Internet Ungovernance Forum Brasil

sexta-feira, 12 de junho de 2015

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Sem privacidade não há democracia!
There is no democracy without privacy!
No hay democracia sin privacidad!
Il n'y a pas de démocratie sans la vie privée!

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Internet Ungovernance Forum Brasil is for those of us who demand free, secure, and open internet for all!

We're organizing the Internet Ungovernance Forum on November 2015, for everyone who demand that fundamental freedoms, openness, unity and net neutrality remain the building blocks of the Internet. Our objective is to talk about the real problems of the internet, how we can solve these and to chart a path for action.

Our forum will be in parallel to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2015 which will also be held in João Pessoa in november. Interested parties all around the world will join and follow this important event. We see that at IGF the most urgent problems of the Internet do not get the right attention. Due to the "multi-stakeholderism" format, the main perpetrators of many of the Internet's problems, governments and corporations, are getting representation in IGF they don’t deserve. Given these circumstances, we decided to take initiative to defend the Internet as we know it and to create a parallel space to raise the voices of civil society initiatives, activists and common people.

For us, the most vital problems today are censorship and freedom of speech; surveillance and privacy; excessive commercialization and super-monopolies; protective, prohibitionist and conservative governance approaches; awful governance examples as in the case of Brasil and the list goes on. Further, we do not see any of these problems independent of the greater political, social and economic contexts in which the Internet and related digital infrastructures are embedded in.

We want to reclaim the Internet as a fundamental infrastructure of our societies, cities, education, health, work, media, communications, culture and everyday activities.

We call on our participants to resist seeing the problems of the Internet as only technological and void of its materiality