affect and influence other members of the community To bring facts to the community, I would like to underline: 1. TaC is a non for profit working on cybercrime, cybersecurity and Internet governance. Strong focus is empowerment of users and the most vulnerable, as well as Child online protection. 2. Our work is based on transparency, constructive dialogue with all parties and consensus to achieve our main objective and develop projects in the field of safe and responsible use of the Internet by users. 3. TaC (represented by myself at this meeting) attended Clean IT ( EU funded project on the fight against terrorism led by the Dutch Ministry of Interior) after the invitation to deliver the presentation on the statistics received from our Academic survey on the violent behavior of Youth in the Internet sphere. TaC supported the need to fight against use of the Internet for terrorist purposes in the respect of fundamental principles, as stated by the European Convention on Human Rights and to ensure that the principle of the freedom of expression in the Internet sphere will not be affected.TaC is mentioned as participant on the website quoted by ApTI. 4. TaC was invited by the European Commission to work on the users-generated content (one of the aspects of copyright). ApTI via EDRi is a member of the expert Group as well. To deliver concrete results TaC proposed to the members of the Group to work on the Strategy on transparency and legal certainty when reusing others' content in UGC. This was supported by the majority, civil society, Industry, governmental representatives and other experts. The work is under progress. All mentioned information can be verified on the websites of the mentioned meetings and organizers. All other sources of information can bring uncertainty. I would appreciate if this discussion would stop here and at any time would go to the personal level. All the best, Yuliya Morenets (Ms) On behalf of, TaC InternationalTogether against Cybercrime InternationalHeadquarterF-28, rue d'Ypres67000 Strasbourg-France Paris officeF-19, rue Dantzig75015 Paris-France Tel.: +33 369731460Fax.: +33 972377401 www.vulnerables.euFollow us on Facebook ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bogdan Manolea /ApTI" To:"Discussion for At-Large Europe" Cc: Sent:Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:39:31 +0300 Subject:Re: [EURO-Discuss] Final preparations for Lisbon GA -- nominations Hi all, We would like to second Vladimir's proposals: - Wolf for the Chair, and - Oksana for the Secretariat - not necessarily from the point of view of regional balance, but mainly for her work so far and her experience in the IG issues. (and hope she would be able to come to the Lisbon meeting) At the same time, after some discussions within our association and with other associations members of EDRi (as you might know ApTI is a member of European Digital Rights - EDRi) we would like to refrain (even indirectly) from supporting the work that Together against Cybercrime (TaC) and Yulia has been involved lately - and I mean here especially participation in: - the CleanIT project (A very unclear project that was trying to push for voluntary blocking by ISPs and other crazy measures http://www.cleanitproject.eu/partners-and-participants/ [1]) and - the Licences for Europe - user-generated content consultations (where it was the only representative of the "user" groups that, in fact, turns out that they supported the music industry suggestions). Of course, any NGO is free to do whatever they want, but we, as ApTI, feel that it should be clear that EURALO and its representatives really support Internet users interests in all their activities and especially work for protecting their rights in the digital world. Please note that I have never met personally Yulia, so don't take this personally in any way (or as anything of this sort), but we just feel that these principles need to be discussed in the GA in Lisbon before any vote. Also, I feel like I need to make this statement here, as, unfortunately, I won't be in the Lisbon GA and Adela, the primary contact for ApTI in EURALO, just changed her job and will not be able to take care of the IG issues in ApTI in the future. FYI, we will have a colleague going to the Lisbon GA, but she is young and inexperienced, so I don't want to put her to explain such a complicated issue as the one above. PS: Of course, we would also support Veronica and Olivier for their positions Best regards -- Bogdan Manolea Director Executiv Asociatia pentru Tehnologie si Internet - ApTI +40 721 205 603 www.apti.ro [2] On 06/07/2013 03:36 PM, Vladimir Kukovsky wrote:
Dear all,
proposals for the Lisbon elections:
a) the Chair: I would like to support for Wolf Ludwig nomination;
b) the Secretariat: I would like to nominate for Oksana Prykhodko (the incumbent). Oksana uses each opportunity to share information on ICANN/At-Large/EURALO, to promote the concept of multistakeholderism, to build personal contacts between key actors across the borders. Ukrainian Internet Association focuses its activity on transparency and accountability of all IG processes, and that is why we support efforts of EMP to translate and explain ICANN-related information into Russian/Ukrainian, to work on capacity building, to encourage more active involvement of end users in Internet governance. East Europe is underrepresented in EURALO, that is why it is important to keep our representative in EURALO Board from the point of view of regional balance. So, I would like to nominate for the Secretariat Oksana Prykhodko.
Best regards, Vladimir Kukovsky __________________________________________________________ Executive Director of the Ukrainian Internet Association tel. +38 044 278-2925 mob. +38 067 502-0988 www.inau.org.ua [3]
-----Original Message----- From: euro-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [4] [mailto:euro-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [5]] On Behalf Of Annette Muehlberg Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 7:24 PM To: Discussion for At-Large Europe Cc: staff@atlarge.icann.org [6]; "Egov Annette Mühlberg" Subject: Re: [EURO-Discuss] Final preparations for Lisbon GA -- nominations
Dear Wolf, dear all,
sorry for answering that late, but I just realized that the second part of your mail is about nominations for the GA-elections in Lisbon. I would have expected to see a seperate nomination announcement by staff. But as I understand the nominations have been opened since the 27th of May.
For the elections in Lisbon -- see draft agenda (point B 9) -- I would like to nominate for a) the Chair: Wolf Ludwig (the incumbent) and for b) the Secretariat: Yulya Morenets (new - from TaC, France) and c) the Board: the current Board members (if they wish to continue or being partly replaced by new members) -- see:
[1]https://community.icann.org/display/EURALO/The+current+EURALO+Board [7]
Personally I would like to continue on the Board. I am aware that due to my involvement in the Enquête-Commission of the German Parliament I had not much capacities left for EURALO, but as the
work
of the Enquête-Commission has been completed last month, I would like to contribute more to EURALO again.
All the best
Annette
Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013 um 22:56 Uhr Von: "Wolf Ludwig" An: euro-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org [8] Cc: "At-Large Staff" Betreff: [EURO-Discuss] Final preparations for Lisbon GA -- last inputs needed Dear all, we just completed our last monthly call before the upcoming Lisbon GA in June and discussed some last organisational points (among others). Please note: Hotel rooms are booked for all registered participants for 19-20 June or two nights at the Altis hotel (what is the EURALO GA and EuroDIG venue): [2]http://www.altishotels.com/EN/ [9] and
[3]https://community.icann.org/display/EURALO/EURALO+ALSes+Representatives+t [10]
o+the+2013+GA
As you may have noticed, I circulated a draft of the Board report 2012-13 FYI today what needs to be approved as a regular part of our GA. We are on the way to finalize our Agenda for Lisbon with three parts: a) a formal one reflecting usual Bylaw requirements (quorum, report and re-/elections of officers) b) key and intro speakers (Sébastien, Nigel and Olivier) and c) the *content part* on org. assessment (strength and weaknesses), definition of EURALO’s key themes and priorities, and how to improve and strengthen our member’s involvement in regular activities. Your suggestions for the agenda parts are welcome! See:
[4]https://community.icann.org/display/EURALO/2013+EURALO+General+Assembly [11]
As we need to conduct re-/elections for Officers and functions at the Lisbon
GA (see point 6 of the Board report), we need to follow some procedural requirements fixed in our Bylaws. The regional officer selections will be held at the GA, the proposed schedule, Draft Election Timetable is as follows: 1. Nominations Open: 27 May 2. Nominations Close: 14 June 3. Nomination Acceptance by candidates: On or before 18 June 4. Listing of candidates for the GA: Between 18-19 June 5. Voting Results announced: 19 June at the GA and meeting minutes. Last but not least: Please don’t forget to get registered for EuroDIG what you have to do by yourself ASAP (some of you did already) to provide some planning security for the organizers – see: [5]http://www.eurodig.org/eurodig-2012/information/registration [12] Thanks for your support and I am pleased to welcome most of you soon in Lisbon. Kind regards, Wolf EuroDIG Secretariat [6]http://www.eurodig.org/ [13] mobile +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig EURALO - ICANN's Regional At-Large Organisation [7]http://euralo.org [14] Profile on LinkedIn [8]http://ch.linkedin.com/in/wolfludwig [15] _______________________________________________ EURO-Discuss mailing list EURO-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org [16] [9]https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-discuss [17] Homepage for the region: [10]http://www.euralo.org [18]
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