[bestbits] Civil society response to NETmundial 2014 outcome text open for endorsement

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Hi,

Niels is from Article 19 -- their Brazilian chapter was involved in the 
campaign to ask for president Rousseff to veto an article, so it would 
go back to the Chamber of Deputies and would possibly never be approved. 
The curious thing (showing complete lack of political tactics) is that 
they wanted Dilma to announce she would veto the article *during 
NETmundial*.

Can anyone imagine that Dilma, after the brutal political struggle to 
get MC approved by the Senate just in time for signing at NETmundial, 
would instead declare she would veto one article and blow up the 
tremendous political opportunity to sign a worldwide landmark document 
of principles?

Also, Niels should describe more precisely who were signing the declaration.

Finally, it is wrong to say (as they did) that net neutrality was not 
included in the NETmundial document. Unless they cannot understand 
English, this is the paragraph on it:

"UNIFIED AND UNFRAGMENTED SPACE -- Internet should continue to be a 
globally coherent, interconnected, stable, unfragmented, scalable and 
accessible network-of-networks, based on a common set of unique 
identifiers and that allows data packets/information to flow freely 
end-to-end regardless of the lawful content."

Since the term "net neutrality" was causing problems for 
consensus-building, that was what we (the executive committee) managed 
to do. It was also recognized that the issue is not simple and merits 
further discussion, as stated in the Roadmap document. But one cannot 
say it was not reasonably dealt with in the Principles document.

Stephanie Perrin saved the [civil society's] day by following up with a 
very balanced and positive speech.

frt rgds

--c.a.

On 04/30/2014 08:31 AM, Adam Peake wrote:
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> On Apr 25, 2014, at 7:24 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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>> I haven't endorsed it either for the same reason.
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> Would have been nice to know who Niels was speaking for -- gave the impression of civil society broadly.  Who asked for the opportunity to speak and who did they say they represented?
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> Adam
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>> Jeremy Malcolm PhD LLB (Hons) B Com
>> Internet lawyer, ICT policy advocate, geek
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>> On 25 Apr 2014, at 7:20 am, Andrew Puddephatt <Andrew at gp-digital.org> wrote:
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>>> I think this is much too negative and fails to reflect the amount of positive agenda and genuinely good things that came out of the whole process.  I can’t support this statement
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>>> Andrew Puddephatt
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>>> From: Jeremy Malcolm <Jeremy at Malcolm.id.au>
>>> Reply-To: Jeremy Malcolm <Jeremy at Malcolm.id.au>
>>> Date: Friday, 25 April 2014 01:44
>>> To: "<bestbits at lists. net>" <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>
>>> Subject: [bestbits] Civil society response to NETmundial 2014 outcome text open for endorsement
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>>> The following initial response to the NETmundial 2014 outcome text was agreed in the room at NETmundial by about 25 civil society representatives and was read out in the session by Niels ten Oever from Article 19.  If you are in agreement, please endorse and share:
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>>> http://bestbits.net/netmundial-response
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>>> This need not prevent the development of a more substantive civil society response later.
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>>> Jeremy Malcolm PhD LLB (Hons) B Com
>>> Internet lawyer, ICT policy advocate, geek
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