[governance] comment on draft programme paper now submitted

[Stefano Trumpy]

>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 :)

please add my name
Stefano

>
>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
><http://www.cis-india.org>www.cis-india.org
>
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