[governance] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Just Net Coalition Response to the Draft NetMundial Outcome Document

[David Sullivan]

Hi, thanks for sharing this. Is there a list of the organizations and
individuals that form the Just Net Coalition? I could not find this
information on the website.

Thanks,
David


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:57 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>wrote:

> *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
>
> *Just Net Coalition Response to the Draft NetMundial Outcome Document*
>
> *São Paulo, Brazil April 21, 2014*
>
> *NetMundial Draft Outcome Document Misses Out All Key issues from Dilma's
> UN Speech *
>
> President Dilma's Speech in the UN General assembly last September,
> resonated throughout the world. It expressed the outrage of the people on
> the "grave violation of human rights and of civil liberties", the threat of
> "cyberspace being used as a weapon of war" and violation sovereign rights
> of countries including Brazil. She expressed the global discontent in the
> way the Internet is being currently governed. She called for protection of
> data as it travels on the web and multilateral mechanisms (or UN
> mechanisms) for the Internet to ensure democratic governance, cultural
> diversity, inclusive and non discriminatory societies, and responsible
> regulation.
>
> It is in this context within which the NetMundial conference - on April
> 23rd-24th - is taking place in Sao Paulo for which Brazil has taken the
> initiative.
>
> Unfortunately, all the above issues that President Dilma highlighted in
> her UN speech, are missing from the current draft that is being placed
> before the conference. The document fails to mention the word 'democracy'
> at all - and instead talks only about the multistakeholder model and
> governance on the basis of consensus. This, even though such systems have
> failed in protecting the global citizens from drag-net surveillance, the
> threat of cyber war and the emergence of global monopolies. Such a model
> also completely ignores the concept of public interest in Internet
> governance.
>
> If we take the pharmaceutical example, a multistakeholder governance would
> have meant deciding *by consensus* - between global pharma, AIDS patients
> in the global south and global governments - what should be the cost of
> such lifesaving drugs, without addressing or identifying where public good
> lies. Brazil and other countries rejected such an approach and that iswhy people in the global south today can afford to buy drugs for their
> treatment. And who would accept that pharmaceutical companies have equal
> rights with respect to decisions on safety and effectiveness of their
> products?
>
> A model that gives equal rights for public policy to governments, and
> corporations, is giving global corporations, a veto to prevent any
> meaningful reform and regulation. This is a violation of all democratic
> norms and the rights of the people - their political, economic, social and
> cultural rights, essentially surrendering global public interest to
> private, unelected, rich and powerful global corporations. How could, for
> instance, network neutrality ever be imposed in such a model?
>
> Governments are answerable to their people; corporations to their
> shareholders. People and profits cannot be equated through a specific model
> of governance. This is what NetMundial must address; not an endorsement of
> the status quo but a new beginning in Internet governance; an Internet
> governance that must place public good over private profit, protect global
> citizens from mass surveillance and the threat of cyber weapons. This is
> the leadership role that we would expect President Dilma and Brazil to play
> in NetMundial. This is what all countries and groups who believe in
> democracy, advancing human rights and social justice and a peaceful world
> must strive for in the final outcome document.
>
> The Just Net Coalition has submitted a detailed clause-by-clause amendment
> to the Draft of the NetMundial document. We believe that the draft should
> be significantly revised to include the following:
>
> 1.      A democratic and multistakeholder Internet governance model
> with different roles and responsibilities for different stakeholders;
> recognising that corporations and governments cannot be placed on an equal
> footing in governing the Internet
>
> 2.      Restoring the reference to the necessary and proportionate
> principle and therefore countering the continuation of mass surveillance
>
> 3.      Restoring reference to the need for a global compact on
> prohibition of cyberwar and cyber weapons
>
> 4.      Adding a clear reference to net neutrality principles (the
> current reference is too vague and ambiguous, permitting practices such as
> tiered access and differential pricing)
>
> 5.      Addressing emerging increased power of monopolies in the Internet
> space with respect to cultural and language diversity, and profiteering,
> and the need for regulating such monopolies
>
> 6.      Addressing the issue of appropriation and monetisation of data of
> the people by corporations
>
> 7.      Recognizing the concept of global commons or public good in
> internet governance
>
> 8.      Rejecting unilateral preconditions on the IANA transition
> discussions
>
> We expect that the final outcome document will explicitly foster a
> decentralized, free and open, non-hierarchical network of networks, and not
> implicitly favour the current trends of Internet governance which are
> leading us more and more towards monolithic, centralized walled gardens. NetMundial
> must dedicate itself to a roadmap to for an open, robust and resilient
> Internet -- acceptable to everyone including the 70 per cent unconnected
> majority.
>
>
>
> *Just Net Coalition *
>
> *A coalition of civil society groups from different regions globally
> concerned with Internet*
>
> *governance, human rights and social justice*
>
> www.justnetcoalition.org
>
> Please write to prabirp at gmail.com for further information
>
>
>
>
>
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