Freedom unesco-2011
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The document explores the evolving legal and regulatory landscape affecting freedom of expression on the internet, highlighting the influence of various technical innovations and socio-cultural shifts. Key findings indicate that new online nations are fostering a global culture of expression, privacy, and trust, although challenges such as censorship and digital divides persist. It emphasizes the need for updated policies and ongoing research to better understand and support freedom of expression in the context of the changing internet ecology.
Freedom unesco-2011
- 1. Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression:The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the InternetWilliam H. Dutton, Anna Dopatka, Michael Hills, Ginette Law,andVictoria NashOxford Internet Institute (OII) University of Oxford Presentation for Launch Event, UNESCO, Fontenoy Building, Paris, 30 May 2011.
- 2. UNESCO Request to Critically Review Status of Research on Freedom of Expression: Some Pioneering Studies
- 3. More Advocacy v Research
- 4. Politically Sensitive (e.g., the McBride Commission established in 1977)
- 5. Too Narrowly Focused, e.g., Internet Content Filtering
- 6. The Internet Reconfigures Access in Ways that Can Empower Networked Individuals
- 7. Ecology of Choices Shaping Free Expression
- 8. Digital RightsAccess – Freedom of ConnectionFreedom of ExpressionCensorshipEquality (media literacy)Freedom of InformationPrivacy & Data Protection
- 9. Technical Innovations:Worldwide Diffusion of Technologies of ConnectionInternet World Wide WebMobile and Mobile Internet
- 10. Percentage of Internet Users Across Regions of the World
- 11. Regions as Percentage of the Worldwide Population of Users
- 12. The Global Internet Values Project*Collaboration of OII, INSEAD, and comScore for the World Economic Forum (WEF)
- 14. Completed by 5,400 Adult Internet Users
- 15. Conducted from Oct-Nov 2010
- 16. 13 countries: Australia/New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, India, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, the United States, and the United Kingdom*Dutta, S., Dutton, W. H. and Law, G. (2011), The New Internet World: A Global Perspective on Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Trust and Security Online. New York: The World Economic Forum, April. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1810005
- 22. Emerging Pattern of Findings Supporting Conception of a ‘New Internet World’
- 23. Four General Themes and Findings New online nations are becoming the dominant nations in the Internet world; Users are developing a global Internet culture: sharing similar concerns, values and attitudes toward expression, privacy, trust, and security; Newly adopting countries are as liberal, if not more so, in their attitudes, such as support for freedom of expression; Users in the newly adopting nations are more innovative in their patterns of use, e.g., social networking.
- 24. Technical Innovations: Technologies of DisconnectionMeta-analysis of Internet filtering surveys: Global growth of filtering
- 25. No single country
- 26. Variety of Objectives:
- 27. Political
- 28. Moral
- 29. CommercialBUT: Potential to Decentralize, e.g., Home Hubs
- 30. Industrial Policy and Regulation Technology-led Industrial Strategies, support economic growth
- 31. ICT for Development (ICT4D)
- 33. IPR: Copyright
- 34. IPR: PatentsIndustrial Policy and RegulationCopyright enforcement: ‘Three Strikes’ policy in France
- 35. Digital Economy Act (UK)Countered by: The Pirate Party
- 36. Brazilian Copyright Reform BillCopyright Mot
- 37. User-Centric PolicyChild Protection Policy
- 40. Prevention of Hate Speech
- 43. Internet PolicyInternet Governance and Regulation
- 44. Domain Names and Numbers
- 45. Net Neutrality
- 46. Licensing, Regulation of Service Providers: Intermediaries
- 47. Internationalised Top-level Domain NamesInternet Policy:Standard-setting: Identity
- 50. Counter-RadicalisationNational SecurityBlackberry UseWikiLeaks: Confidentiality-Security
- 51. Ecology of Choices Shaping Free Expression
- 52. Encouraging Themes for Freedom of Expression Internet Empowering Networked Individuals – Enhancing Freedom of Connection and Expression
- 53. Worldwide Diffusion andSupport for Expressionin a New Internet World
- 54. Major Issues of Human Rights are Increasingly Being Centered on the Internet and Web
- 55. The Internet Space is not the ‘Wild West’ – much regulation existsCountervailing ThemesFreedom of Expression is not an Inevitable Outcome of Technological Innovation
- 56. Continuing Global and Local Digital Divides in Access and the Production of Content
- 57. Global Increase in Content Filtering and Censorship
- 58. Freedom Shaped by Choices in the Wider Ecology of Actors, Objectives and Policies
- 59. Use of Inappropriate Models for Internet Governance and Regulation threatens to Foster ‘Over-Regulation’, e.g., fear or complacency of the ‘Old Internet World’Directions for PolicyReduce Digital Divides Broaden Perspectives on Freedom of Expression – the Larger Legal and Regulatory Ecology − ways to democratize content controlRenew and Inform Debates over:Appropriate Regulatory Models for the InternetGlobal and Local Approaches to Internet GovernanceWays to Inform the Public and Elected Officials about the Internet and Legal-Regulatory Issues
- 60. Renew Research on Freedom of ExpressionMore Systematic and Sustained Monitoring ofInnovations in, and Use of, Internet FilteringNeed to Track an Expanded Range of Policies and Regulatory Issues in this EcologyCritically Explore Relationships between Freedom of Expression and other Core Values and RightsStudy Impacts on the Ground, including Public Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behavior Understand Assaults on Freedom of Expression as efforts to protect other Values and Interests
- 61. Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression:The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the InternetWilliam H. Dutton, Anna Dopatka, Michael Hills, Ginette Law,andVictoria NashOxford Internet Institute (OII) University of Oxford Presentation for Launch Event, UNESCO, Fontenoy Building, Paris, 30 May 2011.