[governance] TR: Apologies and thanks

[McTim]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Tijani BEN
JEMAA<tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn> wrote:
> Dear all,
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> 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.
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> 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
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> Dear members of the governance lists
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.


but the PS is doing this already:

http://www.gsmworld.com/our-work/development-fund/energy/index.htm

> - 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.

This is what IXen do.  Once we have at least 2 cables per coast in
Africa (and fiber backhaul to the interior) this need SHOULD become
moot. It will, in theory, no longer matter if traffic leaves Africa,
just as it doesn't matter if traffic from a European User transits the
USA on it's journey to a European server (and back).


> - 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).
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> 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.

In Africa, most of our traffic leaves the continent, as there isn't
the local content and applications available to keep traffic within
the continent.  In other words, we don't worry so much about the cost
of intra-African Comms, it's the rest of the world we want to get to
cheaply!

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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