Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Hyderabad, India, 3-6 December 2008

‘How to take your Internet Further’

Report from the result of the Workshop #51, Wednesday December 3, 16.00.

Introduction

ISOC-ECC held a workshop on 3 December at the third United Nation conference on Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Hyderabad India. The topic was How to take your Internet further. It was a joint workshop with Latin America, said Christopher Wilkinson who has organized the workshop. ISOC headquarters staff also expressed their support. It was very successful and all presenters made good presentations with participants' involvement during the Question and Answer session.

The workshop had been organised and financed in cooperation between several ISOC-ECC Chapters and ISOC Headquarters. Particular thanks go to ISOC-Ecuador for joining the project together with ISOC-HQ support.

ISOC-ECC, together with ISOC Sweden, originator of this proposal, will organise a workshop during the Internet Governance Forum in India, Hyderabad. This workshop will give participants to the workshop a number of views from countries and processes/methods used, and the plans how to take your internet further. Also a few steps how to set priority and realise  plans. We think it is good to show how this is done in practical cases and experience of project or activities completed.

The proposal and other information can be found at http://www.intgovforum.org/workshops_08/showmelist.php?mem=75
and some more information from the Swedish Chapter at http://www.iva.se/upload/Verksamhet/Projekt/Internetframsyn/internetframsyn-syntesrapport.pdf

The Internet Society's European Coordinating Council against
the HADOPI proposal:  an reasoned opposition

Brussels, Paris, 5 September 2008

While the "graduated response," i.e., the possibility that the public authorities will be able to deprive "pirate" Internet users of their Internet access, is back for discussion before the European Parliament, the Internet Society's European coordinating council (Isoc-ECC) considers that this and its French avatar, the draft "Hadopi" law, a.k.a the "Olivennes" or "Creation and Internet" proposal, is a disproportionate response to the objective of developing creative content online set forth in a Communication by the European Commission in January 2008.  The proposed measures and sanctions show a lack of understanding of what the Internet actually is.  Isoc-ECC also considers that the graduated response is harmful from both an economic and a social standpoint.

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La Coordination Européenne de l'Internet Society contre le projet HADOPI : une opposition argumentée

Bruxelles, Paris, le 5 septembre 2008

Alors que la "riposte graduée", c’est-à-dire la possibilité pour les pouvoirs publics de priver d’internet les internautes "pirates", revient en débat devant le Parlement européen, la coordination européenne de l'Internet Society (Isoc-ECC) considère que celle-ci et son avatar français, le projet de loi "Hadopi", dit encore "Olivennes" ou "Création et Internet", est une réponse disproportionnée à l’objectif de développement de contenus créatifs en ligne fixé par une Communication de la Commission européenne de janvier 2008.

Les mesures et les sanctions proposées reflètent un manque de compréhension de ce qu’est Internet. L’Isoc-ECC considère également que la riposte graduée est néfaste aussi bien d’un point de vue économique que social.

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