[governance] Draft statement on Nairobi meeting programme
parminder
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Sun Jan 23 12:33:13 EST 2011
Marilia
I find it very well worded, and support it as a 4th topic suggestion
from IGC. parminder
Marilia Maciel wrote:
>
> Thanks for the encouragement, Lee.
>
>
> Please, guys, take a look at the draft below and tell me what you
> think. I am not really sure about the title. I would prefer to frame
> it in a positive way (ex: expressly talk about A2K), but my feeling is
> that being more specific on what we want would give more strength to
> the proposal. In addition, I have a feeling that A2K is sometimes
> wrongly perceived in IGF as too theoretical or ideological, and people
> try to confine this debate to fora like WIPO, despite a clear
> intersection with IG.
>
>
> On the other hand, putting two controversial topics on the same
> sentence (IP and human rights) might not help much... Suggestions are
> welcome!
>
>
> *Intellectual property enforcement online and its impact on
> development and human rights
> *
>
>
> Recently there has been a change in the international intellectual
> property regime. Rather than substantive law harmonization,
> international IP norm-setting is now promoting an enforcement agenda,
> an increasingly punitive response to counterfeiting and piracy now
> being discussed in many national and international institutions. It is
> an emerging matrix of new laws, regulations, technologies, and public
> and private initiatives designed to police the use of intellectual
> property, specially in the digital environment.
>
>
> New international standards require countries to increase the level
> and territorial extent of intellectual property rights. This trend has
> developmental impacts, as countries become less free to support open
> platforms for learning, innovating, sharing and producing, while being
> required to raise the amount spent on knowledge-based inputs.
>
>
> The enforcement agenda also impacts the exercise of rights online. The
> adoption of laws that follow the model of “graduate response” in
> several countries around the world reveals the trade-offs between the
> enforcement agenda and human rights, such as the right to receive and
> impart information, the right to privacy and consumer´s rights.
> Moreover, it puts ISPs in the position of an “Internet police”, with
> the role to oversight internet users.
>
>
> Governance of knowledge and Internet governance become deeply
> intertwined in the context of an information society. The debate of
> this theme in a multistakeholder forum, such as the IGF, would help to
> reach a more round understanding about the impact of this enforcement
> agenda on human rights, more specifically on access to knowledge, and
> on the ability to innovate online.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu
> <mailto:lmcknigh at syr.edu>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> A quick word of encouragement for Marila to draft a fourth
> possible a2k theme, can't hurt right.
>
> But in general I am fine with Jeremy's distillation of three
> workable themes
>
> Lee
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [governance] Draft statement on Nairobi meeting programme
>
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> I did not suggest it as a forth theme, since you said that we
> generally only put forward three topics. If you guys believe that
> a fourth theme should be added, I would be happy to draft a text.
> If three themes seem to be the best way to go, I would like to ask
> us to *really* make A2K present in all discussions as you
> suggested. For that, we will need to carefully think about the
> approach and the names of speakers for the main sessions, who
> could link A2K with NN, transborder issues, etc. Of course,
> workshop proposals would be also important to reach a more rounded
> understanding of these interplays.
>
> Marília
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org
> <mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org><mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org
> <mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org>>> wrote:
> On 23/01/2011, at 6:04 AM, Marilia Maciel wrote:
> While I agree with your approach that makes A2K a transversal
> issue, I believe it is very important that we go beyond words and
> really mainstream it on the debates.
> Marilia and Ian, I'm not sure from your comments if you are both
> saying that you want to see us putting forward a separate fourth
> theme (since I don't see anyone suggesting that we should remove
> one of the existing three themes). Could you clarify and, if that
> is what you are saying, perhaps suggest some text?
>
>
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