[EURO-Discuss] WG: [IRPCoalition] Italy's draft Declaration of Internet Rights

[Wolf Ludwig]

Just FYI -- this may be of interest for some of you at least.

Enjoy your weekend,
Wolf


J.C. DE MARTIN wrote Sat, 21 Mar 2015 20:18:
>Dear All,
>
>If I am not mistaken, this list has not yet been informed about a fairly
>recent initiative of Italy's Chamber of Deputies that might interest you.
>
>In July 2014 the President of the Chamber, Hon. Laura Boldrini,
>established a study commission made of 10 MPs (one for each
>group) and 13 experts (I am one of them) [1].
>The chair of the Commission is prof. Stefano Rodotà,
>that some of you will remember (Tunis 2005 or Brazil 2007).
>
>The mandate for our Commission was to survey existing
>Internet Charters/Declarations (starting with IRPC Charter, of course)
>and to produce a draft Declaration of Internet Rights before of the end of
>Italy's Presidency of the European Union (31 Dec 2014).
>The political aim was to try to influence the Italian Government
>to take (or at least facilitate) action in this important area.
>
>While that political aim was not achieved (at least so far),
>the Chamber of Deputies indeed published a first draft of the
>Declaration in October 2014. Since then the draft
>has been undergoing a public consultation
>(see http://camera.civi.ci), which will end on March 31.
>
>You can find English, French and German translations
>of the draft Declaration, as well as a quite extensive
>press overview (also in English), here:
>http://nexa.polito.it/declaration-internet-rights
>
>Since October, the study Commission has been holding
>several official hearings: we heard from experts (some them
>foreigners, e.g., Frank La Rue), associations,
>the Chairs of Italy's independent Authorities, companies,
>members of Goverment, media, ecc.
>
>We are also in close contact with the Commission de réflexion
>sur le droit et les libertés à l’âge du numérique established in
>2014 by France's Assemblée Nationale: in the coming days
>we will also hold a joint meeting via tele-conference.
>
>The main results of this initiative is that Italy has been discussing
>of Internet rights like never before: a remarkable result
>in and by itself, if you ask me.
>
>Next steps: process the contributions, produce
>a revised Declaration and, above all, contribute to the
>global Internet rights efforts, where our main asset
>will be the fact that we are an expression of a parliamentary
>institution.
>
>Particularly regarding this last point, your feedback and
>advice would be most useful.
>
>Many thanks,
>best regards,
>
>juan carlos de martin
>
>[1] http://www.camera.it/leg17/1177
>[2] http://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/commissions/numerique
>
>prof. juan carlos de martin
>co-director / nexa center for internet & society
>politecnico di torino - italy
>http://nexa.polito.it
>office: +39 011 090 7217
>
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