[Chapter-delegates] UN Commemoration 60th anniversary UDHR, Internet and Human Rights, UNESCO 3-5 September 2008, Paris

[Constance Bommelaer]

Dear Chapter Delegates, 

 

The 61st Annual Conference of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
associated with the United Nations will be held at Paris at UNESCO from the
3rd September to the 5th September 2008. To mark the 60th anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), this year’s conference is
entitled “Reaffirming Human Rights for
<http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/index.asp>  all: the Universal Declaration
at 60” and is being organized in partnership with UNESCO, the Office of the
High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Government of France. 

 

After each high-level governmental roundtable, break-out sessions are
organized by NGOs. ISOC was recently asked to coordinate a break-out session
on Internet and Human rights, following the high-level roundtable on Human
Rights and Human Security. 

 

This is for ISOC a good opportunity to work on a common agenda with NGOs in
formal relationship with UNESCO and who come from a broad range of
organizations (research institutes, think tanks, Civil Society, etc.). You
will find below the draft agenda of this break-out session as it has been
developed up to this date. 

 

We’d like to encourage chapter delegates and individual members with special
expertise or knowledge in this field to contact me at bommelaer at isoc.org .
Also, if you or any of your members are affiliated to an organization
associated with the United Nations and that you’ve been invited and plan on
attending this event, please let me know. 

 

 

Break-out session n°3, 4 September, 14:00 : Internet and Human rights (draft
agenda)   (90 mn)

 

1.                                          Ethics and the information
society

a.                                           As the Internet expands, what
are the core principles (freedom of expression, access, diversity, etc.)
that must be respected? What are ethics in the information society?

b.                                          What are the fundamental values
upon which these principles are based (human rights, common values, etc.).
Do they imply rights? Duties? 

c.                                           Does this reassert and/or
reinvent ethical issues and does it lead to new rules? 

 

2.                                          Ethical solutions in an evolving
environment: code of ethics and the Internet model

a.                                           The ethical issues of
empowering Internet users

b.                                          How the Internet model respects
these fundamental values (openness, accessibility, neutrality, etc.) 

c.                                           UNESCO’s draft Code of ethics
in the Information Society

 

Useful links: 

 <http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/index.asp> Conference website of the 61st
Annual Conference of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) associated with
the UN

 <http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/docs/isoc_internet-rights_20070927.pdf>
ISOC at Dialogue Forum on Internet rights, 27 September 2007, Rome

 <http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/governance/ethics.shtml> ISOC at the
Council of Europe/UNESCO: Ethics and Human Rights in the Information
Society, 13-14 Sep 2007, Strasbourg

 

 

Best regards, 

 

Constance Bommelaer

Senior Manager of Public Policy

Internet Society (ISOC)

+41 22 807 14 48

+33 6 62 17 31 86

http://www.isoc.org <http://www.isoc.org/> 

 

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