[governance] Fwd: The US factor in the WSIS needs highlighting as much as the Tunisian factor

[Carlos Afonso]

McTim wrote:

>On 11/2/05, Carlos Afonso <ca at rits.org.br> wrote:
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>>Caro Vittorio,
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>>Could you be more specific? Sorry, but CS needs to define itself, take
>>clearer positions, and the big stakes are around oversight.
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>I beg to differ Carlos. The "big stakes" are about connecting the unconnected.
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I do not differ from you on the relevance of universal access, but I am 
talking specifically about the big stakes in the WSIS IG discussion...

>The tragedy of the failure of WSIS is NOT the lack of IG reform, but
>the lack of concrete action on bridging the digital divide.
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> "Overall
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>>approach" means very little, and regarding the USA, what should we do?
>>Just wait and see, in a Darwinian, evolutionary approach?
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>I'm afraid we don't have the leverage to do much else.
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Well, several countries will be trying to do something else. I hope CS is not just letting it go like this. What a sad end after so much discussion, furious typing and message exchanges! ;)

--c.a.



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