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Subi Chaturvedi at the High Level Leaders Meeting Session IGF Bali 2013 on Multistakeholderism in Internet Governance, Human Rights, Surveillance, Privacy and Freedom of Speech and Expression (FoE) - 2

SUBI CHATURVEDI
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At the HIGH LEVEL LEADERS MEETING- On Multistakeholderism in Internet Governance, Human Rights, Surveillance, Privacy, Freedom of Speech and Expression (FoE) - 2

High Level Leaders Meeting Session 3

EIGHTH INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM
BALI 2013

BUILDING BRIDGES – ENHANCING MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COOPERATION FOR GROWTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

21 OCTOBER 2013
12:00
High Level Leaders Meeting On Global Multistakeholder Collaboration For Achieving A Safe, Secure, And Tole Cyberspace: Enabling Growth And Sustainable Development Through Cyber Ethics
This session was held at the IGF in Bali on October 21, 2014

   >> SUBI CHATURVEDI: Good afternoon, Bali and the entire Internet Governance community. My name is Subi Chaturvedi, an Assistant Professor from India, School of Journalism and Communication for Women, which is part of the University, and I run a foundation called Media for Change.
   I am truly delighted and happy to be here. As the ancient Chinese, we live it interesting times, and these these truly are interesting times. I have been in Bali only three days, and as the IGF process stays on, moving from country to country, region to region each year, it is a learning experience for me.
   As someone who teaches students, young girls, we are asked difficult questions. As a student of culture and media, what I learned over the course of these two days were the three binding principles that Bali and its people espouse: Your responsibility and your duty to your community, to the nature and environment, and to God. I don't know how many of us are believers here, but I have been now engaged with this process for over a year, and as a young skeptic, I have now turned a believer. I am yet to see a process which is bottoms-up, multistakeholder, and truly inclusive. But I do believe that we are living in interesting times, indeed, and the challenges are many.
   We just ran a session in India, and that's where I come from, a country of 2.4 billion people, 840 million mobile users, and 160 million people using the Internet. The next billion people are going to come from regions such as these, developing countries and emerging economies.
   We talked about many seeds. Some of the seeds I do want to put forward for deliberation are content and local content and the availability of content, the preservation and protection of critical infrastructure, and the ideas and journey that slaves have taken from being slaves to citizens.
   When Lynn talked about less government and more governance and the roles that the Tunis agenda espouses for each of our stakeholders, the rightful roles, those are the things I want to plead and urge at this historical moment for the IGF to deliberate upon as a process to reinvent, reaffirm its commitments to inclusivity and multistakeholderism.
   As the world order stands today, each stakeholder is not equally privileged. We have to do more as governments and business to bring together knew voices, voices of change, voices that could represent a diversity, multiplicity, and plurality of opinions and voices. I want to see more young people in the room. I want to see more women. And I want to see more marginalized communities, voices which are often used by the government to bring in regulation.
   I also want to reaffirm what my dear friend, Jovan, said. For seeking to preserve something that we hold dear, let us not kill the object of our mutual affections. We do need to uphold current net values of openness, permissionless innovation. Surveillance might be a necessary evil as governments across the world would have us believe, but I do believe that we need more accountability and transparency, data storage for whom, by whom, and for how long.
   And on the question and the events for the next meeting, when meetings are held such as this, as a voice, a woman academic from a developing country, I do want to urge that the process is consultative and that the places to collect and bring together are mindful of the thought that they might take 30 hours to travel for people to get there. So we do want to believe that there can be a process, there can be a system, and yes, there are problems, but these are good problems to have, and we would all like to come together to solve them.
   I just want to end my conversation as this is what I see it as, with a small story. I was walking for the registration yesterday, and I met a couple of taxi drivers, and they asked me if I wanted a taxi. I said no. They asked me if I wanted one for tomorrow. I said no. They asked me if I would need one, if I might need one for day after. I said no. They said if you change your mind, you know where to find us.
   It is the resilience and the persistence of the Balinese people that I most appreciate today. I think the Internet is something that we hold dear, and if we hold it dear and if we think this is something that we have to cherish, Internet and freedom, we have to keep knocking for as long as it takes and as hard as it takes.
   Thank you so much. Thank you for listening, and thank you for giving me this opportunity.
   (Applause)
   >> KALAMULLAH RAMLI: Thank you, Ms. Chaturvedi.

THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE SESSION CAN BE FOUND HERE:

http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/2013-bali/igf-2013-transcripts/121-igf-2013/preparatory-process-42721/1446-high-level-leaders-meeting-session-3

(The following is the output of the real-time captioning taken during the Eighth Meeting of the IGF, in Bali, Indonesia. Although it is largely accurate, in some cases it may be incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. It is posted as an aid to understanding the proceedings at the session, but should not be treated as an authoritative record.)




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