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Following on from the Enhanced Cooperation submission to the CSTD,
the following workshop will be held at the Asia-Pacific Regional IGF
this Wednesday, with live streaming at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://2013.rigf.asia/openness/">http://2013.rigf.asia/openness/</a> from 2:30pm local time (5:30am
GMT/UTC, 19:30 US EST). Please join us!<br>
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<p><strong>Workshop Title:</strong> Internet governance for human
rights and democracy</p>
The Internet is governed through a patchwork of rules, norms and
standards, which its stakeholders have developed largely
independently and without reference to an overarching framework of
principles. This has allowed the Internet to flourish through the
adaptive and innovative development of new services, particularly
in the technical sphere. But the absence of guiding principles
has also allowed powerful stakeholders to drive changes to
Internet governance that conflict with human rights and other
emerging global norms of Internet user communities, though
undemocratic processes such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Agreement, member-only discussions at the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU), and North-heavy regional groupings
such as the G8 and OECD. Is this status quo sustainable? Would
it help to democratise global Internet governance if all
stakeholders had a better way of developing guiding principles for
policy makers in areas that are not already covered by
multi-stakeholder democratic processes? How will the discussions
at the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation be able to
address this? What progress (if any) was made at the ITU’s World
Telecommunication/Information and Communication Technology Policy
Forum (WTPF)? What principles initiatives already exist, and what
role could the IGF play in legitimising these at the global level?
What other mechanisms are available to advocate for the Internet
we want, that is globally democratic and respects human rights?
This workshop will attempt to address these questions, including
through the presentation of concrete proposals for practical
reforms.
<p>A roundtable discussion that will feed into the two-day Best
Bits civil society meeting in Bali in October, and into two
subsequent multi-stakeholder workshops at the global IGF.</p>
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