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WHO WE ARE:

“Internet Bill of Rights” (IBR) is a Dynamic Coalition that has set out to make Rights on the Internet and their related duties, specified from the point of view of individual users, a central theme of the Internet Governance debate held in the IGF context.

OUR MISSION:

Responding to the IGF’s mandate for multi-stakeholderism, the Coalition welcomes and indeed explicitly seeks participants from all stakeholder groups, including individuals, civil society groups, the academic sector, governments, intergovernmental organizations, the technical community, and the private sector.

Our mission is as follows:

 * Bring awareness and promote fundamental human and civil rights and liberties on the internet;
 * Identify ways in which these rights and liberties can be translated on the Internet, and evaluate the applicability of existing legislation;
 * Promote the addressing of issues of human and civil rights in policy-making proposals by all stakeholders;
 * Promote the specification of how the existing rights can be applied and what they practically imply in the context of new ICT technologies;
 * Identify ways in which new rights and principles deriving from the innovations caused by the Internet can be defined, agreed and promoted when necessary;
 * Seek to identify measures for the protection and enforcement of these rights;
 * Seek to engage the various stakeholders within the Coalition’s mission and express the Coalition’s interest to work with them.

We believe that a lot of work done for and around the IGF is thematically overlapping. Therefore the IBR coalition wants to be first and foremost a platform facilitating collaboration and dovetailing the work of the Dynamic Coalitions especially as they relate to Rights on the Internet. It wants to build a collection and showcase for the federated results of all the Dynamic Coalitions from the IGF.

It sets out especially to promote a process and instruments to frame and enforce Rights in the Internet.

We strongly believe that the UDHR is the basis for our work and we should build on all the existing work that has been done in this field. We therefore ask you to contribute to the collection of information and links to documents, projects and organizations we have started in our wiki, and contribute the results of this work to the platform.

Hence the Bill of Rights Platform will in fact be made of a set of several documents, some existing, some new - some substantial, some procedural or related to enforcement.

For the moment we foresee the platform as a toolkit comprised of three elements:

 - one first part is meant to illustrate and translate from a right to how we can enjoy this right online. This should promote a common understanding of what one's rights on the internet are, including clear guidelines on how these rights play out in specific everyday activities conducted on the Internet by ordinary people (sending and receiving emails, publishing content, partcipating in online discussions...).

 - a second important part is a collection of existing instruments, and how they are applied in today's legislative practice (a database of precedents). This is meant as a tool for layers and policy makers etc. to get informed and compare solutions and application. It would also serve as a Internet Rights Watch giving publicity and media attention to victims. This part of the IBR platform might also become a clearing house where users can find out who they can contact to enforce their rights.

 - thirdly the individual users are meant to benefit from a translation and standardization of the results of all the dynamic coalitions into layman terms and even graphical standards that can communicate effectively what rights are guaranteed (similarly to Creative Commons icons).

Inside the IBR framework is space for one of these documents to be a "Bill of Rights" which can be endorsed and signed by institutions as well as individuals, providing one further step that starts from the UDHR and other basic human rights documents, puts them in context, and addresses new parts such as participatory rights and the multistakeholder principle (which is not recognized anywhere in terms of people-centred, founding documents), network principles such as network neutrality etc., and also (importantly) some high level objectives of the Internet and the Information Society.

VISION:

The Bill of Rights platform wants to be a decentralized, distributed, collective effort to advance Internet rights in all their dimensions, not only by promoting specific initiatives, but also by providing a conceptual and practical framework to support this effort. It also aims to raise the awareness on the importance of this endeavour to curtail the existing digital divides, to ensure the collective participation of all stakeholders, and to support an inclusive and solid development of the Internet which respects cultural and social diversities but adopts the global public interest as its main objective.