Dear friends, The Internet Governance Forum's Internet Rights and Principles coalition has partnered with Association for Progressive Communications to work on a "Charter of Human Rights and Principles on the Internet". I hope you'll take a few minutes out of your busy schedule sometime soon to help improve the document. The hope is to at least have a presentable draft in time for the Internet Governance Forum in mid-November, so that it can be shared during the forum for more discussion and further improvement. Information about the collaborative charter-writing process can be found here: http://irc.wiki.apc.org/index.php/Main_Page The draft charter is here (but please read the main page first before editing): http://irc.wiki.apc.org/index.php/Charter_of_Human_Rights_and_Principles_on_the_Internet It's a wiki - so all you need to do is sign up for an account and do the usual wiki-editing thing. Please feel free to share it with colleagues in civil society, business, and government who you think would be in a position to make substantive contributions. If you have questions - technical, procedural, or substantive - please write to Robert Bodle ([log in to unmask]), who has kindly agreed to coordinate this multi-stakeholder, collaborative writing effort. Best, Rebecca -- Rebecca MacKinnon Open Society Fellow | Co-founder, GlobalVoicesOnline.org Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong UK: +44-7759-863406 USA: +1-617-939-3493 HK: +852-6334-8843 Mainland China: +86-13710820364 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Blog: http://RConversation.blogs.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/rmack Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/rebeccamack