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Re: Mozilla Tech Policy Fellowship Project on Net Neutrality and Data Protection in Nigeria
by Chukwuyere Izuogu June 10, 2019

June 10, 2019

Dear All, I trust you are all doing wellthis new year. For those of you who do not know(of) me, I am Chukwuyere Izuogu, a Solicitor and telecoms legal researcher. I presentlyhead the Abuja office of the law office of Streamsowers & Kóhn, and I am alsoa research fellow at the African Academic Network on Internet Policy (ANNoIP),where my practice and research is in all areas of competition, telecommunications,information technology and intellectual property law. In September of 2018, I commenceda Tech Policy Fellowship with the Mozilla Foundation where I will be conductingpolicy/academic research and engaging stakeholders on issues related to netneutrality and data protection in Nigeria. As these are topical publicpolicy issues which are consistent with the work you and your organizations areinvolved in, I deem it important to inform you at this time of my fellowshipwork and keep you updated on the progress. Upon completion of my fellowshipresearch a Mozilla sponsored workshop will be held probably in Abuja where theoutcome of my researches would be made available to an enlarged stakeholdergroup and community members, as my intention is to see how these researches canalso be incorporated into each of your advocacy work in this space. As time goes on, I am likely torequire your input in clarifying several issues concerning my policy researches.In addition, I would be happy to respond to any question any of you may haveabout my fellowship work and the status so far. All the best in 2019! I remain, Chuks. Chukwuyereskype: chukwuyere.izuoguchukwuyere.izuogu(a)yahoo.com Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing, moderation is for cowards | | Virus-free. www.avast.com |

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ERRATA CORRIGE (Correct link)
by ITLaw Unipd March 26, 2019

March 26, 2019

Dear Colleagues I am pleased to announce that the 2nd edition of ITLL Summer School will be held in Padova from 17 to 21 June. The programme and all info can be found at http://itll.it/summer-school/ I would ask you to spread the programme among your students and members and moreover do not hesitate to contact us for further cooperation in summer/winter programmes as well as joint workshops. ITLL Director Prof. Claudia Sandei -- *www.itll.it* <http://www.itll.it>

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ITLL International Summer School
by ITLaw Unipd March 26, 2019

March 26, 2019

Dear Colleagues I am pleased to announce that the 2nd edition of ITLL Summer School will be held in Padova from 17 to 21 June. The programme and all info can be found at www.itll.it/summerschool/ I would ask you to spread the programme among your students and members and moreover do not hesitate to contact us for further cooperation in summer/winter programmes as well as joint workshops. ITLL Director Prof. Claudia Sandei -- *www.itll.it* <http://www.itll.it>

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Geneva Internet Law Summer School & Geneva Internet Law Research Colloquium (June 2019) / deadline for application April 15, 2019
by Jacques de Werra March 23, 2019

March 23, 2019

Dear Colleagues, This is to inform you that the University of Geneva organizes this year again the Geneva Internet Law Summer School<https://www.unige.ch/genevasummerschools/programme/courses/internet-law> that will take place from June 17 to June 28, 2019. The Geneva Internet Law summer school offers a unique opportunity to discuss cutting edge Internet law and policy issues with leading academics, practitioners, representatives of international organizations and other leading global digital policy actors, including the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society<https://cyber.harvard.edu/> (thanks to Chris Bavitz for his continuous participation!), the International Telecommunication Union<https://www.itu.int/en/Pages/default.aspx> (ITU), the World Intellectual Property Organization<http://www.wipo.int/portal/en/index.html> (WIPO), and the Geneva Internet Platform <https://www.giplatform.org/> (GIP). This is also to inform you about the Geneva Internet Law Research Colloquium <http://www.internetlawcolloquium-geneva.ch> that will take place on June 21, 2019. The colloquium (which is part of the summer school) is organized by the University of Geneva, in collaboration with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society<https://cyber.harvard.edu/> (it will be great to welcome Urs Gasser again), the CRIDES Center for Economic Law and Society at the Catholic University of Louvain<https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/juri/crides> (UCL), the Geneva Internet Platform<https://www.giplatform.org/>, the Institute for Technology and Society of Rio<https://itsrio.org/en/en-home/>, the University of Zurich<http://www.uzh.ch/en.html>, Renmin University of China<https://www.ruc.edu.cn/en> and the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche en Droit de l'Immatériel of the University Paris Sud<http://www.cerdi.u-psud.fr/>. The colloquium, which is part of the Geneva Internet Law Summer School<https://www.unige.ch/genevasummerschools/programme/courses/internet-law>, provides researchers and scholars working on Internet law topics the opportunity to present their work-in-progress to a global panel of Internet law experts (coming from all the partner institutions involved in the colloquium), to engage with one another in an informal setting, to have in-depth discussions and exchanges, to receive helpful feedback and advice and to help create a global internet law research community (see the testimonials for the last colloquium: https://www.unige.ch/droit/pi/research/research-colloquium/research-colloqu…) Please note that the deadline for applications is April 15, 2019 for both the summer school and for the research colloquium. For more information on the summer school, please visit: www.internetlaw-geneva.ch<http://www.internetlaw-geneva.ch> and for the research colloquium, please visit : www.internetlawresearch-geneva.ch<http://www.internetlawresearch-geneva.ch>. Please feel free to share this information with your students / the members of your research team and other communities that could have an interest for these activities and do not hesitate to contact us at internetlaw(a)unige.ch<mailto:internetlaw@unige.ch> for any questions. Thank you Best regards Jacques de Werra (for the organizers of the summer school & the research colloquium)

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[Policy Dialogue] Can the idea of 'Essential Internet' taken out of WHO concept: 'Essential Medicine' preclude unproductive & superfluous use of Internet
by rezwan.haque at du.ac.bd March 20, 2019

March 20, 2019

Dear Colleagues of NoC, >From the arcane of computer technologies to the sophisticated network of networks we see today that is known as internet and the merit of this tool has already astounded us but as always, misuse and overuse of this precious tool has also revealed the dark side. That makes us wonder, whether time has come to control/regulate/balance the usage of this tool. Essential Internet Under the guardianship of ITU (International Telecommunication Union), 'Essential Internet' concept, in concert with the ‘Essential Medicine’ concept of World Health Organization/WHO (Google search will reveal the details), member countries need to conduct a nationwide survey to determine the average/basic amounts (gigabytes) of internet needed for per user which should be available for all at the cheapest price possible and then rest of the gigabytes should available at high/exorbitant cost to prevent unnecessary, redundant and superfluous use of internet (& digital device) on p*rnography, gaming, selfie, narcissism (due to app like TicToc, etc.), digital addiction, smartphone addiction, goldbricking/ cyberslacking or cyberloafing, internet addiction disorder especially considering the environmental damage due to huge CO2 emission. On other side, the tax that will be imposed to raise the cost of excessive use will be diverted to social awareness building program and supply of electricity for those who have limited means. My colleagues here at Dhaka also penned few opinion pieces at local dailies and we're hoping your valuable comments in this delicate yet timely debate. Kind Regards, Rezwan Haque Founder Centre for Internet & Society- Bangladesh [https://my-email-signature.link/signature.gif?u=215044&e=50542889&v=6d4123d…]

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Fwd: Make Google Do It. Interpellating digital subject/objects of desire in the gendering of artificially intelligent virtual personal assistants - Guest research seminar
by Celina Beatriz March 7, 2019

March 7, 2019

Sharing Guido's message below! Hi Celina Please see below an event organised by NINSO <https://twitter.com/NinsoRIG> Northumbria Internet & Society Research group and of interest for NoC members. The video of the event will be uploaded on our YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkmxC2_qCl-Clro9YIUljCQ> channel. Cheers Guido *From:* Guido Noto La Diega *Sent:* 25 February 2019 18:03 *To:* 'european-law--technology-network(a)googlegroups.com' < european-law--technology-network(a)googlegroups.com> *Subject:* Make Google Do It. Interpellating digital subject/objects of desire in the gendering of artificially intelligent virtual personal assistants - Guest research seminar Dear All NINSO (Northumbria Internet & Society Research Group) is delighted to host Dr Rachel Adams for the guest research seminar ‘*Make Google Do It.** Interpellating digital subject/objects of desire in the gendering of artificially intelligent virtual personal assistants*.’ Generously *supported by the Law & Society SIG*, * the seminar* will explore how the particular gendering of artificially intelligence virtual personal assistants as female through their names, characterisations and marketing, meets with an imperative grammar with which users are to engage with them, most notably with the call “Hey Siri!” or “Hey Alexa!” Drawing on Louis Althusser and Judith Butler’s accounts of interpellation, I discuss how the gendering of these devices coupled with the new techno-crafted grammar given to engage with them, plays into a broader history of female automata produced as both subjects to and objects of a male desire to (literally) constitute, control and command the female. Thus, expanding on the current account of female gendered virtual personal assistants as a strategy for softening the transition from a traditional past to a disruptive digital future, I argue that, more critically, this gendering re-inscribes and legitimises a historically embedded male desire which works, primarily, to ensure the female is always in a subject to/object of relationship to their male “user”/maker, without agency to attain her own status as subject. *Dr Rachel Adams* is a Research Specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council and an ECR at the Information Law and Policy Centre, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. Dr Adams holds degrees in human rights law (MPhil, UCT, 2011) and jurisprudence (Ph.D., UCT, 2017). Her work and research spans human rights and constitutionalism, to artificial intelligence, gender, surveillance and transparency in South Africa and internationally. She is currently preparing a monograph book for publication entitled Transparency: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2019). Dr Adams is a member of the Surveillance Camera Commissioner’s Independent Advisory Group on Automated Number Plate Recognition, she is an Editor for the South African Journal on Human Rights, and an Associate Editor for the theme Law, Policy Development and Management Science for Calabash: Journal of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems. *WHERE*: Faculty of Business and Law (CCE1), room 405 (but *if you can’t come, *a video will be recorded!) *WHEN*: Wednesday 6th March 2019 at noon Please *register* at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/make-google-do-it-tickets-56349087638. Looking forward to seeing you all! On behalf of NINSO – Northumbria Internet & Society Research Group, Guido *Dr Guido Noto La Diega* *Senior Lecturer – International Research Partnerships Coordinator (Law)* *Northumbria University Director @italiot | Co-convenor @NinsoRIG | Fellow @nexacenter* T: +44(0)191 349 5562 E: *guido.notoladiega(a)northumbria.ac.uk <guido.notoladiega(a)northumbria.ac.uk>* Room 105, Faculty of Business and Law, City Campus East 1, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, United Kingdom Recent papers include: ‘Against the dehumanisation of decision-making <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3188080>. Algorithmic decisions at the crossroads of intellectual property, data protection, and freedom of information’ (2018) ‘Can the law fix the problems of fashion? <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3198514> An empirical study on social norms and power imbalance in the fashion industry’ (2018) Visit Academia.edu <http://northumbria.academia.edu/GuidoNotoLaDiega> and SSRN <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1794950> for open access to my research! *[image: northumbria new logo]* <https://www.linkedin.com/in/guido-noto-la-diega-ph-d-6696146/> *GO GREEN, KEEP IT ON SCREEN!* This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any use, disclosure or reproduction without the sender’s explicit consent is unauthorised and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please notify Northumbria University immediately and permanently delete it. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the University. Northumbria University email is provided by Microsoft Office365 and is hosted within the EEA, although some information may be replicated globally for backup purposes. The University cannot guarantee that this message or any attachment is virus free or has not been intercepted and/or amended. -- *Celina M.A. Bottino* *Diretora de Projetos* *Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS)* https://www.facebook.com/ITSriodejaneiro itsrio.org +55 21 3486-0390

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