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F.C.C., in a Shift, Backs Fast Lanes for Web Traffic
by Davis Onsakia 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

FYI F.C.C., in a Shift, Backs Fast Lanes for Web Traffic F.C.C., in a Shift, Backs Fast Lanes for Web Traffic Planned new rules would allow an Internet provider to negotiate separately with content companies and charge them for priority service. View on www.nytimes.com Preview by Yahoo Regards and many thanks, Davis M Onsakia 'The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.' - Maureen Dowd

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F.C.C., in a Shift, Backs Fast Lanes for Web Traffic
by Davis Onsakia 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

FYI http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/technology/fcc-new-net-neutrality-rules.h… <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/technology/fcc-new-net-neutrality-rules.h…> Best Regards, Davis M Onsakia "One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."

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The big U TURN
by Kelvin Githira 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/technology/fcc-new-net-neutrality-rule… Sent from my iPhone

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FW: Invitation to Internet and Human Rights Breakfast Roundtable on 24th April 2014
by Grace Githaiga 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

ListersYou are all invited. Rgds > From: BAidi(a)khrc.or.ke > To: ggithaiga(a)hotmail.com > Subject: Invitation to Internet and Human Rights Breakfast Roundtable on 24th April 2014 > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:46:41 +0000 > > 22ndApril, 2014 Dear, INVITATION TO AN INTERNET AND HUMAN RIGHTSSTAKEHOLDERS’ BREAKFAST ROUND TABLE MEETING ON 24TH APRIL, 2014 AT THE FAIRMONT NORFOLK HOTEL, NAIROBI The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), isa non-governmental organization (NGO)founded in 1991 to entrench democratic principles and respect for human rights. KHRC’s envisions human rights states and societies, a vision driven by the mission offostering human rights, democratic values, human dignity and social justice. KHRC,in partnership with other civil society organizations, has been working on a number of informational rights including freedom of expression, access to information, right to privacy and freedom of association as provided by the Constitution of Kenya 2010. In the digital era, KHRC has extended this work to promote and protect these rights and freedoms as experienced offline to be enjoyed online. In 2013, in line with this KHRC undertook a survey of the internet legislative and policy landscape in Kenya and found that while Kenya’s ICT sector is growing as key driver of the economy, the sector can be improved with better policies and legislation specific to the sector. For this reason, the KHRC and its implementing partner the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) have the pleasure of inviting you to a breakfast roundtable on Internet and Human Rights on April 24, 2014 at 8.00am the Fairmont Norfolk Hotel, Nairobi.Taking cognizance that the government recently undertook to invite public participation in the Cyber Security Strategy 2014, the roundtable is to sustain dialogue of a partnership between the state and non-state actors as stakeholders. It will aim to: · Build understanding of the legislative and policy environment in Kenya, including concerns about current debates about cybersecurity and cybercrime and their effect on human rights; · Explore the value of a multi-stakeholder approach in internet policy making and how it could be institutionalised in Kenya. Your attendance as a stakeholder will be highly appreciated as this will enrich the dialogue in informational rights Kenya.Kindly confirm your participation with Berly Aidi on baidi(a)khrc.or.ke > We hope to see you on Thursday Yours faithfully, Atsango Chesoni Executive Director > > > Regards > > Beryl Aidi > Programme Officer, Media and Communications > ****************************************************************************** > KENYA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (KHRC) > Opp. Valley Arcade, Gitanga Road, Lavington|P.O. Box 41079 - 00100 Nairobi | > Tel: +254-20 2044545, +254-20 2106709, +254-20 3874998 > Cell phone: +254-732-855819 > Fax: +254-20 3874997| admin(a)khrc.or.ke<mailto:admin@khrc.or.ke> > www.khrc.or.ke<http://www.khrc.or.ke/> | www.hakizetu.com<http://www.hakizetu.com/> > Report Violations through SMS Hotline: 22345 > > [cid:image002.png@01CEAB16.7C7621F0]<https://twitter.com/thekhrc>[cid:image004.png@01CEAB16.7C7621F0]<https://www.facebook.com/thekhrc>[YouTube]<https://www.youtube.com/thekhrc> >

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Fwd: [Internet Policy] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Just Net Coalition Response to the Draft NetMundial Outcome Document
by Kelvin Githira 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > Just Net Coalition Response to the Draft NetMundial Outcome Document > São Paulo, Brazil April 21, 2014 > > NetMundial Draft Outcome Document Misses Out All Key issues from Dilma's UN Speech > President Dilma's Speech in the UN General assembly last September, resonated throughout the world. It expressed the outrage of the people on the “grave violation of human rights and of civil liberties”, the threat of “cyberspace being used as a weapon of war” and violation sovereign rights of countries including Brazil. She expressed the global discontent in the way the Internet is being currently governed. She called for protection of data as it travels on the web and multilateral mechanisms (or UN mechanisms) for the Internet to ensure democratic governance, cultural diversity, inclusive and non discriminatory societies, and responsible regulation. > > It is in this context within which the NetMundial conference – on April 23rd-24th – is taking place in Sao Paulo for which Brazil has taken the initiative. > > Unfortunately, all the above issues that President Dilma highlighted in her UN speech, are missing from the current draft that is being placed before the conference. The document fails to mention the word ‘democracy’ at all - and instead talks only about the multistakeholder model and governance on the basis of consensus. This, even though such systems have failed in protecting the global citizens from drag-net surveillance, the threat of cyber war and the emergence of global monopolies. Such a model also completely ignores the concept of public interest in Internet governance. > > If we take the pharmaceutical example, a multistakeholder governance would have meant deciding by consensus – between global pharma, AIDS patients in the global south and global governments – what should be the cost of such lifesaving drugs, without addressing or identifying where public good lies. Brazil and other countries rejected such an approach and that is why people in the global south today can afford to buy drugs for their treatment. And who would accept that pharmaceutical companies have equal rights with respect to decisions on safety and effectiveness of their products? > > A model that gives equal rights for public policy to governments, and corporations, is giving global corporations, a veto to prevent any meaningful reform and regulation. This is a violation of all democratic norms and the rights of the people – their political, economic, social and cultural rights, essentially surrendering global public interest to private, unelected, rich and powerful global corporations. How could, for instance, network neutrality ever be imposed in such a model? > > Governments are answerable to their people; corporations to their shareholders. People and profits cannot be equated through a specific model of governance. This is what NetMundial must address; not an endorsement of the status quo but a new beginning in Internet governance; an Internet governance that must place public good over private profit, protect global citizens from mass surveillance and the threat of cyber weapons. This is the leadership role that we would expect President Dilma and Brazil to play in NetMundial. This is what all countries and groups who believe in democracy, advancing human rights and social justice and a peaceful world must strive for in the final outcome document. > > The Just Net Coalition has submitted a detailed clause-by-clause amendment to the Draft of the NetMundial document. We believe that the draft should be significantly revised to include the following: > > 1. A democratic and multistakeholder Internet governance model with different roles and responsibilities for different stakeholders; recognising that corporations and governments cannot be placed on an equal footing in governing the Internet > 2. Restoring the reference to the necessary and proportionate principle and therefore countering the continuation of mass surveillance > 3. Restoring reference to the need for a global compact on prohibition of cyberwar and cyber weapons > 4. Adding a clear reference to net neutrality principles (the current reference is too vague and ambiguous, permitting practices such as tiered access and differential pricing) > 5. Addressing emerging increased power of monopolies in the Internet space with respect to cultural and language diversity, and profiteering, and the need for regulating such monopolies > 6. Addressing the issue of appropriation and monetisation of data of the people by corporations > 7. Recognizing the concept of global commons or public good in internet governance > 8. Rejecting unilateral preconditions on the IANA transition discussions > We expect that the final outcome document will explicitly foster a decentralized, free and open, non-hierarchical network of networks, and not implicitly favour the current trends of Internet governance which are leading us more and more towards monolithic, centralized walled gardens. NetMundial must dedicate itself to a roadmap to for an open, robust and resilient Internet -- acceptable to everyone including the 70 per cent unconnected majority. > > > Just Net Coalition > A coalition of civil society groups from different regions globally concerned with Internet > governance, human rights and social justice > > www.justnetcoalition.org > > Please write to prabirp(a)gmail.com for further information > > > _______________________________________________ > To manage your ISOC subscriptions or unsubscribe, > please log into the ISOC Member Portal: > https://portal.isoc.org/ > Then choose Interests & Subscriptions from the My Account menu.

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ICANN 51 in Los Angeles: Fellowship application round open on April 18, 2014 - Début des inscriptions pour les demandes de bourse
by Grace Githaiga 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

The 51st ICANN meeting in Los Angeles will be held 12-16 October 2014 Application Round opens: 18 April 2014 Application Round closes: 30 May 2014 Selected Fellows announced: 18 July 2014More information at http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-18apr14-en.htm ICANN Felloship terms and conditions http://www.icann.org/en/about/participate/fellowships/terms-conditions Thanks

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Fw: [Internet Policy] Yahoo, the Global Internet Initiative and the Internet Society
by Davis Onsakia 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

FYI Regards and many thanks, Davis M Onsakia 'The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.' - Maureen Dowd On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 6:09 AM, Joly MacFie <joly(a)punkcast.com> wrote: Yahoo! has issued a couple of statements: http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/82426971544/an-update-on-our-dmarc-policy-to-p rotect-our-users http://yahoomail.tumblr.com/post/82426900353/yahoo-dmarc-policy-change-what -should-senders-do -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - _______________________________________________ To manage your ISOC subscriptions or unsubscribe, please log into the ISOC Member Portal: https://portal.isoc.org/ Then choose Interests & Subscriptions from the My Account menu.

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Heartbleed......
by Davis Onsakia 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

FYI For the security conscious: - The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now - The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Ch... Heartbleed: A look at which companies have issued a security patch to fix the Heartbleed bug. View on mashable.com Preview by Yahoo - Firefox and Chrome extensions to check heartbleed on website - Firefox and Chrome Browser Extensions that Check for Heartbleed Firefox and Chrome Browser Extensions that Check for ... Browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome that detect whether a site is safe or unsafe from the Heartbleed bug are described. View on www.techsupportaler... Preview by Yahoo Regards and many thanks, Davis M Onsakia 'The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.' - Maureen Dowd

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netMundial : Request for Questions from the Nairobi hub
by Mwendwa Kivuva 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

What questions should the Nairobi remote hub present at netMundial during either the Working Session Principles OR Roadmap on day 1 and 2. Each hub will be allocated a slot to present a question on one of the sessions (but not both) on a given day. Below are the Principles and Roadmaps on each day and the corresponding topics for your guidance in framing questions. To register for the event, click this link: http://www.eventbrite.com/o/internet-society-kenya-chapter-6443910819?s=243… DAY1: 23rd April 2014 ---------------------- 20:30~22:00 Working Session 1: Principles. Chairs: Markus Kummer and Adiel Akplogan. Advisors: Adam Peake, Maemura Akinori, Dominique Lazanski, Maximiliano Martinhão, Manal Ismail. - Topic 1: Human rights - Topic 2: Culture and linguistic diversity - Topic 3: Unified and unfragmented space - Topic 4: Security, stability and resilience of the Internet 22:30~00:30 Working Session 2: Roadmap. Chairs: Janis Karklins and Jeanette Hofmann Advisors: Marilia Maciel, Michael Niebel, Chengetai Masango, Zahid Jamil, Flavio Wagner. - Topic 1: Issues that deserve attention of all stakeholders in the Internet governance future evolution. - Topic 2: Issues dealing with institutional improvements. DAY2: 24th April 2014 14:30~16:30 Working Session 3: Principles Chairs: Markus Kummer and Anriette Esterhuysen Advisors: Adam Peake, Maemura Akinori, Dominique Lazanski, Maximiliano Martinhão, Manal Ismail. - Topic 5: Open and distributed architecture - Topic 6: Enabling environment for innovation and creativity - Topic 7: Internet governance process principles - Topic 8: Open standards 17:00~19:00 Working Session 4: Roadmap Chairs: Janis Karklins and Dongman Lee Advisors: Marilia Maciel, Michael Niebel, Chengetai Masango, Zahid Jamil, Flavio Wagner. - Topic 3: Issues dealing with specific Internet Governance topics. - Topic 4: Points to be further discussed beyond NETmundial - Topic 5: Way forward -- Regards ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya twitter.com/lordmwesh

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Just Net Coalition - Press Release - Please circulate widely.
by Alex Gakuru 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* *Just Net Coalition Response to NetMundial Outcome Document* *São Paulo, Brazil April 21, 2014* President Dilma's Speech in the UN General assembly last September, resonated throughout the world. It expressed the outrage of the people on the “grave violation of human rights and of civil liberties”, the threat of “cyberspace being used as a weapon of war” and violation sovereign rights of countries including Brazil. She expressed the global discontent in the way the Internet is being currently governed. She called for protection of data as it travels on the web and multilateral mechanisms (or UN mechanisms) for the Internet to ensure democratic governance, cultural diversity, inclusive and non discriminatory societies, and responsible regulation. It is in this context within which the NetMundial conference – on April 23rd-24th – is taking place in Sao Paulo for which Brazil has taken the initiative. Unfortunately, all the above issues that President Dilma highlighted in her UN speech, are missing from the current draft that is being placed before the conference. The document fails to mention the word ‘democracy’ at all - and instead talks only about the multistakeholder model and governance on the basis of consensus. This, even though such systems have failed in protecting the global citizens from drag-net surveillance, the threat of cyber war and the emergence of global monopolies. Such a model also completely ignores the concept of public interest in Internet governance. If we take the pharmaceutical example, a multistakeholder governance would have meant deciding by consensus – between global pharma, AIDS patients in the global south and global governments – what should be the cost of such lifesaving drugs, without addressing or identifying where public good lies. Brazil and other countries rejected such an approach and that is why people in the global south today can afford to buy drugs for their treatment. And who would accept that pharmaceutical companies have equal rights with respect to decisions on safety and effectiveness of their products? A model that gives equal rights for public policy to governments, and corporations, is giving global corporations, a veto to prevent any meaningful reform and regulation. This is a violation of all democratic norms and the rights of the people – their political, economic, social and cultural rights, essentially surrendering global public interest to private, unelected, rich and powerful global corporations. How could, for instance, network neutrality ever be imposed in such a model? Governments are answerable to their people; corporations to their shareholders. People and profits cannot be equated through a specific model of governance. This is what NetMundial must address; not an endorsement of the status quo but a new beginning in Internet governance; an Internet governance that must place public good over private profit, protect global citizens from mass surveillance and the threat of cyber weapons. This is the leadership role that we would expect President Dilma and Brazil to play in NetMundial. This is what all countries and groups who believe in democracy, advancing human rights and social justice and a peaceful world must strive for in the final outcome document. The Just Net Coalition has submitted a detailed clause-by-clause amendment to the Draft of the NetMundial document. We believe that the draft should be significantly revised to include the following: 1. Inserting the term 'democratic' before multistakeholder wherever the needed Internet governance mechanism or models are mentioned. 2. Restoring the reference to the necessary and proportionate principle and therefore countering the continuation of mass surveillance 3. Restoring reference to the need for a global compact on prohibition of cyberwar and cyber weapons 4. Adding a clear reference to net neutrality principles (the current reference is too vague and ambiguous, permitting practices such as tiered access and differential pricing) 5. Restoring and strengthening clear references to the different roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders, recognising that corporations and governments cannot not be placed on an equal footing in governing the Internet, especially with regard to public policy making; that would turn the concept of representative democracy on its head 6. Addressing emerging increased power of monopolies in the Internet space with respect to cultural and language diversity, and profiteering, and the need for regulating such monopolies 7. Addressing the issue of appropriation and monetisation of data of the people by corporations 8. Recognizing the concept of global commons or public good in internet governance 9. Rejecting unilateral preconditions on the IANA transition discussions We expect that the final outcome document will explicitly foster a decentralized, free and open, non-hierarchical network of networks, and not implicitly favour the current trends of Internet governance which are leading us more and more towards monolithic, centralized walled gardens. NetMundial must dedicate itself to a roadmap to for an open, robust and resilient Internet -- acceptable to everyone including the 70 per cent unconnected majority. ---- For more information contact: Prabir Purkayastha email: prabir(a)gmail.com and or, Parminder Jeet Singh email: parminder.js(a)gmail.com

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