[bestbits] POSTnetmundial civil society position

[JOSEFSSON Erik]

I was pinged back to the list and encouraged to ask again if it would be meaningful to update the official NETmundial text so that forgotten viewpoints could be made visible again and skewed language aligned with a POSTnetmundial civil society position.

I am aware that such post processing work has already been done and that what I'm suggesting is basically to do the same work again.

The difference would simply be the format of the text. If the official NETmundial text is reworked to a POSTnetmundial consensus position it would be very easy to identify more precisely "what went wrong", e.g. with a wikidiff.

If it is the case (I have understood it is) that, for example, the phrase "the rights of authors and creators" has less support than a reference to ICESCR has, it would look like this:

NETmundial:
Freedom of information and access to information: Everyone should have the right to access, share, create and distribute information on the Internet, consistent with the rights of authors and creators as established in law.

POSTnetmundial:
Freedom of information and access to information: Everyone should have the right to access, share, create and distribute information on the Internet, consistent with the UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

And that edit would look like this in a wikidiff:

http://euwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Sandbox%2FNETmundial&diff=16666&oldid=16665

And so on, throughout the NETmundial v. POSTnetmundial document.

Anyone bites? :-)

It would of course be a challenge to put experiences of procedures and representation at NETmundial immediately into practice. But maybe that's worth while exercise?

Best regards.

//Erik
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