[Lacigf] Dircurso de Sociedad Civiel en Apertura del FGI

[Natalia Castilla]

Muchas gracias!



From: Sandro.Jiménez <sjimenezo at oui-iohe.org>
To: lacigf at lacnic.net 
Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2012 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Lacigf] Dircurso de Sociedad Civiel en Apertura del FGI


Gracias Julián por tenernos al tanto



-- 
Sandro Jiménez-Ocampo, PhD
Coordinador Académico - Red Interamericana en eGobierno
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El miércoles, 7 de noviembre de 2012 a las 16:30, Julian Casasbuenas G. escribió:

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>Buenas tardes,
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>Comparto con Uds el discurso de Carlos A Afonso durante el acto de
>apertura del FGI.
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>Cordialmente,
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>Julián
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>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:
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>In the processes of policy formulation, we emphasize the need to
>prioritize dialogue with policy makers over their subordinated law
>enforcement agencies.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Let us remind ourselves that participation goes beyond representation,
>and participation in decision-making goes beyond just debates and
>dialogues.
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>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):
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>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.
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>Let the Internet flourish freely to the benefit of those who live at its
>edges, which are all of us. Thank you.
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>-- 
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>Julian Casasbuenas G.
>Director Colnodo
>Diagonal 40A (Antigua Av. 39) No. 14-75, Bogota, Colombia
>Tel: 57-1-2324246, Cel. 57-315-3339099 Fax: 57-1-3380264
>Twitter @jcasasbuenas
>http://www.colnodo.apc.org/ - Uso Estratégico de Internet para el Desarrollo
>Miembro de la Asociacion para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones -APC-
>http://www.apc.org/
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