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<p class="MsoNormal">Colleagues, <br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You see? Many governments, especially those who believe they
rule the world, are desperate to take charge of the Internet. They feel
threatened by the fact that the Internet is unlike their physical kingdoms
where they easily fill the streets with heavily armed devouring security
personnel against peaceful road marches for good governance, transparency,
anti-corruption, no torture and human rights protection. They feel threatened
by the fact that the Internet allows unrestrictive freedom of expression and
make it easy for the world to unearth and timeline cry out against their secret
arrests, executions and other misdemeanors. They attempt to distract further
discussions on multi-stakeholder Internet governance and to probably mar
impending universal endorsement of the approach. These are why civil society
and those nation states (like Brazil) who stand on multi-stakeholderism
(emphasized in ITU's briefing papers: "Supporting Multistakeholderism in
Internet Governance" and "The Enhanced Cooperation Process")
must step up efforts against government control of the Internet.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The 6 opinions regarding fundamental issues of Internet
governance, endorsed by World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum on 14-16 May
2013, are still valid. Brazil's 7th opinion: "Operationalising the role of
governments in the multi-stakeholder model for internet governance" still
needs to be discussed and endorsed.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I agree "in toto cubidem" with Jean-Louis that the
contents of the agreement between the governments of South Africa (SA) and
China on Internet governance and cybersecurity should be made public. It might
not be ruled out that SA is moving to "import" Chinese Internet
censorship technology.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The forthcoming WSIS+10 Review is a critical exercise (which
ought not overlook WSIS+10 Visioning Challenge Document produced during 2013
World Summit on the Information Society Forum) and should be an opportunity to
showcase (NOT hypothesize) the positive impact of the Internet in light of UN
Declaration of Human Rights, Millennium Development Goals and good governance
in many countries. <br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It's noteworthy that all that the Internet had achieved in
human and community development wouldn't have been possible if governments had
been in charge of the Internet.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">From Amnesty International and One.org's online petitions
that had secured people's rights, through ISOC's Community Grants that had come
a long way in bridging the digital divide, to Massachusetts Institute of
Technology's Open Courseware, United Nations University's online degree
programs and Coursera + EdX + other MOOCs that had enabled knowledge/skills
improvement for many people who were hitherto educationally disabled, there are
people with live stories of how the Internet and other ICTs transform lives and
shape personal and communal directions. These are the people who should be
brought in to paint the real (or, if you like, sharpen the) picture of ICTs in
development. Someone had expressed this line of thought in one of our Internet
Policy List discussions on WSIS+10 preparatory process. That colleague was
right on.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The borderlessness of the Internet MUST not be abused for
international electronic espionage and cross-border invasion of people's rights
and privacy. So, mass surveillance, in whatever guise, is unacceptable to me
and should be so to all.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">CPU.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">University of Nigeria</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"><img style="margin-right: 0px;" alt="Inline image 1" src="cid:ii_14e275431acad503" height="158" width="118"></div> <p></p><div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 23, 2015 10:48 AM, "Jean-Louis FULLSACK" <<a href="mailto:jlfullsack@orange.fr" target="_blank">jlfullsack@orange.fr</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p>Thanks, Anriette,</p>
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<p>for this expression of "outrage" against NGO spying. I strongly support this protest. </p>
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<p>I'd also add another opportunity for NGO's outrage that Right2Know mentioned recently : the ICT Partnership between South Africa and China. It includes Internet governance and cyber-security. The NGO demands that the terms of the cooperation agreement are made public Moreover, the NGO mentions i.a. that for the Chinese governement Internet censorship is the rule and standard.</p>
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<p>Best regards</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Jean-Louis Fullsack </p>
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<blockquote style="padding-left:5px;margin-left:5px;border-left:2px solid rgb(255,0,0)">> Message du 23/06/15 11:03<br>> De : "Anriette Esterhuysen" <<a href="mailto:anriette@apc.org" target="_blank">anriette@apc.org</a>><br>> A : <a href="mailto:irp@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org" target="_blank">irp@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org</a>, "Internet Governance" <<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net" target="_blank">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net" target="_blank">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>><br>> Copie à : <br>> Objet : [IRPCoalition] A message from R2K to Britain's spies at GCHQ<br>> <br>> Dear all I am sure many of you saw the news yesterday about GCHQ spying on South African and Egyptian human rights organisations. Here is our response (our being South African activists). Anriette *A message from R2K to Britain's spies at GCHQ* Online: <a href="http://www.r2k.org.za/?p=5076" target="_blank">http://www.r2k.org.za/?p=5076</a> We are outraged to learn that the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British spy agency, has spied on email communications of the Legal Resources Centre <<a href="http://lrc.org.za/press-releases/3520-press-release-lrc-emails-intercepted-by-british-intelligence" target="_blank">http://lrc.org.za/press-releases/3520-press-release-lrc-emails-intercepted-by-british-intelligence</a>>. This emerged on Monday in a ruling by the UK’s secretive Investigative Powers Tribunal. The ruling confirmed that another human rights organisation, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), was also spied on in breach of GCHQ’s internal policies. It seems there are no limits to what GCHQ and its allies are willing to do. The ruling found that this surveillance was illegal, even by GCHQ's own very lax standards, although this was described as a "technical" breach. This is further evidence of the extent to which governments across the world seem willing to use surveillance policies to invade the privacy of human rights defenders and ordinary citizens alike. The LRC provides pro bono legal support to many civil society groups and communities across South Africa, including the Right2Know Campaign. This surveillance has potentially also violated the rights of the LRC’s clients to attorney-client confidentiality, although no information has been provided in the ruling about precisely what communications were intercepted. We applaud the LRC for its continued efforts to protect the rights of its clients. We call on the British Embassy in Pretoria to explain how its government came to spy on South African human rights lawyers! And we send a message to the GCHQ, which they can plug into Google Translate in their own time: *Sidikiwe! Voetsek! * For more information see the LRC's press release <<a href="http://lrc.org.za/press-releases/3520-press-release-lrc-emails-intercepted-by-british-intelligence" target="_blank">http://lrc.org.za/press-releases/3520-press-release-lrc-emails-intercepted-by-british-intelligence</a>> and Privacy International's briefing <<a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/?q=node/601" target="_blank">https://www.privacyinternational.org/?q=node/601</a>>. _______________________________________________ IRP mailing list <a href="mailto:IRP@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org" target="_blank">IRP@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org</a> <a href="https://lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org/mailman/listinfo/irp" target="_blank">https://lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org/mailman/listinfo/irp</a> </blockquote><br>____________________________________________________________<br>
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