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Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum 

-      With a call to occupy the Internet



PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015. 



A group of civil society organisations from around the world has announced the 
Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate bottom-up perspectives 
on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration from the World Social Forum, and 
its clarion call, 'Another World is possible', the group seeks to draw urgent 
attention to the increasing centralization of the Internet for extraction of 
monopoly rents and for socio-political control, asserting that 'Another 
Internet is possible'!   



The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the 
recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on global 
Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the  'Net Mundial 
Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social Forum will be a 
participatory and bottom-up space for all those who believe that the global 
Internet must evolve in the public interest; a direct parallel to the launch of 
the World Social Forum in 2001 as a counter initiative to the WEF.



The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and social 
movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that challenges the 
entrenched elite interests that currently control how the Internet is managed. 
The Internet Social Forum's preparatory process will kick off during the World 
Social Forum to take place in Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015.  The Internet 
Social Forum itself is planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.



“While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the future of 
the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives should not drown out 
those of ordinary people who have no access to the privileged terrain WEF 
occupies – in the end it is this wider public interest that must be paramount 
in governing the Internet. We are organising the Internet Social Forum to make 
sure their voices can't be ignored in the corridors of power,” said Norbert 
Bollow, Co-Coordinator of the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups 
involved in the initiative. 



The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as a space 
to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be underpinned by values of 
democracy, human rights and social justice. It will stand for participatory 
policy making and promote community media. It will seek an Internet that is 
truly decentralized in its architecture and based on people's full rights to 
data, information, knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled 
the world community to generate and share. 



Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee’s call for a ‘Magna Carta for 
the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop a People's 
Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving all concerned social 
groups and movements, in different areas, from techies and ICT-for-development 
actors to media reform groups, democracy movements and social justice 
activists. 



This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World Summit on 
the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in December. As a 
full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a critical global 
political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and 2005, the Internet, and what 
it means socially, has undergone a paradigm shift. The WSIS witnessed active 
engagement of civil society and technical groups as well as of business. 
However, currently, there seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this 
UN-led initiative on governance issues of the information society and Internet 
in favour of private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net 
Mundial Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining primarily a 
people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil society's engagement 
towards the WSIS +10 review. 



The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing the 
Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the immediate 
future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all over the world to 
join this initiative, and participate in developing a People's Internet 
Manifesto.



Just Net Coalition, Global

P2P Foundation, Global

Transnational Institute, Global

Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin America)

Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional

Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Regional

Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey

Knowledge Commons, India

Open-Root/EUROLINC, France

SLFC.in, India

CODE-IP Trust, Kenya

GodlyGlobal.org, Switzerland

Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training, Canada

IT for Change, India

Association for Proper Internet Governance, Switzerland

Computer Professionals Union, Philippines

Free Press, USA

Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines

Other News, Italy

Free Software Movement of India

Global_Geneva, Switzerland

Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), Italy

All India Peoples Science Network, India

Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA



 Please contact us at secretar...@internetsocialforum.net for further 
information or clarification. 



Or the following regional contacts:



Europe                 Norbert Bollow          Email: 
norbe...@internetsocialforum.net

Asia                     Rishab Bailey             Email: 
rish...@internetsocialforum.net

Africa                  Alex Gakaru               Email: 
al...@internetsocialforum.net

North America     Micheal Gurstein       Email: miche...@internetsocialforum.net

South America     Sally Burch                Email: 
sal...@internetsocialforum.net







   







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