Human rights impact assessment

[Rafik Dammak]

Hi Rebecca,

definitely we should bring up it through GNSO council, we should discuss
about that. for WG, there are some like those about Whois for example.

Rafik

2009/11/1 Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com>

> Andrew, yes, Google is a founding member of the Global Network Initiative
> and is working with GNI to develop a human rights assessment process for
> Internet companies and hopefully the ICT sector more broadly. Perhaps ICANN
> staff might be more willing to listen to GNI members Google, Yahoo, and
> Microsoft than to non-commercial users.
>
> Milton, glad you like the idea. If our GNSO councilors are interested in
> bringing this up through the GNSO, or if anybody participating in the
> various working groups wants to use the GNI principles on privacy and free
> expression as a benchmark for whether basic standards are being met on that
> front please let me know what other contacts/info you need.
>
> Meanwhile I will plan to submit something with this suggestion in the DAG
> public comments as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Rebecca
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Andrew A. Adams <a.a.adams at reading.ac.uk>wrote:
>
>> milton Mueller wrote:
>> > This is a fantastic idea, Rebecca.
>> > As you may know, some of us have been trying to get free expression
>> concerns
>> > as an officially recognized part of ICANN's agenda for some time (back
>> to
>> > the beginning, in fact).
>> > We learned during the new gTLD policy making process (e.g., the
>> "morality
>> > and public order" section) how difficult that will be and we have
>> learned
>> > that the U.S. government is completely indifferent, at least the
>> Commerce
>> > Department that controls relations with ICANN.
>>
>> I recently attended a talk by David Drummond, Chief Legal Officer and
>> Senior
>> VP at Google, on Technology and Freedom of Speech. He (and by extension,
>> Google, since he was speaking officially for the company) have a policy of
>> promoting freedom of speech quite broadly. They might be a useful ally in
>> such an effort.
>>
>
>
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