[governance] Separate statement on themes for Vilnius

[Ian Peter]

Sounds to me like we would be better proposing main session themes rather
than aiming for an overarching theme at this early stage.  And I would
suggest that all three themes under discussion can be advanced by us as main
session themes ­ we don¹t have to prioritise them.

And we have previous statements on each we can adopt.

Rights
DA
NN



Ian



From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
Reply-To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:28:17 +0800
To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
Subject: Re: [governance] Separate statement on themes for Vilnius

On 04/02/2010, at 12:49 AM, Parminder wrote:

> Ginger and others
> 
> Why should we not just take the text from the statement we made proposing main
> themes for IGF Hyderabad that Bill has referred to(
> http://www.igcaucus.org/node/8 )   . The text is as follows. We can just
> update information of respective workshops on both the topics that were held
> in Egypt, one of them IGC co-sponsored. In nay case we have little time left
> to finalist the statement.
> 
> Excerpt from our statement for IGF Hyderabad

And if Human Rights is to be included along with NN and DA, then we have
this fine previous statement for Sharm el Sheikh on which to draw.  Of
course, replace "Egypt" and "IGF-4" with "Lithuania" and "IGF-5".

http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/Substantive_3rd_IGF/igc_rights.doc

An edited version follows:

The Internet Governance Caucus strongly recommends that 'Rights and the
Internet' be made the overarching theme for IGF-4 in Egypt, and that the
IGF-4's program be framed by the desire for developing a rights-based
discourse in the area of Internet Governance. The IGC offers the IGF
assistance in helping to shape such a discourse at the IGF meetings, and
specifically to help make 'Rights and the Internet' an overarching theme for
IGF-4 in Egypt.

We recognize that while it is relatively easy to articulate and claim
³rights² it is much more difficult to agree on, implement and enforce them.
We also recognize that rights claims can sometimes conflict or compete with
each other. There can also be uncertainty about the proper application of a
rights claim to a factual situation. The change in the technical methods of
communication often undermines pre-existing understandings of how to apply
legal categories.

These complexities, however, only strengthen the case for using the IGF to
explicitly discuss and debate these problems. There is no other global forum
where such issues can be raised and explored in a non-binding context.
 
Internet governance has up to this time largely been founded in technical
principles and, increasingly, on the Internet¹s functionality as a giant
global marketplace. With the Internet becoming  increasingly central to many
social and political institutions, an alternative foundation and conceptual
framework for IG can be explored. It is the view of the IG Caucus that a
rights-based framework will be appropriate for this purpose, and that the
IGF is the forum best suited to take up this task.
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