Re: Groningen Declaration

Hi folks,

I reached out to keynote speaker Herman de Leeuw after his talk and it
sounds like those around the table for the Groningen Declaration are more
policy oriented rather tech so it seems appropriate based on your brief
description to put them in touch. I'm happy to reach out to Herman and make
the suggestion. Shall I cc- you or anyone else from this list?

Sunny

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On 10/09/2014 08:35 PM, Leuba, Mark wrote:
> > This is important information, thank you.  The Groningen Declaration
> > is, it seems, strongly supportive of a number of the use cases we
> > reviewed this past Tuesday.   I was not aware of it, but this is a
> > good find.  In discussions with the IMS Global executive director,
> > Rob Abel, this week there was mention of AACRAO, I can ask for an
> > introduction from Rob to Michael Reilly to raise his
> > awareness/interest, if the group wants.
>
> Yes, please. It would be good for this group to become known as bridge
> builders.
>
> The United Nations Internet Governance Forum is another area that we
> could put in touch with the Groningen Declaration folks. Per our
> feedback from the UN's IGF, it seems that governments / regulators are
> very interested in the space and we could invite the Groningen folks to
> join us at IGF as it's a more high-level governance forum for the Web.
>
> Sunny, any chance you could reach out to them with this in mind? It
> would be good to at least setup an informal liaison with them.
>
> -- manu
>
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