[governance] Call for consensus - Statement by IGC supporting

Divina MEIGS divina.meigs at orange.fr
Fri Sep 11 02:45:33 EDT 2009 

Dear all

I support the document and thank the drafters for their patience and
constance.
Divina


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Divina Frau-divina Frau-Meigs
Professor, media sociology, University Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris (France)
Director, master's programme "E-learning and media education engineering"

Board Member, ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Asso)
Past vice-president, IAMCR (Intl Asso for Media and Communication Research)
website: www.medias-matrices.net
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>  
> 
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:42:20 -0500
> From: charityg at diplomacy.edu
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; gpaque at gmail.com
> CC: lisa at global-partners.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [governance] Call for consensus - Statement by IGC supporting
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I also give my support and endorsement to this statement. Many thanks to those
> who drafted the statement.
> 
> Regards,
> Charity G.Embley
> Chairperson - ISOC PH IGF Working Group
> http://www.isoc.ph/portal
> 
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I support the statement and thank everyone involved in writing it and
>> opining.
>> 
>> Please, we need as many people as possible to respond with their agreement or
>> disagreement on the proposal. I know it was a short discussion, but we had
>> good input, and Lisa did a great job, given the time constraints.
>> 
>> We need to know if we have consensus on this as an IGC statement.
>> 
>> Best, Ginger
>> 
>> Lisa Horner wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>  
>>> We¹re now past the deadline for comments, so I¹ve pasted a final version
>>> below for the consensus call.  Please could you send a message to the list
>>> to say if you support the statement or not.  I¹ll now hand over to Ginger
>>> and Ian to finalise and coordinate it getting read out at the IGF planning
>>> meeting.  I¹ll also get in touch with the DCs.
>>>  
>>> Shaila ­ this version includes your edits, apart from in the final para as I
>>> think Parminder¹s comments made sense.  Hope that¹s acceptable to you.
>>>  
>>> Thanks everyone for your inputs.  I think it¹s a strong statement now.
>>>  
>>> All the best,
>>> Lisa
>>>  
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>  
>>> FINAL STATEMENT (V6) ­ for consensus call
>>>  
>>> The Caucus [and undersigned DCs] repeat their request that the programme for
>>> IGF-4 in Egypt gives greater priority to human rights.  The WSIS Declaration
>>> and Tunis Agenda strongly reaffirmed the centrality of human rights in the
>>> information society. Despite this, human rights and associated principles
>>> have received too little attention at the IGF so
>>> far. This is problematic because :
>>> 
>>> *    Fundamental human rights such as the rights to freedom of expression,
>>> privacy, civic participation, education and development are strongly
>>> threatened by the actions and restrictive policies of a growing number of
>>> actors vis a vis the internet, including state and private actors at both
>>> national as well as global levels.
>>> 
>>> *    The internet presents new opportunities for upholding and advancing
>>> human rights, for example through enhancing access to knowledge and common
>>> resources. It is vital that we build on and enhance these opportunities.
>>> Ignoring these avenues to uphold human rights implies a serious opportunity
>>> cost for the well being of peoples, globally.
>>> 
>>> *    International human rights, as contained in the Universal Declaration
>>> of Human Rights and confirmed by the core human rights treaties and other
>>> universal human rights instruments, are legally binding.  The growing role
>>> of information and communication technologies has not changed the legal
>>> obligation of states that have ratified these instruments to respect,
>>> protect and implement the human rights of their citizens.
>>> 
>>> *    The human rights framework is an internationally agreed set of
>>> standards that has practical as well as ethical value.  It balances
>>> different rights against each other to preserve individual and public
>>> interest.  In addition to its legally binding implications, human rights are
>>> therefore a useful tool for addressing internet governance issues, such as
>>> how to deal with security concerns on the internet in compliance with the
>>> rights to freedom of expression and privacy.  Besides stating the
>>> obligations of states and governments, the human rights framework also
>>> allows us to derive the rights and responsibilities of other stakeholders.
>>> 
>>> The Internet Governance Caucus [and undersigned DCs] call for the human
>>> rights dimension of all internet governance issues to be included in the
>>> planning and implementation of all future IGF sessions, so that human rights
>>> are given the attention they deserve as cross-cutting issues.  This should
>>> include explicit consideration of how global, regional and national policies
>>> affect human rights, and the development of positive policy principles to
>>> build an open and accessible internet for all.  The Caucus [and undersigned
>>> DCs] would like to offer assistance to the organisers of the main plenary
>>> sessions to do this, and would like to support all stakeholders through
>>> providing access to relevant guidelines and experts. We see this upcoming
>>> IGF in Egypt and future IGFs as renewed opportunity to make Rights and
>>> Principles a core theme.
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  
>>>   
>>>  
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