[governance] RE: the rights workshop

Fri Jun 27 05:00:32 EDT 2008

Baudouin

You are right, the two issues are of a different order, and please read them
so.

My first email was about the IGC writing to the IGF secretariat seeking to
influence its overall agenda as it is appearing the IGF program document.

The second email is about a specific workshop that IGC is sponsoring which
is now proposed to be Internet for All  Exploring a Rights-based
Approach. 

Parminder 

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From: BAUDOUIN SCHOMBE [mailto:b.schombe at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 2:03 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Parminder
Subject: Re: [governance] RE: the rights workshop

In fact, the preceding topic and the second topic do not have the same
range: 
-first topic concern of first order on the relevance of IGF with short,
average and long run; 
-second topic has like problematic to explore opportunities offered by
Internet and its advantages .
What we want exactly?

Baudouin

2008/6/27 Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>:

This is regarding the workshop proposed by the IGC on 'A Rights Agenda for
Internet Governance'. The IGC working group on this workshop has an f-t-f
meeting at Seoul last week, and also intensive online interactions with some
other rights groups that are co-sponsoring this workshop. (I will refer to
this group as Bill of Rights or BoR group subsequently.) Karen who heads the
IGC WG is unable to devote time this week, and it is for that reason I am
reporting on the WG's work. She will be back to lead the group next week. 

The WG is of the view that the IGC workshop takes from the overall theme of
IGF, Hyderabad, 'Internet for All', and do a workshop focused on
interrogating the 'access' issue from a rights perspective, and name the
workshop as 'Internet for All  Exploring A Rights-based Approach'. Unlike
the earlier proposal we will not be examining issues regarding other rights
like FoE, privacy etc in this workshop
 the BoR group has another workshop
which is about mainstreaming the rights agenda in IGF/ DCs, and the full
gamut of rights will be examined etc in this workshop. Some of us from the
IGC are working with the BoR group on this. I would also like to see IGC as
a group supports that workshop. More on that workshop can be expected soon
from Lisa
..

The IGC workshop proposal, with the new proposed name 'Internet for All 
Exploring a Rights-based Approach' will have to be re-written to suit this
new approach. This will be done over the weekend. We need to submit the
revised proposal by the 30ththis. However if more time is needed for
discussion within IGC on this issue we may try to seek an extra week. 

Meanwhile inputs and comments are welcome.

Parminder  

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From: Parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net] 
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 11:09 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: [governance] IGF agenda - rights and openness issues

Hi All

Two issues regarding IGF agenda.

One, we had planned a letter to the IGF secretariat/ MAG expressing concern
that rights and openness issues were disappearing from IGF's agenda, inter
alia pointing to the fact that these terms do not appear in the main agenda
list which is (to quote the latest draft of the program doc at
http://www.intgovforum.org/hyderabad_prog/ProgrammePaper.05.06.2008.pdf )

 "The MAG proposed the following agenda:lReaching    lManaging the Next
BillionlPromoting Cyber-Security and Trust     Taking StocklEmerging
Critical Internet Resourcesland the Way Forward   Issues"

We also wish to specifically propose that the main workshop now titled
"Fostering security, privacy and openness" be just 'fostering privacy and
openness" especially since there is already another planned main workshop
titled "Are we losing the battle against cyber-crime" which is expected to
cover all the security issue quite well. 

Adam had developed this proposal and to quote him last email on the subject 

"For the first, I suggest we write to the secretariat saying something along
the lines of...  we are concerned that the theme "openness" 

is in danger of being lost in the session currently titled "Promoting
Cyber-Security and Trust". Based the February consultation, summary
document, and synthesis paper for the May meeting we expected a stronger
emphasis on rights would be maintained in this session. We suggest the
second part of the session, currently "Fostering security, privacy and
openness" focus more on "fostering privacy and openness" than on security,
which will be the prime subject of the first part of the session.  Of course
security will be an important element of the second workshop, just as
concerns for privacy, openness and preservation of fundamental rights will
be an important element of the first workshop.  What we are suggesting is a
balance between these issues across the two workshops, and therefore into
the debate the follows in the afternoon."

There has been no opposition to this proposal and I take it that we agree to
write a letter on these lines to the Secretariat/ MAG. Can someone please
volunteer to draft the letter and share with us? 

I continue to be bothered that we are not able to agree to write to also
write that 'ensuring/ achieving universal access' be the main theme one
instead of 'reaching the next billion' even after all the discussion which
happened on this topic on this list. But for the present this subject is
being separated from that discussed above. 

I will take up the second of the two issues I planned to discus in the
following email. 

Parminder 

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