<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">As the city that never sleeps, normally we leave early morning activities to others - such as our ISOC DC colleagues! Nevertheless, here we will be, thankfully well rested after the holiday weekend, bright and bushy tailed on a Monday morning at Civic Hall. We very much appreciate Ms. Perez taking time out of her schedule to give us this update ​before she heads to Geneva for the IGF, As noted, there will be a livestream (sorry, no captions).<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default">​​</div><br><br><u></u><div class="gmail-m_7525367582475470694subscription-body-tag"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD" style="width:766px;background:rgb(221,221,221)"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" class="gmail-m_7525367582475470694subscribe-body" style="width:746px;padding:10px"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0px auto;overflow:hidden"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" class="gmail-m_7525367582475470694subscribe-wrapper" style="width:600px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0px auto"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width:600px"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:560px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="gmail-m_7525367582475470694the-post"><div class="gmail-m_7525367582475470694post-content" style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/venezuela" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)"><img border="0" class="gmail-m_7525367582475470694size-full gmail-m_7525367582475470694wp-image-9640" src="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/isoc-ve_170x255.png" alt="livestream" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"></a>On <strong>Monday November 27 201</strong>7 at <strong>9am</strong> ET the <strong><a href="https://isoc-ny.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Internet Society New York Chapter</a></strong> will host a breakfast briefing <strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/isoc-ny/events/245252511/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Internet in Venezuela: past, present and future</a></strong> at <strong><a href="http://civichall.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Civic Hall</a></strong> in NYC. According to reports, Venezuela has the slowest internet in the Western Hemisphere. The government has declared it a "luxury service" in direct defiance of UN human rights policy, and restricted development (See <strong><a href="https://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2015/09/01/venezuelas-internet-runs-at-snails-pace-by-design/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">this report</a></strong>.) The Internet Society's Latin America Bureau has expressed '<strong><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/05/internet-society-deeply-concerned-about-internet-blocking-in-venezuela/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">deep concern</a></strong>' about Internet blocking in the country. <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/paoperezc" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Paola Perez</a></strong>, Vice- President of <a href="https://www.isocvenezuela.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)"><strong>Internet Society Venezuela</strong></a>, Co-Chair of the <a href="http://www.lacnic.net/policy" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)"><strong>LACNIC Public Policy Forum, </strong></a>will use the Venezuela scenario to explore the "developing country" experience and what users as stakeholders can do to try to improve it. The event will be webcast live on the <strong><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/venezuela" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Internet Society Livestream Channel</a></strong>.</p><p style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.4em;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">What: <a href="https://www.meetup.com/isoc-ny/events/245252511/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Internet in Venezuela: past, present and future</a><br>Where: Civic Hall, <a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=118+West+22nd+Street,+12th+Fl,+NYC&entry=gmail&source=g">118 West 22nd Street, 12th Fl, NYC</a><br>When: Monday November 27 2017 9:00am-10:30am EST | 14:00-15:30 UTC<br>Register (to attend in person): <a href="https://www.meetup.com/isoc-ny/events/245252511/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">https://www.meetup.com/isoc-<wbr>ny/events/245252511/</a><br>Webcast: <a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/venezuela" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">https://livestream.com/<wbr>internetsociety/venezuela</a></strong><strong style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">​</strong></p><strong style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Twitter: @ISOC_Venezuela <a href="http://bit.ly/2A4lKmc" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">http://bit.ly/2A4lKmc</a></strong><p></p></div><p class="gmail-m_7525367582475470694subscribe-action-links" style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(102,102,102);padding:1em 0px 0em;width:auto"></p><table class="gmail-m_7525367582475470694auto-width" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:auto"><tbody><tr><td style="width:10px"><a href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9639#respond" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);border-radius:10em;border:1px solid rgb(17,114,158);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:rgb(37,133,178);padding:5px 15px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin-left:0px;white-space:nowrap">Comment</a></td><td>   <a class="gmail-m_7525367582475470694subscribe-action-link" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9639#comments" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">See all comments</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#efefef" class="gmail-m_7525367582475470694subscribe-wrapper-sub" style="width:600px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239);border-top:1px solid rgb(221,221,221)"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-m_7525367582475470694subscribe-content" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-top:1px solid rgb(243,243,243);color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:14px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><p style="direction:ltr;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;margin:0px 0px 10px"><br></p><p style="direction:ltr;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;margin:0px"><strong></strong></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><strong>​Permalink</strong></div><br><a href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9639" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9639</a><p></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="3" class="gmail-m_7525367582475470694subscribe-footer-wrap" style="width:600px;background-image:url("https://s0.wp.com/i/emails/stripes.gif");background-repeat:repeat-x;background-color:rgb(67,164,208);height:3px"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br></td></tr></tbody></table><img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?blog=10787942&post=9639&subd=isoc-ny.org&ref=&email=1&email_o=jetpack&host=jetpack.wordpress.com" width="1" height="1"></div></div><div class="gmail_default">​​</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>---------------------------------------------------------------<br><span>Joly MacFie  <span title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span> Skype:punkcast</span><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>-</div></div></div>
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