[IRP] FYI - New CoE group of experts on 'Rights of Internet Users'

Sat Apr 21 03:28:55 EEST 2012

Hi Marianne and all,

Do you mean being part of the IRP WG on this? Yes, sure. 
Best,
Meryem

Le 20 avr. 2012 ? 11:02, Marianne Franklin a ?crit :

> Hi All
> 
> Thanks Meryem. You are going to - want to stay involved directly with this
> initiative I hope?
> 
> best
> MF
> 
> On Fri, April 20, 2012 09:58, Dixie Hawtin wrote:
>> Hi all -
>> 
>> 
>> Meryem, this seems like a really great opportunity for the IRP to feed in
>> (and hopefully shape) some initiatives at the CoE to push our Charter and
>> 10 IRPs further... thanks for putting some IRP people up as potential
>> experts. And of course, the more IRP members who are able to finance
>> themselves to participate as an "observer" the better.
>> 
>> Moving forward, I think the best thing to do would be to identify who in
>> the Coalition is interested in feeding in to this initiative, and then
>> making a smaller working group to focus on this issue and coordinate IRP
>> involvement in the group. Do we have a sense of when the CoE is going to
>> announce who is on the expert group, and what kind of timeframe we are
>> working on?
>> 
>> Thanks again Meryem!
>> 
>> 
>> Also just to let everyone know - the IRP Working Group for the IGF are
>> working on a number of workshop proposals which we will be submitting
>> today. One is a provocative look at the concept of multi-stakeholderism,
>> one is looking at whether access to the Internet is a human right
>> (following up on the Oped Vint Cerf wrote earlier this year), and one is
>> on empowering internet users (which we are co-sponsoring with the Council
>> of Europe). I will forward the links to the proposals once they are all
>> up online.
>> 
>> In addition to this we will also have our IRP workshop, which we seek to
>> use to really promote awareness and campaign on the 10 IRPs!
>> 
>> Best,
>> Dixie
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: irp-bounces at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org
>> [mailto:irp-bounces at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org] On Behalf Of
>> David Goldberg
>> Sent: 20 April 2012 08:31
>> To: Meryem Marzouki
>> Cc: IRP
>> Subject: Re: [IRP] FYI - New CoE group of experts on "Rights of Internet
>> Users"
>> 
>> 
>> Dear Meryem,
>> 
>> 
>> I could be interested in being an "observer" at the Expert Group...and I
>> do understand what you say about that being a self-financing role...
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> 
>> On 19 April 2012 18:15, Meryem Marzouki <meryem at marzouki.info> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear IRP colleagues,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm representing EDRI (European Digital Rights) as observer to the
>>> Council of Europe CDMSI (Steering Committee on Media and Information
>>> Society, which held its 1st meeting agenda here:
>>> http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/media/CDMC/default_en.asp).
>>> Among many items on the agenda, the creation of an expert group on
>>> "Rights of Internet Users" was (MC-RIU) proposed by the Secretariat and
>>> discussed.
>>> 
>>> The tentative Terms of References and workplan proposed by the
>>> Secretariat  (see above link) were discussed during the 1st CDMSI
>>> meeting. Members States delegates agreed on its creation, provided that
>>> the terms of references are modified a bit, so that item (iii) of the
>>> "Main Tasks" now reads: "(iii) advise the CDMSI, upon its request, on
>>> all questions within its area of competence and on rights and
>>> responsibilities of internet users, intermediaries, and other internet
>>> actors."
>>> 
>>> Anyway, the tasks remain wide enough to develop interesting work in the
>>> framework of the MC-RIU group. The main objective for the group,
>>> besides the "compendium of Internet users rights" would be to focus on
>>> existing recourses and remedies for users.
>>> 
>>> The group is supposed to be formed by 13 experts (this is the maximum
>>> allowed by the available budget, since experts are reimbursed for their
>>> expenses to attend the group meetings). It is currently written that
>>> these 13 will be 7 Member States representatives and 6 independent
>>> experts. After the discussion, there will be "at least" 7 Member States
>>> representatives. Of course, there could be more participants in the
>>> group, but the additional people will be called "observers". Note that
>>> the main difference is that observers don't get reimbursed for their
>>> expenses.
>>> 
>>> CDMSI members and observers were asked to send expression of interests
>>> and suggestions for independent experts (i.e. others than member states
>>> representatives) to the Secretariat by April 16. The CDMSI bureau will
>>> decide on final selection.
>>> 
>>> On behalf of EDRI, I expressed our interest to participate as expert,
>>> and I made suggestions for other independent experts, taking into
>>> account many criteria, such as a willing to include IRP people, as well
>>> as gender and country balance (needed to have the suggestions
>>> considered) and the fact that budget-wise, it is unlikely that the CoE
>>> would bring people based outside of the European continent. Again, not
>>> being in the small group of experts that will be selected doesn't mean
>>> not being able to participate to the work, though without travel
>>> funding to attend meetings. As the attached workplan mentions, at-large
>>> consultations will also be organized.
>>> 
>>> Obviously, this work would highly benefit from the work already done by
>>> the IRP (charter, 10 IRP, etc.), as well as by other groups on the same
>>> topic. I wanted to inform the coalition of this development, so that we
>>> can also collectively follow and participate to this new initiative,
>>> especially through the consultations that will be organized. Dixie and
>>> Matthias will probably make suggestions to follow-up on this.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Meryem
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Email: meryem at marzouki.info
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