[kictanet] (Warning: high risk of targeted Social Engineering Virus!) Fwd: [Internet Policy] A summary of the report of the UN High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation

[Grace Bomu]

Samantha is a well known writer on these issues. She's had a mission of
making complex negotions digestible and many in the internet policy making
space follow her reports. Please Google her, she's as old as WSIS etc.

Cheers,

On Thursday, 13 June 2019, Patrick A. M. Maina via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Interesting. Who owns / runs Nissaba.net? I could not find any
> information anywhere about the organization's founders, directors or team
> members (except, after a bit of online digging, for one individual named
> Samantha Dickinson, an "internet governance consultant/writer" based in
> Australia who is publishing the summaries).
>
> They are publishing high profile summaries on major policy issues - and
> they claim to have this "big idea", yet the it looks like the (sic) "small
> team" repeatedly mentioned on Nissaba.net has chosen to operate behind
> the scenes? That does not make sense.
>
> How do we know that their summary is a credible and trustworthy
> representation of the original (UN /ITU) documents?
>
> Considering the targeted high-profile audience, there is risk of people
> downloading a document that has an embedded virus. This could be a massive
> social engineering / spear phishing vector.
>
> I'm also curious how they got their "big idea" because it looks very
> familiar and the timing of Nissaba.net's appearance is very strange to me
> as it curiously coincides with certain ongoing initiatives.
>
> Anyone with insights / information / clarifications?
>
> Brgds,
> Patrick.
>
> Patrick A. M. Maina
> [Cross-domain Innovator | Independent Public Policy Analyst - Indigenous
> Innovations]
>
>
> On Thursday, June 13, 2019, 2:02:17 PM GMT+3, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>
> Listers,
>
> Might be of interest.
>
> Regards
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: *Richard Hill* <rhill at hill-a.ch>
> Date: Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 5:45 PM
> Subject: [Internet Policy] A summary of the report of the UN High-Level
> Panel on Digital Cooperation
> To: Internetpolicy at Elists. Isoc. Org <internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org>
>
>
> Here is a very short summary of the cited report:
>
>   http://nissaba.net/tldr/hlpdc-report/
>
> Best,
> Richard
>
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