[Chapter-delegates] Weekly European Regional Bureau Newsletter: EU Overview

[Halbersztadt Jozef (jothal)]

In my opinion the change is substantial. Non-state actors gained a
lot. Governments, the private sectors, academia, technical community,
civil society, in theory, since NetMundial are at equal footing. It
means loss of influence for governments and the private sector.

Milton Miller writes about the upgrade:
http://www.internetgovernance.org/2014/04/27/netmundial-moves-net-governance-beyond-wsis/

Best
-- 
'JotHal' jozef [dot] halbersztadt [at] gmail [dot] com
Internet Society Poland http://www.isoc.org.pl



On 28 April 2014 16:30,  <borka at e5.ijs.si> wrote:
> +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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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