[Npoc-discuss] On the attack of Temer gov against CGI.br and NPOC

Thu Aug 10 15:11:48 UTC 2017

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> On Aug 10, 2017, at 11:57 AM, Olévié Kouami <olivierkouami at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone.
> So sorry to hear that.
> The Marco Civil is what I mostly admire in Brazil. It's the fundation of the MS model and the Net neutrality. Attack the Marco Civil is an attack against the Internet community.
> Stand up for our rights.
> Cheers !
> Hello all. 
> Sorry for the cross-posting. I've found this information really important to do that and launch an internal debate inside our constituency.
> This attack is an abuse. It's against the MS model and against the Net neutrality.
> My question is as followed : isn't it an Operational Concerns too ?
> Food for though.
> Waiting for your brainstorming.
> Have a nice day
> Olevie
> 
> ---------- Message transféré ----------
> De : "Carlos Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca <mailto:ca at cafonso.ca>>
> Date : 9 août 2017 14:45
> Objet : On the attack of Temer gov against CGI.br
> À : <NCSG-DISCUSS at listserv.syr.edu <mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS at listserv.syr.edu>>
> Cc : 
> 
> Repudiation note
> 
> On the attacks of the Temer government against the Internet Steering
> Committee in Brazil
> 
> The Coalition on Network Rights is publicly repudiating and denouncing
> the most recent measure of the Temer management against the rights of
> Internet users in Brazil. Unilaterally, the Federal Government published
> on Tuesday, August 8th, in the Official Gazette (DOU), a public
> consultation aimed at changes in the composition, election process and
> attributions of the Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br).
> 
> Composed by representatives of the government, the private sector, civil
> society and technical and academic specialists, CGI.br is, since its
> creation, in 1995, responsible for establishing standards and procedures
> for the use and development of the Internet in Brazil. An international
> reference for multistakeholder Internet governance, the Committee had
> its role strengthened following the promulgation of the Internet Civil
> Rights Framework (Law 12.965/2014, known as the "Marco Civil") and its
> regulatory decree, which establishes that it is the responsibility of
> the committee to define the guidelines for all issues related to the
> sector. From then on, the CGI.br became the subject of the private
> sector's dispute and greater interest.
> 
> By publishing a public consultation to significantly change the Steering
> Committee model unilaterally and without any prior dialogue within the
> CGI.br itself, the government overrides the law and breaks with the
> pluralism that marks the debates on the Internet and its governance in
> Brazil.
> 
> The consultation was not the subject of the last CGI.br meeting, held in
> May, and on Monday, August 7th, the day before publication in the DOU,
> the committee's coordinator appointed by the government, Maximiliano
> Martinhão, only sent an e-mail to the list of board members reporting
> that the Federal Government intended to discuss the issue - without,
> however, informing that everything was already set, in the process of
> being officially published. It is worth mentioning that, on August 18th,
> the first meeting of the new CGI.br management takes place, and the
> government could have waited to set the issue in a democratic way with
> the committee members. However, it preferred to act in an autocratic way.
> 
> Since his inauguration as coordinator last year, Martinhão - who is also
> the Information Technology Policy Secretary at the Ministry of Science,
> Technology, Innovation and Communications - has made public statements
> in support of changes to the Internet Steering Committee. As early as
> June 2016, in the first meeting he chaired at CGI.br, after the change
> in command of the federal government, he declared that he was "receiving
> demands from small providers, content providers and investors" to change
> the composition of the body.
> 
> The pressure to revise the strength of civil society in the committee
> grew, especially on the part of telecommunications operators, supporters
> of the government. In December, during the Internet Governance Forum in
> Mexico, organized by the United Nations, a group of civil society
> entities from more than 20 countries expressed concern and denounced
> attempts to weaken CGI.br by the Temer administration. In the first half
> of 2017, the government maneuvered to impose a standstill on behalf of a
> questionable "economy of resources".
> 
> Martinhão and other members of the Kassab/Temer administration have also
> publicly defended the achievements of the Civil Internet Framework,
> proposing the easing of network neutrality and criticizing the need for
> users to consent to the processing of their personal data. In this
> context, the multi-sectoral composition of CGI.br has been fundamental
> for the defense of the postulates of the MCI and basic principles for
> the guarantee of a free, open and plural internet.
> 
> For this reason, this Coalition - which brings together researchers,
> academics, developers, activists and consumer protection and freedom of
> speech entities - launched, during the last CGI electoral process, a
> public platform that called for the "strengthening of the Internet
> Steering Committee in Brazil, preserving its attributions and its
> multistakeholder character, as a guarantee of the multi-participatory
> and democratic governance of the Internet" in the country. After all,
> changing the CGI is strategic for the sectors that want to change the
> direction of Internet policies that have been implemented in the country.
> 
> In this sense, considering the "Marco Civil", the multistakeholder
> character of the CGI and also the political moment that the country is
> going through - from an interim government of questionable legitimacy to
> undertake such changes - the Coalition on Network Rights demands the
> immediate cancellation this consultation.
> 
> It is unacceptable that a process directly related to Internet
> governance is affected by a dubious public consultation without its
> guidelines having been discussed before, internally, by CGI.br. It is
> another example of the modus operandi of the administration that
> occupies the federal government and that has little appreciation for
> democratic processes. We will continue to denounce such attacks and seek
> support from different sectors, both inside and outside Brazil, against
> the dismantling of the Internet Steering Committee.
> 
> August 8th, 2017
> Coalition on Network Rights
> Coalizão Direitos na Rede
> https://direitosnarede.org.br <https://direitosnarede.org.br/>
> 
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> 
> Carlos A. Afonso
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