WCIT Statement

[Narine Khachatryan]

Dear Pranesh,

Could you, please, add Media Education Center, Armenia (Narine Khachatryan) as
signatory of the Statement.
Thanks,
Narine


On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great comments and voices at the Best Bits meeting. Anriette: not just
> great ideas, great voices 'around the room'. What about people listening
> online? One of the Best Bits, strategies, useful paths to working together
> (listening to the current speaker) is that the next meeting should include
> those who cannot be in the room! Email, Twitter, Skype--even the occasional
> acknowledgement from a speaker or moderator. Wonderful discussions! I do
> hope a wider range of civil society will be included as possible. Thanks.
> Ginger
>
> Ginger (Virginia) Paque
>
> VirginiaP at diplomacy.edu
> Diplo Foundation
> Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme
> www.diplomacy.edu/ig
> **
> **
>
>
>
> On 4 November 2012 06:41, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hi Pranesh, please add as signatory Instituto Nupef, Rio de Janeiro
>> (Carlos A. Afonso).
>>
>> frt rgds
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>> Carlos A. Afonso
>>
>> Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org> escreveu:
>> Dear all,
>> The participants in Baku decided to incorporate small revisions without
>> re-opening the entire text.  Here's the final version:
>>
>> http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/wcit_statement
>>
>> Currently, we have 10 organizations that are signatories to it:
>>
>> Access (Brett Solomon)
>> Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (AHM. Bazlur Rahman)
>> Centre for Internet and Society (Pranesh Prakash)
>> Center for Democracy & Technology
>> Consumers International
>> Electronic Frontier Finland (Tapani Tarvainen)
>> Global Partners & Associates (Andrew Puddephatt)
>> InternetNZ
>> ONG Derechos Digitales (Claudio Ruiz)
>> OpenMedia (Steve Anderson)
>>
>> As far as I can see, we have until the 7th before we close signatories
>> and endorsements.  (These two words are being used to distinguish
>> between those who participated in framing it and those who agree with it.)
>>
>> Given that anyone can edit the document, if you are adding your
>> organization's name, I would request you to write your name in
>> parentheses.  We can decide later that we wish to remove names from all
>> organizations.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pranesh
>>
>> Pranesh Prakash wrote [2012-11-04 12:20]:
>> > Dear all,
>> > Here is the statement of civil society members and groups participating
>> > in a pre-IGF meeting at Baku in 2012 as drafted after the morning
>> > session on Sunday, November 4, 2012.
>> >
>> > Please indicate your and your group's support of this statement on this
>> > mailing list or directly at the end of this Etherpad document:
>> > <http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/wcit_statement>.
>> >
>> > Given our deliberation on these both yesterday and today — and the fact
>> > that we would not wish to open this particular statement up to extensive
>> > revision again — I would request people to raise comments on this
>> > mailing list only if you believe the drafters have committed an
>> > egregious mistake in capturing the agreement present in the room. Please
>> > do not leave comments on the Etherpad document.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Pranesh
>> >
>> > ====
>> >
>> > Statement of civil society members and groups participating in a pre-IGF
>> > meeting at Baku in 2012.
>> >
>> > The process of the revision of the International Telecommunications
>> > Regulations (ITRs) have not been sufficiently inclusive and transparent,
>> > despite some recent efforts to facilitate some public participation.
>> > Fundamental to the framing of public policy must be the pursuit of the
>> > public interest and fundamental human rights, and we urge member states
>> > to uphold and protect these values.
>> >
>> > We as civil society organizations wish to engage with the World
>> > Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) process in this
>> > spirit. Member-states, in most cases, have not held open, broad-based,
>> > public consultations in the lead up to the WCIT, nor have they indicated
>> > such process for the WCIT itself.
>> >
>> > In order to address this deficiency, and as a minimum, we would urge:
>> > * All member states and regional groups to make their proposals
>> > available to the public in sufficient time to allow for meaningful
>> > public participation;
>> > * All delegates to support proposals to open sessions of the WCIT
>> > meeting to the public;
>> > * The ITU Secretariat to increase transparency of the WCIT including
>> > live webcast with the video, audio, and text transcripts, as far as
>> > possible, to enable participation by all, including persons with
>> > disabilities;
>> > * The ITU Secretariat, member-states, and regional groups to make as
>> > much documentation publicly available as possible on the ITU's website,
>> > so that civil society can provide substantive input on proposals as they
>> > are made available;
>> > * Member-states to encourage and facilitate civil society participation
>> > their national delegations;
>> > * The ITU to create spaces during the WCIT for civil society to express
>> > their views, as was done during the WSIS process.
>> >
>> > Given the uncertainty about the nature of final proposals that will be
>> > presented, we urge delegates that the following criteria be applied to
>> > any proposed revisions of the ITRs.
>> >
>> > * That any proposed revisions are confined to the traditional core
>> > mandate of the ITU and scope of the ITRs, where international regulation
>> > is required around technical issue limited to basic telecommunications
>> > networks and interoperability standards.
>> > * There should be no revisions to the ITRs that involve regulation of
>> > the Internet Protocol and above.
>> > * There should be no revisions that could have a negative impact on
>> > affordable access to the Internet or the public's rights to privacy and
>> > freedom of expression.
>> >
>> > More positively we call upon the ITU to promote principles of net
>> > neutrality, open standards, affordable access and universal service, and
>> > effective competition.
>> >
>> > Signed by:
>> >
>> > ====
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Pranesh Prakash
>> Policy Director
>> Centre for Internet and Society
>> T: +91 80 40926283 | W: http://cis-india.org
>> PGP ID: 0x1D5C5F07 | Twitter: @pranesh_prakash
>>
>>
>


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