[Chapter-delegates] Weekly European Regional Bureau Newsletter: EU Overview
borka at e5.ijs.si
borka at e5.ijs.si
Mon Apr 28 07:30:33 PDT 2014
+1!
Richard is right.
Regards,
Borka
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Richard Hill wrote:
> The Newletter says "Most of the participants in the high level NETmundial:
> the Global Multi-stakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance
> that took place in Sao Paolo, Brazil on 23-24 April agreed that Internet
> management should remain a self-regulated space free of governmental
> implication."
>
> I don't see anything in the NETmundial outcome that justifies the statement
> "self-regulated space free of governmental implication".
>
> On the contrary, NETmundial reaffirmed that offline rights and laws apply
> online. The NETmundial outcome contains numerous specific references to
> human rights (international law) and to the law. Laws are made by states
> and enforced by governments, so references to law recognize the role of
> governments.
>
> And the NETmundial outcome document explicitly recognizes the role of
> governments, because it states:
>
> "Internet governance should be built on democratic, multistakeholder
> processes, ensuring the meaningful and accountable participation of all
> stakeholders, including governments, the private sector, civil society, the
> technical community, the academic community and users. The respective roles
> and responsibilities of stakeholders should be interpreted in a flexible
> manner with reference to the issue under discussion."
>
> Democracy in this context must be understood as the right for everyone to
> take part in the conduct of public affairs, directly or through freely
> chosen representatives (paraphrasing Article 21 of the Universal Declaration
> of Human Rights and Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and
> Political Rights).
>
> The NETmundial outcome also states: "Governments have primary, legal and
> political accountability for the protection of human rights."
>
> And the objective of the NETmundial roadmap is "to outline possible steps
> forward in the process of continuously improving the existing Internet
> governance framework ensuring the full involvement of all stakeholders in
> their respective roles and responsibilities."
>
> The expression "respective roles and responsibilities" is clearly a
> reference to paragraph 35 of the Tunis Agenda.
>
> Perhaps the statement in the Weekly Newsletter was referring to management
> of the Internet domain names and addresses, and not to Internet governance
> in general.
>
> Best,
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Weekly European Regional Bureau Newsletter:
>> EU Overview
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