<div dir="ltr">Dear all<div><br></div><div>I'm part of ISOC Blockchain SIG board, Brazilian, a not so active member of ISOC Brazil but</div><div><br></div><div>Please do support the repudiation note on Brazilian government attack on the Multistakeholder Model itself, not only CGI.br</div><div><br></div><div>Share it as widely as you can</div><div><br></div><div>This is a threat to all countries, if all governments decide they are the only ones "in charge of the internet" we'll not only see weakened our local multistakeholder institution but several initiatives </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for talking about this</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Dave Burstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daveb@dslprime.com" target="_blank">daveb@dslprime.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Folks</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Carlos Alfonso, President of our Brazilian Chapter, sent the below note about a government attack on CGI.br, an internationally respected group in Internet policy. It worth reading.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Assuming the chapter concurs, I suggest we give them strong support. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">It was good to see our <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:19.3333px;white-space:pre-wrap">spokeswoman Allesandra Desantillana told an Australian newspaper, “however any public positions and statements of the chapters are their own” (Rupert Murdoch's paper was attacking our Australian chapter.)</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Possibilities for support from other chapters:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><ul><li>If requested by the Brazil Chapter, I will recommend to the New York Chapter we begin a simple petition of support for the actions of the Brazilian chapter. <br></li><li>Our chapters reach out to our own governments to speak up at the ITU & IGF to symbolize international support. (At least four ISOC people, myself included, are on the official U.S. State Department Telecommunications Advisory Committee and can raise the issue there.)<br></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Possibilities for individual member support</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><ul><li>I'm a working reporter and know most of the international telecom reporters. I don't have time to run a campaign, but I have a good mailing list and can provide pointers on where and how to get the message across.<br></li><li>If you think an ISOC board resolution is appropriate, reach out to the board members. They are all dedicated and have been responsive when I reached out personally.<br></li><li>Write letters and opeds for publications that might be interested.</li></ul><div>Possibilities for ISOC organization support</div><div><ul><li>We should begin by acknowledging that our chapters understand the local situation better than the people in DC and Geneva. We should ask them how we can help, rather than issuing directives.<br></li><li>We spend $millions every year on "policy advocacy", including at least three staffers who cost $2,000 or more per day. People like Sally Wentworth have direct and indirect connections into governments like Brazil. It would be wrong to a former U.S. State Department staffer to lead a domestic Brazilian campaign, but guidance from someone with her experience can be very helpful.<br></li><li>We should get off our butts and move on the chapters proposal for 3% of ISOC's budget to be controlled by the chapters. This would allow the Brazilian chapter, for example, to rent a hotel room for a focused event without having to ask DC for funds.<br></li><li>Similarly, we have an enormous "communications" budget that includes at least two staffers with years of pr experience, Allesandra Desantillana and Wende Cover. Their advice can be very helpful. </li></ul><div><span id="m_7593582772382657687gmail-docs-internal-guid-bd2687c6-c7a6-a419-8325-ddc8836cea34"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></span></div></div><div><span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Better ideas welcome.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Repudiation note</span><br></font></div></div></div><div><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">On the attacks of the Temer government against the Internet Steering</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">Committee in Brazil</span><br style="font-size:16px"><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">The Coalition on Network Rights is publicly repudiating and denouncing</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">the most recent measure of the Temer management against the rights of</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">Internet users in Brazil. Unilaterally, the Federal Government published</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">on Tuesday, August 8th, in the Official Gazette (DOU), a public</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">consultation aimed at changes in the composition, election process and</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">attributions of the Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br).</span><br style="font-size:16px"><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">Composed by representatives of the government, the private sector, civil</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">society and technical and academic specialists, CGI.br is, since its</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">creation, in 1995, responsible for establishing standards and procedures</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">for the use and development of the Internet in Brazil. An international</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">reference for multistakeholder Internet governance, the Committee had</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">its role strengthened following the promulgation of the Internet Civil</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">Rights Framework (Law 12.965/2014, known as the "Marco Civil") and its</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">regulatory decree, which establishes that it is the responsibility of</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">the committee to define the guidelines for all issues related to the</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">sector. From then on, the CGI.br became the subject of the private</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">sector's dispute and greater interest.</span><br style="font-size:16px"><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">By publishing a public consultation to significantly change the Steering</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">Committee model unilaterally and without any prior dialogue within the</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">CGI.br itself, the government overrides the law and breaks with the</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">pluralism that marks the debates on the Internet and its governance in</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">Brazil.</span><br style="font-size:16px"><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">The consultation was not the subject of the last CGI.br meeting, held in</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">May, and on Monday, August 7th, the day before publication in the DOU,</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">the committee's coordinator appointed by the government, Maximiliano</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">Martinhão, only sent an e-mail to the list of board members reporting</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">that the Federal Government intended to discuss the issue - without,</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">however, informing that everything was already set, in the process of</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">being officially published. It is worth mentioning that, on </span><span class="m_7593582772382657687gmail-aBn" style="font-size:16px"><span class="m_7593582772382657687gmail-aQJ">August 18th</span></span><span style="font-size:16px">,</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">the first meeting of the new CGI.br management takes place, and the</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">government could have waited to set the issue in a democratic way with</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">the committee members. However, it preferred to act in an autocratic way.</span><br style="font-size:16px"><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">Since his inauguration as coordinator last year, Martinhão - who is also</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">the Information Technology Policy Secretary at the Ministry of Science,</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">Technology, Innovation and Communications - has made public statements</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">in support of changes to the Internet Steering Committee. As early as</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">June 2016, in the first meeting he chaired at CGI.br, after the change</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">in command of the federal government, he declared that he was "receiving</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">demands from small providers, content providers and investors" to change</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">the composition of the body.</span><br style="font-size:16px"><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">The pressure to revise the strength of civil society in the committee</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">grew, especially on the part of telecommunications operators, supporters</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">of the government. In December, during the Internet Governance Forum in</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">Mexico, organized by the United Nations, a group of civil society</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">entities from more than 20 countries expressed concern and denounced</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">attempts to weaken CGI.br by the Temer administration. In the first half</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">of 2017, the government maneuvered to impose a standstill on behalf of a</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">questionable "economy of resources".</span><br style="font-size:16px"><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">Martinhão and other members of the Kassab/Temer administration have also</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">publicly defended the achievements of the Civil Internet Framework,</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">proposing the easing of network neutrality and criticizing the need for</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">users to consent to the processing of their personal data. In this</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">context, the multi-sectoral composition of CGI.br has been fundamental</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">for the defense of the postulates of the MCI and basic principles for</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">the guarantee of a free, open and plural internet.</span><br style="font-size:16px"><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">For this reason, this Coalition - which brings together researchers,</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">academics, developers, activists and consumer protection and freedom of</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">speech entities - launched, during the last CGI electoral process, a</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">public platform that called for the "strengthening of the Internet</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">Steering Committee in Brazil, preserving its attributions and its</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">multistakeholder character, as a guarantee of the multi-participatory</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">and democratic governance of the Internet" in the country. After all,</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">changing the CGI is strategic for the sectors that want to change the</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">direction of Internet policies that have been implemented in the country.</span><br style="font-size:16px"><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">In this sense, considering the "Marco Civil", the multistakeholder</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">character of the CGI and also the political moment that the country is</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">going through - from an interim government of questionable legitimacy to</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">undertake such changes - the Coalition on Network Rights demands the</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">immediate cancellation this consultation.</span><br style="font-size:16px"><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">It is unacceptable that a process directly related to Internet</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">governance is affected by a dubious public consultation without its</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">guidelines having been discussed before, internally, by CGI.br. It is</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">another example of the modus operandi of the administration that</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">occupies the federal government and that has little appreciation for</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">democratic processes. We will continue to denounce such attacks and seek</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">support from different sectors, both inside and outside Brazil, against</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">the dismantling of the Internet Steering Committee.</span><br style="font-size:16px"><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">August 8th, 2017</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">Coalition on Network Rights</span><br style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:16px">Coalizão Direitos na Rede</span><br style="font-size:16px"><a href="https://direitosnarede.org.br/" rel="noreferrer" style="font-size:16px" target="_blank">https://direitosnarede.org.br</a><br style="font-size:16px"><span class="m_7593582772382657687gmail-HOEnZb" style="font-size:16px"><font color="#888888"><br>--<br><br>Carlos A. 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