<div dir="ltr">Hello Parminder and Michael,<br><br>A non professional translation to English for the virtual personality fundamental right is here:<br><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070704102907/http://virtualrights.org/files/Congress%20of%20the%20Republic%20of%20Costa%20Rica.doc">http://web.archive.org/web/20070704102907/http://virtualrights.org/files/Congress%20of%20the%20Republic%20of%20Costa%20Rica.doc</a><br>
<br>The original in Spanish, VIrtual Personality fundamental right, Law #15890, is here:<br><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070704102907/http://virtualrights.org/files/PROYECTO%20PERSONALIDAD%20VIRTUAL.doc">http://web.archive.org/web/20070704102907/http://virtualrights.org/files/PROYECTO%20PERSONALIDAD%20VIRTUAL.doc</a><br>
<br>Parminder, the free website is one page, and the reason is to offer several components of a virtual personality, not just email, but websites, and in the future hopefully a bank account (good for people in extreme poverty) and other components (voice mail, etc).More here but in Spanish:<br>
<a href="http://paginas.racsa.co.cr/costarricense/admin1/login.php">http://paginas.racsa.co.cr/costarricense/admin1/login.php</a><br><br>Michael, in Costa RIca we do not use the terms, "Internet Bill of RIghts", or "Right to the Internet", but "Virtual Personality fundamental right", which includes things that may not be in the Internet, at least today, such as a bank account or your PSTN phone number.<br>
<br>Please be kind to let me know if I can contribute with more information or exchanges.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Jaco<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Mike, I also just now sent a similar email
to Jaco </span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: navy;">J</span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> (cut-pasted below). Parminder </span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Hi Jaco,</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Can you please forward some documents on
Costa Rican law or bill of rights in this matter.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I will especially like more information on
what is meant by </span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- Free access all over the country, including remote areas that
satellite access was used.<br>
-Free website.</span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"></span></font></p>
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<p><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> Michael Gurstein
[mailto:<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, October 12, 2008
10:22 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Jaco Aizenman'<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Bill-of-Rights]
[governance] germany plans citizen email</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">I'm presenting at the IGF on Right to the
Internet (or some such) and I'm very interested in the experience in Costa
Rica, with which I wasn't familiar... You wouldn't happen to know of any
sources (in English my Spanish wouldn't work for the nuances
required) that summarize and/or dosuss tje current programs in Costa Rica.</span></font></p>
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Michael Gurstein, Ph.D.<br>
Centre for Community Informatics Research, Training and Development<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b>
<a href="mailto:bill-of-rights-bounces@ipjustice.org" target="_blank">bill-of-rights-bounces@ipjustice.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:bill-of-rights-bounces@ipjustice.org" target="_blank">bill-of-rights-bounces@ipjustice.org</a>]
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jaco Aizenman<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> October-12-08 2:44 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>; Ian
Peter; <a href="mailto:bill-of-rights@ipjustice.org" target="_blank">bill-of-rights@ipjustice.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Avri Doria<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bill-of-Rights]
[governance] germany plans citizen email</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I can comment on what
*already* happened in Costa Rica, where a similar program was launched in
2000(*):<br>
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Most people use not just the Government, <a href="http://www.costarricense.cr" target="_blank">www.costarricense.cr</a>
, but also Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or/and the work email.<br>
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Tracking is a problem, but the problem applies not just for the public sector
providers but also for the private sector providers, which have even much more
pointers (email, searches, social sites, etc).<br>
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Thatīs why it is perceived locally as a necessity and as a human right having
an Internet Bill of Rights (Law #15890, presented in 2004).<br>
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(*) It was not just email, but:<br>
-Free access all over the country, including remote areas that satellite
access was used.<br>
-Free website.<br>
-The concept of universalizing virtual personality, including bank accounts
(Good for people in extreme poverty)) and others, which a a few years later
ended in the Congress with the virtual personality fundamental right, </span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Ian Peter <<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" target="_blank">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>> wrote:</span></font></p>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Avri Doria [mailto:<a href="mailto:avri@psg.com" target="_blank">avri@psg.com</a>]<br>
> Sent: 12 October 2008 10:02<br>
> To: Governance List<br>
> Subject: Re: [governance] germany plans citizen email<br>
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> On 11 Oct 2008, at 01:38, Ian Peter wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Not be, I was quoting Johannes Ernst<br>
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> > First you create a universal digital identifier for each citizen<br>
> > that they have no control over (e.g. they can't have more than one<br>
> > for different purposes, change it to something else, run it on a<br>
> > different computer, decide not to show their name in it etc.)<br>
> ><br>
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> but would they be required to use t for anything other then government<br>
> business? sure if they use it for other stuff then tracking becomes<br>
> possible, but if it is just your gov't id used when doing citizen stuff?<br>
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> a.<br>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I don't know, I guess that's the sort of detail that's really needed to<br>
evaluate this properly. But national ID schemes with attached data matching<br>
capabilities are a privacy issue, and the US social security number is a<br>
case in point.</span></font></p>
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-- <br>
Jaco Aizenman L.<br>
My iname is =jaco (<a href="http://xri.net/=jaco" target="_blank">http://xri.net/=jaco</a>)<br>
XDI Board member - <a href="http://www.xdi.org" target="_blank">www.xdi.org</a><br>
Tel/Voicemail: 506-83461570 <br>
Costa Rica<br>
<br>
What is an i-name?<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-name" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-name</a></span></font></p>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jaco Aizenman L.<br>My iname is =jaco (<a href="http://xri.net/=jaco">http://xri.net/=jaco</a>)<br>XDI Board member - <a href="http://www.xdi.org">www.xdi.org</a><br>Tel/Voicemail: 506-83461570 <br>
Costa Rica<br><br>What is an i-name?<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-name">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-name</a><br>
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