[bestbits] APrIGF workshop "Internet governance for human rights and democracy" streaming online this Wednesday

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Following on from the Enhanced Cooperation submission to the CSTD, the
following workshop will be held at the Asia-Pacific Regional IGF this
Wednesday, with live streaming at http://2013.rigf.asia/openness/ from
2:30pm local time (5:30am GMT/UTC, 19:30 US EST).  Please join us!

    *Workshop Title:* Internet governance for human rights and democracy

    The Internet is governed through a patchwork of rules, norms and
    standards, which its stakeholders have developed largely
    independently and without reference to an overarching framework of
    principles.  This has allowed the Internet to flourish through the
    adaptive and innovative development of new services, particularly in
    the technical sphere.  But the absence of guiding principles has
    also allowed powerful stakeholders to drive changes to Internet
    governance that conflict with human rights and other emerging global
    norms of Internet user communities, though undemocratic processes
    such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, member-only
    discussions at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and
    North-heavy regional groupings such as the G8 and OECD.  Is this
    status quo sustainable?  Would it help to democratise global
    Internet governance if all stakeholders had a better way of
    developing guiding principles for policy makers in areas that are
    not already covered by multi-stakeholder democratic processes?  How
    will the discussions at the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced
    Cooperation be able to address this?  What progress (if any) was
    made at the ITU's World Telecommunication/Information and
    Communication Technology Policy Forum (WTPF)?  What principles
    initiatives already exist, and what role could the IGF play in
    legitimising these at the global level?  What other mechanisms are
    available to advocate for the Internet we want, that is globally
    democratic and respects human rights?  This workshop will attempt to
    address these questions, including through the presentation of
    concrete proposals for practical reforms.

    A roundtable discussion that will feed into the two-day Best Bits
    civil society meeting in Bali in October, and into two subsequent
    multi-stakeholder workshops at the global IGF.


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*Dr Jeremy Malcolm
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