Dear all,
Following is a report from side event regarding communicagtion rights.
Toshi
JCA-NET
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toshimaru ogura
ogr@nsknet.or.jp
toshi@jca.apc.org
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Side evemt: Communication Rightrs
Reported by Toshi (JCANET)
ogr@nsknet.or.jp
Time: 1:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Number of participants: about 40-45
Number of speakers: 11
We discussed two major topics, people's security issues and civil
liberty issues from communication rights point of view. After these
two discussion, we adopted a resolution of the protest statement that
Japanese government does not invite Democtratic People's Republic of
Korea(North Korea). On final session, we had a video show of a Korean
documentary video, Rip It Up that was censored by KBS.
On first session, Seiko Hanochi gave basic view point of the human
security that should not depend on national security. Kimiko Ogasawara
and Nasubi pointed out that for the people such as migrant workers and
homeless people who were excluded from society, the Internet or ICT
society had few effective influence, rather They were left behind ICT
oriented social circumstances. Kiyokazu Koshida told about his NGO
activity in East Timor, in which most people were excluded from ICT
while UN delegates and very few English speaking people dominated
information. On the other hand Akinobu Itho explained his experiences
as a founder of Labornet Nippon, the Internet brought about new
possibility of solidarity movement among the workers who worked
separately. Also Yukihiro Yasuda pointed out new possibility of
people's alliance between Korea and Japan beyond language barrier by
using translation software.
Second session is regarding civil liberty issues. Nobuo Sakiyama
pointed out that filtering and rating software had characteristics
violating people's rights to know by exemplifying cases of the Internet
Association of Japan. Tadahisa Hamada explained overview of media
circumstances regarding civil society such as public access, media
literacy, library access and so on, and pointed out NGO should tackle
with filling the gap between the haves and have-nots. Patcha from
Korea explained Korean situation of civil liberty. He stressed ID card
system and other personal identity system had a serious violation of
people's privacy by exemplifying the repressive measure for labor
movements. Myoung-joon Kim from Korea gave an outline of public access
in Korea from TV and video to broad band based on his concrete
experiences regarding several cases. Bunmei Sato pointed out Japanese
Residents Register Network has nothing of personal data protection
measures based international standard. He explained the reason existed
family register system based on the Japanese emperor system which had
discriminative characteristics. Izumi Yonezawa pointed out gender that
Japanese ID system indicating gender based on sex in origin violated
people's privacy from her experiences as trans gender.
We reach the common understanding that so called digital divide is
deeply enbeded present social economic and political
structure. Although ICT is expected cultural diversity, unilateral
tendency such as standardization of English, westernization of ethics
and way of life is dominant. Privacy and civil liv\berty are not
protected automatically by using ICT. Rather we need more effort to
tackle with them.
Through these sessions, we reconfirm that communication rights as an
essential keyword has been acknowledged more and more. Adding to this,
as a new view point, people's security point of view is also important
for communication as human rights is pointed out.
After two session, we adopted following resolution regarding
not-participation of North Korea. Then we had a video show of Rip It Up.
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Schedule and agenda of side event (detail)
Session 1: People's security and communication rights
*Human Security and Communication: Seiko Hanochi (York University)
*Communication circumstances of migrant workers in Japan: Kimiko
Ogasawara (National Netowrk in Solidarity with Migrant Workers)
*Communication rights of workers and the unemployed: Akinobu Itoh(Labor Net Nippon)
*Day worker and the Internet: Nasubi (San-ya Workers' Welfare Center)
*Experiences of support movement for East Timor: Kiyokazu Koshida,
(Pacific Asia Resource Center)
*Experiences of Japan-Korean solidarity movements and possibility of
the Internet: Yukihiro Yasuda (Labor Net/JCA-NET)
Session 2: Privacy, civil liberty and communication rights
*Problems of Rating and filtering: Nobuo Sakiyama (CPSR/Japan)
*Media and information communication flow: Tadahisa
Hamada(JCAFE/JCA-NET)
*Civil liberty and privacy in Korea: Patcha (Korea, Jinbonet)
*Public access in Korea---from video to broad band: Kim Myung-joon
(Korea, Labor net)
*ID card and the Resident Registration Network: Bunmei Sato (writer)
*gender identity and the Resident Registration Network: Izumi Yonezawa
Resolution
Session 3
Video show: "Rip It Up", documentary of Korean movement against ID
card.