The UN Forum will adopt the Cyberspace Declaration of Independence
These days, the first Internet Governance Forum (IGF) under the auspices of the UN is taking place in Athens. The decision to organize this forum was taken at the Tunis summit, when the international community had hope that the United States would give up control of the World Wide Web. However, in September this year, the US Department of Commerce officially announced that it extends patronage over the ICANN Internet Corporation for a few more years. Thus, the domain name registration system and the root DNS system remained under the jurisdiction of the United States.
However, it was too late to cancel the Internet Governance Forum. Athens was chosen as the venue. The summit takes place these days in one of the most luxurious hotels in the Greek capital. Despite the fact that conference participants were disconnected from the Internet , their thoughts still hover in the virtual space. A remarkable testimony to this is the decision to compile the “Bill of Rights of the Internet era” . It will become a kind of modern interpretation of the famous Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace , which John Barlow wrote more than ten years ago.
According to human rights activists who also take part in the work of the IGF, the new Bill should reconsider the rights that traditionally, for many centuries, belonged to sovereign states. Civil liberties that are listed in the Declaration of Human Rights should stay with us in the digital age. These postulates are supposed to be fixed in the new document. Actually, plans to adopt such a document have been heard from various public organizations for many years. Now for the first time they are close to being realized.
Work on the future Bill of Rights is covered on a wiki page specially created for this purpose. The project organizers expect that the new Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace will be compiled by the users themselves. This should be a large collective project, within the framework of which we ourselves will form our vision of the future.
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It should be added here that in the history of mankind there were two famous “Bill of Rights” : these are the English Bill of Rights of 1689 and the American Bill of Rights of 1791. Both of these documents directly affected the development of our civilization.
However, it was too late to cancel the Internet Governance Forum. Athens was chosen as the venue. The summit takes place these days in one of the most luxurious hotels in the Greek capital. Despite the fact that conference participants were disconnected from the Internet , their thoughts still hover in the virtual space. A remarkable testimony to this is the decision to compile the “Bill of Rights of the Internet era” . It will become a kind of modern interpretation of the famous Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace , which John Barlow wrote more than ten years ago.
According to human rights activists who also take part in the work of the IGF, the new Bill should reconsider the rights that traditionally, for many centuries, belonged to sovereign states. Civil liberties that are listed in the Declaration of Human Rights should stay with us in the digital age. These postulates are supposed to be fixed in the new document. Actually, plans to adopt such a document have been heard from various public organizations for many years. Now for the first time they are close to being realized.
Work on the future Bill of Rights is covered on a wiki page specially created for this purpose. The project organizers expect that the new Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace will be compiled by the users themselves. This should be a large collective project, within the framework of which we ourselves will form our vision of the future.
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It should be added here that in the history of mankind there were two famous “Bill of Rights” : these are the English Bill of Rights of 1689 and the American Bill of Rights of 1791. Both of these documents directly affected the development of our civilization.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4638/
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