[governance] op-ed by ITU Secretary General Touré

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>wrote:

> Dr Hamadoun Touré, the secretary general of the International
> Telecommunications Union (ITU) has an op-ed in today's the Guardian.
>
> In case some of you haven't seen this yet, here's a link to the text..
>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media-network/media-network-blog/2012/mar/06/ict-international-regulations-cybercrime
>
> Securing the future benefits of technology
> International regulations governing ICT need to change to adapt to rapid
> innovations and counter the threat of cybercrime
>

If people are interested, we could put together an ad hoc Team of
volunteers to look examine the existing Treaty and prepare a
review/assessment of it to be put to the IGC and we can then ask the IGC if
we want to make submissions. If there is a time to start work on this, then
it should be now etc.

It is also important that the IGC is present in the meeting in December.

>
> The Guardian, March 7, 2012
>
>
> The UN's specialised agency for information and communication technologies
> (ICTs), the International Telecom Union (ITU), will hold aWorld Conference
> on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) in December. The aim of the
> conference is to review the global treaty widely credited for creating the
> basis of today's connected world, thus the international regulatory
> framework governing all ICT technologies.
>
> The conference comes at a time when technology is having a major impact on
> economic and social development, and represents a once-in-a-generation
> opportunity to improve it even further.
>
> The treaty under review is known as the International Telecommunication
> Regulations, or ITRs. It provides governments and industries across the
> globe with the necessary frameworks for bringing variety and competition to
> their telecommunications and ICT markets.
>
> [snipped...]
>
>
>   --
> R. Guerra
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>
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