[IRPCoalition] Updates from the IRPC Steering Committee

[Dennis Redeker]

Dear members of the Internet Rights and Principles Coalition,

Today, we bring to you a few key updates from the work of the IRPC.

*Work with the Charter around the world*: members of the IRPC bring the
Charter to various communities, this includes members of the steering
committee (SC). While Santosh Sigdel spread the word in Nepal and Jacob
Odame-Baiden in Ghana, Minda Moreira and Dennis Redeker attended EuroDIG in
Vilnius and emphasized the importance of human rights online and brought up
the Charter through organization/participation in a number of sessions
<https://internetrightsandprinciples.org/>. In addition, many of you do
important work with the Charter and beyond; we should at some point conduct
a more thorough stock-taking.

*Japanese translation of the Charter*: IRPC members Tomoe Watashiba, Ryoko
Arakawa and Yuichiro Abe have been doing a tremendous job translating the
text of the Charter into Japanese. The task force created by them now looks
into dissemination of the Japanese version through creative formats later
this year, as it nears design completion. IGF 2023 in Kyoto was the
catalyst for the translation work and the founding of the task force. Stay
tuned!

*IRPC @IGF 2024*: The SC decided to plan our coalition's on-site
participation in the IGF 2024 in Riyadh. We do this against the background
that some individuals and organizations in the IG ecosystem - especially
from civil society - communicated their decision not to attend in person
this year due to the choice of host country. We think it is important to
bring the Charter and our human-rights focus into that space. How will we
engage?

   - The sole IRPC *workshop* proposal has been accepted into the
   program, in a very competitive environment (89 workshops were accepted out
   of a total of 203 proposals). We will be organizing a workshop
   <https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2024-ws-255-ai-and-disinformation-safeguarding-elections>
   on *safeguarding elections against AI disinformation *and want to
   reflect in December on what happened during the super election year 2024.
   We call on anyone of you to join us in this with your legal, human rights,
   politics and technical experience. We are happy to add additional speakers
   and thus attain a more global survey of experiences and ideas. Please reach
   out if you are interested to be a speaker or act in any other role
   (in-person or remotely) during the workshop!
   - We will also team up with other Dynamic Coalitions (DCs) to
create a *shared
   DC booth and joint DC sessions*. The IGF Secretariat proposed and
   supports these initiatives, which are a reaction to a move by the MAG to
   reduce the number of total sessions at the IGF (creating pressure on the
   number of DC sessions) and by the fact that booths are difficult to
   maintain by one DC alone throughout five days (although we often managed
   well). We will try these formats this year and plan to also reserve meeting
   room capacity for a hybrid meeting of IRPC members. Stay tuned!

Please excuse our irregular updates from the IRPC SC this year. We hope
that this update has been informative and we are working on bringing more
regular updates to you all.

Please reach out to us with your questions and feedback or to discuss how
you can become more active in our coalition.

Best regards,
Santosh Sigdel and Dennis Redeker (SC co-chairs), on behalf of the IRPC SC
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