[bestbits] [governance] Remarks at UNESCO Closing Ceremony of "Connecting the Dots Conference"

[Michael Gurstein]

Perhaps we could have an explanation from Jeremy and others on the drafting committee as to when and how "democracy" and "social and economic rights' became unacceptable terms in a document meant to have global significance?

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> On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:33 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:

I made a submission to the final draft - section 5 - suggesting that 5.1 (in the draft) read as follows:

Promote human rights based ethical reflection,research and *democratic
dialogue* on the implications of new and emerging technologies and their potential societal impacts, *especially, for social and economic rights*

I added 2 phrases - democratic dialogue and especially, for social and economic rights.

There was no objection to these, but the outcome document did not reflect these.

'Democratic' was replaced by 'public', and the reference to social and economic rights was completely missing

anita




>> You’re right, but you can nevertheless thank UNESCO for the 
>> opportunity to participate on a multi-stakeholder basis and 
>> acknowledge that the outcome document is a lot richer than it would 
>> otherwise have been because of this.
>
>
> Also, please clarify that the Just Net Coalition does NOT represent 
> all of civil society.  This given that Richard Hill on behalf of the 
> coalition has just disrupted the meeting with a formal objection to 
> the document due to its omission to qualify references to 
> multi-stakeholderism with “democratic” (which he incorrectly 
> stated was not objected to during the last drafting session), and its 
> omission to include a reference to the International Covenant on 
> Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.  Other than his objection, the document was adopted by the meeting by consensus.
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