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

Tue Apr 22 08:32:07 EDT 2014

You're right. We have to make this list onto the website asap... after
great job in NetMundial it was be easyly

Chantal Lebrument
www.eurolinc.eu
www.open-root.eu
Just Net Coalition member

2014-04-22 14:20 GMT+02:00 David Sullivan <
dsullivan at globalnetworkinitiative.org>:

> 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 is why 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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