an interesting email I just got about Net Neutrality meeting going on tonight<br>it's come from the house of commons but there were no please don't forward warning so I assume its fair game <div><br></div><div>I'm not sure why I'm getting house of commons emails but I must of complained or emailed some one once but even so interesting read :)</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>DIck<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin Brown</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbmbrown0@gmail.com">mbmbrown0@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: 29 March 2011 12:18<br>Subject: DEAPPG Panel Event on Net Neutrality: A Briefing paper<br>To: Eric JOYCE <<a href="mailto:ericjoycemp@gmail.com">ericjoycemp@gmail.com</a>>, Sophia PICKLES <<a href="mailto:PICKLESS@parliament.uk">PICKLESS@parliament.uk</a>>, Jean-Jaques Sahel <<a href="mailto:jean-jacques.sahel@skype.net">jean-jacques.sahel@skype.net</a>>, Beth Knight <<a href="mailto:elizabethhiroko@gmail.com">elizabethhiroko@gmail.com</a>>, Alex Stanley <<a href="mailto:alexjstanley@gmail.com">alexjstanley@gmail.com</a>>, Dick Thomas <<a href="mailto:xpd259@gmail.com">xpd259@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<strong><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:medium"><font color="#000000"><img src="cid:ii_12f014925ea0cc5e" alt="deappg.jpg" title="deappg.jpg"></font></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:12px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><strong><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:medium"><font color="#000000"><span style="color:rgb(20, 20, 20);font-size:12px"><strong><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:medium"><font color="#000000">Dear DEAPPG Member, </font></span></span></strong></span></font></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:12px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><strong><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:medium"><font color="#000000">I have attached a briefing paper for our event this evening on Net Neutrality. I hope you find it useful. This event looks to be very well attended by members of the public and people from the IT and communications industry. If you can not make it this evening but would still like to ask a question of the panel, feel free to send it to me this afternoon, or tweet during the event using the #deappg tag.</font></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin-top:12px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><strong><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:medium"><font color="#000000"></font></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(51, 153, 102)"><span style="color:rgb(0, 128, 0)"><span style="font-size:medium">DEAPPG Event:</span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(51, 153, 102)"><span style="color:rgb(0, 128, 0)"><span style="font-size:medium"> </span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(51, 153, 102)"><span style="color:rgb(0, 128, 0)"><span style="font-size:medium"></span></span></span><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:rgb(51, 153, 102)"><span style="color:rgb(0, 128, 0)"><span style="font-size:medium">Net Neutrality, O</span></span></span></span><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:rgb(51, 153, 102)"><span style="color:rgb(0, 128, 0)"><span style="font-size:medium">pportunities and Challenges</span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(51, 153, 102)"><span style="color:rgb(0, 128, 0)"><span style="font-size:medium">?</span></span></span></strong></strong></p>
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<span style="font-size:medium">The House of Commons, Committee Room 19 Tuesday 29th March 6.30-8.00pm</span></p><p style="text-align:center;margin-top:12px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
This is a panel event open to members of the public:</p><div style="text-align:center">Speakers include:</div><div style="text-align:center">Jean-Jaques Sahel, Director Government Affairs, Skype.</div><div style="text-align:center">
Kip Meek, Senior Public Policy Adviser, Everything Everywhere</div><div style="text-align:center">Robert Hammond, Head of Postal and Digital Communications, ConsumerFocus</div><div style="text-align:center">
Rob Reid, Which?</div><div style="text-align:center">James Heath, Controller for Policy, The BBC</div><div style="text-align:center">Jim Killock, The Open Rights Group</div><div style="text-align:center">
Julie Meyer, Chief Executive, Ariadne Capital</div><div style="text-align:center">Dominique Lazanski, The Tax Payer’s Alliance</div><div style="text-align:center">Chair: Eric Joyce MP</div>
<p style="margin-top:12px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">What is the Internet likely to look like in the near future? Will it become a two-tier network with a differentiated payment system for different types of content? Will it be a network that actively filters and discriminates by content and service for payment? This is a debate which continues in both the United States and Europe: people feel passionately about this issue because they feel their internet freedom is threatened. Their freedom of access to information and the means to connect, to cooperate and to collaborate with others is also an extremely important aspect of a creative society and the digital economy . The European Commission has said that one of the founding principles of the Internet is ‘the open and neutral character of the Internet’ how will this be affected and what advantages, if any, can differential charging for Internet content bring to the consumer?</p>
<div><br></div></span>kind regards<br>-- <br><div>Martin Brown</div><div>deappg coordinator</div><div><div>07527449760</div><div>02072192779</div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(28, 28, 28)"><a href="http://goog_383307595" target="_blank">http://www.ju</a></span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(28, 28, 28)"><a href="http://stgiving.com/martin-brown2" target="_blank">stgiving.com/martin-brown2</a></span></div>
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