Internet Rights

The Dialogue Forum on Internet Rights 2 (DFIR2), which will be held on 24 October, is meant as a follow-up to the first edition of this initiative, which took place in Rome in 2007. Its aim is to keep up the international discussion process – officially launched by Italy, together with other actors, during the Athens IGF – to define a shared set of principles able to steer the democratic and inclusive development of the Internet (the so-called Internet Bill of Rights or Internet Rights Code).

The first edition of the Forum, organized together with the United Nations, featured participants from 70 countries and 53 governmental delegations. During the last IGF in Rio de Janeiro, it obtained an acknowledgment from the United Nations and registered the interest of many Countries, in particular Brazil, with whom Italy signed a Joint Declaration.

On this basis, we trust that DFIR2 will bring about further adhesions to this initiative and new formal commitments by Governments and other stakeholders in support of the process of defining Internet rights.
The Forum will be opened by the Minister for Public Administration and Innovation, Renato Brunetta, and by the President of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, Renato Soru. A panel session dedicated to the present situation and future developments of the Net will follow.

The afternoon session will be focused on international experiences related to the themes of Internet rights and initiatives connected to the Internet Bill of Rights. Both panels will be followed by an open debate.
The results of the DFIR2 works will be presented at the next United Nations Internet Governance Forum meeting, which will take place in Hyderabad, in December 2008.
The official languages of the meeting will be English and Italian.

Programme - Dialogue Forum on Internet Rights 2
24 October 2008 - Cagliari, Sardinia
Manifattura Tabacchi Viale Regina Margherita, 33

08:30 Registration

09:15 Welcome addresses

• Emilio Floris, Mayor of Cagliari
• Giacomo Spissu, President of Council of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia
• Renato Brunetta, Minister for Public Administration and Innovation
• Renato Soru, President of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia

10:00 The Internet Bill of Rights: present and future

• Shri A. Raja, Cabinet Minister for Communications and Information Technology of India
• Markus Kummer, Executive Coordinator to the UN Secretary General for the World Summit on the Information Society
• Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media (Video message)
• Claudio Prado, Former Head of the Department of Digital Culture, Ministry of Culture of Brazil
• Thomas Schneider, Chairperson of the Council of Europe Group of Specialists on Human Rights in the Information Society
• Stefano Rodotà, Professor of Civil Law at University of Rome Sapienza
• Walter De Brouwer, Chief Executive Officer of One Laptop per Child Association Europe

11:30 Open discussion

15:00 The Internet Bill of Rights: international cases comparison
Introduction: Claudia Padovani, Professor of International Communication at Padoa University
Moderator: Juan Carlos de Martin, Director, Nexa Center for Internet & Society

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  Philippe Aigrain, Member of the Board of Directors of the Software Freedom Law Center
• Frédéric Donck, Director of Public Policy of Internet Society
• Stéphane Grégoire, Legal Counsel, Forum des Droits de l’Internet
• Roberto Gaetano, Vice-Chairman Board of President of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
• Stavros Lambrinidis, Vice-Chairman Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of European Parliament
• Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza, Members of the Dynamic Coalition on Internet Bill of Rights

17:00 Open discussion

18:30 Closing remarks

Links

• DFIR Italy 2007
• IGF 2008
• Dynamic Coalition on the Internet Bill of Rights