[governance] comment on draft programme paper now submitted

[Anja Kovacs]

The comment on the draft programme paper has now been submitted to the
IGF Secretariat, as below.  

Thank you to all those who have extended their support at such short
notice.  I have been tremendously happy to see how many people have
gotten back on this within only slightly more than 24 hours - it's
encouraging to see what potential this list continues to have, despite
recent events :)

Best wishes,
Anja


Re: IGF Draft Programme Paper, August 2009



We, the undersigned would like to express our 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.


Signatories:

Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore
IP Justice 

Jacques Berleur
Ginger Paque
Fouad Bajwa
Milton L Mueller
Willie Currie, Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
Michael Gurstein
Jeanette Hofmann
Eric Dierker
Jeffrey A Williams
Charity Gamboa, chairperson Internet Governance Working Group, ISOC
Philippines 
Ian Peter
Trace F. Hackshaw
Shaila Rao Mistry, Internet Rights and Principles
Lee W McKnight
Jeremy Malcolm
Tapani Tarvainen





Dr. Anja Kovacs
Fellow
Centre for Internet and Society
T: +91 80 4092 6283
www.cis-india.org 
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