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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I have been able to get an extension, and
we have 2 more days to discuss this proposal. I am enclosing the draft once
again. Pl do indicate your comments and inputs. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This proposal was prepared by a working
group of the IGC. It is being supported by the Bill-of-Rights Dynamic
Coalition. We are also exploring other co-sponsors and at least one UN organization
has expressed interest. One developing country government has also given
informal consent to cosponsor which will be confirmed in a few days.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Parminder <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=TimesNewRoman><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;
font-weight:bold'>Internet for All – Exploring a Rights-based
Approach”</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=TimesNewRoman><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: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</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> (</span></font><a
href="http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47044&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html"
title="blocked::http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47044&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html"><font
size=1 face=Arial
title="blocked::http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47044&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html"><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial'><span
title="blocked::http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47044&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html">http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47044&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html</span></span></font></a>
<font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>) .</span></font> <font
face=TimesNewRoman><span style='font-family: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. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=TimesNewRoman><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: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</span></font>
<font face=TimesNewRoman><span style='font-family:TimesNewRoman'>by the 11th
session of the CSTD</span></font> <a
href="http://www.unctad.org/sections/wcmu/docs/ecn162008_r004_en.pdf"
title="blocked::http://www.unctad.org/sections/wcmu/docs//ecn162008_r004_en.pdf"><font
size=1 face=Arial
title="blocked::http://www.unctad.org/sections/wcmu/docs//ecn162008_r004_en.pdf"><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial'><span
title="blocked::http://www.unctad.org/sections/wcmu/docs//ecn162008_r004_en.pdf">http://www.unctad.org/sections/wcmu/docs//ecn162008_r004_en.pdf</span></span></font></a>
<font face=TimesNewRoman><span style='font-family: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</span></font>
<a href="http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/57/40629067.pdf"
title="blocked::http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/57/40629067.pdf"><font size=1
title="blocked::http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/57/40629067.pdf"><span
style='font-size:7.5pt'><span
title="blocked::http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/57/40629067.pdf">http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/57/40629067.pdf</span></span></font></a><u><font
size=1 color=blue><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:blue'> )</span></font></u><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=TimesNewRoman><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: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. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=TimesNewRoman><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: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’</span></font><font face=DIN-Light><span
style='font-family:DIN-Light'> (</span></font><a
href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001297/129728e.pdf"
title="blocked::http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001297/129728e.pdf"><font
size=1 face=Arial
title="blocked::http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001297/129728e.pdf"><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial'><span
title="blocked::http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001297/129728e.pdf">http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001297/129728e.pdf</span></span></font></a><font
face=DIN-Light><span style='font-family:DIN-Light'>). </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=TimesNewRoman><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: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’. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=TimesNewRoman><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: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’. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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