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ISummit 2008/IBR

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The debate over the framing and enforcement of fundamental rights in an Internet environment will have a dedicated session in Sapporo. Featuring a number of issues concerning the process and the contents of an Internet Bill of Rights, you are invited to engage in the discussion and to have your say on a global initiative that aims at providing guidelines for any kind of regulation that deals with the adaptation and improvement of existing human fundamental rights, as well as the crafting of new rights that emerge from a technology-driven reality.

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[edit] The Internet Bill of Rights Initiative

The two-session workshop that will be held in Sapporo is the next step in the history of an initiative that has its roots in United Nations' Internet Governance Forum (IGF). As a dynamic coalition, the Internet Bill of Rights formed an open group of organizations, companies, governments and individuals that feel the need to work together for a better definition of the rights and duties of the individual users of the Internet.

The proposal of an Internet Bill of Rights was first conceived at the outset of the World Summit for Information Society, in Tunis, 2005. The consensus gathered around this proposal led to the formation of the Dynamic Coalition, which held its first workshop during the 2006 IGF in Athens.

In September 2007, the Italian Government organized a Dialogue Forum on Internet Rights, in Rome, to discuss in a multi-stakeholder environment the general concepts and methods that should guide this work.

During the Rio IGF Meeting, later that year, as a result of the debate that took place in the workshop of the Dynamic Coalition, the Internet Bill of Rights has been defined as an on-going process that builds upon existing fundamental rights, promotes their enforcement, and fosters the recognition of emerging principles.

The Sapporo workshop will be the first face-to-face meeting of the Dynamic Coalition after last year´s IGF and will contribute to the fostering of the debate aiming at the next IGF meeting, in Hyderabad (India), this December.

Click here to visit the Internet Bill of Rights website.

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[edit] People

The workshop is organized by the Center for Technology and Society (CTS), at Getulio Vargas Foundation, in Rio de Janeiro, and the ICommons.

Below there is a sample of some of the people attending the workshop. If you plan on joining us in Sapporo, fell free to put your name down the list:

Bruno Magrani, Project Lead, CTS/FGV, Brazil

Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza, Vice-coordinator, CTS/FGV, Brazil

Heather Ford, Executive Director, iCommons, South Africa

Max Senges, Open University of Catalonia & Committee for a Democratic United Nations, Spain/Germany

Paula Martini, Project Lead, CTS/FGV, Brazil

Pedro Mizukami, Project Lead, CTS/FGV, Brazil

Ronaldo Lemos, Coordinator, CTS/FGV, Brazil

Sergio Branco, Project Lead, CTS/FGV, Brazil

Vittorio Bertola, consultant, Italy

Jose Murilo Junior, Web Strategy, Brazilian Ministry of Culture, Brazil

Natasha Primo, National ICT Policy Advocacy Initiative, APC, South Africa

Robert Guerra, Senior Program Officer, Global Internet Freedom, Freedom House, Canada

Alvaro Jorge, Constitutional Law professor, FGV, Brazil

[edit] Goals

There are a couple of goals for our workshop, some of them are:

1. To present the Internet Bill of Rights initiative to a brand new audience, allowing the Japanese and local Asia audience to get to know the initiative and to engage in the discussion over the formal and substantive issues pertaining to the framing and enforcement of Internet rights;

2. To experience the opportunity of having a sophisticated and geographically diverse audience as the one composed by the CC project leaders from around the word attending the ISummit. In this regard, such an audience could contribute to the improvement of the way intellectual property issues are addressed by the IBR initiative;

3. To foster the discussion on the framing and enforcement of Internet Rights leading up to the IBR coalition presentation at the Internet Governance Forum on December, at Hyderabad, India.

[edit] Programme

First Panel: The Internet Bill of Rights Initiative

Max Senges (consultant)

Vittorio Bertola (consultant)

Natasha Primo (APC)


Second Panel: Framing and Enforcement of Rights in the Internet

Alvaro Jorge (FGV)

Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza (CTS|FGV)

Jose Murilo Junior (Brazilian Ministry of Culture)

Robert Guerra (Freedom House)

[edit] Outcomes

The workshop is meant to be a stepping stone towards the achievement of some concrete results for the coalition´s work. In this regard, the first outcome expected to araise out from the event in Sapporo is the processing of the input to be received and comunicating such contributions at the India IGF next December.

In addition to that, the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, in cooperation with CTS/FGV, is drafting a guideline to regulations that preserve and foster cultural diversity on cyberspace. Such text is expected to be discussed in Sapporo and will be made available here at the wiki asap.

[edit] Documentation

The workshop will be recorded in video for future reference of the debates and contributions made by the audience.

[edit] Invitation to join us in Sapporo

Creative Commons has create innovative and ever increasing voice for an alternative view on Copyright. In internet rights space there are a variety of different groups that are active in promoting rights including privacy, freedom of expression, access to the Internet, access to Knowledge, etc. The workshop will introduce participants to the work that has been done so far and we looking how to build synergies and collaboration between iCommons and the Internet Rights community - if this sparks your interest come to our sessions. The first one starts @ 14.00-15.00 and the second runs through 15.30-17.00.

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