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color:#1F497D'>Jean Louis asked me to forward this e-mail to the lists because
he got a refusal message when he tried to send it himself, perhaps because his
address changed from wanadoo to orange.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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gov-bounces@wsis-gov.org [mailto:gov-bounces@wsis-gov.org] <b>De la part de</b>
Jean-Louis FULLSACK<br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> vendredi 26 juin 2009 14:28<br>
<b>À :</b> governance@lists.cpsr.org; gov@wsis-gov.org<br>
<b>Objet :</b> [Gov 687] Apologies and thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dear members of the governance lists<br>
<br>
Fisrt of all I'd apologize for my long quasi silence on our lists, especially
to all those of you who sent me such numerous mails following my May 22nd heart
attack during the closing session of our annual WSIS Forum in Geneva.<br>
<br>
I realized only some days later, especially through Francis Muguet's visits and
phone converstions, that I probably put some confusion -maybe even more- among
those of you attending this session and I apologize for that. I also must
repeat here the chance I've got for having been rescued within a couple of
minutes by the ITU security staff, and would recall once more that I owe
it to Patrick Ticon to be able to exchange ideas with each membrer and
friend among you today. Since then, one month has passed and that's the reason
for me to apologize. Probably the burden of writing in English has somehow
contributed to this delay ....<br>
<br>
So, please accept my apologies as well as my profound gratitude for your
friendly and supportive messages. <br>
<br>
I also thanked the ITU Secretary general for his visit and his kind support
and, over all, for the efficiency and friendlyness of the ITU security staff.
Having done that I didn't forget that, during the different sessions of the
Forum, I have asked for some actions to be given priority in the WSIS
follow-up. Among them, threee ones are of highest importance in my viewpoint :<br>
- Set-up a special Study Group dedicated to the relation and links between
ICTs and Renewable Energies (RE) in DCs, focussing especially on
photovoltaics and their integration in the design of both ICT/telecom equipment
and telecom networks. This study group should be given equal rights to
those officially established in the ITU-T and ITU-D and benefit from this
double umbrella.<br>
- Carry out the study (with the ITU as leading body) and implement the project
of an actual African Interconnecting Network (AIN) interlinking the main
continental hubs (telecom traffic and Internet traffic) and connecting this AIN
to the most appropriated gateways to the Global telecom infrastructure (through
thoroughly selected landing stations !) and in a fully network
centered vision.<br>
- Set-up a multistakeholder based Financing Mechanisms Forum FMF), with equal
abilities and functions to the IGF, and therefore recognized by all the
partners within the WSIS follow-up process, and placed under the umbrella of
the UNDP and the ITU (focussing especially on financing the main WSIS
objectives such as the access to each village in DCs).<br>
<br>
In my opinion, the second point is in a large part about governance
in general and Internet governance in paricular, at least as far as
"Internet essential/critical resources" are a paramount part and
objective of a AIN planning process. Only such an integrated approach could be
able to maintain intra-African communications within the African continent and
thereby contribute to lower significantly their cost, i.e. the tariffs for
intra-African coms, whatever may be their nature. <br>
<br>
I do hope that these three points will get the due attention and priority,
first in CS as a main solidarity concern with our colleagues and friends
from "the Southern countries", wherever they are located.<br>
<br>
All the best <br>
<br>
Jean-Louis Fullsack<br>
CSDPTT <o:p></o:p></p>
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