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logo-activextension16.jpgCALL FOR AN INTERNET SOCIAL FORUM - LAYING THE SEEDS FOR A MOVEMENT FOR A PEOPLES INTERNET HYDERABAD AUGUST 5th 6th Act179

WHO ..IT for Change, and Just Net Coalition

With the placing of this activity in WSF 2016extension dynamics,IT for Change, and Just Net Coalitionconfirms they consider themselves to beparticipating instancesin theworld social forum process,as both described in theCharter of principles of world social forum

WHAT: see title more info to come

WHERE : HYDERABAD

WHEN AUGUST 5THfrom 1330 to 1530 hrs UTC/ GMT, + 5h30 = 19h 21h hyderabad

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/india/hyderabadLink: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/india/hyderabad

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HOW : link to the skype roomhttps://join.skype.com/ktbQDsptSKOsand you will be welcomed and included in a written or audio conversation

more information to come

DOCUMENTATION /http://openfsm.net/projects/atsfi/atsfi-isf-documentation

Dear All,

We are sorry that there has not been much 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 their money - which unfortunately has not yet added up. But we will get there.

Although it is just I who have been corresponding with you all, let me assure you that there are a number of committed people busy behind the scene to make the 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 up a momentum of its own.

We do solicit ideas, not necessarily funds related (which of course are most welcome), that you may want to contribute to holding of the first meeting of the 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, Montreal, process through the latter's extension mechanisms. We are working with the WSF extension team on that.

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 as possible, the means of doing which will be shared here soon.

In Solidarity

parminder