[AfrICANN-discuss] [DigAfrica] Global Commission on Internet Governance

Kawsu Sillah kawsu.sillah at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 14:46:05 UTC 2015


Dear all,

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I am sharing this with the view that a few of us might be interested to
read or find it useful.

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Subject: [DigAfrica] Global Commission on Internet Governance
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Dear Friends at Chifu's request I am forwarding to you the communique
below. I hope it will stimulate discussion. All too often the tech
community avoids these issues and people without a tech background are
scared because of the tech dimension. We need more Africans debating these
issues.

Communiqué

Global Commission on Internet Governance: Digital privacy and trust through
new global social compact
The Hague, Netherlands - April 15, 2015 - The Global Commission on Internet
Governance (GCIG) advocates that governments, in collaboration with
individuals, private corporations and technical community stakeholders,
adopt measures in a new global social compact to achieve digital privacy
and trust.
Toward a Social Compact for Digital Privacy and Security was presented at a
press conference today by Carl Bildt, chair of the GCIG and former prime
minister of Sweden, on behalf of the GCIG. The Commission met April 14 and
15 in The Hague, Netherlands.

Why a New Social Compact?
It is now essential that governments, collaborating with all other
stakeholders, take steps to build confidence that the right to privacy of
all people is respected on the Internet. It is essential at the same time
to ensure the rule of law is upheld. The two goals are not exclusive;
indeed, they are mutually reinforcing. Individuals and businesses must be
protected from the misuse of the Internet by terrorists and cyber criminal
groups, as well as from the overreach of governments and businesses that
collect and use private data.

Core Elements of the New Social Compact
The following are the core elements that the Commission advocates in
building the new social compact:

1. Privacy and Personal Data Protection as a Fundamental Human Right:
Fundamental human rights, including privacy and personal data protection,
must be protected online. Threats to these core human rights should be
addressed by governments and other stakeholders acting both within their
own jurisdiction and in cooperation.

2. The Necessity and Proportionality of Surveillance:
Interception of communications, collection, analysis and use of data over
the Internet by law enforcement and government intelligence agencies should
be for purposes that are openly specified in advance, authorized by law
(including international human rights law) and consistent with the
principles of necessity and proportionality. Purposes such as gaining
political advantage or exercising repression are not legitimate.

3. Legal Transparency and Redress for Unlawful Surveillance:
Laws should be publicly accessible, clear, precise, comprehensive and
non-discriminatory, openly arrived at and transparent to individuals and
businesses. Robust, independent
mechanisms should be in place to ensure accountability and respect for
rights. Abuses should be amenable to appropriate redress, with access to an
effective remedy provided to individuals whose right to privacy has been
violated by unlawful or arbitrary surveillance.

4. Safeguarding Online Data and Consumer Awareness:
Businesses or other organizations that transmit and store data using the
Internet must assume greater responsibility to safeguard that data from
illegal intrusion, damage or destruction. Users of paid or so-called "free
services" provided on the Internet should know about, and have some choice
over, the full range of commercial use on how their data will be deployed,
without being excluded from the use of software or services customary for
participation in the information age. Such businesses should also
demonstrate accountability and provide redress in the case of a security
breach.

5. Big Data and Trust:
There is a need to reverse the erosion of trust in the Internet brought
about by the non- transparent market in collecting, centralizing,
integrating and analyzing enormous quantities of private information about
individuals and enterprises -- a kind of private surveillance in the service
of "big data," often under the guise of offering a free service.

6. Strengthening Private Communications:
Consistent with the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
communications should be inherently considered private between the intended
parties, regardless of communications technology. The role of government
should be to strengthen the technology upon which the Internet depends and
its use, not to weaken it.

7. No Back Doors to Private Data:
Governments should not create or require third parties to create "back
doors" to access data that would have the effect of weakening the security
of the Internet. Efforts by the Internet technical community to incorporate
privacy-enhancing solutions in the standards and protocols of the Internet,
including end-to-end encryption of data in transit and at rest, should be
encouraged.

8. Public Awareness of Good Cyber-Security Practices:
Governments, working in collaboration with technologists, businesses and
civil society, must help educate their publics in good cyber-security
practices. They must also collaborate to enhance the training and
development of the software workforce globally, to encourage creation of
more secure and stable networks around the world.

9. Mutual Assistance to Curtail Transborder Cyber Threats:
The transborder nature of many significant forms of cyber intrusion
curtails the ability of the target state to interdict, investigate and
prosecute the individuals or organizations responsible for that intrusion.
States should coordinate responses and provide mutual assistance to curtail
threats, to limit damage and to deter future attacks.

The GCIG is a two-year initiative launched by the Centre for International
Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Chatham House. With twenty-nine
commissioners and thirty-six research advisers, the GCIG will produce a
comprehensive stand on the future of multi-stakeholder Internet governance,
with a final report in 2016. To read the entire GCIG statement Toward a
Social Compact for Digital Privacy and Security, please visit:
www.ourinternet.org. Follow the Commission on Twitter @OurInternetGCIG.

Dorothy K. Gordon
Director-General
Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT
Mobile: 233 265005712
Direct Line: 233 302 683579
Website: www.aiti-kace.com.gh
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