[governance] What happened?

[Fouad Bajwa]

Kati, Yes indeed, agreed..............and my friends.....

It would also have been very nice and useful if CS members had shared
a schedule of all the workshops and the CS organizations that were
conducting their workshops with brief introductions that they were
coordinating or participating in and then we could be there and also
have witnessed/seen this but to share with you all, I've already
raised the issue within IGF-mag......and we have the open
consultations coming in February which is also a place to have direct
interaction.

Kindly provide me more details on the issue and as IGC's nominated MAG
member and its voice in the MAG you have a representation and its my
duty to intervene with this!!!!

Kati, Me, Natasha, Parminder are all there to take this up in both the
open consultations and the mag meets................




On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Katitza Rodriguez
<katitza at datos-personales.org> wrote:
> ONI means Open Net Initiative!
>
> On Nov 16, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Shahzad Ahmad wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> Just to keep the facts straight... the Network of the Soros Foundation or
>> Open Society Institute) has nothing to do with ONI Asia or this event. ONI
>> Asia is an independent network of researchers supported by Toronto
>> University and Harvard in the US.
>>
>> best wishes and regards
>> Shahzad
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Fouad Bajwa" <fouadbajwa at gmail.com>
>> To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>; "Karl Auerbach" <karl at cavebear.com>
>> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 2:05 PM
>> Subject: Re: [governance] What happened?
>>
>>
>> I am at the IGF and heard about this issue that during the ONI open
>> network initiative (of the network of the Soros Foundation/Open
>> Society Institute) workshop in the morning. The issue arose when the
>> meeting was disrupted by UN officials who demanded removal of a poster
>> that mentioned Internet firewalls in China.. Here is the post by the
>> Pakistani Civil Society at the IGF:
>>
>> IGF 2009 event rattled by UN Security Office
>> "If we cannot discuss topics about Internet censorship and
>> surveillance policy at a forum about Internet governance then what is
>> the point of something like the IGF," said Ron Deibert, director of
>> the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for
>> International Studies and one of ONI's principal investigators.
>> By Rabia Garib
>> 16 Nov 2009
>>
>> KARACHI, 15 NOVEMBER 2009 - An anti-censorship group holding an event
>> Sunday at the United Nations-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
>> in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, was disrupted by UN officials who demanded
>> removal of a poster that mentioned Internet firewalls in China.
>>
>> According to a Pakistani delegate, Shahzad Ahmed of Bytesforall.net, a
>> reception hosted by Open Net Initiative (ONI) was rattled by IGF
>> security, who objected to a poster advertising "Access Controlled", a
>> book being introduced at the event. "The poster was thrown on the
>> floor and we were told to remove it because of the reference to China
>> and Tibet. We refused, and security guards came and removed it. The
>> incident was witnessed by many," Ahmed reported.
>>
>> The poster promoting ONI's forthcoming book, "Access Controlled" was
>> removed by the IGF's organizers because a sentence in the poster
>> apparently violated UN policy. The sentence in question reads, "The
>> first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building
>> firewalls at key Internet gateways; China's famous "Great Firewall of
>> China" is one of the first national Internet filtering systems."
>>
>> "If we cannot discuss topics about Internet censorship and
>> surveillance policy at a forum about Internet governance then what is
>> the point of something like the IGF," said Ron Deibert, director of
>> the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for
>> International Studies and one of ONI's principal investigators.
>>
>> Deibert, one of the organizers of the reception, said he will file a
>> complaint against the censorship of the event and send it to the
>> United Nations Human Rights Commission.
>>
>> "We condemn this undemocratic act of censoring our event just because
>> someone is trying to impress or be in the good graces of the Chinese
>> government. It is ironic that while people are allowed to gather here
>> to discuss freedom of expression online, censorship and surveillance
>> practices on the Internet, we are being restricted in expressing our
>> views," said Al Alegre of the Foundation for Media Alternatives, a
>> member of the ONI Network.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> News is just filtering out about the teardown of a book poster at the IGF
>>> because it violated some UN rule about China.
>>>
>>> We've seen videos of the teardown of the sign but there's not much news
>>> out
>>> here about the why except that it was done by UN security because a
>>> sentence
>>> violated some rule or another.
>>>
>>> Anyone have more details?
>>>
>>> --karl--
>>>
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>>
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>> --------------------------
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--------------------------
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ICT4D & Internet Governance
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