[governance] [bestbits] Remarks at UNESCO Closing Ceremony of "Connecting the Dots Conference"

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Wed Mar 4 14:20:35 EST 2015


I also supported Richard' speech but the request to add 'democracy' at the
end of section 1.4 or 1.5 was rejected because it caries too term
'baggage'...

Chantal Lebrument
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2015-03-04 19:37 GMT+01:00 <anita at itforchange.net>:

> > On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:33 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:
>
> I made a submission to the final draft - section 5 - suggesting that 5.1
> (in the draft) read as follows:
>
> Promote human rights based ethical reflection,research and *democratic
> dialogue* on the implications of new and emerging technologies and their
> potential societal impacts, *especially, for social and economic rights*
>
> I added 2 phrases - democratic dialogue and especially, for social and
> economic rights.
>
> There was no objection to these, but the outcome document did not reflect
> these.
>
> 'Democratic' was replaced by 'public', and the reference to social and
> economic rights was completely missing
>
> anita
>
>
>
>
> >> You’re right, but you can nevertheless thank UNESCO for the
> >> opportunity to participate on a multi-stakeholder basis and acknowledge
> >> that the outcome document is a lot richer than it would otherwise have
> >> been because of this.
> >
> >
> > Also, please clarify that the Just Net Coalition does NOT represent all
> of
> > civil society.  This given that Richard Hill on behalf of the coalition
> > has just disrupted the meeting with a formal objection to the document
> due
> > to its omission to qualify references to multi-stakeholderism with
> > “democratic” (which he incorrectly stated was not objected to during
> > the last drafting session), and its omission to include a reference to
> the
> > International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.  Other
> > than his objection, the document was adopted by the meeting by consensus.
> >
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