<div dir="ltr">Dear all, <div><br></div><div>In South Korea, we issued a joint NGO statement on NETmundial below. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards, </div><div>Borami </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>english version -> <a href="http://nnforum.kr/87">http://nnforum.kr/87</a><br>
</div><div>korean version -> </div><div><a href="http://www.ccej.or.kr/index.php?document_srl=405849">http://www.ccej.or.kr/index.php?document_srl=405849</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The South Korean Civil Society Statement on NETmunidal</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:굴림"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">This is a new chapter in building participatory and
democratic Internet governance</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We welcome the Multistakeholders' Declaration of Sao
Paulo</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">On 23-24, April, a global
multistakeholder meeting on Internet governance , “NETmundial,” was held to
discuss the Internet Governance Principles and future approaches in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. This meeting was considered historic in that it enabled
multistakeholder participation during the process, enabling governments, civil
societies, private sectors, technical communities, and academia, etc., to
participate in the process of determining the final resulting content of
meeting. Over 180 contributing opinions were submitted during the opinion
submission phase before the conference, and the “draft outcome document” that
was prepared by the Executive Multistakeholder Committee based on the
contributions produced over 1370 comments prior to the actual meeting. The
two-day face-to-face meeting also provided open-microphone opprtunities for the
respective stakeholders to voice additional opinions. The final document, the
“Net-mundial Multistakeholders' Declaration of Sao Paulo” on Internet
governance was praised by many to be the result of an unprecedented process of
global multistakeholder participation, and was accepted through a rough
consensus.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The first global declaration based on a rough consensus
of multistakeholders</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">A key concept that was included in the
title of the meeting was “Multistakeholder” which means that multistakeholders,
i.e., the government, civil societies, technical communities and academias, and
the individual users can participate in the Internet public policy
decision-making process with equal status and in a democratically participatory
fashion. When we consider the fact that existing “international declarations”
have been issued exclusively either by intergovernmental/international bodies
or by global civil societies, the Sao Paulo declaration takes on the special
status of being the first global ‘multistakeholder’ declaration where relevant
stakeholders were given horizontal status during the deliberation process and
were able to arrive at a general consensus in an open and transparent manner.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">However, this goal of multistakeholder
consensus inevitably resulted in a final declaration not being able to
accommodate many of the important issues that were supported by civil
societies. Adoption of a clear statement endorsing net neutrality was passed
over to future discussions, and we had to accept general statements on human
rights that did not touch on specific and importanrt human rights clauses for
freedom of expression, privacy, etc. In addition, the final document contained
limited wording against mass surveillance although the Brazillian president’s
UN speech denouncing mass surveillance by the US had been one of the main
stimulants behind the current meeting and demands that mass surveillance and
surveillance of the telecommunications network in general be banned had been
one of the important issues that had been proposed for the meeting.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Despite the above limitations, we
believe that this declaration is the result of a successful experiment,
providing a cornerstone model for making the Internet public policy
decision-making processes to be more transparent, democratic, and cooperative
by allowing the participation of various players. The shortcomings that were
revealed during this meeting should be amended and improved through future fora
flexibly for discussing Internet governance such as the IGF.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The South Korean government recognizes the need for a
system of multistakeholder participation at the national level.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The multistakeholder approach was
identified as one of the most important principles at the national as well as
the global level during this meeting. It was observed that Brazil was able to
take on the role of being the host of this meeting because of their domestic
multistakeholder Internet policy body, the CGI.br, and members of this
organization played principal roles in organizing and administering the details
of this meeting. In addition, the culmination of one of the achievements of
CGI.br that was reached through a bottom-up process was proudly displayed to
the global community when the Brazilian president signed the national Marco
Civil during the opening ceremony of NETmundial.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The South Korean government also
publicly declared support for the Multistakeholder model in their contributing
statement prior to the meeting as well as in the statements made by the
governmental representatives during this meeting. We praise this stance of the
Korean government as acknowledging the necessity for the existance of a
multistakeholder participatory policy body on Internet governance, in line with
the recommendations of the Sao Paulo declaration.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Thus, we would like to suggest that we
begin collaborative discussions on the formation of a domestic
multistakeholder Internet governance body similar to CGI.br. As major
representatives of the South Korean civil society, we would like to express our
support for the democratic multistakeholder process that was proposed in
NETmundial and declare our committment to achieving this goal not only at the
global level but also at the domestic level, in cooperation with the various
stakeholders.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Thanks, Edward Snowden</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The breaches on human rights through
mass surveillance by many governments that were exposed as a result of Edward
Snowden’s revelations caused a huge outrage among the global Internet
users. The denouncement of such activities by global Internet users provided
the impetus for this meeting in Brazil.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We believe that Snowden has enabled the
activities of ordinary Internet users around us - those that exist peacefully
on the Internet, living, loving, working and dedicating their individual
expertise - to be recognized as major sources behind the creation of an
Internet based on protecting human rights and contributing to a global,
resilient, trustworthy, open and flexible Internet. In this regard, the civil
society of Korea would like to express our deep appreciation to the courage of
Edward Snowden for inspiring such discussions.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We hope Snowden gets back home safe.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">2014. 4. 28.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">경실련</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">(CCEJ, Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">망중립성</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">이용자</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">포럼</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">(Net Neutrality User
Forum)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">오픈넷</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> (Opennet)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">진보네트워크센터</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">(Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">프라이버시</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">워킹그룹</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">(Privacy
Working Group Korea)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">함께하는시민행동</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> (Citizens’ Action Network)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Reference</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The Multistakeholders’ Decaration of Sao Paulo </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"><a href="http://netmundial.br/netmundial-multistakeholder-statement/"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none">http://netmundial.br/netmundial-multistakeholder-statement/</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The Korean Civil Society statement submitted to
NETmundial </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"><a href="http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/korean-civil-society-submission-for-netmundial/146"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none">http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/korean-civil-society-submission-for-netmundial/146</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The South Government statement submitted to NETmundial</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"><a href="http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/the-korean-government-s-submission-for-netmundial/255"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none">http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/the-korean-government-s-submission-for-netmundial/255</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Nnenna Nwakanma speech </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림"><a href="https://bestbits.net/nnenna-netmundial/"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> https://bestbits.net/nnenna-netmundial/</span></a></span></p>
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