[NCUC-DISCUSS] Net of Rights
KASWESHA
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Sat Mar 5 11:51:40 CET 2016
Good morning everyone. Currently I'm at the meeting room Roseraie I suggest
that for is at the conference venue we organise a brief introduction
meeting and we are after that taxing trip to Marrakech
James Njoroge
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On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Stephanie Perrin <
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 <mailto: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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