[governance] Great speech, Carlos!

[Hartmut Richard Glaser]

Your Excellencies, Mr Wu Hongbo, Under Secretary General, Undesa, 
Chairman minister Ali Abatov, Secretary Chengetai Masango, in the name 
of whom I wish to salute all present authorities; ladies and gentlemen:

I have been assigned the honorable task of speaking in the opening 
ceremony of this IGF in the name of civil society organizations, social 
movements and individuals active in Internet governance processes, many 
of them involved in these processes since the inception of WSIS nearly 
10 years ago. Several of them collaborated with me in drafting the 
following statement.

We believe that the absence of gatekeepers and the open, global 
communication enabled by the Internet is crucial to realize the promise 
of Article 19 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To impose 
restrictions (legal or otherwise) to the free flow of information is and 
has always been contrary to the individual human right to freedom of 
expression.

We therefore oppose efforts to create "national Internets," or to block 
and filter Internet access in ways that deny individuals access to 
applications, content and services of their choice.

All attempts to deem certain forms of communication and information 
illegal and restrict or block them must follow established, transparent, 
due processes of law and should not involve prior restraint.

We oppose efforts to militarize the Internet, or any actions that would 
foster a destructive and wasteful cyber arms race among governments or 
private actors. We consider the covert use of exploits and malware for 
surveillance or attacks to be criminal regardless of whether they are 
deployed by governments, private corporations or organized criminals.

We are skeptical of efforts to subordinate the design and use of 
information and communication technology to "national security" agendas. 
We believe that Internet security will be achieved primarily at the 
operational level and that national security and military agendas often 
work against rather than for users' security needs.

In the processes of policy formulation, we emphasize the need to 
prioritize dialogue with policy makers over their subordinated law 
enforcement agencies.

Global governance institutions should not be restricted to states, so we 
welcome the additional participation in global policy making that 
multi-stakeholder processes provide. But we caution that 
multi-stakeholder participation is not an end in itself.

Opening up global governance institutions to additional voices from 
civil society and business does not by itself ensure that individual 
rights are adequately protected or that the best substantive policies 
are developed and enforced.

In the informal spaces created by pluralist institutions, it is possible 
that powerful governmental and corporate actors can make deals contrary 
to the interests of Internet users.

Multistakeholder processes, while involving all interest groups, must 
incorporate and institutionalize concepts of due process, separation of 
powers and user's inalienable civil and political rights, and 
governmental decision-making ought to take into account the inputs of 
all participants of such pluralist processes.

Let us remind ourselves that participation goes beyond representation, 
and participation in decision-making goes beyond just debates and 
dialogues.

Regarding the ITR review process to be concluded in Dubai (and here I 
use the standard terminology the technical community defines to refer to 
the different components of the network):

We agree that the internet layer and the layers above it (transport 
layer and applications layer) should not be included in any way in the 
regulations, while the free flow of Internet packets should be 
guaranteed in the link layer, in line with network neutrality in which 
Internet packets are never touched by the operators providing the 
physical connectivity infrastructure.

Let the Internet flourish freely to the benefit of those who live at its 
edges, which are all of us. Thank you.

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On 07/11/12 04:44, Izumi AIZU wrote:
> Dear Carlos,
>
> I hear many people really liked your speech yesterday, at the opening
> session. In fact, one of the government reps told me this morning it
> was THE BEST among all speeches of all guest speakers.
>
> I also was asked to get File version of your speech, Carlos, to be shared.
>
> To confess, I was not able to listen you since I was have some
> preparatory meeting for Emerging Issues main session, so I also need
> your speech in print/file. I am sure there are many others like me.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> izumi
>
>
> --
>                       >> Izumi Aizu <<
> Institute for InfoSocionomics, Tama University, Tokyo
> Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita,
> Japan
> www.anr.org
>


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