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* ''Sharing:'' How do you make the message sharable? Is there someone that others can do to help you spread the word? | * ''Sharing:'' How do you make the message sharable? Is there someone that others can do to help you spread the word? | ||
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Now that you've crafted your message, you'll need a channel to help spread the word - there's a few ways to get the message out, and you can pick one or do all three. Here's just a few options below: | Now that you've crafted your message, you'll need a channel to help spread the word - there's a few ways to get the message out, and you can pick one or do all three. Here's just a few options below: | ||
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<span style="font-size: large">'''Mobilize The Web'''</span> | <span style="font-size: large">'''Mobilize The Web'''</span> | ||
There's an international coalition of advocates and activists around the world working to bring together as many regular web users as possible to make a joint declaration to the ITU for greater transparency and participation. Signing on and spreading the word around these petitions will send a strong, united statement that | There's an international coalition of advocates and activists around the world working to bring together as many regular web users as possible to make a joint declaration to the ITU for greater transparency and participation. Signing on and spreading the word around these petitions will send a strong, united statement that could play a role in swaying the delegates. You can find these petitions here. We've included some key points below to give you a flavor of each one and how they're different - sign on if they match up with your message! | ||
::* '''[http://protectinternetfreedom.net/ OpenMedia.ca - "Protect Internet Freedom"]''' | ::* '''[http://protectinternetfreedom.net/ OpenMedia.ca - "Protect Internet Freedom"]''' | ||
:::Internet governance decisions should be made in a transparent manner with genuine multistakeholder participation from civil society, governments, and the private sector. We call on the ITU and its member states to embrace transparency and reject any proposals that might expand ITU authority to areas of Internet governance that threaten the exercise of human rights online. | ::::: Led by [http://openmedia.ca/ OpenMedia.ca], this petition declares that "Internet governance decisions should be made in a transparent manner with genuine multistakeholder participation from civil society, governments, and the private sector. We call on the ITU and its member states to embrace transparency and reject any proposals that might expand ITU authority to areas of Internet governance that threaten the exercise of human rights online." | ||
::* '''[https://www.whatistheitu.org/ Access Now & Fight For The Future - "What Is The ITU?"]''' | ::* '''[https://www.whatistheitu.org/ Access Now & Fight For The Future - "What Is The ITU?"]''' | ||
::: | ::::: Led by [http://accessnow.org/ Access Now] and [http://www.fightforthefuture.org/ Fight for the Future], this petition seeks to be a rallying cry to individuals on the ground to demand that their governments do not hand over web governance functions to the ITU. | ||
::* '''[https://www.cdt.org/letter/sign-letter-opposing-itu-authority-over-internet Center for Democracy and Technology - "Open Letter"]''' | ::* '''[https://www.cdt.org/letter/sign-letter-opposing-itu-authority-over-internet Center for Democracy and Technology - "Open Letter"]''' | ||
::: | ::::: This is an open letter let by the [https://www.cdt.org Center for Democracy and Technology] which emphasizes the human rights issues surrounding the lack of transparency in the ITU, and also is open to organizational sign-ons. It also has been translated into a number of different languages. | ||
::* '''[https://www.google.com/takeaction/ Google - "Take Action"]''' | ::* '''[https://www.google.com/takeaction/ Google - "Take Action"]''' | ||
::: “A free and open world depends on a free and open Internet. Governments alone, working behind closed doors, should not direct its future. The billions of people around the globe who use the Internet should have a voice.” | ::::: Led by Google, this petition declares that “A free and open world depends on a free and open Internet. Governments alone, working behind closed doors, should not direct its future. The billions of people around the globe who use the Internet should have a voice.” | ||
::* '''[http://bestbits.igf-online.net/statement/ Best Bits - "Statement of Civil Society Groups and Members"] | ::* '''[http://bestbits.igf-online.net/statement/ Best Bits - "Statement of Civil Society Groups and Members"] | ||
::: | ::::: [http://bestbits.igf-online.net/ BestBits] was a coalition of international civil society groups that met during the Internet Governance Forum to develop a joint statement to the WCIT. This letter includes a number of policy statements and recommendations to the ITU. | ||
<span style="font-size: large">'''Organize A Local Event'''</span> | <span style="font-size: large">'''Organize A Local Event'''</span> | ||