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Hello all,
I strongly support Rikke's suggestion to
focus on issues that are not receiving wide support, rather than spending energy
and words on areas that are already being attended.
Ginger
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Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 5:01
AM
Subject: [hr-wsis] SV: HR Caucus and
IGF
Hi all
I support the overall outline for the IGF written
contribution below.
I have one additional comment / "guideline": As
well as reminding the IGF of the need to focus on issues that really need
international coordination, we should also in my opinion keep focused on
issues with relatively little CS attention. In other words, there are issues
which every second intervention will stress (e.g. mulitistakeholder), and
there are issues which are still marginalised even within CS itself (e.g.
developing aspects, IPR). We should use our energy on developing HR based
arguments for the latter, and not spend much energy on the first type, though
we agree and support the position.
Best
Rikke
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Fra: Meryem Marzouki [mailto:marzouki@ras.eu.org]
Sendt: 8. marts 2006 11:27
Til: hr-wsis@iris.sgdg.org
Emne:
[hr-wsis] HR Caucus and IGF
Hi Manon and all,
Regarding the
Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the deadline we missed
was the one
mainly dealing with structure of the IGF. Contributions
on "The need
for a multistakeholder group to assist the the Secretary-
General in
convening the IGF, what the mandate of this group should
be and how
it should be formed" were indeed to be sent before Feb. 28.
This is an
important issue, but it seems that the consultation
meeting of
mid-February, specially thanks to the chairs Nitin Desai
and Markus
Kummer, wont lead to any major concern. The "programme
committee"
(rather than a bureau) is still to be nominated. As far as
I've
understood, the secretariat is UN (Annan already nominated
Markus
Kummer as head), and its role is restricted "to assist in the
convening" of the IGF (see announcement at: http://www.un.org/News/
Press/docs/2006/sgsm10366.doc.htm).
But we still can - and should -
meet the deadline of March 31 to send
a contribution on "Public
policy issues to be discussed at the first
meeting of the IGF."
We're asked to provide "top three choices and
give a short
explanation on the reasons for [our] choices" by 31
March
2006.
We can indeed elaborate of the HR caucus written contribution
made to
the consultation meeting (it is at: http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/
smsi/hr-wsis/hris-igf160206.html), which mainly highlights privacy
and freedom of _expression_.
However, my opinion is that, since now
WSIS with its large range of
issues is over, we should, in the IGF
framework, concentrate and
develop issues related to economic,
social and cultural rights, and
to the right to development, more
than we did so far during WSIS,
while still keeping high on the
agenda civil and political rights
issues, and specially FoE and
privacy.
Rather than entering this process of 'shoping list', like the
one
already synthesized by the IGF secretariat (and recalled below
by
Manon), we may try to develop a strong contribution, along
the
following lines:
1/ General part of the statement:
-
we don't necessarily accept the idea that the IGF sets up "top 3
choices" for its first year, and then address "top 3 other choices"
on the second year and so on... (inter alia because many topics are
interrelated, specially if we frame the discussion in terms of
rights);
- the IGF should concentrate its discussions on issues that
_really_
needs international coordination, that we would help
identify. Here,
we may address the many other issues dealt with in
other
international or regional fora, pointing the lack of
coordination;
- Generally speaking, the respect and upholding _all_
HR should not
be dealt with by the IGF as one issues among many,
but, together with
the respect for the rule of law and democracy, as
the baselines and
the criteria against which any recommendation on
the issues dealt
with by IGF should be examined and assessed for
compliance. To this
end, we would reserve the right to intervene on
any matter (e.g. spam
or whatever the want to address);
2/
Focus on issues (since we wont be heard if we don't follow, at
least
partly, the format they're waiting for)
I'm really surprised to see that
intellectual property rights have
not been raised as an issue. I
undertstand governements and business
are not keen to discuss it in
this framework, and prefer to handle it
at WIPO and WTO, but I don't
understand that CS groups have not
strongly raised it, at least till
now.
I also find important to support access to infrastructure and
interconnection costs as one of the main issues to be dealt with by
IGF.
And, of course, without respect and enforcement of privacy and
freedom of _expression_, all this would have no meaning, in the end.
So,
with main argument being the right to education and knowledge,
and
the right to development, in addition to the right to privacy and
to
freedom of _expression_, I propose that we elaborate on the
following
three issues:
- IPR, and specially DRMs and other means of implementing IPR
through
infrastructure and code.
- access to infrastructure and
international interconnection costs
- privacy and freedom of
_expression_
What do you think ?
[I don't know how many of you are
subscribers to the CS Internet
governance caucus list, but there are
also interesting discussions -
and confrontation of ideas - going on
there]
Meryem
Le 8 mars 06 à 03:28, Manon Ress a écrit
:
> Correct us if we're wrong but according to Thiru (CPTech
Geneva)
> while we kind of missed the first deadline (to
nominate who should
> be part of the secretariat), we have till
March 31 to identify in
> writing what are our top three
priorities to be discussed at the IGF.
>
> These are some of the
topics submitted thus far:
>
> 1.
Spam
> 2. Multilingualism
> 3.
Cybercrime
> 4. Cybersecurity
> 5. Privacy
and Data Protection
> 6. Freedom of _expression_ and Human
Rights
> 7. International Interconnection
Costs
> 8. Bridging the Digital Divide: Access and
Policies
> 9. Bridging the Digital Divide:
Financing
> 10. Rules for e-commerce, e-business and consumer
protection.
>
>
> Here are the contributions made so
far:
>
> http://www.intgovforum.org/contributions.htm
>
>
>
On Mar 7, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Yaman Akdeniz wrote:
>
>> At 15:33
06/03/2006, you wrote:
>>
>>> We (Rikke and Meryem) are
favoring option two, staying as a caucus.
>>> We would be willing
to continue as co-chairs if there is an
>>>
interest,
>>> but we would also be willing to step down at this
stage, if people
>>> favor another solution.
>>> In
any case, we both are waiting to hear from you, and to
facilitate
>>> any decision this caucus would
make.
>>
>> I would also support the second option Meryem as
long as both you
>> and Rikke are happy with this. Keep up the
good work coming.
>>
>> All the
best,
>>
>> Yaman
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