[governance] RE: On the process of proposing workshop themes

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Hello Lisa Horner,

Perhaps the workshop could address aspects related to the Rights of
Governments, apart from focussing on the Rights of the Users?  Governments
of the world might want to argue that they have a right to demand certain
content removed - You Tube has faced such rights based requests in the
recent past and now.

Governments would like to argue that they have a moral right to filter, and
to censor inappropriate content ????

What is this "rights-based values and principles for internet governance"
any way? Define rights, principles and then enact laws according to the
agreed values and principles ???

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
India.


On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Lisa Horner <lisa at global-partners.co.uk>wrote:

>  Hi Divina and all
>
> Just a quick note to say that I intend to submit a workshop proposal on
> "rights and the internet" issues, focussing on the approach of building
> discussion and agreement around rights-based values and principles for
> internet governance.  I'm doing some work on this this year in association
> with other groups, and the workshop would be a way of feeding back on
> progress and continuing the debate from last year's 'mainstreaming rights'
> workshop.  Thoughts/comments/collaboration welcome!
>
> Thanks,
> Lisa Horner
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Divina MEIGS [mailto:divina.meigs at orange.fr]
> *Sent:* Wed 25/03/2009 08:46
> *To:* governance at lists.cpsr.org; mueller at syr.edu
> *Cc:* Muehlberg, Annette; pimienta at funredes.org
> *Subject:* Re: [governance] RE: On the process of proposing workshop
> themes
>
>
> Dear all
>
> I agree very much on Milton’s rationale for putting up themes (as stated
> below) because they seem essential even though one is not in the best
> position to organize them.
>
> I’ll suggest three, picking up on my memory from past exchanges, and
> because they haven’t re-emerged:
>         1) the future of *labour *in internet governance. That’s a theme
> that hasn’t emerged and yet it is central to policy-making, not to mention
> to labour itself. There are different scenarii around cognitive capitalism,
> individual entrepreneurship, labor value vs. knowledge value... And it is
> especially timely with the current crisis... But i am not an economist and i
> am not a trade unionist....
>
>         2) the internet *rights* or a human rights based internet issue...
> That remains undecided and in spite of much discussion it seems to have
> disappeared...
>
>         3) media and information l*iteracy*/education in the information
> society is one close to my heart. It is urgent to propose and develop global
> policies on the theme, in connection with intellectual property rights, but
> also open educational ressources on line, the future of universities,
> sustainable development....
>
> Hoping some of you will continue the thread,...
>
> Divina Frau-Meigs
>
> Le 24/03/09 21:44, « Milton L Mueller » <mueller at syr.edu> a écrit :
>
>  the proposal to call for expressions of interest on themes rather than
>  full-fledged workshop proposals at that stage (they will naturally come
>  later). It has the benefit of sensing the level of interest on various
> themes  but also allows people who do not intend to organize a workshop
> themselves to  indicate that they think a specific topic should be
> addressed. This is what I  did last year by putting an early placeholder in
> favor of a workshop on  "dimensions of cybersecurity" while indicating that
> I did not intend to  organize it myself.
>
>
>
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