[governance] statement for ITU website

McTim dogwallah at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 04:52:46 EST 2006


On 1/30/06, William Drake <drake at hei.unige.ch> wrote:
<snip>

> It is unfortunate that the ITU's February 1 reform meeting is closed to
> civil society participation.  Our exclusion from this and similar events has
> been debated extensively on civil society Internet listservs in the course
> of the WSIS process and afterwards.  There was little enthusiasm for the
> website's cheery invitation to "be part of it" by submitting statements in
> this "open forum" for a meeting from which we are barred.  If however the
> ITU were to initiate a genuine, open and inclusive dialogue on the matter,
> the response would be rather different.

I can sign on to this, thanks Bill!


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Cheers,

McTim
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