Reprinted Hillary. Clinton Internet freedom and social progress

 Internet freedom, economic growth and social progress
(Reprinted from Hillary. Clinton)
Clinton Secretary of State January 21, 2010 in Washington, DC News Museum (Newseum) made a speech, described the Internet free of social progress and economic The importance of growth, announced that it would promote Secretary of State, Washington, DC News
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Thank you very much, Alberto (Alberto). not only to thank you for your kind introduction, and would like to thank You and your colleagues in this important leadership role played by institutions.'m happy to press the museum. The museum is a monument to witness some of our most cherished freedoms. I am grateful to have this opportunity to talk about how to use them Liberal response to the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Although I can not see all of you because in such situations mm lights are in my eyes, and you are in the dark mm but I know that there are many Friends and former colleagues. I want to thank the Liberal Forum (Freedom Forum) chief executive, Charles? Overby (Charles Overby) to visit the museum news, and my former colleagues in the Senate, Richard? Lugar (Richard Lugar) and Joe? Lieberman (Joe Lieberman) two senators, both of them had the sector, firm support for Internet freedom.
I heard that there is the presence of Senator Sam? Brownback (Sam Brownback), Senator Ted? Kaufman (Ted Kaufman), Rep. Loretta? Sanchez (Loretta Sanchez), many ambassadors, charge d'affaires and other representatives of the diplomatic corps, as well as from China, Colombia, Iran, Lebanon, and Moldova to attend our freedom on the Internet, Visitor Leadership Program) of the people. I should also mention the recent appointment as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (Broadcasting Board of Govenors) member of the Aspen Institute (Aspen Institute), director Walter? Isaacson (Walter Isaacson). There is no doubt he Aspen Institute in support of freedom of the Internet played an important role in the work.
This is a very important issue on an important speech. But in the beginning about this subject, I would like to briefly introduce Haiti. Over the past eight days, the Haitian people and the people of the world work together to address a huge disaster. Our hemisphere has experienced hardships, but we are currently facing difficulties in Port few precedents. communication network in our fight against this disaster in the process played an extremely important role. Needless to say, the local communication network has suffered heavy losses, was completely destroyed in many places. just a few hours after the earthquake, we partner with the private sector launched the HAITI) SMS donations, the U.S. mobile phone users send text messages to relief efforts through donations. this event to demonstrate the generosity of the American people. So far, the event has been raised for the earthquake relief in Haiti more than 2,500 million U.S. dollars.
information networks have also played a vital role. On Saturday, I met with Preval in Port-au (Preval) president, he was one of the key objectives is to work to restore communications. surviving inadequate communication facilities to help the liaison between local government officials, non-governmental organizations, and our civilian and military leaders of the operational capabilities have been severely affected. high-tech companies to set up an interactive map to help identify needs and target resources. And on Monday, a mere year-old girl and two women were crying for help by texting a U.S. search and rescue team from the collapsed rubble of the supermarket to save it. these examples are a microcosm of a widespread phenomenon.
Information Network extension is for our planet to create a new nervous system. in Haiti or what happens in Hunan, the rest of us can learn from the parties, where real-time. We can also respond in real time. disaster eager to help the United States trapped in the supermarket and the girl under a year ago, even a generation ago were not even imagined a way to link together. Today, the same principle applies to almost all of humanity. We are sitting here today, any of you one mm or more likely that any of our children can come up with a lot of people mm carry every day communication tools, the contents of this discussion to send billions of people around the world.
in many ways information has never been so free. than at any time in the past, today there are more ways to more ideas spread to more people. even in a totalitarian country, information networks are also helping people find new facts to the government more accountable.
example, during the visit the president in November of direct dialogue with local college students an online component to highlight the importance of the Internet. In response to a question, he stressed People have the right to free access to information. He said that information flows more freely, the more robust community. He spoke of how the power of access to information will help citizens hold their own governments accountable, new ideas, encourage creativity and entrepreneurship. I am here today to speak for the United States is the proven truths of faith.
unprecedented as people closely interconnected, we must also recognize that these technologies are not an unmitigated blessing. These tools are also are being used to hinder human progress and deprivation of political rights. Just as steel can be used to build the hospital can also be used to make machine guns. nuclear energy can provide the impetus for the city can destroy the city. modern information networks and their supporting technologies can be used good deeds can also be used for evil. help the organization's network also enables free movement of the hijacked by governments to crush dissent and denial of civil rights.
the past year, we see the threat of proliferation of free flow of information. China, Tunisia and Uzbekistan to strengthen the review on the Internet. In Vietnam, the use of broad popular social networking sites has suddenly disappeared. Last Friday in Egypt, 30 blog and activists were detained. One of these is the blog of the Base Mu? Samir (Bassem Samir). He was lucky to release Today is here, with us. Therefore, on the one hand, clear that the spread of these technologies is changing our world, on the other hand, still can not predict such a change would be the world's people what the impact of human rights and well-being.
these new technologies will not in itself the struggle for freedom and progress, select the position. However, the United States to be clear-cut stand. We support that allows equal access to knowledge and ideas of all mankind the Internet. and we recognize that, in the world the establishment of information infrastructure will depend on what we and others make of nature. Although this is a new challenge, but we share the responsibility to ensure that freedom of thought and can be traced back to the birth of our republic. an amendment carved in front of the building this piece of 50 tons of Tennessee marble. generations of Americans are carved in stone to defend the values that have worked so hard on.
b Franklin Roosevelt (Franklin Roosevelt) in 1941 published freedom of belief, there is no poverty, no fear of breaking a world vision of the difficulties of his time. years later, one of my role model Elena b Roosevelt (Eleanor Roosevelt) to make these principles a founding principles. The future of these principles into each generation of Compass, to guide us and spur us to promote our courage in a hostile environment forward.
rapid development in science and technology, we must reflect on this tradition. We need to ensure scientific and technological progress and our principles simultaneously. In accepting the Nobel Prize, the president spoke about the need to build a world in which peace rests in every individual on the inherent rights and dignity. A few days later at Georgetown University speech on human rights, I said that we must find ways to make human rights a reality. Today, we urgently need in the twenty-first century electronic world to protect these freedoms.
There are so many other networks, some the flow of resources to help people or some like-minded individuals supporting exchanges. But the internet is the ability of all the other networks and potential of a network, so we think that its users are assured of certain fundamental freedoms. which The most important thing is freedom of expression. This definition of liberty is no longer just citizens of the town square to criticize their government without fear of retribution. blog, email, social networking and mobile phone text messages opened the exchange of ideas new ways to bring the review for the new target information.
even as I speak to you today, at the moment, some local governments are working furiously to review my words removed from the historical record. But history has long been rule: these tactics fail. Two months ago, I was in Germany took part in the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall down. to participate in the activities of leaders across the barrier to the courageous men and women who pay tribute, they had through the dissemination of known as the But their sound to help them through the Block, the museum they belong. In our times, a representative of infrastructure is the Internet. It replaces the separate symbol of contact. But in the network to the world at the same time, we found many places in the virtual walls instead of physical walls.
Some countries have erected an electronic barrier to prevent their people from the network as part of the world. They result from the search engines to remove words, names and phrases. They are made of non-infringement violent political expression of people's privacy. These practices violate the . authoritarian regimes, some governments are cracking down on those who use these tools of independent thinkers. after the presidential election in Iran during the demonstrations, using a mobile phone footage of a young woman was a bloody massacre of grainy digital technology to the government by violence complaints filed. We have seen reports that, when the Iranians living abroad posting criticism of their leaders, their family members in Iran has become the target of retaliation. Despite the widespread intimidation to take tough However, the brave Iranian citizen journalists continue to use technology to their world and their fellow domestic events. the Iranian people as their own human rights, but also inspired the world, their courage is redefining how to spread the truth through technology and expose injustice.
all societies have recognized the freedom of speech has its limits. We can not tolerate those who incite others to violence, for example, in the world at the moment is to use the Internet to promote the mass murder of innocent people, members. those of race, religion, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation hate speech against others should be severely reprimanded. Unfortunately, all these questions constitute a growing challenge, the international community must confront together. We must also address the issue of anonymous speech. For those who use the Internet to recruit terrorists or distribute stolen intellectual property, do not allow them to be decoupled from the network behavior and its true identity. However, for political purposes to those who use the Internet for peace people, these can not be the Government's plan to violations of their rights and privacy excuse.
spread of new technologies with freedom of speech may be the most significant challenges encountered a right to freedom, but not nothing more. religious freedom usually involves individual and their Creator or not the dialogue right. This is a form of communication does not rely on technology. However, freedom of belief also reflects the shared values and outlook on life and with people in general assembly rights. In our history, such gatherings often in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. Today, they may also be made online.
the Internet can help people of different faiths to eliminate the differences between them. As the president said in Cairo, religious freedom, the ability of people to live together. in our quest to expand dialogue, the internet holds great hope. We have begun to make American students and young people of the Muslim community around the world to discuss global challenges with each other. We will continue to use this tool, individuals from different religious communities to discuss with each other.
However, some countries use the Internet to target and silence people of faith. For example, last year in Saudi Arabia, a man who published in a blog about Christianity, was imprisoned for several months. Harvard University survey found that many of the Saudi government blocked the introduction of Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and even web pages. including Vietnam and China, including Some countries also use similar means to restrict access to religious information.
these techniques may be used to punish peaceful political expression, are also not available for persecution or repression of religious minorities. prayer is often at a higher level of the network. However, , the Internet and social networking sites such as communications technology should help improve people's needs according to their ability to worship, as well as people who share a common belief in meetings and learn more about faith in the ability of other people. As we promote the freedom of other areas of life , we must also strive to promote freedom of prayer on the network.
, of course, enjoy the countless people living without the benefits of these technologies. In our world, as I have repeatedly pointed out, intelligence There may be universal, but opportunity is not the case. from long experience, we know that the people lack access to knowledge, markets, capital and opportunities for countries to promote social and economic development will be very difficult, sometimes to no avail. In this case, the Internet can play the role of regulator. By providing people with access to knowledge and potential markets, a variety of network for those who lack the opportunity to create opportunities for the region.
in the past year, I Kenya witnessed this situation. where the farmers have started using mobile banking technology, up to 30% revenue increase. In Bangladesh, more than 30 people have signed up to learn English via mobile phone. In sub-Saharan Africa, women availability of small loans to entrepreneurs using the Internet and integrate with the global market.
the lowest economic status of the world, millions of people are likely to follow in life these examples of progress. In many cases, the Internet, cell phones and other communication technologies can economic development of the Green Revolution played (Green Revolution) on the same role played by agriculture. Now, small investment can produce huge benefits. A World Bank study shows that in a typical developing country, mobile phone penetration rate 10% increase in GDP per capita can grow nearly 1%. Specifically, if India, for example, it would be the equivalent of nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars annually.
and global information networks like an on-pass to modernity. In the early years of the advent of these technologies, many people think that they will draw the world's gap between rich and poor, but that did not happen. Today there are 40 billion cell phones in use. There are many mobile phone users, vendors, rickshaw pullers and other historically lacked access to education and other opportunities for people. information network is a powerful means to achieve equality, we should use them together to help people out of poverty, no more freedom from want.
we have every reason to hope: when people make full use of information networks and communication technologies, they will be able to achieve progress. but there is no doubt that some people are using the global information network for darker purposes, and will continue to do so do. violent extremists, criminal gangs, sexual crimes and authoritarian governments are attempting to take advantage of the global network. Just as terrorists used the openness of our society took the opportunity to carry out their plots, violent extremists have used the Internet for incitement and intimidation . As we work to advance freedom, we must also attempt to use communication networks against disruption and fear of people.
governments and citizens must have confidence, national security and economic prosperity as part of the core network is safe and toughness. This is not just a few small number of hackers defaced the site issues, if our information network security can not be guaranteed, our online banking, electronic commerce, intellectual property rights and the protection of the ability of billions of dollars at stake for all .
activities in the face of destruction of such systems, governments, the private sector and the international community must take concerted action. when criminal hackers and organized crime syndicates profit network attacks, we need more tools to help law enforcement agencies cooperate across jurisdictions. child pornography and the trafficking of women and girls suffered exploitation through the Internet for the whole world to see and for the exploiters to make a profit on such social ills should adopt the same response. Europe Council Convention on Cybercrime (Convention on Cybercrime) efforts and the other parties of similar efforts to promote international cooperation in prosecuting such crimes, and we appreciate that. We also hope to redouble our efforts.
our government and the State Council have taken steps to find diplomatic ways to strengthen the global network security. the State has a large number of staff engaged in this work. the officer has been a concerted effort. We're still two years ago to coordinate the establishment of a dedicated network of foreign policy office. We are committed to the United Nations and other multilateral forums to address this challenge, and the network security on the world agenda. Obama has just appointed a new national network of policy coordinator, to help us work more closely coordinate to ensure that each person's network are free, secure and reliable.
some countries, terrorists, and their agents must understand the United States will protect our network. that in our country or any other country destruction of free flow of information about our economy, our government and our civil society constitutes a threat. engaged in national and personal attacks will bear the consequences and condemned by the international community. In a world connected by the Internet, on network attacks in a country is an attack on all. by emphasizing this point, we can create norms of behavior among nations and to encourage respect for the global users.
freedom is perhaps the last of President Roosevelt and his wife many years ago thinking and must contain the freedom of discourse, which I mentioned earlier from the four freedoms, which is connected freedom: the government should not prevent people with the Internet, with the site or to each other. connecting the same freedom as freedom of assembly, only But it is in cyberspace. It allows individuals to the Internet, together, and hopefully cooperation. Once online, you do not have to be a tycoon or a rock star a huge impact on society.
of the largest terrorist attacks in Mumbai The public reaction was initiated by a 13-year-old boy. He uses social networks to organize blood drives, and the establishment of a large book of condolence. In Colombia, an unemployed engineer brought together 190 cities around the world 1200 million people, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terrorist movement in protest. The protests were the largest in history demonstrations against terrorism. In the next few weeks, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia has experienced a decade of military operations Qi Jia and off the largest number of team events. In Mexico, an act of intolerable violence of drugs issued a citizen snowballed into an e-mail across all 32 provinces of the country's large-scale demonstrations. only in Mexico City to 15 million people took to the streets in protest. Thus, the Internet can help humanity against those who promote violence, crime and extremism.
in Iran, Moldova and other countries, online organizing has been to promote democracy, the citizens suspicious election results on an important tool for protest. even in the United States and other countries have established democratic system, we also see these tools have the power to change history. Some of you may remember the 2008 presidential election here. (laughter sound)
connected with the freedom of these technologies can help transform society, but also extremely important to individuals. I recently moved by the story of a doctor I do not want to say mm which country he is. He do everything possible to for her daughter's rare disease diagnosis. He sought the views of 20 experts, but still no answer. Finally, he was received by the Internet search engine to find the exact diagnosis and treatment. This is the unrestricted use of the search engine technology is so important to the personal life one of the reasons.
the principles I have outlined today will be our use of technology to treat the issue of internet freedom and guidelines. I want to talk about how we apply them in practice principles. the United States is committed to promoting these freedoms the necessary diplomatic, economic, and technical resources. America is a from various countries, reflecting the various interests of the world countries of immigrants. Our foreign policy is based on a concept: When the cooperation between peoples and countries, the United States than any other country will benefit. When conflict and misunderstanding between the sub-state, the United States than any other country shouldering a heavier burden. Therefore, we are well placed to grasp comes with the interconnected lives of these opportunities. We, as the birthplace of so many technologies, has the responsibility to ensure that they are used for good. To this end, we need to build capacity to implement the 21st century we called at the State Department diplomatic strategy planning.
re-adjust our policies and our focus is not easy, and adapt to new technology rarely is. When the telegraph was introduced, it brings to the diplomatic community, many people severe anxiety, as received from the bottom of every day Washington's instructions is not an entirely welcome prospect. But, as our diplomats eventually mastered the telegraph, they are also tools for mastering the potential of these new efforts.
I am proud that the State Department more than 40 countries have initiated efforts to help those voices of the people by oppressive governments. We are making this issue a focus of the work the United Nations. We are the Internet free of re-entry into the United Nations Human Rights Council (United Nations Human Rights Council) made after the first resolution.
We also support the development of new tools that enable citizens to avoid political censorship and the right to exercise their freedom of expression. We are all over the world groups and organizations to provide funds ensure that these new tools in local languages available to people in need and provide them with the necessary safety training online. The United States supports these efforts for some time, focusing on the possible implementation of these projects effectively. the American people should be know the countries that censor the internet should also be aware, my Government is committed to promoting Internet freedom.
we want to get people to master these tools to advance democracy and human rights, climate change and epidemics, for the realization of Barack Obama President proposed a goal of a world without nuclear weapons to fight the global support and encourage sustainable economic development to help improve the lives of the subaltern.
So, today I announced in the next year, we will work with industry, academia, and non-governmental organization partners, to establish the power of networking technology to play a long-term efforts to use these technologies to advance our diplomatic goals. we can rely on mobile phones, mapping applications and other new tools to empower citizens, support our traditional diplomacy. We can solve the defects of current market for innovation.
Let me give an example. If I want to design a mobile phone application software, so that people can, including our government, including government departments play their responsiveness and efficiency points, and the ability to detect and report acts of corruption, the hardware required to achieve this vision in the hands of billions of potential users, and the required software development and application of low cost.
If people use this technology, can help us target our foreign assistance funds, improve people's lives and encourage foreign investors to the responsible government investment. But the current situation is that mobile application developers have no financial assistance to pursue the development of this technology, and State Department currently lacks a mechanism to make this possible. However, this initiative should help solve this problem, and to make investments in innovation can bring long-term returns. We will work with experts, for this venture, determine the best framework. We will also need technology companies and nonprofit organizations talent and resources to achieve the best results as soon as possible. Therefore, if all of you this kind of talent and expertise, I would like to invite your generous help.
At the same time, some companies, individuals and agencies are already able to design and develop our diplomatic and development objectives of the innovation and application of technology, and the State Council will launch an innovative competition to give the work an immediate boost. Americans will be invited to submit applications and related technology, the best ideas, they should be able to help eliminate language barriers, overcome illiteracy, and they need people to services and information connectivity. For example, Microsoft has developed a network medical software prototype in order to provide medical services in remote areas. We hope to see more creative. We will work with winners of the competition, to help them further the development of creative financing.
these new initiatives will supplement we have important work over the past year. In order to promote our foreign affairs and foreign policy objectives, I assembled a talented and experienced team to lead our 21st century statecraft efforts. This team has traveled all over the world to help governments and groups leverage the benefits of connectivity. They launched a sources of untracked reports, in order to avoid retribution. They will also move the bank into Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now the same job. In Pakistan, they created the first mobile social networking, as Sound commitment to these technologies into the highly influential results. But there are still many more to be done. As we and the private sector and foreign governments to promote the tools of 21st century statecraft, we must remember our shared responsibility to safeguard the I talk about freedom today. We firmly believe that the principle of freedom of information that is not only good policy, not just connected to our national values, it has universal, and can generate economic benefits.
use market for a review in Tunisia or Vietnam operates in an environment of listed companies, the transaction price is always lower than in a free society of a similar nature. If the business decision-makers is no global source of news and information, investor will have less confidence in decision-making. implementation of the national review of news and information important to recognize that, from an economic point of view, the review of political speech and commercial speech are no different. If your business can not get one of the categories of information, its growth will will be affected.
in making business decisions, U.S. companies are increasingly networking and freedom of information as more important considerations. I hope they will be competitors and foreign governments pay close attention to this trend. recent Google (Google ) the case has attracted wide attention. We hope that the Chinese authorities that led Google to make its announcement to conduct a thorough network attacks. We also hope that the results of investigations and transparent.
Internet has become a source of tremendous progress, amazing. China now has so many people are online. However, to restrict free access to information or violate the basic rights of Internet users themselves and the country faces a century of progress under the risk of isolation. United States and China on this issue different views, we hope that our positive, cooperative, open and comprehensive relationship continued to address those differences.
this issue is not just freedom of information, ultimately, we hope to have a kind of world and We will live in a kind of world. it relates to our lives on a planet with an Internet, a global community and a benefit and a common body of knowledge that unites us all, or fragmented, access to information and opportunity depends on the place of residence and the whims of censors.
freedom of information as a foundation for global progress contribute to the maintenance of peace and security. Historically, asymmetric access to information is one of the major inter-State conflicts. When we face serious disputes or hazardous event, the parties can understand the same facts and opinions is critical.
current situation is that the American people can consider the information provided by foreign governments mm for the Government to the United States to send information, we no obstacles. However, the social practice censorship of citizens have no way to live outside views. For example, in North Korea, the government has tried to completely cut off from citizens and external views. This asymmetry in the flow of information not only increases the risk the possibility of conflict, that small differences in upgrades. So, I look forward to those who want to see the Government will be responsible for global stability and we work together to change this asymmetry.
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