Thanks for your comments Rob...
BTW, I'm curious about your statement I'm suspicious of the idea of justice in contemporary politics.. could you explain (BTW, based on discussion on the Community Informatics lists I'm likely changing the title to Internet Justice and Equity. (but my use of the IJ term was linked in my own mind with usages such as Environmental Justice <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_justice> Also based on similar comments I've changed several of the bullets from "rights" based to "rights and responsibilities" (the intention BTW is to build a bit of a platform to support intervention from a Community Informatics <http://en.wikipedia.org/Community_informatics> perspective in the variety of alphabet soup global Internet policy processes which have (partially because of Snowden) caught considerable fire in the last few months. (including the IGF, the Brazil "Summit", WSIS, MDG's, SDG's and all and all. As a product of communities and civil society rather than of business or government, a preliminary list of what we might call the elements of "Internet Justice" (recognizing that others would use different words with similar meanings for this purpose--Civic Intelligence, Internet Equity, even Digital Inclusion come to mind) would include rights to and responsibilities for: 1. fair and equitable means to access and use the Internet-affordable by all and designed and deployed in such a manner that al may realize the benefits of effective use 2. a fair and equitable distribution of the benefits of the Internet including the benefits of the widest possible access to information and the opportunities to communicate; the financial and other benefits that are accruing as a result of increased efficiencies and effectiveness of communications and information management; the benefits that result from users contribution to and participation in system development and content creation; and of the benefits that are rapidly accruing as a result of increased mastery over the elements of physical being in all its complexity and variety 3. an Internet usable without systematic interference by government authorities or corporate interests in the messages which are being communicated 4. an Internet usable in privacy and without unauthorized surreptitious surveillance 5. an Internet where there is the right, means and opportunity to access and share the full intellectual heritage of mankind without undue cost or hindrance 6. an Internet infrastructure which can be relied upon to ensure the maximum level of personal security and reliability 7. an Internet where there is the opportunity for end users to build or manage Internet infrastructure as and when it is needed 8. an Internet governed on the basis of democratic principles and processes but also one where those impacted by decisions have a role in making those decisions; and where there is a recognition that just as we need to invite and acknowledge the participation by the highest quality of disinterested information, advice and intervention in support of our physical environment so too in our technology and digital environments 9. an Internet of peers within whose architecture each node or end point is equal in power and privilege to every other end point. 10. an Internet which recognizes the local as the fundamental building block of all information and communications and where there is a balancing of the local and the global and particularly towards local inter-networking, local data traffic/ data exchange, local or localized Internet applications and with global understood as a 'federation of locals'. 11. an internet where everyone has an equal opportunity to connect and communicate in a language and culture of their choice Comments, suggestions, edits, additions, endorsements gratefully encouraged. #InternetJustice Best, Mike -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Myers Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 4:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] FW: Blogpost: Internet Justice: A Meme Whose Time Has Come On 01/12/13 05:02 PM, michael gurstein wrote: > Perhaps this may be of interest > > <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/internet-justice-a-meme-whose> http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/internet-justice-a-meme-whose > -time- > has-come/ > > <http://tinyurl.com/lwuyvdk> http://tinyurl.com/lwuyvdk > > Comments (preferably on the blogsite itself) greatfully welcomed. (I > see this as a bit of a living document and it has already been > somewhat modified based on feedback I've received. I'm suspicious of the idea of justice in contemporary politics but as a description of fair and equitable access to the net I think calling this a just Internet would be reasonable. I agree with the actual measures. 1 and 2 seem to be positive and negative liberty for the net respectively ( <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Concepts_of_Liberty#Positive_liberty> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Concepts_of_Liberty#Positive_liberty ). _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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