WCIT Statement

[Valeria Betancourt]

Dear Pranesh,

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) endorses the  
statement.

Best,

Valeria

On 04/11/2012, at 12:04, Veridiana Alimonti wrote:

> Dear Pranesh,
>
> please add Idec - Brazilian Institute for Consumer Defense.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Veridiana
>
>
>
>
>
> 2012/11/4 Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com>
> 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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Valeria Betancourt
Directora / Manager
Programa de Políticas de Information y Comunicación / Communication  
and Information Policy Programme
Asociación para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones / Association for
Progressive Communications, APC
http://www.apc.org





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