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Thanks, Anja. Please add my name and APC.<br>
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Willie<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Please add
my name as well. Thanks for
catching this, Anja<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Ginger Paque [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:gpaque@gmail.com">mailto:gpaque@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, August
15, 2009
7:47 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:anja@cis-india.org">anja@cis-india.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re:
[governance] Aug. 15
deadline for inputs on IGF 2009 agenda</span></font><font color="black"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi Anja,<br>
Thanks for taking this up.<br>
<br>
Please add my name as an individual signer (no organization).<br>
Best,<br>
Ginger<br>
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Anja Kovacs wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
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size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thank you to all those who
responded to my question.<br>
<br>
As time is indeed short, I would like to take up Ginger's suggestion,
and have
drafted a brief statement, which you can find below. If you and/or
your
organisation would like to sign this, please let me know by the end of
today,
15 August (whatever your time zone), and I will make sure it reaches
the IGF
Secretariat.<br>
<br>
Below the proposed statement, I have also pasted the statement that the
IGC
submitted in April. A few other submissions, made around that time by
various groups and individuals can be found here: <a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/discussionspace?func=view&catid=5&id=14"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/discussionspace?func=view&catid=5&id=14</a><br>
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Thanks,<br>
Anja<br>
<br>
<u>Suggested statement:</u> <br>
<br>
The undersigned would like to express their surprise and disappointment
that
Internet Rights and Principles was not retained as an item on the
agenda of the
2009 IGF in any way. Although this topic was suggested as a theme for
this
year's IGF or for a main session by a range of actors during and in the
run-up
to May's Open Consultations, this widespread support is not reflected
in the
Draft Programme Paper, which does not include Internet Rights and
Principles
even as a sub-topic of any of the main sessions. The WSIS Declaration
of
Principles, 2003, and the Tunis Agenda, 2005, explicitly reaffirmed the
centrality of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to an inclusive
information society. To make these commitments meaningful, it is of
great
importance that a beginning is made to explicitly building
understanding and
consensus around the meaning of Internet Rights and Principles at the
earliest.
We recommend that the Agenda of the 2009 IGF provide the space to do so.<br>
<br>
<u>IGC Submission - April 2009:</u><br>
<br>
The following statement is submitted on behalf of the Civil Society
Internet
Governance Caucus.<br>
<br>
The Internet Governance Caucus continues to support "Internet Rights
and
Principles" as a major theme for IGF-4 in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region>. This should lead to
discourse at the IGF meetings moving towards the definition and
clarification
of rights in relation to the Internet, and how they relate to
pre-existing
definitions of human rights. It also includes a space for discussions
about the
responsibilities of all parties.<br>
<br>
The concept of "rights" continues to stress the importance of
openness and universal access. This framework will continue to
emphasize the
importance of access to knowledge and development in Internet
governance, while
adding to it the basic right of individuals to access the content and
applications of their choice. This is in keeping with current debates
regarding
an “open Internet”, and relevant aspects of the often confusing network
neutrality discussions.<br>
<br>
The inclusion of "principles" allows for wide discussion of the
responsibilities that the different stakeholders have to each other. It
allows
for open examination of the principles that should govern the Internet,
particularly in its commercial facets.<br>
<br>
<br>
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 19:15 -0430, Ginger Paque wrote:<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi Anja,<br>
I agree with your concern. However, I do not think there is time for
the list
to reach consensus on a substantive statement.<br>
<br>
If you write a statement, could you post it to the list, so that those
who want
to sign with you can email you directly, so you can add names before
you send
it in?<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Ginger<br>
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Anja Kovacs wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">As Ginger noted, tomorrow is the last day for comments on the Draft<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Programme Paper. What continues to strike me as I read this paper is the<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">complete absence of attention for Internet rights and principles - in<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">fact the word 'rights' is not mentioned even once - despite Internet<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">rights and principles being raised as a theme or a topic for a main<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">session repeatedly by a range of players (including the IGC, the IRP DC<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">and the Gender DC) during and in the run-up to May's Open Consultations.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Although I realise that there is little chance of it being included as a<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">main session at this point, I think it is important for us to at least<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">comment on this glaring absence. Would it be possible for the IGC to<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">express, by tomorrow, its disappointment in this regard? (we could use<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">some of the wording of the April submission) <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">For those of you with whom I have had the pleasure to interact before, I<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">also would like to share that I have now joined the Centre for Internet<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">and Society, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Bangalore</st1:place></st1:City>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">I look forward to continuing to engage with you all on Internet<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Governance issues.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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