[NCUC-DISCUSS] [bestbits] Net of Rights
Ayden Férdeline
hostime at gmail.com
Sat Mar 5 16:46:12 CET 2016
James, hi - We have an outreach event at 17:00 in the Ametyste room. If you
come along to this you'll be able to put some names to faces.
Ayden
On Saturday, 5 March 2016, KASWESHA <kaswesha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey friends! Hope all is well. Do we have anything for our group in the
> remaining part of today? I feel like resting early in the day. I thought I
> could physically meet some of you who are in Marrakech are busy
> participating. After the meeting in Diamant room I'm planning to go direct
> to the hotel called Eddakhla at old town big square that is where I slept
> yesterday.
>
> James Njoroge
>
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> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Stephanie Perrin <
> stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca');>>
> wrote:
>
>> Alac has been working on subtitles, I was on a meeting where they had a
>> pretty successful demo during a Naralo meeting, perhaps you should talk to
>> Glenn Mc Knight, it would be handy from an ICANN perspective if you used a
>> congruent platform....
>> (spoken by a person with zero technical knowledge on subtitling software)
>> Stephanie
>>
>>
>> On 2016-03-05 5:14, Niels ten Oever wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ayden,
>>>
>>> Am looking into creating subtitles for Spanish and Portuguese but am
>>> still looking for more volunteers and languages.
>>>
>>> Which languages could you contribute to?
>>>
>>> Also: do you know what open source software is best to create subs?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Niels
>>>
>>> On 03/05/2016 09:00 AM, avri doria wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> That sounds like a great idea. Even the possibility of translation I
>>>> would assume.
>>>>
>>>> avri
>>>>
>>>> On 04-Mar-16 20:37, Ayden Férdeline wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Bravo, Niels!
>>>>>
>>>>> Congratulations on the premiere of this important film and also for
>>>>> sharing and streaming it without a DRM. I didn't see any closed
>>>>> captioning available, however, for those who might find the audio
>>>>> difficult to hear or who are learning to understand a non-native
>>>>> language and would find a transcript useful. If you need help with
>>>>> subtitles, I'd be happy to help out. We could create them in an open
>>>>> format like SRT so they needn't be 'burned' into your film.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ayden
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Niels ten Oever
>>>>> <lists at digitaldissidents.org
>>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lists at digitaldissidents.org');> <mailto:
>>>>> lists at digitaldissidents.org
>>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lists at digitaldissidents.org');>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Today, 4 March, ARTICLE 19 and Coding Rights are launching ‘Net of
>>>>> Rights’, a short film which explores the link between internet
>>>>> protocols
>>>>> and human rights online. The film will screen at 6pm at the
>>>>> Internet
>>>>> Freedom Festival.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please find the film Net of Rights here:
>>>>> https://hrpc.io/wp-content/uploads/videos/netofrights.io.mp4
>>>>>
>>>>> and the teaser here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://hrpc.io/wp-content/uploads/videos/netofrights.io_teaser.mp4
>>>>>
>>>>> If the teaser doesn't show in your browser, you can also use this
>>>>> link:
>>>>> https://vimeo.com/157722482
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the press release (also below):
>>>>> http://is.gd/kqYjc3
>>>>>
>>>>> and please get involved in the work at: https://hrpc.io/
>>>>>
>>>>> It is too-often assumed that there is no link between protocols
>>>>> (the
>>>>> standards which underpin the way the internet functions) and human
>>>>> rights, but this is simply not the case, as the film argues.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Internet aspires to be the global ‘network of networks’,
>>>>> providing
>>>>> connectivity for all users, at all times, for any content.
>>>>> Connectivity
>>>>> increases the capacity for individuals to exercise their rights,
>>>>> meaning
>>>>> that the architectural design of the internet is, necessarily,
>>>>> intertwined with the human rights framework.
>>>>>
>>>>> Promoting open, secure and reliable connectivity is essential for
>>>>> the
>>>>> rights to privacy, expression and assembly. But how are these
>>>>> concepts
>>>>> addressed at the protocol level? Without proper definition, the
>>>>> human
>>>>> rights-enabling characteristics of the internet are at risk.
>>>>>
>>>>> The role of human rights in Internet policy is slowly becoming
>>>>> part of
>>>>> the general discourse. Former United Nations (UN) Special
>>>>> Rapporteur on
>>>>> the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion
>>>>> and
>>>>> expression, Frank La Rue, explicitly spoke of the replationship,
>>>>> leading
>>>>> to the approval of the landmark resolution "on the promotion,
>>>>> protection
>>>>> and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet" at the UN Human
>>>>> Rights
>>>>> Council, and the resolution "The right to privacy in the digital
>>>>> age" at
>>>>> the UN General Assembly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mapping the relationship between human rights and internet
>>>>> protocols and
>>>>> architectures is a new research challenge, which requires the
>>>>> development of a consistent methodology, bringing human rights
>>>>> experts
>>>>> together with the community of researchers and developers of
>>>>> Internet
>>>>> standards and technologies. The Human Rights Protocol Research
>>>>> Group is
>>>>> a group chartered to research how standards and protocols (the
>>>>> rules by
>>>>> which the internet functions) can enable, strengthen, or threaten
>>>>> human
>>>>> rights.
>>>>>
>>>>> The rights-enabling characteristics of the Internet will be
>>>>> increasingly
>>>>> endangered if they are not properly defined, described and
>>>>> protected as
>>>>> such. And, indeed, the other way around: by not protecting these
>>>>> characteristics, we risk loss of functionality and connectivity
>>>>> in the
>>>>> architecture of the internet itself.
>>>>>
>>>>> To protect human rights online, it will be necessary to explore
>>>>> and map
>>>>> the link between rights and protocol, ensuring the survival of a
>>>>> decentralized and collaborative internet, in which freedom of
>>>>> expression
>>>>> through unimpeded connectivity remains a central principle, and a
>>>>> guiding force.
>>>>>
>>>>> Conceived in partnership between ARTICLE 19 and Coding Rights,
>>>>> this film
>>>>> aims to highlight the importance of addressing this issue within
>>>>> the
>>>>> technical community and human rights advocates, but also to feed
>>>>> into
>>>>> the work of the Human Rights Protocol Considerations research
>>>>> group
>>>>> (HRPC) in the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). This group is
>>>>> currently mapping the relation between human rights and Internet
>>>>> protocols, in order to strengthen the Internet as a human rights
>>>>> enabling environment, in which freedom of expression through
>>>>> unimpeded
>>>>> connectivity remains a central principle and guiding force.
>>>>>
>>>>> All the best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Niels
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Niels ten Oever
>>>>> Head of Digital
>>>>>
>>>>> Article 19
>>>>> www.article19.org <http://www.article19.org>
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