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<p>Dear Brett</p>
<p>Thanks for letting us know, and looking forward to hearing about
next steps. As Access is Article 1 of the IRPC Charter of Human
Rights and Principles for the Internet, how connectivity relates
to supporting access in practical terms does need addressing. <br>
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<p>best</p>
<p>MF<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/06/2016 13:47, Brett Solomon
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<div><span>Dear friends,
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<div>You might remember the two letters <font size="2"><span
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href="http://bestbits.net/finance-ministers-global-connect/"
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span
style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">here</span></a><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"> and </span><a
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href="http://bestbits.net/global-connect-initiative/"
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span
style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">here</span></a><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">)</span></font><b><font
size="2"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://share.america.gov/globalconnect/"
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span
style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"></span></a></font></b> sent
through Best Bits last September and in April of this
year<b><font size="2"><span
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on the </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Global
Connect Initiative.</span></a><br>
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<div><font size="2">The overarching aim of the Global
Connect is bring 1.5 billion people online by 2020. </font><b><font
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<div>The Initiative is progressing including a meeting
that took place following the April letter between US
Secretary of State and the President of the World Bank.
Many Finance Ministers also participated in that event
at the World Bank designed at financing Global Connect. <br>
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<div>Despite the letters, the <font size="2">IEEE
Report-out document that</font> came out from the
meeting, barely registered human rights, freedom of
expression, privacy etc. <br>
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<div>A few of us (Access Now, Public Knowledge and APC)
have started to work on a set of HR-based principles to
inform connectivity initiatives including Global
Connect. <br>
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Given the renewed attention on connectivity, we see this
as a good opportunity to develop a set of principles
that addresses the human rights dimension of access, and
that guide human rights as a foundation for rolling out
connectivity - from participation of marginalized
voices, to the nature of contractual arrangements, to
protection of opinion online.<br>
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<div><span>Right now much of the discussion is centering
around outstanding connectivity issues being
essentially an engineering problem. </span>The risk
of course, if human rights do not inform connectivity
initiatives is the roll out of a censored, throttled,
monitored, militarized internet and could deepen
inequalities within societies. <br>
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We are using existing documents (eg WSIS+10 Outcome
Document, Human Rights Council A/HRC/RES/26/13, Net
Mundial, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://internetrightsandprinciples.org/site/charter/"
target="_blank">internet rights and principles charte</a>r), <a
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href="https://www.apc.org/en/system/files/APC_charter_EN_0.pdf"
target="_blank">APC Internet Rights Charter </a>to
inform these principles.<br>
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</span>We wanted to see if others in the community would be
interested in working with us. And we are looking
specifically for those who have experience in expanding
access (including in providing access in under-served
communities and building community-based networks) and
network engineers and would like to support us in this
effort with expertise.<br>
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<div>Let us know if you're interested or if you have
questions.<br>
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<div>Hope all are well! <br>
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<div>Brett</div>
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