Thomas, Before setting anything up from scratch you might want to see if you have common cause with some established groups: In particular groups such as the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles: http://internetrightsandprinciples.org/ As well as many other point issue groups such as Article 19 are doing: http://www.article19.org/ For a big global list of organisations working in this space see the 'meta' group Association of Progressive Communications: http://www.apc.org/ Lastly you might want to look at what we are doing (I founded this) at the Virtual Policy Network: http://www.virtualpolicy.net/ ren On 11 Nov 2010, at 01:53, Thomas Jones wrote:
Sorry but it isnt about TED :(
So I had an epiphany the other month that Ive finally had time to sit down and do something about.
I recently had a conversation with a mentor of mine, and as we were discussing my future academic and professional career plans (Internet Law), we began talking about the state of the Internet, where it should go, its evolved/evolving purpose, societies use of the Internet, and so on.
That has led me to register CyberCitizenry.org - an initiative to focus on the ethical use of the Internet. It involves not just ethical use from a public citizen point of view (pirating, online bullying, etc), but from a governmental perspective as well (network neutrality, internet architecture, information and telecommunications policy, ISP interference, etc). And perhaps if and when it is successful, even international usage as well - similar to what is covered in "Access Denied" and 'Access Restored".
If you are interested in this initiative please contact me.
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