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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Robert Guerra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rguerra@privaterra.org">rguerra@privaterra.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="WORD-WRAP:break-word">Dr Hamadoun Touré, the secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has an op-ed in today's the Guardian.<br><br>In case some of you haven't seen this yet, here's a link to the text..<br>
<br><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media-network/media-network-blog/2012/mar/06/ict-international-regulations-cybercrime" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/media-network/media-network-blog/2012/mar/06/ict-international-regulations-cybercrime</a><br>
<br>Securing the future benefits of technology<br>International regulations governing ICT need to change to adapt to rapid innovations and counter the threat of cybercrime<br></div></blockquote>
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<div>If people are interested, we could put together an ad hoc Team of volunteers to look examine the existing Treaty and prepare a review/assessment of it to be put to the IGC and we can then ask the IGC if we want to make submissions. If there is a time to start work on this, then it should be now etc.</div>
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<div>It is also important that the IGC is present in the meeting in December.</div>
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<div style="WORD-WRAP:break-word"><br>The Guardian, March 7, 2012<br><br><br>The UN's specialised agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), the International Telecom Union (ITU), will hold aWorld Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) in December. The aim of the conference is to review the global treaty widely credited for creating the basis of today's connected world, thus the international regulatory framework governing all ICT technologies.<br>
<br>The conference comes at a time when technology is having a major impact on economic and social development, and represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to improve it even further.<br><br>The treaty under review is known as the International Telecommunication Regulations, or ITRs. It provides governments and industries across the globe with the necessary frameworks for bringing variety and competition to their telecommunications and ICT markets.<br>
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<div style="WORD-WRAP:break-word">--<br>R. Guerra</div>
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