[governance] right to Internet subsumed within right to

[Hakikur Rahman]

Why not! Internet can be an essential tool to provide education and 
knowledge development. However, you are right in your last statement. 
Internet should not be put within just some 'rights', as it is an 
emerging technology and awaits much more out of it for the next 
generation. Internet can be utilized to advance our society for the 
next stage of development. But, in the context of education and 
knowledge acquisition, Internet is a phenomena.

Best regards,
Hakik

At 12:51 PM 2/2/2009, Guru wrote:

>I did not say that "Internet is *essential* in order to provide 
>education" as the argument to subsume right to internet within right 
>to education.
>
>My submission is - in todays world, unless a person understands how 
>to use the internet and benefit from it/participate in it, his/her 
>ability to navigate society in a way as to maximise his potential 
>including availing his rights and fulfulling his responsibilities as 
>a citizen of a democracy will be significantly affected. The basic 
>aim of education is to enable the learner to be able to navigate 
>society in this manner (see John Dewey on education and democracy 
>for more details of this reasoning). In this sense, the right to 
>internet is subsumed within the right to education.
>
>regards
>Guru
>
>Roland Perry wrote:
>>In message 
>><mailto:49867410.5000106 at itforchange.net><49867410.5000106 at itforchange.net>, 
>>at 09:48:24 on Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Guru 
>><mailto:guru at itforchange.net><guru at itforchange.net> writes
>>>As I suggested earlier, education in todays world has to 
>>>necessarily include acquiring capacities to navigate the 
>>>information society that the internet is 'creating' and in this 
>>>sense, 'right to education', which is part of the UNDHR, subsumes 
>>>a 'right to the internet'.
>>
>>If you are suggesting that Internet is *essential* in order to 
>>provide education  (and therefore a right to education includes a 
>>right to Internet) then I must disagree with you.
>>
>>But I *can* agree that [electrical] power, PCs/software and some 
>>education (which includes educating the family to permit all family 
>>members to use the access, as well as basic literacy) are necessary 
>>to access the Internet.
>>
>>>Also Roland, the '90:10' ratio may be true in some places, but in 
>>>most parts of the world is likely to be more around 50:50 or even 
>>>20:80 ..... suggesting even greater requirement of global efforts 
>>>including those relating to public policy.
>>
>>If the ratio is below [approx] 90:10 (which it's obvious is the 
>>case in mush of the world), then it is still possible (and right 
>>and proper) to have an ambition to extend access to the Internet. 
>>But don't call it "Universal Service", because that's a regulatory 
>>concept, which requires the situation where the many can subsidise the few.
>
>
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