[lac-discuss-en] Fw: Dircurso Open Society in IGF Civiel

Thu Nov 8 05:20:52 UTC 2012

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 Subject: Re: Fw: Dircurso Open Society in IGF Civiel 
 From: josefranciscoarce at gmail.com

 Juan Manuel Thanks for sharing this important keynote address at 
 the list. 
 Important for civil society and is NUPEF, to travs of Carlos, is 
 great pleasure. 

 Likewise sessions progress, all very interesting, but not 
 can attend all. Sure in the next scheduled meeting will devote 5 
 minutes to tell the most important of the IGF. 

 Regards 

 Jose Arce. - 

 2012/11/7 <jumaropi at yahoo.com>

> Comparto discurso de Carlos Afonso.  Gracias a la lista de lacigf.
>
> Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Claro
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Julian Casasbuenas G." <julian at colnodo.apc.org>
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> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:30:44
> To: <lacigf at lacnic.net>
> Reply-To: lacigf at lacnic.net
> Subject: [Lacigf] Dircurso de Sociedad Civiel en Apertura del FGI
>
>
> Buenas tardes,
>
> Comparto con Uds el discurso de Carlos A Afonso durante el acto de
> apertura del FGI.
>
> Cordialmente,
>
> Julián
>
>
> Your Excellencies, Mr Wu Hongbo, Under Secretary General, Undesa,
> Chairman minister Ali Abatov, Secretary Chengetai Masango, in the name
> of whom I wish to salute all present authorities; ladies and gentlemen:
>
> I have been assigned the honorable task of speaking in the opening
> ceremony of this IGF in the name of civil society organizations, social
> movements and individuals active in Internet governance processes, many
> of them involved in these processes since the inception of WSIS nearly
> 10 years ago. Several of them collaborated with me in drafting the
> following statement.
>
> We believe that the absence of gatekeepers and the open, global
> communication enabled by the Internet is crucial to realize the promise
> of Article 19 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To impose
> restrictions (legal or otherwise) to the free flow of information is and
> has always been contrary to the individual human right to freedom of
> expression.
>
> We therefore oppose efforts to create "national Internets," or to block
> and filter Internet access in ways that deny individuals access to
> applications, content and services of their choice.
>
> All attempts to deem certain forms of communication and information
> illegal and restrict or block them must follow established, transparent,
> due processes of law and should not involve prior restraint.
>
> We oppose efforts to militarize the Internet, or any actions that would
> foster a destructive and wasteful cyber arms race among governments or
> private actors. We consider the covert use of exploits and malware for
> surveillance or attacks to be criminal regardless of whether they are
> deployed by governments, private corporations or organized criminals.
>
> We are skeptical of efforts to subordinate the design and use of
> information and communication technology to "national security" agendas.
> We believe that Internet security will be achieved primarily at the
> operational level and that national security and military agendas often
> work against rather than for users' security needs.
>
> In the processes of policy formulation, we emphasize the need to
> prioritize dialogue with policy makers over their subordinated law
> enforcement agencies.
>
> Global governance institutions should not be restricted to states, so we
> welcome the additional participation in global policy making that
> multi-stakeholder processes provide. But we caution that
> multi-stakeholder participation is not an end in itself.
>
> Opening up global governance institutions to additional voices from
> civil society and business does not by itself ensure that individual
> rights are adequately protected or that the best substantive policies
> are developed and enforced.
>
> In the informal spaces created by pluralist institutions, it is possible
> that powerful governmental and corporate actors can make deals contrary
> to the interests of Internet users.
>
> Multistakeholder processes, while involving all interest groups, must
> incorporate and institutionalize concepts of due process, separation of
> powers and user's inalienable civil and political rights, and
> governmental decision-making ought to take into account the inputs of
> all participants of such pluralist processes.
>
> Let us remind ourselves that participation goes beyond representation,
> and participation in decision-making goes beyond just debates and
> dialogues.
>
> Regarding the ITR review process to be concluded in Dubai (and here I
> use the standard terminology the technical community defines to refer to
> the different components of the network):
>
> We agree that the internet layer and the layers above it (transport
> layer and applications layer) should not be included in any way in the
> regulations, while the free flow of Internet packets should be
> guaranteed in the link layer, in line with network neutrality in which
> Internet packets are never touched by the operators providing the
> physical connectivity infrastructure.
>
> Let the Internet flourish freely to the benefit of those who live at its
> edges, which are all of us. Thank you.
>
>
> --
>
> Julian Casasbuenas G.
> Director Colnodo
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