Status:
IGF Theme(s) for workshop:
- Security, Openness and Privacy
- Access and Diversity
Main theme question address by workshop: Security, Openess and Privacy: questions 1,3,4,5. Access abd diversity: questions 1,2,4
Concise description of the proposed workshop:
There are countries where the state is heavily restricting the people's access to information and limiting means of private and public communications. Some countries are universally understood to be under heavy censorship while many, either in truth or in defense, claim there is no problematic state intervention. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss deeply the social consequences censorship has. We take in messages from people who hve lived their lives under pressuring regimes and also from people who live in countries where they simply worry that the amount of censorship is increasing. We cover issues such as:
Is the stereotypic thinking of new Western countries not threatening freedom of speech true?
Why are many problematic countries clumped together?
What primary methods are there to overcome state censorship?
How does the attitude towards surveillance and censorship differ in different cultures and age groups?
How does censorship affect the worldview of people who have lived all their lives under such a oppressive system?
After mapping the real-life repercussions of censorship, we finally face the most important thing: what can we all learn from countries which have lived through a period of heavy restrictions to information so that we will not repeat their mistakes in IG.
Background Paper:
Name of the organiser(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder groups:
Have you, or any of your co-organisers, organised an IGF workshop before?: Yes
Please provide link(s) to workshop(s) or report(s):
I have been organizing the Youth Coalition on Internet Governance Dynamic Coalition and related workshops.
IGF11 workshop Challenging Myths about Young People and the Internet: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=…
A general statement about YCIG-related events at IGF2011 can be found here: http://www.ycig.org/index.php/2011/10/2011-ycig-statement/
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Slim Amamou, civil society, TN (ex Secretary of State for Youth and Sport)
Maiju Perälä, civil society, lawyer, FI
Birgitta Jónsdóttir, government, MP, IS
Tapani Tarvainen, academia, FI
<looking for a governmental representative from at least Americas>
<youth/activist from Africa, Asia>
Name of Remote Moderator(s):
Yrjö Länsipuro