[IRP] [governance] Declaration of Internet Freedom

Tue Jul 10 11:44:38 EEST 2012

Thanks for sharing the process with me all. Good to get a sense of this to
think about how we all might move forward together.

all the best,
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Marianne Franklin
<m.i.franklin at gold.ac.uk>wrote:

>  Dear Steve
>
> To follow on from Dixie and in answer to your questions; the consultation
> process (or 'collabowriting') also took place online through this listserv
> mainly.
>
> There have also been many face-to-face consultations around the initial
> drafts; at the IGF in Vilnius, EuroDIG meetings, and IGF open
> consultations.
>
> Various sorts of web-based resources were also used for the ongoing drafts
> (e.g. Googledocs) and archiving.
>
> The Coalition website needs some TLC though after it was hacked. Anyone
> willing to volunteer their expertise to this task?!
>
> best
> MF
>
>
> On 10/07/2012 02:28, Steve Anderson wrote:
>
> Thanks Dixie, great to hear more about this - sounds like a lot of work
> was put into this process!  Does anyone know if there was an online public
> consultation process? And if so where I could see it?
>
>  Thanks to all who have been a part of this.
>
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> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Dixie Hawtin <Dixie at global-partners.co.uk>wrote:
>
>>  Hi again,
>>
>> It's been brought to my attention that I may have underplayed the level
>> of discussion about the 10 IRPs - the Charter is the result of an extremely
>> broad consultation process (spanning years) both online and offline, with
>> input from different stakeholder groups and in different parts of the
>> world. The 10 IRPs too were shared widely outside of the Coalition,
>> particularly with experts on each of the principles - for example the
>> privacy article was shared with many privacy experts and there were several
>> consultation with different communities. The huge discussions were both
>> valuable for making the Charter so extensive and the 10 IRPs so precise -
>> they were also extremely valuable in themselves for bringing together
>> different communities!
>>
>> Very best,
>> Dixie
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> *From:* Dixie Hawtin
>> *Sent:* 09 July 2012 16:07
>> *To:* Steve Anderson; Marianne Franklin
>> *Cc:* irp at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org
>> *Subject:* RE: [IRP] [governance] Declaration of Internet Freedom
>>
>>   Hi Steve and welcome to the list!
>>
>>
>>
>> There isn?t a formal methodology (although if any of our academic members
>> have written an overview please do share!)
>>
>>
>>
>> The 10 IRPs came directly out of the Charter (A very broad overview ?
>> including previous versions ? can be found here:
>> http://irpcharter.org/charter/)
>>
>>
>>
>> Version 1.0 of the Charter was launched at the 2010 IGF in Lithuania.
>> During discussions a number of Coalition members felt that we needed a
>> shorter ?punchier? advocacy document. A working group was formed within the
>> Coalition of: Karmen Turk, Brett Solomon, Shaila Mistry, Henrik Almstrom,
>> Carlos Affonso, Jochai Ben-Avie, Lisa Horner and me. We worked over email
>> to distil the Charter down to 10 key principles. This was then shared with
>> the wider Coalition and we had an email discussion on the principles and
>> incorporated various changes. The 10 Internet Rights and Principles were
>> launched at the second expert meeting on "Freedom of Expression and the
>> Internet" in Stockholm, convened on 30-31 March 2011 by the Swedish
>> Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Then many volunteers from around the world
>> came forward and translated these into 21 more languages (all of which can
>> be found here: http://irpcharter.org/campaign/)
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Dixie
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* irp-bounces at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org [mailto:
>> irp-bounces at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org] *On Behalf Of *Steve
>> Anderson
>> *Sent:* 09 July 2012 12:29
>> *To:* Marianne Franklin
>> *Cc:* irp at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [IRP] [governance] Declaration of Internet Freedom
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all, new to the list. Can someone tell me or point to me to where I
>> can find the methodology for developing the  IRP ten principles? Curious
>> about how these were developed.
>>
>>
>>
>> best,
>>
>> --
>>
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>>  On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Marianne Franklin <
>> m.i.franklin at gold.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Dear All
>>
>> Thought I'd respond to some recent posts.
>>
>> 1) Declarations; I take Jeremy's point, and Wolfganga's. The mushrooming
>> of declarations, charters and the like is perhaps a sign of some critical
>> mass building.
>>
>> That said, the Declaration of Internet Freedom;
>> http://www.internetdeclaration.org/freedom, boils the IRP Ten Punchy
>> Principles, which already brought the original 3-tier Charter down to 10,
>> down to 5 points. At this rate we could well see the IRP Charter or
>> something similar fitting into a tweet!
>>
>> The IRP DC has yet to sign up to this Declaration. I move that we join it
>> as I can see no reason why not.
>>
>> 2) As for the IRP website. I hope we can resolve this as having a defunct
>> website is not good for business so to speak.
>>
>> 3) Re. Max's initiative. I have read and responded for my part!
>>
>> best
>> MF
>>
>> On 04/07/2012 04:13, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>>
>> On 03/07/12 20:46, Benedek, Wolfgang (wolfgang.benedek at uni-graz.at)
>> wrote:
>>
>>  What I wanted to point out as well is that we already have two more
>> declarations under this name, the Geneva Declaration on Internet Freedom of
>> 2010 by a group of NGOs
>>
>>
>> Do you have a link for that?  I found
>> http://www.genevasummit.org/media/20, but it is dead, nor is it on
>> archive.org.
>>
>>
>>  and the Guiding Principles of Internet Freedom of 2012 by Praxis think
>> tank of Estonia, which are both more elaborate.
>>
>>
>> Thanks, I added this to the links page at http://igcaucus.org/links and
>> added years.  Am I still missing any?  Feel free to add this list to the
>> IRP site too, or better, link to the IGC's copy.  BTW, does everyone know
>> that the IRP's main website is down (but the charter site is up)?  Not sure
>> about the mailing list, but I'm cc'ing to it in case it is up.
>>
>>
>>  It would be good to bring all these initiatives together and the DC on
>> Internet Rights and Principles would be a suitable place for doing so.
>>
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, people seem prefer to work in parallel which might limit
>> the effects of such efforts.
>>
>>
>> Indeed.  Part of the problem is that whereas there are strong global
>> action networks on issues like IP and the environment, in IG we have only
>> the IGC, and it is invisible to (or at least ignored by) large parts of the
>> Internet activist community.
>>
>> --
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