[governance] Aug. 15 deadline for inputs on IGF 2009 agenda
Robin Gross
robin at ipjustice.org
Sat Aug 15 15:09:48 EDT 2009
IP Justice signs this letter. Thanks for your hard work.
Best,
Robin
On Aug 15, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Eric Dierker wrote:
> Please add my name. Good job.
>
> --- On Sat, 8/15/09, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
>
> From: Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu>
> Subject: RE: [governance] Aug. 15 deadline for inputs on IGF 2009
> agenda
> To: "governance at lists.cpsr.org" <governance at lists.cpsr.org>,
> "Ginger Paque" <gpaque at gmail.com>
> Date: Saturday, August 15, 2009, 4:53 PM
>
> Please add my name as well. Thanks for catching this, Anja
>
>
> From: Ginger Paque [mailto:gpaque at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 7:47 AM
> To: anja at cis-india.org
> Cc: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] Aug. 15 deadline for inputs on IGF 2009
> agenda
>
>
> Hi Anja,
> Thanks for taking this up.
>
> Please add my name as an individual signer (no organization).
> Best,
> Ginger
>
> Anja Kovacs wrote:
>
> Thank you to all those who responded to my question.
>
> As time is indeed short, I would like to take up Ginger's
> suggestion, and have drafted a brief statement, which you can find
> below. If you and/or your organisation would like to sign this,
> please let me know by the end of today, 15 August (whatever your
> time zone), and I will make sure it reaches the IGF Secretariat.
>
> Below the proposed statement, I have also pasted the statement that
> the IGC submitted in April. A few other submissions, made around
> that time by various groups and individuals can be found here:
> http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/discussionspace?
> func=view&catid=5&id=14
>
> Thanks,
> Anja
>
> Suggested statement:
>
> The undersigned would like to express their surprise and
> disappointment that Internet Rights and Principles was not retained
> as an item on the agenda of the 2009 IGF in any way. Although this
> topic was suggested as a theme for this year's IGF or for a main
> session by a range of actors during and in the run-up to May's Open
> Consultations, this widespread support is not reflected in the
> Draft Programme Paper, which does not include Internet Rights and
> Principles even as a sub-topic of any of the main sessions. The
> WSIS Declaration of Principles, 2003, and the Tunis Agenda, 2005,
> explicitly reaffirmed the centrality of the Universal Declaration
> of Human Rights to an inclusive information society. To make these
> commitments meaningful, it is of great importance that a beginning
> is made to explicitly building understanding and consensus around
> the meaning of Internet Rights and Principles at the earliest. We
> recommend that the Agenda of the 2009 IGF provide the space to do so.
>
> IGC Submission - April 2009:
>
> The following statement is submitted on behalf of the Civil Society
> Internet Governance Caucus.
>
> The Internet Governance Caucus continues to support "Internet
> Rights and Principles" as a major theme for IGF-4 in Egypt . This
> should lead to discourse at the IGF meetings moving towards the
> definition and clarification of rights in relation to the Internet,
> and how they relate to pre-existing definitions of human rights. It
> also includes a space for discussions about the responsibilities of
> all parties.
>
> The concept of "rights" continues to stress the importance of
> openness and universal access. This framework will continue to
> emphasize the importance of access to knowledge and development in
> Internet governance, while adding to it the basic right of
> individuals to access the content and applications of their choice.
> This is in keeping with current debates regarding an “open
> Internet”, and relevant aspects of the often confusing network
> neutrality discussions.
>
> The inclusion of "principles" allows for wide discussion of the
> responsibilities that the different stakeholders have to each
> other. It allows for open examination of the principles that should
> govern the Internet, particularly in its commercial facets.
>
>
> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 19:15 -0430, Ginger Paque wrote:
>
>
> Hi Anja,
> I agree with your concern. However, I do not think there is time
> for the list to reach consensus on a substantive statement.
>
> If you write a statement, could you post it to the list, so that
> those who want to sign with you can email you directly, so you can
> add names before you send it in?
>
> Best,
> Ginger
>
> Anja Kovacs wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> As Ginger noted, tomorrow is the last day for comments on the Draft
> Programme Paper. What continues to
> strike me as I read this paper is the
> complete absence of attention for Internet rights and principles - in
> fact the word 'rights' is not mentioned even once - despite Internet
> rights and principles being raised as a theme or a topic for a main
> session repeatedly by a range of players (including the IGC, the
> IRP DC
> and the Gender DC) during and in the run-up to May's Open
> Consultations.
> Although I realise that there is little chance of it being included
> as a
> main session at this point, I think it is important for us to at least
> comment on this glaring absence. Would it be possible for the IGC to
> express, by tomorrow, its disappointment in this regard? (we could use
> some of the wording of the April submission)
>
> For
> those of you with whom I have had the pleasure to interact before, I
> also would like to share that I have now joined the Centre for
> Internet
> and Society,
> Bangalore .
>
> I look forward to continuing to engage with you all on Internet
> Governance issues.
>
> Anja
>
>
> Dr. Anja
> Kovacs
> Fellow
> Centre for Internet and Society
> T: +91 80 4092 6283
> www.cis-india.org
>
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