Dear colleagues,(apologies for cross-posting) FYI, next week FGV’s Rio de Janeiro Law School will host the South School of Internet Governance. The initiative stems from a partnership between FGV’s Center for Technology and Society (CTS) and the Centro de Capacitación en Alta Tecnología (CCAT - LAT). The central theme of the 2017 SSIG will be “Sustainable Internet Governance”. The event will offer remote participation, with video streaming in Portuguese, Spanish and English, via Facebook Live. Here is the press release with more info (feel free to share) http://tinyurl.com/mh56ofm<http://fgvnoticias.fgv.br/en/news/fgv-hosts-international-conference-internet-governance?utm_source=basemailsender&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=emaildiario> More info regarding the SSIG 2017 here http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/ssig2017/en/ Below some stats about the SSIG 2017 fellows and faculty members Best regards, Luca ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SSIG 2017 fellowship and faculty: Applications received 712 Selected Fellows (with scholarship): 185 Fellows come from the following countries: Argentina Bolivia Brasil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador España Guatemala Haiti Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay PERU U.S. Uruguay Venezuela Gender balance among fellows: 51 % female 49 % male Stakeholder categories represented: government, civil society, academy, technical community, business. ------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luca Belli, PhD Senior Researcher, Center for Technology & Society, FGV Rio de Janeiro Chercheur Associé, Centre de Droit Public Comparé, Université Paris 2 Head of Internet Governance @ FGV internet-governance.fgv.br<http://internet-governance.fgv.br> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------