[governance] Human Rights: Security, Openness and Privacy [IGF 2012 - MAG Consultations]

Mon Feb 20 21:13:33 EST 2012

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Tim Davies <
tim at practicalparticipation.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello all, (and many thanks Sala for providing these threads and
> co-ordinating this all)
>
> A few quick views:
>
> ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE; INTERNET AS TOOL OF PUBLIC CONSULTATION
> I'm particularly interested in the 'Access to Knowledge' and 'Internet as
> a tool of public consultations' themes, although for the later, I would
> suggest framing it as 'Internet as a tool of public /participation/' rather
> than /consultation/ would be better - to capture the diverse range of ways
> in which the Internet is a tool for connecting governments, governance and
> citizens.
>
> ONLINE CHILD PROTECTION:
> On the suggestion for (11) on 'Online child protection', I would really
> like to see this framed as 'Children's Rights: Protection, Provision and
> Participation', rather than solely 'child protection', particularly as this
> is falling under a 'human rights' heading.
>
> I've written a bit on the justification for this at
> http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/23226/ - but essentially, when we adopt
> narrow narratives of 'online child protection' we end up (a) neglecting
> children and young people's broader set of rights to be active participants
> on the web, and to safe and supportive online provision; and (b) we adopt
> counter-productive strategies which don't even serve the intended goals of
> keeping young people safe from harm online.
>
> Personally I'd love to see some good engagement in a theme like this
> between IGF and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (
> http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/), but I've not succeeded in the
> past at working out how best to make that happen: all thoughts welcome.
>
> I agree. It will be good to coordinate between different regions on how to
make this happen. We can start bottom up as well. We can try through UNICEF
etc.

> All the best
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
> salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> The theme for IGF 2012 is Internet Governance for Sustainable Human,
>> Economic and Social Development. The MAG has various groups dealing with
>> the following:-
>>
>>    - consolidate the list of topics under the theme
>>    - come up with a coherent description of the theme
>>    - come up with a main question and sub questions for the theme
>>    (following the way it was organised in 2011)
>>
>> We would encourage anyone interested in putting forward views on *[HUMAN
>> RIGHTS:] SECURITY, OPENNESS AND PRIVACY [AND THEIR IMPACT ON HUMAN RIGHTS]
>> *by responding to this thread. We would like to ensure that this
>> opportunity for consultation is actively addressed by the list. We will try
>> to wrap this up by the 24th February, 2012 and people can volunteer to work
>> on consolidating the same by the 24th February, 2012 so it can be put to
>> the entire list for a 48 hour period before we ask our current MAG
>> representatives to take this forward.
>>
>> Current list of topics that are being discussed by the MAG are as
>> follows:-
>>
>>
>>  1)    HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE INTERNET
>>
>> 2)    FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION
>>
>> 3)    LEGAL FRAMEWORK REGULATING FREE FLOW
>>
>> 4)    [FILTERING]
>>
>> 5)    FRAMEWORKS AND PRINCIPLES,
>>
>> 6)    INTERNET FRAGMENTATION
>>
>> 7)    INFORMATION SUPPRESSION AND SURVEILLANCE
>>
>> 8)    CROSS-BORDER DATA FLOW
>>
>> 9)    ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE
>>
>> 10) CYBERSECURITY, CYBERCRIME AND CLOUD COMPUTING
>>
>> 11) ONLINE CHILD PROTECTION
>>
>> 12) INTERACTION WITH INDUSTRY / COOPERATION WITH PRIVATE SECTOR AND LAW
>> ENFORCEMENT IN BALANCE WITH HUMAN RIGHTS
>>
>> 13) SAFEGUARDS
>>
>> 14) [INTERNET AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY] /
>> [INTERNET AS A TOOL OF PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS]
>>
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro aka Sala
>>
>> Tweeter: @SalanietaT
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>> Cell: +679 998 2851
>>
>>
>>
>>
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