[IRP] APC statement to denounce attacks on anonymous online speech by US gov

Meryem Marzouki meryem
Tue Apr 24 17:58:41 EEST 2012 

Also in favor

Le 24 avr. 2012 ? 16:50, Dixie Hawtin a ?crit :

> +1
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: irp-bounces at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org [mailto:irp-bounces at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org] On Behalf Of Bodle, Robert
> Sent: 24 April 2012 15:41
> To: Marianne Franklin; Meryem Marzouki
> Cc: IRP
> Subject: [IRP] APC statement to denounce attacks on anonymous online speech by US gov
> 
> Can IRP endorse APC's statement: "Progressive internet rights organisations strongly denounce attack on anonymous online speech by US government"
> http://www.apc.org/en/news/apc-statement-progressive-internet-rights-organisa
> 
> "Indeed, throughout history, people's willingness to engage in debate on controversial subjects in the public sphere has always been linked to possibilities for doing so anonymously"  -Frank La Rue (2011)
> 
> Best, 
> robert
> 
> 
> 
> Robert Bodle, PhD
> Associate Professor of Communication and New Media Studies
> College of Mount St. Joseph
> http://robertbodle.org/
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: irp-bounces at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org [irp-bounces at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org] On Behalf Of Marianne Franklin [M.I.Franklin at gold.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 7:12 AM
> To: Meryem Marzouki
> Cc: IRP
> Subject: Re: [IRP] FYI - New CoE group of experts on 'Rights of Internet        Users'
> 
> 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)
>>>>> - www.edri.org
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>> Email: meryem at marzouki.info
>> Lab. LIP6/CNRS/UPMC - www-polytic.lip6.fr
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> Goldsmiths, University of London
> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
> United Kingdom
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Email: meryem at marzouki.info
Lab. LIP6/CNRS/UPMC - www-polytic.lip6.fr
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