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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I do not think that we should sign on to this for reasons that should be obvious from my earlier two notes today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If we do look to sign on then it should be a somewhat nuanced response (which I hope and even expect that the ITUG and Greenpeace might shift to once they have had a chance to reflect a bit further on these issues). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Our approach should of course, include a call for additional transparency and inclusivity in decision making but also a recognition of the need for collective intervention in support of the public interest in areas such as universal access and net neutrality and the extension of any concerns with respect to transparency and accountability to those private companies whose quasi-monoply positions in various Internet areas give them the means to introduce and enforce de facto operating policies and standards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> izumiaizu@gmail.com [mailto:izumiaizu@gmail.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Izumi AIZU<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 15, 2012 5:17 PM<br><b>To:</b> governance<br><b>Subject:</b> [governance] Fwd: [igf_members] WCIT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And this one, too, to take note.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Should IGC consider a Statement soon?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Any volunteer ?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Izumi<br><br>----------<span lang=JA>$BE>Aw%a%C%;!<%8(B</span>----------<br>From: <b>Chris Disspain</b> <br><span lang=JA>$BF|IU(B</span>: 2012<span lang=JA>$BG/(B</span>11<span lang=JA>$B7n(B</span>16<span lang=JA>$BF|6bMKF|(B</span><br><span lang=JA>$B7oL>(B</span>: [igf_members] WCIT<br>To: Internet Governance Forum <<a href="mailto:igf_members@intgovforum.org">igf_members@intgovforum.org</a>><br><br>All,<br><br>FYI, below is text of media release from ITUC following a meeting Thursday with ITU.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Chris<br><br><br>INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION<br><br>ITU Refuses Proposals for Open Discussion of Plans to Regulate Internet<br><br>Geneva, 15 November 2012(ITUC Media Release): The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) today met with Dr Hamadoun Toure, Head of the UN$B!G(Bs International Telecommunication Union, to take internet regulation proposals off the agenda of the World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT-12) due to take place in Dubai in December. ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow said that the internet had always been managed by a multi-stakeholder approach, but that the proposed changes would radically undermine this model and seriously alter internet governance.<br><br>$B!H(BThis is not a process that the UN should stamp as having legitimacy when governments and in particular telecoms ministries are simply negotiating on their own interests, in a forum without proper civil society engagement. We strongly oppose plans which would increase costs, reduce the spread of the internet and increase net censorship at the expense of human rights.<br><br>$B!H(BWe put a proposal to the ITU today to take the damaging proposals off the table at Dubai, and join a broad, open and multi-stakeholder process that would bring together all the government, civil society and business interests to look at the future of the internet. Regrettably, the ITU rejected this.$B!I(B<br><br>$B!H(BThe danger for the upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) is that certain governments will attempt to undermine the multi-stakeholder approach behind closed doors and without full transparency.<br><br>$B!H(BCertain proposed changes cause a great deal of alarm to the global labour movement – in particular, introduction of a pricing regime; requirements that the internet only be used in a $B!F(Brational$B!G(B way – these are changes that ought to be openly debated; not behind closed doors as the ITU plans.<br><br>$B!H(BWe can$B!G(Bt afford to have vested interests of some governments and telecommunications companies take over the internet as we know it.<br><br>$B!H(BAn internet totally controlled by government and big business contradicts the very essence of what the internet represents – open and free access for all.<br><br>$B!H(BThese are hugely important issues, which should be dealt with in an open, transparent and inclusive way,$B!I(B said Ms Burrow.<br><br>Phillip Jennings, the General Secretary of UNI Global Union which represents workers in the telecoms and internet sectors, called on the ITU to accept trade unions as full discussion partners, which it had never done despite repeated requests from UNI.<br>The meeting with Dr Toure came a week after Equal Times launched $B!F(BStop the net grab$B!G(B, a global online campaign to press for an open consultation on internet regulation <a href="http://www.equaltimes.org/news/stop-the-net-grab-ituc-launches-global-campaign-against-internet-crackdown" target="_blank">http://www.equaltimes.org/news/stop-the-net-grab-ituc-launches-global-campaign-against-internet-crackdown</a> . The ITUC and Greenpeace signaled their concerns in a joint letter to UN Secretary General Ban K-moon last Friday.<br><br>ENDS<br><br>What$B!G(Bs at stake?<br><br>If accepted, the changes would allow:<br><br>• Increased government restriction or blocking of information disseminated via the internet<br><br>• Creation of a global regime of monitoring internet communications, including the demand that those who send and receive information identify themselves<br><br>• Requirement that the internet only be used in a $B!F(Brational$B!G(B way<br><br>• Governments to shut down internet access if they decide that it may interfere in the internal affairs of countries or that information of a $B!F(Bsensitive nature$B!G(B might be shared<br><br>• Introduction of a new pricing regime which would increase costs and slow down internet growth, especially in the poorer countries.<br><br>The ITUC represents 175 million workers in 308 affiliated national organisations from 153 countries and territories.<br><br>Follow us on the web: <a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org" target="_blank">http://www.ituc-csi.org</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/ITUCCSI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/ITUCCSI</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br>-- <br> >> Izumi Aizu <<<br>Institute for InfoSocionomics, Tama University, Tokyo<br>Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita, <br>Japan<br><a href="http://www.anr.org" target="_blank">www.anr.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>