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

[Baudouin Schombe]

hello Nnenna,

I strongly support your argument when we have to consider the Internet as a
public good. It is the fruit of a civilization that has become a universal
product.

I also strongly support when you allude to accessibility. In some
countries, the internet is a real obstacle course: poor access to
electricity, untimely and repeated failure of electrical power, poor
quality of internet service ... and all this in a legislative environnment
poorly adapted with texts legal and regulatory obsolete, a non respected
regulator, constant pressure policy makers, planned exclusion of other
stakeholders (private sector and civil society), a notorious refusal to
dialogue on joint management of the Internet ... A real digital jungle.

Without all these technical and legislative provisions, which are
prerequisites, how to ensure that freedom of expression is respected? How
to have information access as quickly as possible in real time? How to
exchange and share knowledge as quickly as possible in real time?Without a
concerted policy on broadband?

The internet, as you say so Nnenna, is the result of the creative genius of
man, a treasure of civilization in the third millennium.

It can be considered a world heritage. In this context, it is essential
that the issue of governance continues to be at the heart of trade mainly
within the national platforms of national IGF.

National IGF should also be considered as the foundation of the Global IGF
pyramid.

2015-03-04 17:56 GMT+01:00 Nnenna Nwakanma <nnenna75 at gmail.com>:

> 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
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> Deputy Director General
> Friends and colleagues
> Onsite and online
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> -        - in working for privacy
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> -        - in working for ethics
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> 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
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> It is  the most important  tool of interchange of human values
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> And an exceptional testimony to our common civilization
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> 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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