[governance] TR: Apologies and thanks

[Tijani BEN JEMAA]

Dear all,

 

Jean Louis asked me to forward this e-mail to the lists because he got a refusal message when he tried to send it himself, perhaps because his address changed from wanadoo to orange.

 

 

De : gov-bounces at wsis-gov.org [mailto:gov-bounces at wsis-gov.org] De la part de Jean-Louis FULLSACK
Envoyé : vendredi 26 juin 2009 14:28
À : governance at lists.cpsr.org; gov at wsis-gov.org
Objet : [Gov 687] Apologies and thanks

 


Dear members of the governance lists

Fisrt of all I'd apologize for my long quasi silence on our lists, especially to all those of you who sent me such numerous mails following my May 22nd heart attack during the closing session of our annual WSIS Forum in Geneva.

I realized only some days later, especially through Francis Muguet's visits and phone converstions, that I probably put some confusion -maybe even more- among those of you attending this session and I apologize for that. I also must repeat here the chance I've got for having been rescued within a couple of minutes by the ITU security staff, and would recall once more that I owe it to Patrick Ticon to be able to exchange ideas with each membrer and friend among you today. Since then, one month has passed and that's the reason for me to apologize. Probably the burden of writing in English has somehow contributed to this delay ....
 
So, please accept my apologies as well as my profound gratitude for your friendly and supportive messages. 

I also thanked the ITU Secretary general for his visit and his kind support and, over all, for the efficiency and friendlyness of the ITU security staff. Having done that I didn't forget that, during the different sessions of the Forum, I have asked for some actions to be given priority in the WSIS follow-up. Among them, threee ones are of highest importance in my viewpoint :
- Set-up a special Study Group dedicated to the relation and links between ICTs and Renewable Energies (RE) in DCs, focussing especially on photovoltaics and their integration in the design of both ICT/telecom equipment and telecom networks. This study group should be given equal rights to those officially established in the ITU-T and ITU-D and benefit from this double umbrella.
- Carry out the study (with the ITU as leading body) and implement the project of an actual African Interconnecting Network (AIN)  interlinking the main continental hubs (telecom traffic and Internet traffic) and connecting this AIN to the most appropriated gateways to the Global telecom infrastructure (through thoroughly selected landing stations !) and in a fully network centered vision.
- Set-up a multistakeholder based Financing Mechanisms Forum FMF), with equal abilities and functions to the IGF, and therefore recognized by all the partners within the WSIS follow-up process, and placed under the umbrella of the UNDP and the ITU (focussing especially on financing the main WSIS objectives such as the access to each village in DCs).

In my opinion, the second point is in a large part about governance in general and Internet governance in paricular, at least as far as "Internet essential/critical resources" are a paramount part and objective of a AIN planning process. Only such an integrated approach could be able to maintain intra-African communications within the African continent and thereby contribute to lower significantly their cost, i.e. the tariffs for intra-African coms, whatever may be their nature.  

I do hope that these three points will get the due attention and priority, first in CS as a main solidarity concern with our colleagues and friends from "the Southern countries", wherever they are located.

All the best 

Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT  

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