<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hello,</div><div>Thank you very much for this vital information. Besides, I'm not so surprised. To me and this is only my opinion, most systems of the United Nations has failed their responsibility in implementing the WSIS implementation by broad national and sub regional levels. More especially in most African countries, as is the case in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in many countries of Central Africa.</div><div><span></span></div><div>It would be therefore that studies should be organized in this way to understand the real causes of this failure.</div><div></div><div> </div><div><b>COORDINATION NATIONALE CAFEC<br>COORDINATION NATIONALE REPRONTIC</b><br>courriel:cafec3m@yahoo.fr/repronticrdc3m@yahoo.fr/b.schombe@gmail.com<br>téléphone: +243
998983491/+243813684512</div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> Le Jeudi 14 novembre 2013 21h39, michael gurstein <gurstein@gmail.com> a écrit :<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv1740287022"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1740287022WordSection1"><div><span style="color:#1F497D;">My own particular involvement with Internet Governance issues began with </span><span style="color:#1F497D;">the</span><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D;"> </span></i></b><span style="color:#1F497D;">intertwining of the</span><span style="color:#1F497D;"> community informatics approach and </span><span style="color:#1F497D;">the various discussions associated with </span><span style="color:#1F497D;">the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS-Geneva and Tunis)… </span></div><div><span style="color:#1F497D;">As is its habit, the UN is now revisiting the Summit + 10 and is in the process of creating various types of documentation including importantly a review document on what has happened with respect to the original WSIS outcomes and where, as a global Summit, agreements should be entered into (at a meeting to be held in late 2014) to go on from
here.</span></div><div><span style="color:#1F497D;">I’m attaching the current draft output document</span><span style="color:#1F497D;"> (apologies for the highlighting…</span><span style="color:#1F497D;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#1F497D;">One significant difference between now and the original summits is that while the significance of the Internet has increased dramatically in the interim in all shapes and forms, the specific interest in the creation of an overall policy framework for the global deployment of the Internet has</span><span style="color:#1F497D;">,</span><span style="color:#1F497D;"> in key areas (including most of those of interest from a community informatics perspective—the digital divide, digital inclusion, community empowerment through ICT use and so on) for the most part disappeared and particularly virtually all financial support for</span><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D;"> </span></i></b><span
style="color:#1F497D;">independent/CS </span><span style="color:#1F497D;">research and representation and even programming in these areas.</span><span style="color:#1F497D;">(for an interesting blogpost looking at this in my own country Canada see <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/14/digital-divide-canada-poor_n_4269171.html?utm_hp_ref=canada">http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/14/digital-divide-canada-poor_n_4269171.html?utm_hp_ref=canada</a></span></div><div><span style="color:#1F497D;">What this means is that whereas the Civil Society intervention in the WSIS process was active and effective</span><span style="color:#1F497D;"> (including </span><span style="color:#1F497D;">in support of a broad community informatics appr</span><span style="color:#1F497D;">oach) </span><span style="color:#1F497D;">there is virtually no counterpart developments in relation to this revisiting. (You will recall a flurry of
notes etc. that I posted here on this subject at the beginning of this year.) I haven’t yet had a chance to go through these documents </span><span style="color:#1F497D;">in detail b</span><span style="color:#1F497D;">ut a quick review suggests that</span><span style="color:#1F497D;">,</span><span style="color:#1F497D;"> as I tried to say in my comments at the WSIS +10 meeting in February, it is not enough simply to review what has gone on before and to project it into the future it is also necessary to recognize where there has been failure and where past successes have led to new and significant issues which in turn need to be addressed.</span> <span style="color:#1F497D;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/making-happytalk-in-paris-disneyland-and-the-wsis-10-review/">http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/making-happytalk-in-paris-disneyland-and-the-wsis-10-review/</a></span></div><div><span
style="color:#1F497D;">I’m not sure if anything much can be done on this at this stage but for those with an interest it is worth taking a look at these documents and for those with even more interest the overall process is described at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/review/mpp/">http://www.itu.int/wsis/review/mpp/</a></span></div><div><span style="color:#1F497D;">M</span><span style="color:#1F497D;"></span></div><div><div class="yiv1740287022MsoNormal"> </div></div></div></div></div><br>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, visit:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing"
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