[governance] UNESCO, World Press Freedom Day and Internet Study

[divina.meigs]

Dear all
Please note that UNESCO is organizing the World Press Freedom Day Event in
Paris during 5-6 May. It will hold a side event:  ³Multi-stakeholder
Consultation on UNESCO¹s Comprehensive Study on the Internet ², which will
be held at 15:00-16:30 on 6 May. It will explore  Internet-related issues
and future options within the UNESCO mandate. This event is a part of
global multi-stakeholder consultation process on this study as UNESCO has
just launched in April.

 
As set in the UNESCO General Conference Resolution 52, the Study covers
the following four fields within the UNESCO mandate:  (i) Access to
information and knowledge, (ii) Freedom of expression, (iii) Privacy, and
(iv) Ethical dimensions of the information society. It also explores
possible options for future actions in these fields.  The guiding
framework of the study is the draft concept of ³Internet Universality
<http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/open_consulta
tion_on_unesco_new_concept_internet_universality/#.Ux2p_GeYZMv>², which
summarizes the Internet¹s core principles relevant to UNESCO¹s mandate and
fields of competence, namely that the Internet should be : (i) Human
Rights-based (ii) ³Open², (iii) ³Accessible to All², and (iv) nurtured by
Multi-stakeholder Participation.

i¹ll be part of the contributors and will try to instill some of the
outcomes of NetMundial in the consultation. If you have any priorities to
convey, let me knowŠ

Best
Divina Frau-Meigs
Professor, Sorbonne Nouvelle, ANR TRANSLIT
Director CLEMI
UNESCO Chair « savoir-devenir/forwardances in durable digital development
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