[WSIS CS-Plenary] Issues & themes for IGF - 4 days left

[Josep Xercavins]

Thanks a lot Robert for your job!

.........

As a first reaction I would like to emphasize our approach as a forum of
civil society organizations.

As I said in the February meeting in Geneva, the main initial goal to the
WSIS was to put the TIC working in pro of development.

So, I again think that the actual orientation of this CS platform is not so
enough balance in this sense. To much technical in my view.

I would like to insist that the issues related with "bridging the digital
divide" and with "capacity building oriented to use the TIC helping
development and, i.e., achieving MDG" should be in the first priorities of
the CS positions.

Thanks!

Xerca

(Josep Xercavins - Coordinator Ad Hoc Secretariat of the World Forum of
Civil Society Networks-UBUNTU)

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As promised, here is a summary of the issues and themes raised on the IG
mailing list as of March 27, 2006.

I will try to post the documents submitted on-line later this evening.


Detailed submissions have been received on the following topics:
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(Unless instructed otherwise, I will forward the submission on behalf of
the original sender on 31st)

(in no particular order)


- Policy issues for affordable Internet access
- Internet content filtering and free expression
- E-voting technologies
- Enhanced cooperation for coordination and management of critical
Internet resources.
- Defining and fostering Open Educational Ressources (OER) on line,
around issues of interoperability, access, public infrastructure, in the
context of Internet and digital learning technologies
- Defining and fostering the ‘public-ness’ of the Internet – issues of
public interest, public domain, public infrastructure and public good in
the context of the Internet.
- User centric digital identity


The following topics have been raised and/or discussed on the IG list
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(in no particular order)


- IP address allocation

- Spam
+ technical methods
+ human rights implications of filtering as censorship: unintended
consequences of filtering. " When one person's free speech is someone
else's blasphemy"

- Network Neutrality

- Capacity-building and meaningful participation in policy development

Development agenda
+ access and affordability
+ Asserting the public-ness and the egalitarian character of the
Internet as a guiding principle for IG

Note: Participants from developing south were very vocal on the issue of
development. They see it as a key thematic area.

- INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE INTERNET
+ multilingualism
+ International Domain Names (IDN) -  multilingual roots

- Network neutrality

- Diversification of the DN space

- Human Rights as a cross-cutting issue (1,2 and 3 generation rights)
  (civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights)

+ Freedom of expression
+ data protection and privacy rights

- Internet content filtering and free expression


- Digital  identity

- Enhanced Cooperation


- Cybercrime

+ Law enforcement co-operation.
+ Overview & comparison of existing instruments: CoE Convention, etc
+ International legal assistance - the good, the bad, and the ugly..
+ Human Rights implications


The following issues were identified as "top" issues during the
IGF consultation , 16-17 Feb
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   1. Spam
   2. Multilingualism
   3. Cybercrime
   4. Cybersecurity
   5. Privacy and Data Protection
   6. Freedom of Expression and Human Rights
   7. International Interconnection Costs
   8. Bridging the Digital Divide: Access and Policies
   9. Bridging the Digital Divide: Financing
  10. Rules for e-commerce, e-business and consumer protection



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