Confronting the digital divide (1) – Internet access and/as human rights for minorities – WS 02 2016

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Session teaser

If human rights indeed should apply online as they do offline (UNHRC 2014) then what sort of techno-legal and sociocultural challenges arise in order to enable, and protect the rights of minorities (persons with disabilities, migrants, refugees or other disadvantaged or excluded groups) to access the internet and, once online, to be able to participate fully in the online environment?

Session description

This session is the first of two workshops looking at internet access and/as human rights. It will be addressing a range of social, legal, and technical issues at the intersection of human rights and internet access (including physical and mobile access points and the means to fully engage with, and enjoy services once online) for minorities, broadly defined. The session will consider themes such as:

  1. Perceptions around access for people with disabilities as a separate rather than an integral element to the intersection of technical and policy-based dimensions to human rights-based internet design and term of use; e.g. when and how policy agendas need to account for the technical aspects to ensuring that online content is accessible to people with various disabilities, and to account for these features as they are developed collaboratively by the technical community and people with disabilities.
  2. Regulatory and commercial environments as enabling, and reasons for when they may be obstructive; e.g. consider how to reconcile the needs and design requirements of disadvantaged communities with varying regulatory requirements around who funds and supports roll-out of applications and software that can mandate appropriate technical solutions respectively.
  3. Terms of Reference: Reconsidering what we mean by both “access” and “minorities” and their implicit relationship to human rights frameworks for internet governance: read more.
  4. Sociocultural and Techno-legal Contexts: Consider how wider contexts in which policy-makers, commercial and government service providers set agendas around access and terms of use. read more.
  5. The Future of Public access. How can access to the internet, and once online to a full range of goods and services be supported by public institutions and in public spaces? read more

Workshop 10 focuses on issues specific to how these issues relate to the access needs, internet uses, and emerging challenges once online for refugees during their journey and, once settled in Europe, for communities of newcomers.

Themes for this workshop, in tandem with Workshop 10, draw on the following submissions to the EuroDIG program: ID 11; 55; 60; 90; 30; 33; 41; 132

Keywords

refugeerights, internetaccess, netrights, humanrights, refugeesandminorities, digitaldivide, digitalinclusion, disabilityrights, publicaccess

Format

  1. Brief Opening remarks from invited participants followed by an Open Mic Discussion
  2. Time permitting, break-out groups and reporting back on 1-2 action points

Further reading

Until 30 April 2016. Links to relevant websites, declarations, books, documents. Please note we cannot offer web space, only links to external resources are possible.

People

Name, institution, country of residence

  • Focal Point: Marianne FRANKLIN, Internet Rights and Principles Coalition/Goldsmiths (University of London), UK
  • Key participants

Initial Remarks

  • Charles McCathie-Nevile (Yandex)
  • Julia Reda, (MEP)
  • IFLA Germany Representative (tbc)
  • Ruth Hennell (Youth)

Followed by Comments from

  • Valentina Pellizzer (One World Platform)
  • Olivier Crepin-Leblond (Technical Community)
  • Didier van der Meeren (Le Monde des Possibles ASBL)
  • Ruth Hennell (Youth/University Cardiff)
  • Minority Rights Group International Representative
  • Internet Society Representative
  • Moderator

(tbc) Marianne FRANKLIN, Internet Rights and Principles Coalition/Goldsmiths (University of London), UK

  • Remote moderator: Hanane Boujemi
  • Org team
  • Marianne Franklin, Internet Rights and Principles Coalition/Goldsmiths, UK
  • Frederick Donck, ISOC
  • Maarit Palovirta, ISOC
  • Wolf Ludwig, EuroDIG Programme Director
  • Julia Brungs, International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
  • Stuart Hamilton, IFLA
  • Stephen Wyber, IFLA
  • Julia Reda, MEP
  • Sebastian Raible, European Parliament
  • Mattias Bjarnemalm, European Parliament
  • Justus Roemeth, European Parliament
  • Olivier Crepin-Leblond, GIH
  • Didier van der Meeren, Le Monde des Possibles ASBL
  • Charles McCathie-Nevile, Yandex
  • Hanane Boujemi, Hivos/IRP Coalition)
  • Ruth Hennell, Youth/University Cardiff)
  • Dixie Hawtin, Minority Rights Group International)
  • Valentina Vale, One World Platform
  • Yuliya Morenets, TaC International
  • Reporter

Until 15 May 2016. The reporter takes notes during the session and formulates 3 (max. 5) bullet points at the end of each session that:

  1. are summarised on a slide and presented to the audience at the end of each session
  2. relate to the particular session and to European Internet governance policy
  3. are forward looking and propose goals and activities that can be initiated after EuroDIG (recommendations)
  4. are in (rough) consensus with the audience
  5. are to be submitted to the secretariat within 48 hours after the session took place

Please provide short CV of the reporter of your session at the Wiki or link to another source and contact the EuroDIG secretariat if you need help to find a reporter.

Current discussion

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Conference call. Schedules and minutes

Both Workshop 2 and 10 have emerged out of an interactive drafting and conferral process online

Supplementary discussions via the email list.

Mailing list

Contact: ws2@eurodig.org

Remote participation

Final report

Deadline 2016

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