[NCUC-DISCUSS] Net of Rights

Sat Mar 5 12:16:12 CET 2016

Hi James,
I am currently in the Diamant room at the GNSO Working Session. It's offering a
very informative, high-level overview of different working groups that are
taking place — quite a few of which I didn't realise were happening and some of
which I hope to follow more intimately over the coming months. If you have the
time it might be worthwhile stopping by.
Best wishes,
Ayden

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 10:51 AM, KASWESHA < kaswesha at gmail.com > wrote:
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
Cell-Phone +254 722 212171 or +254 721 274273

Before printing this mail make sure it is completely necessary. THE ENVIRONMENT
IS EVERY ONE'S BUSINESS.

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@ 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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