Dear friends, <div><br></div><div>The Internet Governance Forum's<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "> Internet Rights and Principles coalition has partnered with Association for Progressive Communications to work on a "Charter of Human Rights and Principles on the Internet".</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">I hope you'll take a few minutes out of your busy schedule sometime soon to help improve the document. The hope is to at least have a presentable draft in time for the Internet Governance Forum in mid-November, so that it can be shared during the forum for more discussion and further improvement.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Information about the collaborative charter-writing process can be found here: </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><a href="http://irc.wiki.apc.org/index.php/Main_Page">http://irc.wiki.apc.org/index.php/Main_Page</a></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">The draft charter is here (but please read the main page first before editing):</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><a href="http://irc.wiki.apc.org/index.php/Charter_of_Human_Rights_and_Principles_on_the_Internet">http://irc.wiki.apc.org/index.php/Charter_of_Human_Rights_and_Principles_on_the_Internet</a></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">It's a wiki - so all you need to do is sign up for an account and do the usual wiki-editing thing. Please feel free to share it with colleagues in civil society, business, and government who you think would be in a position to make substantive contributions.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">If you have questions - technical, procedural, or substantive - please write to Robert Bodle (<a href="mailto:Robert_Bodle@mail.msj.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186); ">Robert_Bodle@mail.msj.edu</a>), who has kindly agreed to coordinate this multi-stakeholder, collaborative writing effort. </span></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Best,</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Rebecca</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br clear="all"></span></font><br>-- <br>Rebecca MacKinnon<br>Open Society Fellow | Co-founder, GlobalVoicesOnline.org<br>
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