Internet Ungovernance Forum Brazil

November 2015
João Pessoa - Paraíba, Brazil


About

Internet Ungovernance Forum Brazil is for those of us who demand free, secure, and open internet for all!

We're organizing the Internet Ungovernance Forum on November 2015, for everyone who demand that fundamental freedoms, openness, unity and net neutrality remain the building blocks of the Internet. Our objective is to talk about the true and real problems of the internet, how can we solve them and to chart a path for action.

Our forum will be in parallel to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2015 which will also be held in João Pessoa in november. Interested parties all around the world will join and follow this important event. However, we see that at IGF the most urgent problems of the Internet do not get proper attention. Due to its format, the main perpetrators of many of the Internet's problems, for example the governments and corporations, are getting representation in IGF that they don’t deserve. Given these circumstances, we decided to take initiative to defend the Internet as we know it and to create a parallel space to raise the voices of civil society initiatives, activists and common people.

For us, the most vital problems today are censorship and freedom of speech; surveillance and privacy; excessive commercialization and super-monopolies; protective, prohibitionist and conservative governance approaches; awful governance examples as in the case of Brazil and the list goes on. Further, we do not see any of these problems independent of the greater political, social and economic contexts in which the Internet and related digital infrastructures are embedded in.

We want to reclaim the Internet as a fundamental infrastructure of our societies, cities, education, health, work, media, communications, culture and everyday activities.

We call on our participants to resist seeing the problems of the Internet as only technological and void of its materiality.


Help us make #IUF2015 happen!


Invited

Julia Reda

JULIA REDA

German, member of the European Parliament for the Pirate Party in Germany and Vice President of the Greens / Europe Free Alliance.

Amelia Andersdotter

AMELIA ANDERSDOTTER

Swedish activist, member of the European Parliament from 2011-2014 for the Piratpartiet.

Fabiane Bogdanovicz

FABIANE BOGDANOVICZ

Intersectional feminist, activist for Animal Rights, works with Solidarity Economy and is former General Secretary of the Pirate Party in Brazil.

Birgitta Jónsdóttir

BIRGITTA JÓNSDÓTTIR

Activist, writer, poet and member of the Parliament of Iceland for the Pirate Party in Iceland.

We still need volunteers, please contact us to join our team!


Supporters


Contact

Email iuf@partidopirata.org
Qveet @desgovernanca
Tweet @desgovernanca
Visit partidopirata.org


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