[governance] Text of speech - losing remarks at UNESCO Connecting the Dots Conference

Wed Mar 4 17:03:56 EST 2015

Sigh, I thought the point that the issue of concern was not "access" but the
opportunity and means for
<http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1107/1027>
"effective/meaningful" use had been made in WSIS. 

"Access" is relatively easy, just a matter of will and money. Ensuring that
folks are able to "use" the Internet in ways that are useful and meaningful
to them, given their individual and collective priorities is a rather more
difficult and time consuming task, so it tends to be ignored when big
governments or big corps or big NGO's are tossing money at the problem.

M

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Subject: AW: [governance] Text of speech - losing remarks at UNESCO
Connecting the Dots Conference

Thanks Nnenna for another great speech. Access will be also one of the
highest priorities for the NetMundial Initiative.

Wolfgang

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Connecting the Dots Conference

Excelent Nnenna ..., congratulations ...!

Hartmut Glaser/CGI.br

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On 04/03/15 13:56, Nnenna Nwakanma wrote:

> 

> Connecting the Dots: Options for Future Action

> 

> UNESCO headquarters, Paris, France.

> Closing Remarks by Nnenna Nwakanma

> 

> Africa Regional Coordinator

> 

> The World Wide Web Foundation.

> 

> March 4, 2015

> 

> Deputy Director General

> Friends and colleagues

> Onsite and online

> 

> My name is Nnenna.Icome from the Internet. And I have been asked to 

> say a few words to us, as a member of the civil society, before we 

> leave. I coordinate the activities of the World Wide Web Foundation in 

> my continent, Africa. The Web Foundation isthat organization that 

> believes that the Internet is for everyone.Therefore we work on 

> affordable access to all, we work on opening up data for participation 

> and we supportthe global Web We Want Coalition.

> 

> I have three things to say.The first is on the UNESCO study itself.The 

> second is on one of the issues raised.The third ison where we go from 

> here.

> 

> From the Civil Society end, we recognize that UNESCO's consultation 

> towards the study was open, online, multistakeholder and tried to be 

> as inclusive as could be. This for me, lends trust. Trust in the 

> organization, trust in its capacity to bring key actors to the table.

> The R-O-A-M principles of the study (Rights based, Open, Accessible, 

> Multistakeholder participation) are not just important for the study, 

> but they also are key in implementing its recommendations.Soit is only 

> natural that we engage as civil society, during, now and going forward.

> 

> 

> Do we endorse the outcomedocument? I do.But the Civil Society is too 

> large a constituency for just one person to say yes on behalf of all 

> others.

> 

> On the issues, I will settle for one. Just one. Access.Just today, the 

> Alliance for Affordable Internet launched the Affordability report.

> Affordability Report shows that Over 2 billion people living in 

> poverty cannot access the Internet affordably and that a fixed 

> broadband connection costs on average 40% of monthly income across 51 

> developing countries.

> 

> 

> And we are working towards access for everyone.

> 

> To UNESCO,I must say, that the Global Internet is of global importance 

> and we mustseek at all times, to manage it for global interest, global 

> benefit and global utility. So,many thanks for putting Internet 

> Governance and the IGF in the heart of the process.

> 

> -- In working foraccess to knowledge and information,

> 

> -- in workingfor freedom of expression

> 

> -- in working for privacy

> 

> -- in working for ethics

> 

> We are notjust connecting dots. We are connecting people. We are 

> connecting cultures, we are extending science by connecting knowledge 

> to knowledge, men and women, we are connecting continents.We are 

> righting the wrongs of the past, consolidating the present and 

> building a viable future.

> 

> 

> We have a heritage.A global heritage. The Internet.

> 

> The Internet represents a masterpiece of human creative genius

> 

> It isthe most important tool of interchange of human values

> 

> And an exceptional testimony to our common civilization

> 

> These are the basis on which UNESCOselects sites as heritage. And 

> here, we have more than a heritage. The Internet is our global 

> heritage

> 

> Ladies and gentlemen, friends here and online.Tomorrow is my birthday. 

> And my sister told me to make a wish.I asked if I should keep my eyes 

> open or closed and she said "any way".So I will close an eye and keep 

> one open, for security purposes.And here is my wish..

> 

> 

> /_That the open Internet, the open web, will be established as global 

> public good and a basic right of all men and women, all humans and 

> that everyone can access it can use it freely._/

> 

> 

> 

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