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

Mon Apr 23 14:12:41 EEST 2012

Dear Meryem/all

Just to confirm that it what I meant; great you can be part of an IRP WG
on this.

best
MF

On Sat, April 21, 2012 01:28, Meryem Marzouki wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Meryem Marzouki - Paris, France
>>>> Email: meryem at marzouki.info
>>>> Lab. LIP6/CNRS/UPMC - www-polytic.lip6.fr IRIS (Imaginons un r?seau
>>>> Internet solidaire) - www.iris.sgdg.org EDRI (European Digital
>>>> Rights)
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