AW: [governance] Final list signatories comment on Draft Programme Paper

[wolfgang.benedek at uni-graz.at]

Sorry, seems I overlooked this, but would still like to express myself strongly in favor!

Best regards

Wolfgang Benedek

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benedek
Institut für Völkerrecht und Internationale Beziehungen
Institute for International Law and International Relations
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Universitätsstraße 15, A4
A-8010 Graz
Tel.: +43 316 380 3411
Fax.: +43 316 380 9455 


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Von: Anja Kovacs [mailto:anja at cis-india.org] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. September 2009 12:58
An: governance
Betreff: [governance] Final list signatories comment on Draft Programme Paper

Dear all,

Please find below the final list of signatories of the comment on the
Draft Programme Paper, as communicated to the IGF Secretariat last week.

Thanks to all for their support.

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:

Association for Progressive Communications 
Bytesforall, Pakistan
Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore
Instituto Nupef, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
IP Justice 

Jacques Berleur
Ginger Paque
Fouad Bajwa
Milton L Mueller
Willie Currie
Michael Gurstein
Jeanette Hofmann
Eric Dierker
Jeffrey A Williams
Charity Gamboa, chairperson Internet Governance Working Group, ISOC
Philippines 
Ian Peter
Tracy F Hackshaw
Shaila Rao Mistry, Internet Rights and Principles
Lee W McKnight
Jeremy Malcolm
Tapani Tarvainen
Shahzad Ahmad, ICT Policy Monitors Network
Carlos Afonso
Dina Hovakmian
Rui Correia
Lisa Horner
Deirdre Williams
Jaco Aizenman
Nyangkwe Agien Aaron
Siranush Vardanyan, Armenia
Kwasi Boakye-Akyeampong
Linda D. Misek-Falkoff
Baudouin Schombe
Stefano Trumpy



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

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