Presentation for book launch of 'Freedom of Connection - Freedom of Expression' (UNESCO 2011) at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 30 May 2011.

1. Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the Internet William H. Dutton, Anna Dopatka, Michael Hills, Ginette Law,andVictoria Nash Oxford Internet Institute (OII) University of Oxford Presentation for Launch Event, UNESCO, Fontenoy Building, Paris, 30 May 2011.

3. More Advocacy v Research

4. Politically Sensitive (e.g., the McBride Commission established in 1977)

6. The Internet Reconfigures Access in Ways that Can Empower Networked Individuals

7. Ecology of Choices Shaping Free Expression

8. Digital Rights Access – Freedom of Connection Freedom of Expression Censorship Equality (media literacy) Freedom of Information Privacy & Data Protection

9. Technical Innovations:Worldwide Diffusion of Technologies of Connection Internet World Wide Web Mobile and Mobile Internet

10. Percentage of Internet Users Across Regions of the World

11. Regions as Percentage of the Worldwide Population of Users

13. Online Global Survey

14. Completed by 5,400 Adult Internet Users

15. Conducted from Oct-Nov 2010

16. 13 countries: Australia/New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, India, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, the United States, and the United Kingdom*Dutta, S., Dutton, W. H. and Law, G. (2011), The New Internet World: A Global Perspective on Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Trust and Security Online. New York: The World Economic Forum, April. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1810005

22. Emerging Pattern of Findings Supporting Conception of a ‘New Internet World’

23. Four General Themes and Findings New online nations are becoming the dominant nations in the Internet world; Users are developing a global Internet culture: sharing similar concerns, values and attitudes toward expression, privacy, trust, and security; Newly adopting countries are as liberal, if not more so, in their attitudes, such as support for freedom of expression; Users in the newly adopting nations are more innovative in their patterns of use, e.g., social networking.

25. No single country

26. Variety of Objectives:

27. Political

28. Moral

29. CommercialBUT: Potential to Decentralize, e.g., Home Hubs

31. ICT for Development (ICT4D)

32. Competition Policy

33. IPR: Copyright

36. Brazilian Copyright Reform BillCopyright Mot

38. Decency: Pornography

39. Libel: Defamation

40. Prevention of Hate Speech

41. Consumer Protection: Fraud

42. …Copyright Mugley

44. Domain Names and Numbers

45. Net Neutrality

46. Licensing, Regulation of Service Providers: Intermediaries

49. Security against Malware

50. Counter-RadicalisationNational Security Blackberry Use WikiLeaks: Confidentiality-Security

51. Ecology of Choices Shaping Free Expression

53. Worldwide Diffusion andSupport for Expressionin a New Internet World

54. Major Issues of Human Rights are Increasingly Being Centered on the Internet and Web

56. Continuing Global and Local Digital Divides in Access and the Production of Content

57. Global Increase in Content Filtering and Censorship

58. Freedom Shaped by Choices in the Wider Ecology of Actors, Objectives and Policies

60. Renew Research on Freedom of Expression More Systematic and Sustained Monitoring ofInnovations in, and Use of, Internet Filtering Need to Track an Expanded Range of Policies and Regulatory Issues in this Ecology Critically Explore Relationships between Freedom of Expression and other Core Values and Rights Study Impacts on the Ground, including Public Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behavior Understand Assaults on Freedom of Expression as efforts to protect other Values and Interests

61. Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the Internet William H. Dutton, Anna Dopatka, Michael Hills, Ginette Law,andVictoria Nash Oxford Internet Institute (OII) University of Oxford Presentation for Launch Event, UNESCO, Fontenoy Building, Paris, 30 May 2011.