[governance] IGF workshop: Internet for All

Tue Jul 1 09:49:23 EDT 2008

Karen,

In this stage, I don't have any comment.

Baudouin

2008/7/1 karen banks <karenb at gn.apc.org>:

> Hi everyone
>
> Please find below a reworked text for the 'internet for all' workshop -
> which has evolved and in fact changed focus significantly since first posted
> to the caucus list.
>
> The caucus group working on this proposal (internet for all) have also been
> working with the Bill of Rights Coalition - who are submitting  a
> 'mainstreaming-rights-into-IGF proposal'
>
> We have discussed at length how best to approach human rights and IG - how
> to bring a rights perspective to the IGF - and we will have a long way to go
> - but it is certainly a good start.
>
> The caucus folk and Bill of Rights folk will also express inhterest in
> helping to shape the main session of openness, security and privacy
>
> The proposal below is not in the workshop proposal format (yet) but
> parminder has asked the secretariat for a short extension - wherein we will
> need to get the proposal into the template and identify some speakers..
>
> karen
>
> "Internet for All – Exploring a Rights-based Approach"
>
> Internet for All has been proposed as the overall theme for the IGF,
> Hyderabad. The program document also states that this description is adapted
> from the UNESCO's 'Education for All' initiative. Education for All takes a
> rights based approach to education, and also a very nuanced view of 'what
> kind of education' as well as the enabling conditions that are required for
> providing education for all (
> http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47044&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html) . This workshop will explore what does a 'Rights-based Approach to
> Internet for All' means, and whether it provides the basis of an appropriate
> and viable set of guidelines in the area of Internet policies.
>
> Universal service and universal access are widely accepted policy
> principles in case of telecom policies. However, the meaning and context of
> these terms in case of Internet is still not clear. Unlike telephony,
> Internet is much more than a 'connection' that 'either you have or you
> don't'. A draft resolution recommended by the 11th session of CSTD for
> adoption by the ECOSOC (
> http://www.unctad.org/sections/wcmu/docs//ecn162008_r004_en.pdf ) recently
> noted that 'a new form of digital divide is emerging in terms of difference
> in quality and speed of access to ICTs' ( OECD has also been grappling with
> definitional issues regarding universal access in terms of the Internet (
> http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/57/40629067.pdf ).
>
> Apart from the issues about what width of the pipe can constitute universal
> entitlement or a right, if at all, there are also at least two other sets of
> issues which need to be explored from a rights perspective (1) enabling
> conditions for making effective use of the available access and (2) the kind
> of the Internet one has access to.  A rights based approach to "Internet for
> All' or what may be called as a 'right to the Internet' therefore has to
> explored in terms of many issues that go beyond mere access to the Internet,
> while including this important element.
>
> Enabling conditions could be in terms of training and capacity building as
> well as the social, organizational, and managerial infrastructure. The
> "Education for All' movement recognizes such conditions that are outside and
> beyond mere access to schools which are pertinent to ensuring education for
> all.
>
> Other set of issues are about what kind of Internet does one have access
> to. This corresponds to quality and appropriateness of education in the
> 'education for all' movement. For instance, is one entitled to an Internet
> that recognizes one's own language? It is significant to note in this
> respect that a recent UNESCO document speaks about ''the right to learn in
> the mother tongue' (
> http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001297/129728e.pdf ). The WSIS
> declaration of Principles speaks of an "information society where everyone
> can create, access, utilize and share information". Does it translate into a
> right to do so? What implication would such a right have on Internet
> policies, for instance with respect to network neutrality debate. Similarly,
> issues like online security, privacy and FoE may be possible to explore from
> a rights perspective to 'Internet for all'.
>
> Another set of issues are with respect to groups needing special
> consideration like people with disabilities, whose right to access to 'new
> information and communications technologies and systems, including the
> Internet' is recognized by the 'International Convention on the Rights of
> Persons with Disabilities' which came into force recently.
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