Hi everyone,
Today on
international Human Rights Day, the Internet
Society and
Freedom House announced a new partnership to strengthen their collaboration
for an Internet that enables opportunities and that is based on the respect of fundamental rights.
The Internet Society’s core vision is an "Internet for Everyone"; we have always invested, and will continue to invest, our efforts in connecting the unconnected. But access is only the first step towards an Internet of Opportunities, where people can trust
their online experience and where their fundamental rights are respected and promoted online.
Over the past few years, the issue of Human Rights online has become one of the top priorities in the Internet governance landscape, both at the global and local levels. Next week, Human Rights will be one of the central themes of the UN General Assembly event
that will take stock of the 10 years of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
You
can learn more on WSIS here.
This partnership will allow us to complement our technical expertise and global network of members and Chapters with unmatched data and analysis capacity generated over the past few years by Freedom House, in particular as part of their
Freedom
on the Net report series.
Stay tuned for more details on this partnership in 2016!
Nicolas Seidler
Policy Advisor
Internet Society
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