Two-question survey on agenda and outputs for Best Bits

[Deborah Brown]

Hi everyone, I just came back from a meeting with the ITU and got some more
information about the public comment platform.

The ITU will distribute the compilation of the comments to member states as
background reading (not as an official document) ahead of WCIT. Any member
state could propose to discuss the contributions in the formal debate, and
the deadline to do so is November 6. With only four comments to date, I'm
not sure that any MS would be eager to put this on the agenda, but with a
strong joint statement from Best Bits, it might be an effective tool. If we
choose to pursue this, we might want to start reaching out to our
governments soon, given there's only a few days between the deadline for
comments and the deadline for inputs on the agenda.

I understand there are concerns about legitimizing the process, however I
wanted to share this information with the group.

Best,
Deborah



On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

>  On 25/09/12 14:10, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>
> I'm not sure, but my understanding is that ITU will communicate a
> compilation of those comments to the member country representatives. If
> that is so, than this could be an effective way of communicating concerns
> to them. So there is a good reason to work on that on the first day. My
> concern is just that we shouldn't too much reduce the amount of time that
> is available for the broad range of topics besides the two focus topics.
>
>
> Agreed, it would just be a reordering rather than a reallocation of time.
> And regarding the public comments to the ITU, I am rather bemused that
> after more than a month there are still only four of them!  At least there
> is little danger that what we have to say at Best Bits will be drowned out.
>
>
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