[governance] Important moment for Internet regulation in Brazil

[Roxana Goldstein]

Congratulations for all of you, dear Marilia and all brazilians, you are
doing a great job!
Best,
Roxana



2010/4/9 Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel at gmail.com>

> Dear members of the list,
>
> As you may have heard, Brazil is going through a very special (and unique)
> phase of the regulation of Internet in the country. In the end of 2009, a
> process of public consultation to collaboratively elaborate a *civil**-*rights
> based regulatory *framework* for *internet* in Brazil has been put forth
> by the Ministry of Justice (MJ), with the support of the Center for
> Technology and Society (CTS) of the Getulio Vargas Foundation.
>
> This collaborative process substitutes very dangerous attempts to regulate
> the Internet from a criminal standpoint . The more widely known bill was
> called law Azeredo, which disregarded privacy concerns and criminalized
> socially accepted behaviors. The result would be massive criminalization of
> the population and a draconian protection of copyright.
>
> A platform has been created specially for people to comment of the proposal
> of civil framework. On the first phase of the consultation people had to
> comment on a text about general principles and issues. Those comments were
> read and systematized by MJ and CTS and have based the creation of a draft
> bill. This bill has been made available online yesterday. It is under a
> second phase of public consultation, which will last for 45 days. The
> suggestions will be again systematized and incorporated to the bill, which
> will then be present to our Congress for discussion.
>
> Some points of this process need to be highlighted:
>
> 1-      This is a unique process of public consultation. There has never
> been such a wide and open possibility for society to be heard about a new
> regulation. Participation on the first phase came from civil society,
> business sector and governments organizations.
>
> 2-       This is a pilot-experiment, that can be used in the future to
> discuss other law proposals. In this sense, Brazil is making a huge step
> towards the improvement of e-participation and e-democracy.
>
> 3-      The battle is just beginning. There is a long way until the bill
> is approved. But we would not have come this far without a vibrant civil
> society movement who has said “no” to laws like “Azeredo law” and has made
> protests and campaigns throughout the country, both online and offline.
>
> I would like to share with you the link to the platform. Although the text
> of the bill is only in Portuguese, we are already working on its translation
> in order to give it publicity outside Brazil.
>
> http://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/
>
> This is a very important moment for the Brazilian Internet users and I
> would like to share the good news with you.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Marília
> --
> Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade
> FGV Direito Rio
>
> Center of Technology and Society
> Getulio Vargas Foundation
> Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
>
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