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<p>Hello advisors. Here is the text that I have submitted to the
Global Digital Compact survey on our behalf:</p>
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<pre class="western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Preamble:</font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Internet policy is not about technology but about socio-economic development. </font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Today all policy is Internet policy. </font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">The future of governance in the digital age is at stake .</font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">To ensure that the digital commons is preserved as a global public good, the following principles must be respected:</font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">-- Access to the internet should be a basic human right. Everyone must be able to use and benefit from it regardless of location or socioeconomic status. </font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">-- Internet governance must proceed via a multistakeholder model which includes civil society and endusers as equal partners with government, technical and commercial/industrial groups. Accountability and transparency in a grass roots, bottom-up decision making process is essential.</font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">-- The internet must continue to be worldwide and interoperable, a free and open space for all, where ideas can be shared without censorship or discrimination. </font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">-- Community/local ownership of facilities should be recognized as a model of delivery that enables grassroots governance and socio-economic development</font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">-- The cultural, linguistic, and social diversity of users must be reflected in policy and practice</font></font>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Key comittments:</font></font></pre>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Digital culture
is
emerging from a relational worldview founded on the principles
governing interdependence in open and self-organizing systems.
The
best place to act in applying principles for governance as
self-organization is neither national nor global. It is local
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reflecting the interaction of individuals and the communities
of
interest and practice they inhabit. </font></font>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New
Roman, serif"><font size="3">Understanding
Internet governance as an ecology mirrors a shift in our
understanding both of governance and of the significance of
community
within it. All stakeholders must recognize and respect the
significance of community and the power contained therein. As
a
community of users, Telecommunities Canada is committed to
ensuring
that all Canadians are able to participate in community-based
communications and electronic information services by
promoting and
supporting local community network initiatives.</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New
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