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

Thu Mar 5 01:58:54 EST 2015

Merci Nnenna, 

Très bon discours ! Comme d'habitude !

Félicitations.

NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul
TRAINER IN COMPUTING AND INTERNET POLICY

ISOC BURUNDI : VICE PRESIDENT
Réseau des Télécentres Communautaires du Burundi : Président

Burundi Youth Training Centre : Secrétaire Général

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En date de : Mer 4.3.15, Nnenna Nwakanma <nnenna75 at gmail.com> a écrit :

 Objet: [governance] Text of speech - losing remarks at UNESCO Connecting the Dots Conference
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 Date: Mercredi 4 mars 2015, 18h56

 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.  I  come 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 is  that
 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 support 
 the 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
 is  on 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.  So  it
 is only natural that we engage as civil society, during, now
 and going forward.

 Do we endorse the
 outcome  document? 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 must  seek 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 for 
 access to knowledge and information,

 -       
 -
 in working  for freedom of
 expression

 -       
 -
 in working for
 privacy

 -       
 -
 in working for
 ethics

 We are not  
 just 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 is  the most
 important  tool of interchange of human
 values

 And an
 exceptional testimony to our common
 civilization

 These are
 the basis on which UNESCO  selects 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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