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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>IGC in a recent input had proposed that ‘rights and
the Internet’ remain a key focus of the IGF.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Apart from the workshop “Internet for All – Exploring
a Rights-based Approach’ – (<a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=66">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=66</a>)
sponsored by the IGC, there are a few more workshops that looks at IG issues
form a rights angle.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dynamic Coalition on Bill of Right’s - <a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=53"><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Mainstreaming
human rights in the work of the IGF</span></font></a> (<a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=53">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=53</a>
)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=141"><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Council of
Europe’s open forum - "The human rights dimension of
Internet" </span></font></a>(<a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=141">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=141</a>
)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>UNESCO’s - <a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=133"><font
color=black><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Freedom of
Expression in cyberspace: Internet Filtering and Censorship</span></font></a> (<a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=133">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=133</a>
)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>There is also the meeting of the Dynamic Coalition on Bill
of Rights mentioned in the official program. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We need to see how we can use these workshops and other
possible strategies to possibly built some kind of momentum for our effort to
get ‘right and the Internet’ as the overall theme for the next IGF.
If we are to have any chance of success we need to start mobilizing support
now. We need to build a solid constituency around this idea. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>It may also be noteworthy that IGC’s and DC on Bill of
Right’s (along with some other organizations’) call for making ’rights
and the Internet’ as the overarching theme of the next IGF finds
prominent mention in the Synthesis paper for IGF Hyderabad , which is a kind of
official conference paper for the meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> (see <a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/sec_papers_08/IGF.SynthesisPaper.Final.30.10.2008.pdf">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/sec_papers_08/IGF.SynthesisPaper.Final.30.10.2008.pdf</a>
)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Parminder <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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