<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On 25-Nov-2012, at 11:02, "Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch" <<a href="mailto:apisan@unam.mx">apisan@unam.mx</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Courier New;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><div>I will test the links by dotnxtcon and am happy to stand corrected on their being free - good news. </div>
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<div>On ITU and cybersecurity, I know you've had some bad experience in that field, and guess you will agree that the IMPACT center is waaaaay away from useful. (Again am ready to stand corrected though I think I'll fight this one if evidence is not convincing.)</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I will not disagree that there is considerable scope for improvement in ITU's cybersecurity activities. </div><div><br></div><div>These were excellent (and quite multistakeholder) till around 2007-08. </div><div><br></div><div>Till then, ITU organized several multistakeholder conferences and engaged experts from industry, civil society and academia to produce white papers, as part of WSIS Action Line C5.</div><div><br></div><div>IMPACT happened after that, as an attempt - I will agree, not a particularly successful attempt - to "operationalize" everything and serve as a multistakeholder partnership organization for cybersecurity.</div><div><br></div><div> --srs (iPad)</div></body></html>