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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Just to be clear, </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This below is an updated version of the one that Karen sent and should be the one used for comments and suggestions.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">MG</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">From: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Michael Gurstein [</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">mailto:gurstein@gmail.com</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">] </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Sent: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">July 2, 2008 12:47 AM</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">To: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">'governance@lists.cpsr.org'; 'karen banks'</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Subject: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">RE: [governance] IGF workshop: Internet for All</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I think that Karen who seems to be off line sent an earlier version of this…</FONT></SPAN>
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<P ALIGN=CENTER><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="TimesNewRoman">“Internet for All – Exploring a Rights-based Approach”</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="TimesNewRoman">Internet for All is the proposed theme for the IGF, Hyderabad and is adapted from UNESCO’s ‘Education for All’ initiative. ’Education for All’ takes a rights based approach to education and presents nuanced view the enabling conditions for providing education for all</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> (</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47044&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47044&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Arial"></FONT> <FONT FACE="Arial">) .</FONT> <FONT FACE="TimesNewRoman">The proposed “Internet for All—Exploring a Rights-based Approach” workshop will explore what a ‘Rights-based’ approach to Internet for All (including other related concepts such as e-Inclusion and ‘Universal Service’) would mean and whether it could provide the basis for Internet policy in this area. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="TimesNewRoman">Universal service and universal access are widely accepted telecom policy principles. However, these are less clear in area of the Internet where the Internet involves areas of much more active ‘use’ and multi-layered types of interaction and development than the simple connection’ with the telephone. To mention only one aspect of this a draft resolution recommended for ECOSOC</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"></FONT> <FONT FACE="TimesNewRoman">by the 11th session of the CSTD</FONT> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.unctad.org/sections/wcmu/docs//ecn162008_r004_en.pdf"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">http://www.unctad.org/sections/wcmu/docs//ecn162008_r004_en.pdf</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT></U> <FONT FACE="TimesNewRoman">recently noted that ‘a new form of digital divide is emerging in terms of difference in quality and speed of access to ICTs’ (the OECD has also been grappling with definitional issues regarding universal access in terms of the Internet</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"></FONT> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/57/40629067.pdf"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Times New Roman">http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/57/40629067.pdf</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Times New Roman"> )</FONT></U><FONT FACE="Arial">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="TimesNewRoman">Other issues to be explored from a ‘rights’ perspective include a determination of the enabling conditions for realizing effective use of the available ‘access’ and the characteristics of the Internet to which one has access. A rights based approach to “Internet for All’ or what may be referred to as a ‘right to the Internet’ may include issues that go beyond mere access as for example the enabling conditions such as training, capacity building and the development of the social, organizational, and managerial infrastructure that can make access meaningful and useful. The “Education for All’ movement recognizes that conditions such as these are pertinent to ensuring education for all beyond simple access to schools.. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="TimesNewRoman">This corresponds to quality and appropriateness of the substantive content and presentation of the Internet – language including use of non-Roman scripts are of particular significance here and correspond in the ‘education for all’ context to what is spoken of in a recent UNESCO document as ‘the right to learn in the mother tongue’</FONT><FONT FACE="DIN-Light"> (</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001297/129728e.pdf"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001297/129728e.pdf</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="DIN-Light">). </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="TimesNewRoman">The WSIS declaration of Principles speaks of an “information society where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information”. Does this translate into a right to do so? What would be the implications of a right on Internet policies, for instance with respect to the network neutrality debate. Similarly, issues such as online security, privacy and FoE may be possible to explore from a rights perspective in the context of the possible significance in enabling or restricting an ‘Internet for all’. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="TimesNewRoman">A further set of issues more directly linked to an e-Inclusion definition of ‘Internet for all’ would include groups needing special consideration such as people with disabilities, whose right to access to ‘new information and communications technologies and systems, including the Internet’ as is recognized by the recently concluded ‘International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-----Original Message-----</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">From: karen banks [</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:karenb@gn.apc.org"><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mailto:karenb@gn.apc.org</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">] </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sent: July 1, 2008 2:17 AM</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To: governance@lists.cpsr.org</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Subject: [governance] IGF workshop: Internet for All</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi everyone</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Please find below a reworked text for the </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">'internet for all' workshop - which has evolved </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and in fact changed focus significantly since first posted to the caucus list.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The caucus group working on this proposal </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(internet for all) have also been working with </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">the Bill of Rights Coalition - who are </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">submitting a 'mainstreaming-rights-into-IGF proposal'</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We have discussed at length how best to approach </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">human rights and IG - how to bring a rights </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">perspective to the IGF - and we will have a long </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">way to go - but it is certainly a good start.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The caucus folk and Bill of Rights folk will also </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">express inhterest in helping to shape the main </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">session of openness, security and privacy</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The proposal below is not in the workshop </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">proposal format (yet) but parminder has asked the </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">secretariat for a short extension - wherein we </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">will need to get the proposal into the template and identify some speakers..</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">karen</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">“Internet for All – Exploring a Rights-based Approach”</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Internet for All has been proposed as the overall </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">theme for the IGF, Hyderabad. The program </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">document also states that this description is </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">adapted from the UNESCO’s ‘Education for All’ </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">initiative. Education for All takes a rights </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">based approach to education, and also a very </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">nuanced view of ‘what kind of education’ as well </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">as the enabling conditions that are required for </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">providing education for all ( </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><A HREF="http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47044&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html"><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47044&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">) . This workshop will explore what does a </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">‘Rights-based Approach to Internet for All’ </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">means, and whether it provides the basis of an </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">appropriate and viable set of guidelines in the area of Internet policies.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Universal service and universal access are widely </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">accepted policy principles in case of telecom </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">policies. However, the meaning and context of </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">these terms in case of Internet is still not </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">clear. Unlike telephony, Internet is much more </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">than a ‘connection’ that ‘either you have or you </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">don’t’. A draft resolution recommended by the </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">11th session of CSTD for adoption by the ECOSOC </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.unctad.org/sections/wcmu/docs//ecn162008_r004_en.pdf"><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.unctad.org/sections/wcmu/docs//ecn162008_r004_en.pdf</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">) recently noted that ‘a new form of digital </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">divide is emerging in terms of difference in </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">quality and speed of access to ICTs’ ( OECD has </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">also been grappling with definitional issues </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">regarding universal access in terms of the </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Internet ( </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/57/40629067.pdf"><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/57/40629067.pdf</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> ).</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Apart from the issues about what width of the </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">pipe can constitute universal entitlement or a </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">right, if at all, there are also at least two </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">other sets of issues which need to be explored </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">from a rights perspective (1) enabling conditions </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">for making effective use of the available access </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and (2) the kind of the Internet one has access </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">to. A rights based approach to “Internet for </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">All’ or what may be called as a ‘right to the </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Internet’ therefore has to explored in terms of </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">many issues that go beyond mere access to the </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Internet, while including this important element.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Enabling conditions could be in terms of training </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and capacity building as well as the social, </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">organizational, and managerial infrastructure. </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The “Education for All’ movement recognizes such </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">conditions that are outside and beyond mere </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">access to schools which are pertinent to ensuring education for all.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Other set of issues are about what kind of </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Internet does one have access to. This </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">corresponds to quality and appropriateness of </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">education in the ‘education for all’ movement. </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">For instance, is one entitled to an Internet that </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">recognizes one’s own language? It is significant </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">to note in this respect that a recent UNESCO </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">document speaks about ‘‘the right to learn in the </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mother tongue’ ( </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><A HREF="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001297/129728e.pdf"><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001297/129728e.pdf</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">). The WSIS declaration of Principles speaks of </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">an “information society where everyone can </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">create, access, utilize and share information”. </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Does it translate into a right to do so? What </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">implication would such a right have on Internet </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">policies, for instance with respect to network </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">neutrality debate. Similarly, issues like online </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">security, privacy and FoE may be possible to </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">explore from a rights perspective to ‘Internet for all’.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Another set of issues are with respect to groups </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">needing special consideration like people with </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">disabilities, whose right to access to ‘new </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">information and communications technologies and </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">systems, including the Internet’ is recognized by </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">the ‘International Convention on the Rights of </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Persons with Disabilities’ which came into force recently. </FONT></SPAN>
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