Re: Welcome / introductions

Hello, everyone,

Thank you for creating this group. I found out about it from the
ActivityPub socialhub forum. I'm also a member of the SocialCG's Policy
Group. I participated in projects around ActivityPub, where I presented
legal analyses on social media decentralization; also I have been a part of
the webinar organized by NGI0 with the aim to introduce ActivityPub to EU
administrations. I'm also interested in Open Source Software, in general.
In the past, I've shared my views on OSS, privacy, GDPR implications with
peers / communities, at events like FOSDEM and O'Reilly Software
Architecture conference.

I have a LLB and an LLM in Business Law, being a legal advisor as
professional specialism. I'm also in my third year of the BSc in
Computer Science program offered by University of London, with academic
guidance from Goldsmiths. I work in parallel as an Office and Legal
administrator, DPO at XWiki SAS, a company that offers services on top of
the XWiki OSS and contributes significantly to the development of both
XWiki and Cryptpad projects.

For the past years, I worked and studied full time. I'm also the co-founder
of PKT Pal, a company around the PKT blockchain ecosystem. That is more
thanks to my husband being heavily involved in the project, given my lack
of time so far. My goal for the future is to improve my technical skills
and get to a software developer level. I have been significantly exposed in
my professional life so far to the tech world, but I felt that my knowledge
and skills need to get to a more in-depth knowledge of programming in order
to bring more value in my career, but also to the communities that I've
enjoyed contributing to - so far, mainly thanks to my specialized legal
skills.

I am based in France, as timezone.

I'm excited to be a part of this group and I hope we will manage together
to produce valuable work.

Kind regards,

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 8:02 AM Farzaneh Badiei <farzaneh@digitalmedusa.org>
wrote:

> Thanks a lot for convening this timely group, Mark.
>
> My name is Farzaneh Badi(e)i (you might have seen my last name around as
> Badii which is my favorite transliteration but passport officials didn't
> agree). I have been involved with research and scholarly work related to
> Internet governance for over a decade. I have recently launched my own
> initiative  called Digital Medusa which focuses on designing and
> researching governance and contributing to collective action.  Throughout
> my career I have focused on governance of  Internet infrastructure and have
> done some work on social media platforms, also worked at the UN Internet
> governance forum, and was involved with  ICANN (as a part of a
> noncommercial stakeholder group). I received my PhD from Hamburg uni in
> Europe, was a scholar at HIIG (Berlin) and Georgia Tech and Yale Law
> School. I did some research on IETF and co-authored two papers about human
> rights and protocols.
>
>  I am a firm believer in an open, interconnected, global Internet. I am
> very skeptical about regulation but I can see that sometimes it has some
> positive effects (like the GDPR). But we need to be more in dialogue with
> the governments and regulators to ensure the regulations preserve the open
> interconnected global nature of the Internet. I am one of the co-chairs of
> the Christchurch Call advisory Network, a civil society network. The
> Christchurch Call was convened by the NZ and FR governments to eradicate
> violent extremist content online. At CC I am also trying to understand and
> discuss how regulations and initiatives that combat
> disinformation/terrorist content could potentially affect the Internet
> interoperability and openness and try to find ways that minimizes harm but
> also preserve those attributes. I am also engaged with Global Internet
> Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) working groups and co-authored a blog
> about how mandating upload filters through initiatives like GIFCT  might
> affect Internet architecture
> <https://www.techdirt..com/articles/20201113/14504145706/upload-filters-internet-architecture-whats-there-to-like.shtml>.  I
> think the problem goes beyond the Christchurch Call and GIFCT, there are
> many more initiatives that could affect the Internet and the web which I
> look forward to exploring here.
>
> I am based in NYC, USA.
>
> Best
>
> *Farzaneh Badiei*
>
> *Website:* https://digitalmedusa.org/
>
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> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 12:49 AM Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone. Welcome to the Community Group!
>>
>> We're just getting started, so please excuse the quiet while we wait for
>> people to join and allow the Americans their holiday. I'm aiming to hold an
>> online meeting before the end of the year, so that we can start discussing
>> how the group will function and what we want to focus on first.
>>
>> However, it'd first be good to get to know each other.  Please send an
>> e-mail introducing yourself, including:
>>
>> * A brief summary of your background
>> * Why you're participating in this group
>> * Where you call home (so we can try to schedule meetings when it's not
>> *too* painful for anyone)
>>
>> I'll start below.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> My name is Mark Nottingham, and I'm one of the folks who supported
>> formation of this Community Group and coordinated drafting of the charter.
>>
>> I've worked in Internet and Web standards for more than 20 years, having
>> chaired a few different groups (including HTTP and QUIC), authoring many
>> RFCs (including the most recent revision of HTTP), and also being a member
>> of the W3C Technical Architecture Group and Internet Architecture Board.  I
>> currently work for Fastly, a US-based Content Delivery Network, and I'm
>> also working on a Graduate Diploma in Communications Law at Melbourne Law
>> School.
>>
>> I'm excited about combining architecturally sound, open specifications
>> with the potential for a legal mandate from regulators -- while there are
>> many risks, there are also opportunities to improve the Internet in ways
>> that haven't been possible to date.
>>
>> I'm located in Melbourne, Australia.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> P.S. If you haven't seen the group home page, please take a look at:
>> https://interop-remedies-cg.github.io
>>
>> --
>> Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/
>>
>>
>>