We need a universal declaration of Internet rights NOW!). You might have seen the emails and activities regarding this topic in the last month and weeks, (I-Inform alliance), so you will know the tools and concepts are in place, what is missing is the will and effort to do it now!
Rafik
APC Internet Rights Charter (2006) http://www.apc.org/en/node/5677/
● CGI.br Principles for the Governance and Use of the Internet (2009):
http://www.cgi.br/english/regulations/resolution2009003.htm
● Council of Europe Code of Good Practice on Information, Participation and Transparency in Internet Governance (2010)
http://www.apc.org/en/system/files/COGP_IG_Version_1.1_June2010_EN.pdf
● Declaration of Internet Freedom #1 (2012) http://www.internetdeclaration.org/freedom
● Declaration of Internet Freedom #2 (2012) http://declarationofinternetfreedom.org/
● Digital Citizens' Bill of Rights (2012) http://keepthewebopen.com/
● EU Commission Compact for the Internet (2011)
http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neeliekroes/iproposeacompactfortheinternet/
● Geneva Declaration on Internet Freedom (2010) http://www.saladeprensa.org/art988.htm
● Guiding Principles of Internet Freedom (2012)
● Human Rights Council, Resolution 20/8, The promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet (2012) http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/RES/20/8
● Internet Rights and Principles Coalition Charter (2011) http://internetrightsandprinciples.org/site/
● OECD Communiqué on Principles for Internet Policy Making (2011)
http://www.oecd.org/internet/innovation/48289796.pdf
● People's Communications Charter http://www.pccharter.net/
● United States International Strategy for Cyberspace (2011)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/international_strategy_for_cyberspace.pdf
● World Economic Forum Code of Conduct for Government Leaders (2011)
http://www.weforum.org/content/globalagendacouncilinformedsocieties20122013
From: [log in to unmask]" href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target="_blank">Alex GakuruSent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 10:23 AMTo: [log in to unmask]" href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target="_blank">[log in to unmask]Subject: Re: ICANN ParanoiaI suspect that many people remain silent on this -- perhaps still stuck at the "Denial" stage on the Kübler-Ross model ?
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On Jul 3, 2013 10:54 AM, "Andrei Barburas" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
And personally, I am still not sure why everyone was/is surprised about the tapping and the surveillance..What Snowden did, was just confirm the "theory". At the end of the day, just because you don't know about something, that doesn't mean that it's not happening.
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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Adam Peake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
On Jul 3, 2013, at 4:13 PM, William Drake wrote:
> On Jul 3, 2013, at 7:08 AM, Marc Perkel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Considering the NSA and PRISM stuff and that they are into Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, etc - shouldn't we assume that ICANN has been compromised? Considering everything else they are into how can they not be into ICANN?
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>> Having said that - what does that mean to our trip?
>
> Maybe that we should have all worried less about having our computers compromised at the Beijing meeting? Or, worried more broadly...