[Chapter-delegates] How should we support out chapters in Brazil?

Thu Aug 10 05:16:25 PDT 2017

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On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all
>
> I'm part of ISOC Blockchain SIG board, Brazilian, a not so active member
> of ISOC Brazil but
>
> Please do support the repudiation note on Brazilian government attack on
> the Multistakeholder Model itself, not only CGI.br
>
> Share it as widely as you can
>
> 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
>
> Thank you for talking about this
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Dave Burstein <daveb at dslprime.com> wrote:
>
>> Folks
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Assuming the chapter concurs, I suggest we give them strong support.
>>
>> It was good to see our 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.)
>>
>> Possibilities for support from other chapters:
>>
>>
>>    - 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.
>>    - 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.)
>>
>>
>> Possibilities for individual member support
>>
>>    - 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.
>>    - 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.
>>    - Write letters and opeds for publications that might be interested.
>>
>> Possibilities for ISOC organization support
>>
>>    - 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.
>>    - 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.
>>    - 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.
>>    - 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.
>>
>> Better ideas welcome.
>>
>> Repudiation note
>>
>> On the attacks of the Temer government against the Internet Steering
>> Committee in Brazil
>>
>> The Coalition on Network Rights is publicly repudiating and denouncing
>> the most recent measure of the Temer management against the rights of
>> Internet users in Brazil. Unilaterally, the Federal Government published
>> on Tuesday, August 8th, in the Official Gazette (DOU), a public
>> consultation aimed at changes in the composition, election process and
>> attributions of the Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br).
>>
>> Composed by representatives of the government, the private sector, civil
>> society and technical and academic specialists, CGI.br is, since its
>> creation, in 1995, responsible for establishing standards and procedures
>> for the use and development of the Internet in Brazil. An international
>> reference for multistakeholder Internet governance, the Committee had
>> its role strengthened following the promulgation of the Internet Civil
>> Rights Framework (Law 12.965/2014, known as the "Marco Civil") and its
>> regulatory decree, which establishes that it is the responsibility of
>> the committee to define the guidelines for all issues related to the
>> sector. From then on, the CGI.br became the subject of the private
>> sector's dispute and greater interest.
>>
>> By publishing a public consultation to significantly change the Steering
>> Committee model unilaterally and without any prior dialogue within the
>> CGI.br itself, the government overrides the law and breaks with the
>> pluralism that marks the debates on the Internet and its governance in
>> Brazil.
>>
>> The consultation was not the subject of the last CGI.br meeting, held in
>> May, and on Monday, August 7th, the day before publication in the DOU,
>> the committee's coordinator appointed by the government, Maximiliano
>> Martinhão, only sent an e-mail to the list of board members reporting
>> that the Federal Government intended to discuss the issue - without,
>> however, informing that everything was already set, in the process of
>> being officially published. It is worth mentioning that, on August 18th,
>> the first meeting of the new CGI.br management takes place, and the
>> government could have waited to set the issue in a democratic way with
>> the committee members. However, it preferred to act in an autocratic way.
>>
>> Since his inauguration as coordinator last year, Martinhão - who is also
>> the Information Technology Policy Secretary at the Ministry of Science,
>> Technology, Innovation and Communications - has made public statements
>> in support of changes to the Internet Steering Committee. As early as
>> June 2016, in the first meeting he chaired at CGI.br, after the change
>> in command of the federal government, he declared that he was "receiving
>> demands from small providers, content providers and investors" to change
>> the composition of the body.
>>
>> The pressure to revise the strength of civil society in the committee
>> grew, especially on the part of telecommunications operators, supporters
>> of the government. In December, during the Internet Governance Forum in
>> Mexico, organized by the United Nations, a group of civil society
>> entities from more than 20 countries expressed concern and denounced
>> attempts to weaken CGI.br by the Temer administration. In the first half
>> of 2017, the government maneuvered to impose a standstill on behalf of a
>> questionable "economy of resources".
>>
>> Martinhão and other members of the Kassab/Temer administration have also
>> publicly defended the achievements of the Civil Internet Framework,
>> proposing the easing of network neutrality and criticizing the need for
>> users to consent to the processing of their personal data. In this
>> context, the multi-sectoral composition of CGI.br has been fundamental
>> for the defense of the postulates of the MCI and basic principles for
>> the guarantee of a free, open and plural internet.
>>
>> For this reason, this Coalition - which brings together researchers,
>> academics, developers, activists and consumer protection and freedom of
>> speech entities - launched, during the last CGI electoral process, a
>> public platform that called for the "strengthening of the Internet
>> Steering Committee in Brazil, preserving its attributions and its
>> multistakeholder character, as a guarantee of the multi-participatory
>> and democratic governance of the Internet" in the country. After all,
>> changing the CGI is strategic for the sectors that want to change the
>> direction of Internet policies that have been implemented in the country.
>>
>> In this sense, considering the "Marco Civil", the multistakeholder
>> character of the CGI and also the political moment that the country is
>> going through - from an interim government of questionable legitimacy to
>> undertake such changes - the Coalition on Network Rights demands the
>> immediate cancellation this consultation.
>>
>> It is unacceptable that a process directly related to Internet
>> governance is affected by a dubious public consultation without its
>> guidelines having been discussed before, internally, by CGI.br. It is
>> another example of the modus operandi of the administration that
>> occupies the federal government and that has little appreciation for
>> democratic processes. We will continue to denounce such attacks and seek
>> support from different sectors, both inside and outside Brazil, against
>> the dismantling of the Internet Steering Committee.
>>
>> August 8th, 2017
>> Coalition on Network Rights
>> Coalizão Direitos na Rede
>> https://direitosnarede.org.br
>>
>> --
>>
>> Carlos A. Afonso
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>>
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>>
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