[governance] Great speech, Carlos!

Wed Nov 7 16:27:33 EST 2012

Thank you Carlos and all of you for making such a good statement,

Best,

Julián

El 07/11/12 01:53, Hartmut Richard Glaser escribió:
>
> 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.
>
> ===
>
>
>
> 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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