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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'>Hi All<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The following is the present shape of the proposed
submission on ‘rights and the Internet as overarching theme for the IGF-4’
on the Goggle doc . If members want this to go we need greater engagement than
has been made till now. As mentioned 12<sup>th</sup> September is the last date
for submission, and therefore we need to close discussion on this by 9<sup>th</sup>
September. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Members can ask for access to Google doc platform,
or give comments here which will be incorporated. If this platform is inconvenient,
I can try to set up a wiki. Any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<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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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>IGC’s
input -1 to the synthesis paper for IGF, Hyderabad.</span></font></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n1><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n3><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>‘</span></font><b
id=vn-n4><font size=4 id=vn-n5><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Rights
and the Internet’ as the over-arching theme for IGF-4, at Cairo </span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n6><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n8><b
id=vn-n9><i id=vn-n10><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Global internet
policy making and rights – role of the IGF and its constituent civil
society</span></font></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n11><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n13><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Civil Society Internet
Governance Caucus (IGC) is a civil society organization that seeks to
“promote global public interest objectives in Internet governance policy
making”, towards “the realization of internationally agreed upon
principles in support of human rights, social equity, cultural diversity and
social and economic development”. The mission of the IGC “is to
provide a forum for discussion, advocacy, action, and for the presentation of
civil society contributions into Internet governance processes”.
(*** citation/footnote needed for quote.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n14><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n16><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The Internet Governance Caucus strongly recommends that ‘Rights
and the Internet’ be made the overarching theme for IGF-4 in Egypt, and
that the IGF-4’s program be framed by the need for developing a
rights-based discourse in the area of Internet Governance. The Caucus has
already expressed support for the letter on this subject which was sent to the
MAG by the Dynamic Coalition on an Internet Bill of Rights. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n40><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The IGC offers the
IGF all assistance in helping to shape such a people-centered rights-based
discourse at the IGF meetings, and specifically to help operationalise the
proposal to make ‘Rights and the Internet’ the overarching theme
for IGF-4 in Egypt. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n41><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n43><b
id=vn-n44><i id=vn-n45><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>A complex new
emerging ecology of rights and the internet</span></font></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n46><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n48><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Freedom of
expression and openness of the internet are underpinned by recognized basic
human rights. Privacy in the digital space is increasingly understood as a very
important internet right. Conceptions of rights and the internet also extend to
the area of positive rights – for instance in the area of access, where a
right to the internet is being articulated by some, and to collective rights
such as those of cultural expression, which can underpin the important IGF
thematic area of cultural diversity. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n49><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n51><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Many important
internet policy areas, like network neutrality, are being framed in terms of
rights, such as a right to know, access to information<a name=sdfootnote2anc
id=vn-n53><sup id=vn-n52></sup></a><a
href="http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=dcskr5r9_7n2dnxhs&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1220281240982&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote2sym"><sup
id=vn-n54>2</sup></a> and the right to share information, including perhaps
freedom of expression itself. The right to public information presents itself
in a wholly new manner in a digital environment, where digitized information is
publicly sharable at little or no extra cost. One particular project looks at
positive acts of withholding digital public information from citizens as a form
of censorship. All of these rights-based conceptions may be included in the IGF
openness theme area. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n55><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n57><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Many other rights
such as the right of association and the right to political participation have
important new implications in the internet age, including in terms of the kind
of internet policies that best serve public interest in these areas.. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n58><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n60><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It is a widely
held fear that while the internet gives unprecedented new economic, social and
political opportunities in many new areas, it may further widen economic,
social and political divides. It is for this reason that development has been a
central theme for the IGF meetings to date. In this context, it might be useful
to explore what the right to development means in this new, much more
globalized and digitized, context. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n61><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n63><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Consumers of
digital products face new challenges and the consumer’s right<a
name=sdfootnote3anc id=vn-n65><sup id=vn-n64></sup></a><a
href="http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=dcskr5r9_7n2dnxhs&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1220281240982&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote3sym"><sup
id=vn-n66>3</sup></a> to know and completely ‘own’ the products and
services they pay for is another emerging area of importance. This has great
relevance in a context where corporations are able to extend their digital
tentacles of control into people’s houses and their personal devices, in
a manner as yet unsuspected by ordinary consumers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n67><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n69><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The ‘right
to property’ has conventionally been considered of considerable
importance. However its applicability and (remarkably quick and far-reaching)
mutations in the the digital environment particularly in the form of
Intellectual Property rights is current being widely contested. In fact, this
issue is emerging as a primary area of political economy contestation in the
emerging information society. Are IP rights ‘real rights’? Are
corporate entities entitled to rights as we understand the term? What are the
public interest principles which must underpin any conception of IPR? In the
new context, what is the significance of further developing the concept of a
right to access knowledge in the digital space? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n70><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n72><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Internet
governance has up to this time largely been founded in technical principles of
neutrality and, increasingly, on the internet’s functionality as a giant
global marketplace. With the internet becoming much more that just a technical
platform or a marketplace, and increasingly central to many or even most social
and political institutions, an alternative foundation and conceptual framework
for IG needs to be explored. It is the view of the IG Caucus that a right-based
framework will be highly appropriate to explore for this purpose. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n73><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n75><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It is the also the
Caucus’ view that the IGF is the framework best placed to take up this
task. This process should start at the IGF, Hyderabad, where workshops on
rights issues are being planned. These issues will also hopefully figure
prominently in the main sessions. The IGC fully expects that these discussions
will help the IGF work towards developing ‘Rights and the Internet’
as the over-arching theme of the IGF-4 in Egypt. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n76><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=western style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt' id=vn-n78><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=sdfootnote-western id=vn-n80><a name=sdfootnote1sym id=vn-n81></a><a
href="http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=dcskr5r9_7n2dnxhs&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1220281240982&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote1anc">1</a>
To quote some existing initiatives here<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=sdfootnote-western id=vn-n82><a name=sdfootnote2sym id=vn-n83></a><a
href="http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=dcskr5r9_7n2dnxhs&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1220281240982&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote2anc">2</a>
Mentioned in TA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=sdfootnote-western id=vn-n84><a name=sdfootnote3sym id=vn-n85></a><a
href="http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=dcskr5r9_7n2dnxhs&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1220281240982&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote3anc">3</a>
Mentioned in TA<o:p></o:p></p>
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