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MISTICA: CMSI: Commumications Rights Summit

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 13:54:19 AST

>Communications Rights Summit
>Concept Paper
>
>This describes a proposal to hold a one-day Communications Rights Summit,
>alongside the World Summit on the Information Society in December
>2003. The initiative is being launched by the CRIS campaign
>(Communication Rights in the Information Society: www.crisinfo.org) in
>collaboration with other civil society networks and organisations, and is
>actively building a broader partnership.
>
>The Rationale:
>The focus of the conference is specific: In the context of human rights in
>general, it focuses on information and communication rights issues that
>surround the emergence of an information society.
>
>The WSIS itself is constrained in the manner and depth to which these
>issues can be addressed. Many of them are debated and acted upon in other
>international organisations and entities. Yet it is essential that all be
>considered as a coherent, and interrelated, set of concerns. Indeed, in
>all likelihood they will determine which kind of information society
>emerges, and how the benefits will be realised and distributed.
>
>The Summit and associated events offers a forum to explore these, and
>consider options for addressing them.
>
>Goals:
>Its goals are:
>
>� To debate, explore and define the many dimensions of information
>and communication rights that must underpin any information society if it
>is to enrich the lives of all people.
>� To formulate a succinct statement that:
>o notes existing human rights relating to information and
>communication;
>o sets down that the conditions and environment necessary for these
>to be exercised, in practice, by people;
>o Explores the obstacles to achieving such an environment, and
>identifies the priority areas for action and intervention.
>� To engage widespread participation in a set of voluntary and
>collaborative actions to implement these rights in a manner that is
>meaningful to people in their everyday lives, and to define what follow up
>to this first Summit would be appropriate.
>
>Participation:
>The Summit is an open event welcoming those in civil society, governments
>and intergovernmental organisations, and private sector, who recognise the
>need to address these issues in the context of the information society and
>wish to work together to achieve the goals.
>
>Modalities:
>The event, with a duration of one day, will take place alongside the first
>WSIS Summit in December 2003. It will be the culmination of a series of
>workshops, thematic debates, drafting activities, online events and so
>forth, designed to ensure a thorough debate on the issues. The process
>will take advantage both of events surrounding the WSIS Summit itself, and
>of other events including the WSIS PrepCom 3, international gatherings,
>including those of civil society. It will be supported be publications,
>and electronic fora.
>
>The Communications Rights Summit is thus grounded not only within the WSIS
>process but also within ongoing civil society processes and discourse.
>
>For information contact Se�n � Siochr� [email protected]; Myriam
>Horngren: [email protected]

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