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A Comment on the 2009 IGF Draft Programme Paper
http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/a-comment-on-the-2009-igf-draft-programme-paper
<b>The Centre for Internet and Society is part of a broad group of civil society actors that submitted a comment on the Draft Programme Paper of the fourth Internet Governance Forum (IGF), taking place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in November 2009. The IGF is a forum for multistakeholder policy dialogue on Internet governance issues. The comment decries the complete absence of attention for Internet Rights and Principles in the agenda as it stands as of today, and this despite repeated requests from a wide range of stakeholders to make this theme a central one. All stakeholder groups were invited to submit their comments on the Draft Programme Paper of the 2009 IGF to the IGF Secretariat by 15 August.
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<p align="justify">The comment submitted
reads as follows:</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Re:
IGF Draft Programme Paper, August 2009</strong></p>
<p align="left">We,
the undersigned would like to express our surprise and disappointment
that Internet Rights and Principles was not retained as an item on
the agenda of the 2009 IGF in any way. Although this topic was
suggested as a theme for this year's IGF or for a main session by a
range of actors during and in the run-up to May's Open Consultations,
this widespread support is not reflected in the Draft Programme
Paper, which does not include Internet Rights and Principles even as
a sub-topic of any of the main sessions. The WSIS Declaration of
Principles, 2003, and the Tunis Agenda, 2005, explicitly reaffirmed
the centrality of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to an
inclusive information society. To make these commitments meaningful,
it is of great importance that a beginning is made to explicitly
building understanding and consensus around the meaning of Internet
Rights and Principles at the earliest. We recommend that the Agenda
of the 2009 IGF provide the space to do so.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Signatories:</strong></p>
<p>Centre
for Internet and Society, Bangalore</p>
<p>Association
for Progressive Communications </p>
<p>IP
Justice <br /></p>
<p>Bytesforall, Pakistan<br /></p>
<p>Instituto
Nupef, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</p>
<p>Jacques
Berleur</p>
<p>Ginger
Paque</p>
<p>Fouad
Bajwa</p>
<p>Milton
L Mueller</p>
<p>Willie
Currie</p>
<p>Michael
Gurstein</p>
<p>Jeanette
Hofmann</p>
<p>Eric
Dierker</p>
<p>Jeffrey
A Williams</p>
<p>Charity
Gamboa, chairperson Internet Governance Working Group, ISOC
Philippines </p>
<p>Ian
Peter</p>
<p>Tracy
F. Hackshaw</p>
<p>Shaila
Rao Mistry, Internet Rights and Principles</p>
<p>Lee
W McKnight</p>
<p>Jeremy
Malcolm</p>
<p>Tapani
Tarvainen</p>
<p>Shahzad Ahmad, ICT Policy Monitors Network<br /></p>
<p>Carlos
Afonso</p>
<p>Dina Hovakmian</p>
<p>Rui
Correia<br /></p>
<p>Lisa Horner</p>
<p>Deirdre Williams<br /></p>
<p>Jaco
Aizenman<br /></p>
<p>Nyangkwe Agien Aaron<br /></p>
<p>Siranush Vardanyan, Armenia<br /></p>
<p>Kwasi
Boakye-Akyeampong<br /></p>
<p>Linda D. Misek-Falkoff</p>
<p>Baudouin
Schombe<br /></p>
<p>Stefano Trumpy</p>
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