[bestbits] Fwd: Joana's speech

[Grace Githaiga]

Joana, you were great!

From: walid.al-saqaf at ims.su.se
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:18:30 +0100
To: joana at varonferraz.com
CC: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
Subject: Re: [bestbits] Fwd: Joana's speech

Well said Joana, I wish too to have more brave and informed women like
you as active players in the Internet sphere.
 
Sincerely,
 
Walid
 
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Walid Al-Saqaf, PhD
Postdoc, Department of Media Studies
Stockholm University - Sweden
 
 
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:10 PM, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net> wrote:
> The Raw transcript of the speech is available here and copied below
>
> http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/187-igf-2015/transcripts-igf-2015/2318-2015-11-10-opening-ceremony-main-meeting-room
>
>
>>> MODERATOR: , the next speaker is Joana Varon Ferraz.
>>> JOANA VARON FERRAZ: Hello, all protocols have been addressed.  I would like to extend my general greetings for all the participants.  And correct my affiliation.  I'm actually researcher and human rights advocate, and founder director of coding rights which is a female organisation focused in advancing the enforcement of human rights in the digital world by integrating usages and understandings of technology into policymaking process.
> I have to say a few weeks ago, we were surprised by a E mail saying that I've been nominated by my colleagues for this Opening Session.  When I got the news, the first thing that crossed my mind were memories from when I attended my first IGF back in 2007.  Here in Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro.
> It was just nine years ago, but as much as I changed, I got some trust from Civil Society colleagues that nominated me to be here today, the Internet has also changed a lot.  And we have great innovations, more people connected, indeed, different kind of smart devices, but I'm concerned.  The Internet was built with the core value of connectivity to be open, interoperable.
> But our Internet is becoming more and more centralized.  Sometimes, by the action of governments, but mostly by market powers.  That aspect poses problems to those core values that were originally embedded in the architecture of the Internet poses problems, protection and promotion of human rights, and also represents challenges to the Internet Governance processes.
> Particularly concerning, how we address our endless search for the beloved utopia of a Democratic multistakeholder participation.
> Mostly considering this from the mental power imbalances within the various stakeholder groups, some concerns, human rights and from the mental technical values for the Internet architecture, like end to end interoperability, confidentiality and many others are being solved, in this progressively more centralized Internet, coined by profit and control.
> I give some examples of such centralization trends.  In terms of connectivity, for instance, at least in developing countries or emerging economies, connectivities are still centralized in the hands of very few telecommunication companies.  We need to discuss alternatives to this such as public regime for Internet services, discuss free spectrum, usage of cognitive radios.  We have technologies for that.  And I was glad that there was a particular plenary addressing this issue in this edition of IGF already.
> Furthermore, we need to understand that Zero Rating practices are not the solution to the digital divide.  There are people, particularly from developing countries, that practically only access one service and think it's Internet.
> Imagine if this perception would escalate.  So, please let's not sell donkeys pretending they are horses, Internet org is not Internet, free basics is not free, we are paying for it.
> It is more like
>   (applause).
> It's more like you are basically getting free of your rights, the right to access global and free Internet.
> So, we not only need open connectivity.  We also really need implementable net neutrality, and in particular the representatives, Brazilian Government representatives that are here, I'd like to ask for them to please consider that there is a urgency to have a regulation of Marco Civil that decree that hopefully would set the tone about that.
> Marco Civil was an example in terms of process and content worldwide, but without regulation, it is in danger, mostly by market practices.
> Another example of decentralization is related to freedom of expression and privacy.  A Special Rapporteur David Kaye said today and I find appealing, why are we reading a newspaper, the newspapers today, the newspapers is also reading us.  All this data, data, our digital shadow, our powerful tool, that can be used against us, either by framing us, framing our will, or to be used for pressure or clashing groups of descent.
> So while we have never been more connected, we have also never been so exposed as in the digital world, and pervasive surveillance, weak enforcement for data protection or discourse of Cybersecurity and terrorism does not make the perspectives very good.  We need strong and enforceable data protection views and here I call attention again to the situation in Brazil, we need to deliver our data protection bill.  There was a result of a public consultation to the legislative, they have to approve as soon as possible so we have coherence with national and international agenda in the protection of digital rights or privacy rights.
> We also need to understand and ensure that encryption and anonymity can and should be preserved.  We need to solve jurisdictional conflicts to ensure that protection of freedom of expression and privacy are not dependent on companies.  We need to move forward with transparent and accountable IANA transition towards a global system.
> And beyond, policy approaches to human rights, we need to inform these principles for the development of technology.  Technology is not neutral.  We need to consider that what does it mean to have human rights considerations for standards and protocols.
> We need to foster free software as it has been said in sessions here, if we cannot see, we cannot trust it.
> We need to work more closely to technical community to understand or at least expose the implications about what they do, and human rights.
> Finally, we need more women and more diversity within those who develop technologies.
>   (applause).
> And create policies for technologies.  This imbalance is already very expressive in this Opening Session, in which you can count four women.
> So to wrap my points, all this list of issues that can be developed further and further, represent the challenges that are increasing, to protect and promote human rights and the core values of the architecture of the Internet in face of decentralization.
> My final consideration for us to have in mind is, what is the Internet Governance system that can address all this?  What is the role of IGF facing these issues?
> IGF is indeed a unique space for multistakeholder dialogue.  But we need to fulfill them in data of IGF as provided in the Tunis Agenda.  We are currently in the process of reviewing the WSIS+10, where this issue can be addressed.
> But the renewal of IGF cannot be used as a maintenance of the status quo, in which the Internet Governance ecosystem remains the same.  No one can solve the issues that I have raised so far.  The Internet that we were discussing during WSIS process in 2003 and 5, and later on here in Brazil in IGF 2017 is not the same.
> The challenges to maintaining a free, open and decentralized network have never been bigger, and the solution is related to access, whether the institutional arrangements that we built are able to protect and promote human rights, and enable us to maintain technical values that inspire the creation of the Internet.
> I hope in these days to come, we can discuss this and other issues further, with all the reasons they require but not only discuss really, let us also protest freely.  This is also political space.  I've been looking and saw some Civil Society representatives are being harassed and taken out of the venue by due to attempt of silent protest around free basics.  It is a bit unacceptable in a context in which we are discussing free speech.
> So please, let's let people who cannot be on the stage also symbolically express their key questions regarding the future of Internet in front of high level panels like this.
> I hope this issue can be solved quickly.
> Finally, let us also use this space to think what institutional arrangements are needed to move forward beyond the status quo, in order to reverse the strength of centralization of the Internet.  Let us try to put at least many of the beautiful words that were said here and look good in paper, in practice, towards a real people centered, open, free, global and inclusive Internet.
> Thank you so much.
>   (applause).
>
>
>
> Congrats!
>
> -James
>
>
>
>
> On 11/11/2015, 1:14 a.m., "bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net on behalf of Mishi Choudhary" <bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net on behalf of mishi at softwarefreedom.org> wrote:
>
>>Joana,
>>
>>You rock!
>>
>>On 11/10/2015 07:43 PM, Jac sm Kee wrote:
>>> Really was a very substantive speech. Thank you for all of the points
>>> raised in it.
>>>
>>> Radical.
>>> j
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------
>>> Jac sm Kee
>>> Manager, Women's Rights Programme
>>> Association for Progressive Communications
>>> www.apc.org | www.takebackthetech.net | erotics.apc.org
>>> Jitsi: jacsmk | Skype: jacsmk | Twitter: @jhybe
>>>
>>> On 11/11/2015 04:21, parminder wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Congrats Joana, it was the most substantial and evocative speech I
>>>> have heard at the IGF in a long time (if ever)!
>>>
>>>> It was both precisely to the point, and carried the right emotion
>>>> and evocation. And so brave of you to have raised the issue of
>>>> removal of the CS protesters... Bravo!!
>>>
>>>> parminder
>>>
>>>
>>>
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