<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.accessnow.org/brazil-multistakeholder-internet-governance-model-crisis/" class="">https://www.accessnow.org/brazil-multistakeholder-internet-governance-model-crisis/</a></div><br class=""><div style=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 10, 2017, at 11:57 AM, Olévié Kouami <<a href="mailto:olivierkouami@gmail.com" class="">olivierkouami@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Hi everyone.<br class="">
So sorry to hear that.<br class="">
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.<br class="">
Stand up for our rights.<br class="">
Cheers !<br class="">
</p>
<div class="class= gmail_quot<blockquote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr" class="">Hello all. <br class="">
Sorry for the cross-posting. I've found this information really important to do that and launch an internal debate inside our constituency.<br class="">
This attack is an abuse. It's against the MS model and against the Net neutrality.<br class="">
My question is as followed : isn't it an Operational Concerns too ?<br class="">
Food for though.<br class="">
Waiting for your brainstorming.<br class="">
Have a nice day<br class="">
Olevie</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Message transféré ----------<br class="">De : "Carlos Afonso" <<a href="mailto:ca@cafonso.ca" target="_blank" class="">ca@cafonso.ca</a>><br class="">Date : 9 août 2017 14:45<br class="">Objet : On the attack of Temer gov against <a href="http://CGI.br" class="">CGI.br</a><br class="">À : <<a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu" target="_blank" class="">NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu</a><wbr class="">><br class="">Cc : <br class=""><br type="attribution" class="">Repudiation note<br class="">
<br class="">
On the attacks of the Temer government against the Internet Steering<br class="">
Committee in Brazil<br class="">
<br class="">
The Coalition on Network Rights is publicly repudiating and denouncing<br class="">
the most recent measure of the Temer management against the rights of<br class="">
Internet users in Brazil. Unilaterally, the Federal Government published<br class="">
on Tuesday, August 8th, in the Official Gazette (DOU), a public<br class="">
consultation aimed at changes in the composition, election process and<br class="">
attributions of the Internet Steering Committee (<a href="http://CGI.br" class="">CGI.br</a>).<br class="">
<br class="">
Composed by representatives of the government, the private sector, civil<br class="">
society and technical and academic specialists, <a href="http://CGI.br" class="">CGI.br</a> is, since its<br class="">
creation, in 1995, responsible for establishing standards and procedures<br class="">
for the use and development of the Internet in Brazil. An international<br class="">
reference for multistakeholder Internet governance, the Committee had<br class="">
its role strengthened following the promulgation of the Internet Civil<br class="">
Rights Framework (Law 12.965/2014, known as the "Marco Civil") and its<br class="">
regulatory decree, which establishes that it is the responsibility of<br class="">
the committee to define the guidelines for all issues related to the<br class="">
sector. From then on, the <a href="http://CGI.br" class="">CGI.br</a> became the subject of the private<br class="">
sector's dispute and greater interest.<br class="">
<br class="">
By publishing a public consultation to significantly change the Steering<br class="">
Committee model unilaterally and without any prior dialogue within the<br class="">
<a href="http://CGI.br" class="">CGI.br</a> itself, the government overrides the law and breaks with the<br class="">
pluralism that marks the debates on the Internet and its governance in<br class="">
Brazil.<br class="">
<br class="">
The consultation was not the subject of the last <a href="http://CGI.br" class="">CGI.br</a> meeting, held in<br class="">
May, and on Monday, August 7th, the day before publication in the DOU,<br class="">
the committee's coordinator appointed by the government, Maximiliano<br class="">
Martinhão, only sent an e-mail to the list of board members reporting<br class="">
that the Federal Government intended to discuss the issue - without,<br class="">
however, informing that everything was already set, in the process of<br class="">
being officially published. It is worth mentioning that, on August 18th,<br class="">
the first meeting of the new <a href="http://CGI.br" class="">CGI.br</a> management takes place, and the<br class="">
government could have waited to set the issue in a democratic way with<br class="">
the committee members. However, it preferred to act in an autocratic way.<br class="">
<br class="">
Since his inauguration as coordinator last year, Martinhão - who is also<br class="">
the Information Technology Policy Secretary at the Ministry of Science,<br class="">
Technology, Innovation and Communications - has made public statements<br class="">
in support of changes to the Internet Steering Committee. As early as<br class="">
June 2016, in the first meeting he chaired at <a href="http://CGI.br" class="">CGI.br</a>, after the change<br class="">
in command of the federal government, he declared that he was "receiving<br class="">
demands from small providers, content providers and investors" to change<br class="">
the composition of the body.<br class="">
<br class="">
The pressure to revise the strength of civil society in the committee<br class="">
grew, especially on the part of telecommunications operators, supporters<br class="">
of the government. In December, during the Internet Governance Forum in<br class="">
Mexico, organized by the United Nations, a group of civil society<br class="">
entities from more than 20 countries expressed concern and denounced<br class="">
attempts to weaken <a href="http://CGI.br" class="">CGI.br</a> by the Temer administration. In the first half<br class="">
of 2017, the government maneuvered to impose a standstill on behalf of a<br class="">
questionable "economy of resources".<br class="">
<br class="">
Martinhão and other members of the Kassab/Temer administration have also<br class="">
publicly defended the achievements of the Civil Internet Framework,<br class="">
proposing the easing of network neutrality and criticizing the need for<br class="">
users to consent to the processing of their personal data. In this<br class="">
context, the multi-sectoral composition of <a href="http://CGI.br" class="">CGI.br</a> has been fundamental<br class="">
for the defense of the postulates of the MCI and basic principles for<br class="">
the guarantee of a free, open and plural internet.<br class="">
<br class="">
For this reason, this Coalition - which brings together researchers,<br class="">
academics, developers, activists and consumer protection and freedom of<br class="">
speech entities - launched, during the last CGI electoral process, a<br class="">
public platform that called for the "strengthening of the Internet<br class="">
Steering Committee in Brazil, preserving its attributions and its<br class="">
multistakeholder character, as a guarantee of the multi-participatory<br class="">
and democratic governance of the Internet" in the country. After all,<br class="">
changing the CGI is strategic for the sectors that want to change the<br class="">
direction of Internet policies that have been implemented in the country.<br class="">
<br class="">
In this sense, considering the "Marco Civil", the multistakeholder<br class="">
character of the CGI and also the political moment that the country is<br class="">
going through - from an interim government of questionable legitimacy to<br class="">
undertake such changes - the Coalition on Network Rights demands the<br class="">
immediate cancellation this consultation.<br class="">
<br class="">
It is unacceptable that a process directly related to Internet<br class="">
governance is affected by a dubious public consultation without its<br class="">
guidelines having been discussed before, internally, by <a href="http://CGI.br" class="">CGI.br</a>. It is<br class="">
another example of the modus operandi of the administration that<br class="">
occupies the federal government and that has little appreciation for<br class="">
democratic processes. We will continue to denounce such attacks and seek<br class="">
support from different sectors, both inside and outside Brazil, against<br class="">
the dismantling of the Internet Steering Committee.<br class="">
<br class="">
August 8th, 2017<br class="">
Coalition on Network Rights<br class="">
Coalizão Direitos na Rede<br class="">
<a href="https://direitosnarede.org.br/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://direitosnarede.org.br</a><br class="">
<br class="">
--<br class="">
<br class="">
Carlos A. Afonso<br class="">
[emails são pessoais exceto quando explicitamente indicado em contrário]<br class="">
[emails are personal unless explicitly indicated otherwise]<br class="">
<br class="">
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