[Privsec] new speaker for high-level roundtable

[Frannie Wellings]

Ralf and all,

There shouldn't be any blame to go around. These things happen.  And 
it's obvious that you tried really hard, which all privacy advocates 
should entirely appreciate!

Barlow could be great.

Best to everyone,

Frannie

Ralf Bendrath wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> a brief update on the substitute for Simon Davies on the high-level 
> roundtable tomorrow:
>
> We tried today, with the help of the folks from CONGO, to get Cedric 
> Laurant from EPIC in there. Unfortunately, the ITU did not accept this 
> offer on grounds of insufficient "high-level-ness". Stupid criteria, 
> as civil society reputation is not built around being a CEO, but on 
> expertise and action. But that's the rules.
>
> As we could not come up with anybody else on this short notice, Rik 
> Panganiban from CONGO and I have therefore agreed to donate our 
> speaking slot to John Perry Barlow from EFF 
> (http://www.eff.org/~barlow). He is not exactly a privacy advocate, 
> but a great visionary speaker and truly embodying our shared civil 
> society principles. I have no idea at the moment if the ITU accepts 
> this (just tried to call Rik without success), but this is the current 
> state of affairs.
>
> It's really sad that we did not manage to get a privacy advocate to 
> speak here, but we tried really hard. Blame it on Simon Davies' 
> dropout at the last minute, blame it on the lack of "Privacy CEOs" 
> here at the summit, blame it on me and Rik if you want - or look 
> forward to a great John Perry Barlow if it works.
>
> Best, Ralf
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