[bestbits] Fwd: Joana's speech

Anja Kovacs anja at internetdemocracy.in
Wed Nov 11 22:49:46 EST 2015 

Fabulously done, Joana. Thanks so much for having put forward all of this,
and having done it so very well.

Warmly,
Anja

On 12 November 2015 at 01:17, amalia deloney <amalia at mediademocracyfund.org>
wrote:

> It was a great speech.  Congrats.
> -amalia
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:10 AM, 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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